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  1. The Standing Room, a subterranean lounge tucked under the Arts District, is the reason to come to this Los Angeles outpost of the New York cocktail institution. Death & Co keeps its speakeasy bones, dark and deliberately moody, while the menu organizes its 25 cocktails by personality rather than spirit, which is either very LA or very useful depending on your mood. Californian wines and global beers round things out for anyone who finds the taxonomy exhausting.


    Address
    818 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90013, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2 AM

    Friday 6 PM–2 AM

    Reserve
    SevenRooms
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  2. Rank 18982. dokidoki

    Japanese

    A standing bar modeled on the Japanese tachinomi tradition, which means you're on your feet, shoulder to shoulder, and the whole room is already talking. Low-alcohol cocktails, sake, and shochu anchor the drinks list, with classics quietly reinterpreted through Japanese and Latin ingredients. The two bartenders behind the counter bring serious cocktail-bar pedigree to a room that wears it lightly, and the small bites fold Japanese technique into Puerto Rican and Salvadoran flavors.

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    3601 Chestnut Ave, Baltimore, MD 21211, United States
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    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 43 min

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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    775 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02215, United States
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–11 PM

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  7. Rank 18982. Funke

    Italian

    Evan Funke's eponymous Italian restaurant occupies a three-story art deco building in Beverly Hills, where a glassed-in room lets you watch pasta being made by hand before it reaches your table. Red leather booths, stone tables, and tall ceilings set a tone that takes itself seriously without taking the fun out of dinner. The menu moves through handmade pasta and wood-fired dishes, the kind of Italian cooking where focaccia alone gets its own moment.


    Address
    9388 S Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, United States
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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    Resy
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    Address
    112 W Washington St, Louisville, KY 40202, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 1 AM

    Friday 5 PM–1 AM

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    Tock
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  12. Rank 18982. Hellbender

    Mexican

    The Jell-O of the day changes, but the wobbly whimsy is a constant at this Ridgewood bar turned Mexican restaurant from chef Yara Herrera. Reggaeton and mariachi set the mood while the menu moves between bar snacks and fine-dining technique, the same kitchen handling both with ease. The New York Times named it among New York's best new restaurants in 2025, which feels about right for a place this hard to categorize.


    Address
    68-22 Forest Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385, United States · Queens
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

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    Resy
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    Address
    1200 St Bernard Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11:59 PM

    Friday 8 AM–11:59 PM

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  16. Rank 18982. Iggy's Bar

    Dive Bar

    Pool tables, darts, foosball, and enough televisions to catch the Premier League and a Cleveland Browns meltdown simultaneously. Iggy's is a dive bar on Madison Avenue where the beer list does most of the heavy lifting, though the cocktail menu holds its own and bartenders will mix you something proper when the room quiets down. Themed specials rotate through the week, keeping the regulars from getting too comfortable with the menu.

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  18. Address
    1121 S Main St, Las Vegas, NV, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2 AM

    Friday 5 PM–2 AM

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    Address
    629 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2 AM

    Friday 4 PM–2 AM

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  22. A two-dozen-seat Thai tapas room in Brookline Village where the menu reads like a love letter to northern Bangkok filtered through a genuinely curious kitchen. Small plates and creative cocktails share equal billing, the Michelin Bib Gourmand crowd sitting close enough to see what everyone else ordered. The New York Times and Boston Magazine have both circled it, which tracks for a spot this compact running this confidently.


    Address
    236 Washington St, Brookline, MA 02445, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 4 PM–11 PM

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    OpenTable
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  24. Rank 18982. Momiji

    Japanese


    Address
    1522 12th Ave, Seattle, WA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 4 PM–Midnight

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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    Website
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    Address
    60 E 54th St, New York, NY 10022, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Open now, until 10:30 PM

    Friday 11:45 AM–2:30 PM, 5 PM–10:30 PM

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    Resy
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  28. Rank 18982. Noble Experiment

    Cocktail Bar


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    Address
    816 S Central Ave, Hapeville, GA, United States · Atlanta
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    Open now, until 10:30 PM

    Friday 11 AM–10:30 PM

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  41. Rank 18982. The Duck Inn

    Modern American

    A pre-Prohibition corner tavern in Bridgeport where the chef behind it grew up, came back, and quietly made the Chicago dog the most labored thing on any bar menu in the city, built on housemade duck-fat sausage. The rotisserie duck arrives on a chopping block, the Italian beef uses prime rib shavings, and the whole room reads like fine-dining instincts filtered through a neighborhood tavern that never forgot what it was supposed to be.


    Address
    2701 S Eleanor St, Chicago, IL 60608, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

    Reserve
    Resy
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    Address
    442 Marlton Pike E, Cherry Hill, NJ, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 43 min

    Friday 11:30 AM–10 PM

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    Address
    31 Rockwell Place, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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    Address
    422 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3 AM

    Friday 9:30 AM–3 AM

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  54. You get into this cocktail bar through a fridge door, which tells you roughly everything you need to know about the vibe before you've ordered a drink. Once inside, the mood pivots hard from novelty to velvet-draped, warmly lit Old World opulence. It was built in collaboration with Sam Ross of Attaboy, and the CH Projects crew behind it has a habit of making San Diego's more theatrical drinking rooms.


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  56. Rank 19058. Chapli & Chips

    Middle Eastern



  57. Address
    135-24 40th Rd, Flushing, NY 11354, United States · Queens
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–6:30 PM

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  58. Rank 19058. Forever Jerk

    Caribbean





  59. Chole bhature is the main event at this strip-mall street food spot in Franklin Park, where golden rounds of fried bread the size of cantaloupes arrive alongside bowls of dark, heavily spiced chana masala. The New Jersey Indian community found this place fast, and tables are rarely empty. The kitchen also runs a long roster of Delhi chaat and a Mumbai sideline that includes a samosa served on a bun, which is exactly what it sounds like. The New York Times put it on its 2025 Restaurant List.



  60. Address
    147 Cumberland Ave, Portland, ME 04101, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–4 PM

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  61. Rank 19064. Pilgrim’s Inn

    Seasonal Tavern

    Cortney Burns, who made her name at Bar Tartine in San Francisco, runs this restaurant and tavern on Deer Isle by rotating a different chef-in-residence through the kitchen each month. The result shifts constantly, though the tavern menu holds steadier. It landed on the New York Times Restaurant List for 2025. The crowd driving up from the mainland for whatever's on that week tends to take the whole thing very seriously, as they should.


  62. Ketchup cans serve as wine buckets, which tells you most of what you need to know about this no-frills seasonal New England restaurant on Midcoast Maine. The chef came up through Jean-Georges and the Fat Duck, then traded all that for foraging his own mushrooms and smoking his own haddock. The New York Times put it on their 2025 Restaurant List, which is an odd fate for somewhere this deliberately unshowy, but here we are.


    Address
    488 Main St, Rockland, ME 04841, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–9 PM

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  63. Rank 19064. Turkey Legg Man

    Kansas City Barbecue

    The pitmaster works the smoker outside and greets the sidewalk with a Polish sausage in his tongs and "We ain't playing, Jack." This small barbecue spot with food-truck roots in northwest Kansas City keeps the turkey leg as its centerpiece, dark meat staying moist under taut, browned skin. The turkey leg stuffed with mac and cheese makes the menu very on-brand. The New York Times put it on their 2025 Restaurant List, which feels about right for a place this committed to one idea.


    Address
    1916 Quindaro Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66104, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat noon

    Friday Noon–7:35 PM

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  64. The acoustically treated walls mean the sound hits you right no matter where you sit, which matters when the names on stage have included Esperanza Spalding and Bill Frisell. Dazzle is Denver's long-running jazz club, the kind that draws serious talent week after week and keeps the bar busy with martinis and a four-cheese mac that regulars order without looking up. DownBeat placed it among the top 100 jazz clubs in the world.



  65. Address
    1959 16th Street Mall, Denver, CO, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday Noon–Midnight

    Reserve
    SevenRooms
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  66. Address
    9850 Walnut Hill Ln, Dallas, TX 75238, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 7 AM–10 PM

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  67. Rank 19074. Erba

    Italian



  68. Address
    5360 W Lovers Ln, Unit 200, Dallas, TX 75209, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 43 min

    Friday 10 AM–9 PM

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  69. Address
    2515 Inwood Rd, Ste 119, Dallas, TX 75235, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 43 min

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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    1154 Peavy Rd, Dallas, TX 75218, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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  71. Address
    3011 Gulden Ln, Ste 117, Dallas, TX 75212, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 8 AM

    Friday 7 AM–2 PM

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  72. Address
    1920 N Coit Rd, Unit 250, Richardson, TX 75080, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  73. Address
    3100 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9:30 PM

    Friday 11 AM–9:30 PM

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  74. Address
    7355 Ralston Rd, Unit H, Arvada, CO 80002, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9:30 PM

    Friday 11 AM–9:30 PM

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  75. Address
    3157 W 38th Ave, Denver, CO 80211, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9:30 PM

    Friday 11 AM–9:30 PM

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    2822 N Henderson Ave, Dallas, TX 75206, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 1 AM

    Friday 11 AM–1 AM

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  77. Fufu made from scratch and shito, the shrimp pepper sauce that shows up on nearly every table, are the signals that this is something Seattle doesn't have much of: a proper West African restaurant serving Ghanaian and Liberian cooking. The minimalist First Hill room fills fast with regulars who already know the goat peanut soup and newcomers working their way through peri peri wings and fried plantains for the first time.


  78. Rank 19086. BaekGa

    Korean


  79. Rank 19086. La Forêt

    French


    Address
    38 S Broadway, Denver, CO 80209, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 4 PM–11 PM

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  80. The house margarita comes classic or customized with a rotating cast of infusions, watermelon and mezcal being a popular pairing. This Jalisco Mexican restaurant on Main Street splits its attention evenly between the kitchen and the bar, with a cocktail program run by a veteran Valley bartender. The food leans into both traditional plates and the occasional fusion detour, and the whole thing has a chic, polished room that feels a little more considered than your average neighborhood spot.


    Address
    1526 E Main St, Mesa, AZ 85203, United States
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  81. Address
    1505 N Central Expressway, Plano, TX, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9:30 PM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 4 PM–9:30 PM

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  82. Address
    2111 S Edgefield Ave, Dallas, TX 75224, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 8 AM–6 PM

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  83. Address
    2010 Greenville Ave, Unit B, Dallas, TX 75206, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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    Resy
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  84. Address
    4234 Maple Ave, Dallas, TX 75219, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–8 PM

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  85. Address
    1221 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19125, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 4 PM–Midnight

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  86. The building was a brothel, a flophouse, and a peep-show parlor before it became this. Now it's a bar and live-music venue dressed in 70s swank, vintage soft-core art, and low-slung lounges surrounding a sunken stage. The team calls it a "gastro-brothel," which is not a word you forget. Small plates and cocktails run alongside whatever's on stage, and the whole thing is loud, garish, and extremely committed to the bit.


    Address
    1215 20th St, Denver, CO 80202, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–5 PM

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  87. Address
    170 Fourth Ave N, Nashville, TN, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 6:30 AM–9:30 AM, 3 PM–Midnight

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  88. Address
    11331 E Northwest Hwy, Unit 105, Dallas, TX 75238, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 43 min

    Friday 6 AM–9 PM

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