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  1. Address
    548 5th Ave, San Diego, CA 92101, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  2. Address
    1436 South Blvd, Charlotte, NC, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9:30 PM, in 23 min

    Friday 11 AM–9:30 PM

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    Resy
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  3. A passage hidden behind a wardrobe connects the two sides of this Ft. Thomas bookstore and café, which is either charming or a mild fire-code concern, depending on your disposition. The shelves lean heavily into fiction, especially romantasy, fantasy, mystery, and horror. There's a coffee counter on one side and a small bourbon bar on the other, which covers the full spectrum of how a reading session can go.



  4. Rank 18642. Hiw Kaow Thai Food Truck

    Lao Thai Food Truck

    A purple orchid tops every plate, which tells you something about how seriously this Thai street-food truck takes its work. Hiw Kaow roams the Valley without a permanent address, serving pad Thai with a Lao influence, crispy whole chicken wings, and a papaya salad sharp enough to make you check the truck's next location before you've finished eating. Follow its schedule; it moves around.


  5. Hometeam Pizza is a casual pizza spot on Alabama Avenue where the ranch gets nearly as much attention as the slices. The co-owner built it from sour cream, mayonnaise, and buttermilk, then fussed with the spices until it came out pourable but not runny, which is a standard most bottled versions never attempt. Nashville Scene named it Best Ranch Dressing, and her husband says it's what she gets complimented on most, after the kids.


  6. Honeytree is an East Side meadery, which means you're drinking fermented honey in a taproom instead of ordering a flight and pretending to know what a Viking would have wanted. Mead tends to run sweet, and the ginger candied in house is what pulls their Sweet Baby Ginger back toward something you could drink at a normal pace. It won a Best of Nashville from the Scene for exactly that. Dress is whatever you wore to work.



  7. Address
    6460 E Yale Ave, Ste G-20C, Denver, CO 80222, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 8 PM, in 53 min

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 4 PM–8 PM

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  8. Address
    2205 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9 PM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 4 PM–9 PM

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  9. Address
    1220 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 53 min

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  10. Rank 18642. Ichimi

    Japanese Noodle Shop



  11. Address
    1334 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat noon

    Friday Noon–6 PM

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  12. Inglewood Lounge is an East Nashville bar where the booths are tucked away and the lighting forgives everyone, which is the whole pitch for a first date. There's a covered patio, a dance floor for when things go well, and a bar menu with a piri piri chicken sandwich you can take to go when they don't. The U-shaped parking lot makes the exit easy. Nashville Scene voted it Best Place for a First Date in 2025.


    Address
    3914 Gallatin Pike, Nashville, TN, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2 AM

    Friday 5 PM–2 AM

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  13. Rank 18642. Iris Read

    Natural Wine Bar


  14. A hay wagon rolls you out to the pumpkin patch, where you pick your own and pay by the pound on the way back. Irons Fruit Farm is an old-school u-pick operation outside Cincinnati, and come fall it draws families who treat the whole afternoon as the event. The apple cider alone is reason to linger at the main building after. A small tip: if your toddler proves uncooperative, the pumpkins near checkout have no idea.




  15. Rank 18642. Japan Express

    Japanese


    Address
    5162 W Olive Ave, Glendale, AZ 85302, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9 PM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  16. Address
    1200 Porter Rd, Nashville, TN, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 7:30 AM

    Friday 7 AM–Noon

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  17. Address
    13501 Falls Rd, Cockeysville, MD 21030, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–6 PM

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  18. Address
    2692 Madison Rd., Norwood, Cincinnati, OH, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10:30 AM

    Friday Open 24 hours

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  19. Address
    3939 S Polk St, Unit 305, Dallas, TX 75224, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–8 PM

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  20. Address
    1138 Pine St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 53 min

    Friday 4 PM–10 PM

    Reserve
    Resy
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  21. Address
    1503 30th St, San Diego, CA 92102, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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  22. Rank 18642. Koko

    Upscale Mexican Cocktail Bar


    Address
    2856 Tigertail Ave, Miami, FL 33133, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 1 AM

    Friday Noon–1 AM

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  23. Address
    313 Calhoun St., CUF, Cincinnati, OH, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9:30 PM, in 23 min

    Friday 11 AM–9:30 PM

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  24. A carniceria in a strip mall on Indian School Road that makes its own tortillas and salsa so your carne asada night is genuinely a one-stop situation. Hand-selected cuts run from marinated ranchera to Wagyu, and the cases are kept spotless. Staff can talk you through any of it without skipping a beat. A family-run neighborhood butcher shop that takes the grill seriously.



  25. Address
    1101 N Beckley Ave, Dallas, TX, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  26. Rank 18642. La Jamoteca

    Spanish







  27. Address
    220 W 5th St, Ferris, TX 75125, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 7 AM–5 PM

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  28. A cozy, tiled dining room in the Cave Creek hills serving classic French fare across brunch, lunch, and dinner, the kind of place that still does cherries jubilee without irony. The menu runs from croque monsieur to crepes in béchamel, onion soup to crème brûlée, and the whole thing feels like it's been there forever because it has. The drive from Phoenix is real, but so is the feeling that you've wandered somewhere far less frantic.


    Address
    7030 E Bella Vista Dr, Cave Creek, AZ 85331, United States
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    Open now, until 9 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 4 PM–9 PM

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  29. Address
    2575 McKinnon St, Dallas, TX 75201, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 7 AM–11 AM, 11 AM–4 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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  30. Address
    180 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–9 PM

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  31. Address
    107 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA 02210, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–9 PM

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  32. A matcha café that sources its tea directly from a family farm in Shizuoka, which means the starting point is better than most. Little Matcha landed in Covington after starting as a pop-up, and the menu rotates every two weeks so the seasonal lattes, strawberry one week, ube the next, stay worth revisiting. Hojicha and genmaicha lattes fill out the board, but the matcha is clearly the main event here.




  33. Address
    506 Lockwood Dr, Richardson, TX 75080, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  34. Address
    205 W Louisiana St, McKinney, TX 75069, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  35. Rank 18642. Loco Style Grindz

    Hawaiian Barbecue

    Counter service Hawaiian barbecue tucked into the shipping container courtyard at the Churchill, just off Roosevelt Row. The move is a mixed plate piled with kalbi short ribs, kalua pork, and teriyaki chicken, everything sitting on rice with a scoop of mac salad alongside. It's the kind of meal that's better shared, partly for variety and partly because the portions don't encourage restraint. Phoenix New Times named it the city's top Hawaiian restaurant in 2025.



  36. Address
    7118 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33141, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9:30 PM, in 23 min

    Friday 9:30 AM–9:30 PM

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  37. Address
    410 S Second St, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 8 AM

    Friday 7:30 AM–3 PM

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  38. Address
    650 S Escondido Blvd, Escondido, CA 92025, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 8 PM

    Friday 8:30 AM–8 PM

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  39. Sixteen floors up in the Omni Tempe Hotel, Lucero puts enough distance between itself and the pool that it actually feels like a rooftop cocktail bar rather than a pool deck with ambitions. Craft cocktails and food, indoors at the bar or outside on couches around fire tables, with views stretching all the way to State Farm Stadium. The Phoenix New Times named it Best Rooftop Bar in 2025, which tracks for a spot this good before an ASU Gammage show.



  40. Address
    1590 E Bethany Home Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85014, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 6 AM

    Friday 6 AM–5 PM

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  41. Address
    246 W Broadway, South Boston, MA 02127, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  42. Address
    401 Park Dr, Boston, MA 02215, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  43. Address
    416 E 36th St, Charlotte, NC, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday Noon–Midnight

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  44. Address
    151 W Spring Creek Pkwy, Plano, TX 75023, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9:30 PM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–9:30 PM

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  45. Address
    2215 Sulphur St, Dallas, TX 75208, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 7 AM–Midnight

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  46. Margot is a neighborhood cafe and bar in East Nashville, the kind of dinner spot where the staff has clearly been to school for this and then politely hidden the diploma. It's been running for ages without turning fussy, which in this city is its own small feat. Nashville Scene gave it Best Service Staff, and the evidence is that nobody at your table ever feels processed.



  47. Rank 18642. Marigold Bagels

    NY-Style Bakery


    Address
    7964 Civita Blvd, San Diego, CA 92108, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 7 AM

    Friday 7 AM–2 PM

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  48. Address
    1111 SW 1 Ave, Miami, FL, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 7 PM–Midnight

    Reserve
    SevenRooms
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  49. Rank 18642. Mariscos San Diego Bay

    seafood Mexican


    Address
    9201 S Avenida del Yaqui, Guadalupe, AZ 85283, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9 PM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

    Online
    Website
  50. Rank 18642. Marisi

    Italian


    Address
    1044 Wall St, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 4:30 PM–10 PM

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  51. Address
    12101 E Iliff Ave, Aurora, CO 80014, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 8 PM, in 53 min

    Friday 11 AM–8 PM

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  52. Address
    1533 S Tenth St, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3 AM

    Friday 5:30 PM–3 AM

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