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The Best Places to Drink and Do in the United States

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  1. Address
    2201 Second St NE, Minneapolis, MN, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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    Resy
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  2. A boardwalk over Waller Creek, three new bridges, and 13 acres of bike and pedestrian paths threading from Fourth Street down to Lady Bird Lake: The Confluence is the second phase of a long-running project to stitch a green corridor through downtown Austin. It replaced a stretch of concrete with actual breathing room, which in this city counts as a civic event. Bring a bike or just walk it; either way, Lady Bird Lake is the payoff.















  3. Address
    644 Congress St, Portland, ME 04101, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Friday 6 PM–1 AM

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  4. Address
    7220 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33150, United States
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–10:30 PM

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  5. Rank 1051. Bludorn

    American

    Royal blue booths, an open kitchen you can pull a counter seat at, and a baked Alaska that arrives on fire make the room feel like it has something to prove, in a good way. Bludorn is a New American restaurant and bar where the menu swings wide, from oysters (some Texan) to cioppino to seafood towers. The chef is a James Beard semifinalist, and the hospitality is the kind that makes you notice it without being able to say why.


    Address
    807 Taft St, Houston, TX 77019, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10:30 PM

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    OpenTable
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  6. Address
    180 Flynn Ave, Burlington, VT 05401, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–9 PM

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    Resy
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  7. Address
    1600 20th St, Denver, CO 80202, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–11 PM

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  8. Rank 1051. Cana

    Brazilian

    Caipirinhas built from fresh sugar-cane juice anchor this small Brazilian bar and kitchen in Adams Morgan, where a vinyl soundtrack keeps the room at a low simmer all night. The open kitchen sends out charcoal-oven dishes and fried tapioca squares with spicy guava sauce that Washingtonian singled out as a favorite dish of the year. A James Beard semifinalist for Best New Bar, it draws the kind of crowd that skips the menu on the second visit.


    Address
    2412 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–1:30 AM

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  9. Rank 1051. Club Frills

    American Burger Joint

    Club Frills is a cocktail bar dressed as a 70s basement, with fake wood paneling, a disco ball, and tabletops that are marble only in spirit. It wears the dive costume without the sticky floors or the low prices. The drinks run low-ABV and funky, often in colors not found in nature, and the kitchen turns out a burger built around diced olives. It was a James Beard semifinalist for Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service.


    Address
    79 Ives St, Providence, RI 02906, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–1 AM

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    Resy
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  10. Rank 1051. Copper Spoon

    Cocktail Bar

    The awards


  11. A strip-mall address in Scottsdale is doing its best to throw you off, but step inside Course and it's a full tasting-menu restaurant, white-tablecloth intentions and all. The kitchen runs a rotating seasonal menu, five courses on weeknights and eight on weekends, with a James Beard semifinalist nomination for the chef and another for pastry. The Pinnacle Guide awarded it one Pin for 2026.


  12. Rank 1051. Darling

    Southern


    Address
    631 N Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5:30 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10 PM

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  13. Rank 1051. Elcielo Bistró DC

    Modern Colombian

    A corn broth that quietly dismantles everything you thought about corn broth is a good sign you're in the right place. Elcielo is a Michelin-starred fine dining tasting menu restaurant near Union Market where the Colombian-born chef turns his home country into a deeply personal, course-by-course argument. The chocotherapy dessert has become a thing people mention unprompted. The room runs warm in a way that doesn't feel managed.


    Address
    1280 4th St NE, Washington, DC 20002, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11:30 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
    Website

  14. Address
    112 Lake St, Burlington, VT 05401, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–Midnight

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  15. Address
    70 Main St, Winooski, VT 05404, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–10 PM

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  16. Address
    403 Hill Rd, Greensboro Bend, VT 05842, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–6 PM

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  17. Address
    41 Cherry St, Burlington, VT 05401, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 AM

    Friday 7 AM–11 AM, Noon–11 PM, 5 PM–9:30 PM

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  19. Rank 1051. Kaiyō Rooftop

    Peruvian Japanese


    Address
    701 3rd St, Fl 12, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–1 AM

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    Resy
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  20. Address
    155 Carroll Rd, Waitsfield, VT 05673, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–8 PM

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  21. Rank 1051. Little Ned

    Cocktail Bar

    The awards



  22. Rank 1051. Lucky Star

    Taiwanese

    A Taiwanese café and cocktail bar tucked into a Star Metals office lobby, which sounds like it shouldn't work until you're sitting on a green velvet couch at noon eating a scallion pancake stuffed with braised beef shank. The menu shifts as the day does, coffee and pastries giving way to oyster omelets and rice bowls, then cocktails after dark. A James Beard semifinalist for Best New Bar, it holds a Michelin Guide selection too.


    Address
    1050 Howell Mill Rd, Ste 110, Atlanta, GA 30318, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3 PM

    Friday 9 AM–3 PM, 4 PM–9 PM

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  24. Rank 1051. Sexy Fish

    Japanese Cocktail Bar

    The awards


    Address
    1001 S Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33130, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–Midnight

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    SevenRooms
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  25. Rank 1051. Supperland

    Southern Barbecue

    The smoke hits you before the door does, which is about right for a Southern steakhouse built inside a former church in Plaza Midwood. The wood-fired range dominates the room, and prime meats and fish come off the embers in cuts meant for the table to share. The sides hold their own alongside anything off the fire. A Michelin Selected pick, it also draws a cocktail following serious enough to earn an Esquire nod.


    Address
    1212 The Plaza, Charlotte, NC 28205, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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    Tock
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  26. Rank 1051. The Abbey

    Cocktail Bar


    Address
    87 Maine St, Brunswick, ME, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 8 AM–11 PM

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  27. Address
    100 Cottage Club Rd, Stowe, VT 05672, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–7 PM

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  28. Rank 1051. The Fountain Inn

    Cocktail Bar

    The awards



  29. Address
    1166 Geneva Ave, San Francisco, CA 94112, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–Midnight

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  30. Address
    398 Geary St, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Friday 6 PM–1 AM

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  31. Rank 1051. Thyme

    Cocktail Bar

    A pre-war cellar beneath the Flatiron that once hosted a gambling den is now a cocktail bar with avant-garde techniques and presentations critics have called sippable art. The room has the bones of a genuine speakeasy, and the drinks menu leans into that drama hard, with smoke, science, and ceremony that would feel overwrought somewhere less atmospheric. A good spot for a first date, assuming you want them slightly impressed.

    The awards


    Address
    20 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10010, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–2 AM

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    Resy
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  32. Deborah VanTrece's modern Southern restaurant in a Westside industrial strip is the kind of place where the bar program is as serious as the kitchen, a James Beard semifinalist on both counts. The menu takes the food your grandmother made and runs it somewhere she probably didn't, with collard dip alongside pimento cheese fondue and fried chicken arriving with a collard green roll. The New York Times put it on their Atlanta list, and the room earns the attention.


    Address
    1133 Huff Rd NW, Ste D, Atlanta, GA 30318, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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    Resy
    Online
    Website

  33. Address
    101 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–Midnight

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    Resy
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  34. Address
    716 Pine St, Burlington, VT 05401, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 8 AM–10 PM

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  35. Rank 1088. Dear Irving

    Cocktail Bar

    The original Dear Irving on Irving Place is a cocktail bar that commits hard to the speakeasy aesthetic, complete with dim lighting, velvet, and the sense that someone might ask for a password. The menu roams across classics, seasonal builds, and aperitivo riffs, so there's always a reason to linger past the first round. A Spirited Awards Regional Honoree, it draws a dressed-up crowd that takes its evening seriously without taking itself too seriously.



  36. Rank 1089. Bar Diane

    Italian Wine Bar

    Bar Diane is a wine bar in Northwest Portland where the hand-painted walls look like the rings left behind by a thousand glasses of rosé on a tablecloth. You can perch at the marble bar and get into the weeds on Oregon pinot, or grab a bistro table for a cocktail and a lobster roll. Pours run from affordable table wine to splurgy champagne, so nobody has to pretend to be a sommelier or a billionaire.



  37. Collins is the lobby bar at Fontainebleau, where deep blue furniture and gold trim set the tone and a live piano does the rest. The cocktail list pairs house originals with throwback drinks from the 1930s, so the bartenders can make a proper old-fashioned or a Viva Villa without a lecture. Come in before a show or after a long flight, when you want one decent drink and no sprint through a casino floor.


  38. Rank 1089. Counter Reformation

    Portuguese Wine Bar




  39. Rank 1089. Dot's Cafe

    Cocktail Bar

    Dots Cafe is a neighborhood dive on Clinton Street where the vinyl booths, flocked wallpaper, and velvet portraits seem to have been told it's still around 2010, and nobody's corrected them. You order at the bar, which leaves time to study a menu of cheesy fries and vegan burgers. Cocktails are on offer, but a shot and a local beer fits the room. The patio has slushies and cheap rosé, and Portland Monthly lists it among the city's best bars.


    Address
    2521 SE Clinton St, Portland, OR 97202, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–2 AM

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  40. Address
    320 W 800 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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  41. Rank 1089. Gigolo

    Cocktail Bar

    A five-foot resin Pomeranian sets the tone for this dark, moody cocktail lounge inside the Vanderpump Hotel on the Strip. Lisa Vanderpump's Las Vegas footprint runs to black-and-red decor, a martini for two arriving on a skewer of a dozen-odd olives, and a cocktail that comes with caviar. The house gimmick of sealing a secret into a tiny envelope and locking it in a vault is either charming or deeply on-brand, depending on your relationship with reality television.


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