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  15. A 100-foot indoor waterslide inside a hotel lobby area tends to settle any debate about where the kids want to stay tonight. This AAA Three Diamond Hilton Tapestry property sits right at the edge of Yellowstone country, with guest rooms that run to bunk bed configurations, wireless chargers, and clothing steamers. The outdoor fire pit is there for the evening, once everyone has had enough of the waterslide, which will take a while.

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  19. A mid-range hotel about five miles from Savannah's historic squares, the Courtyard keeps things low-key: many rooms open onto balconies or patios facing the pool courtyard, and there's a fire pit outside for evenings when you'd rather not drive anywhere. King rooms come with pull-out sofas, which explains the families. An onsite bistro handles breakfast and dinner, so you're not stranded if you don't feel like going out.

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  30. Address
    3206 Grand Ave, Miami, FL 33133, United States
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    Closed now, opens 5:30 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10:30 PM

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  31. Rank 15430. Pasta

    Italian


    Address
    124 NW 28th St, Miami, FL 33127, United States
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    Closed now, opens 5:30 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10:30 PM

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    468 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, United States
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday Noon–10 PM

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  42. Rank 15443. Boycott Bar

    Cocktail Bar


  43. Yucca Tap Room is an old-school dive bar and live music venue where cheap drinks and a no-fuss atmosphere have kept generations of Tempe regulars coming back. The punk shows are a fixture, and moshers in Halloween costumes remain a perfectly normal Tuesday-in-October situation. Half the space now belongs to Electric Bat Arcade, a pinball room that on some nights draws a bigger crowd than the bar itself.


  44. Rank 15445. All Pierogi Kitchen

    Eastern European

    The attached market selling frozen pierogi and chilled soups to go tells you everything about the vibe here. This casual Ukrainian family restaurant in Mesa treats borders as a loose suggestion, pulling in beef goulash, plov over cumin-scented rice, pork schnitzel, and thick, buttery pierogi that pair well with griddled sausage. The chicken Kiev arrives loaded with dill and herb butter. Unpretentious, generous portions, and priced like someone actually wants you to come back.


  45. Callaghan Vineyards sits in the Sonoita/Elgin wine country, where Mediterranean grapes like malvasia bianca quietly thrive in the Arizona desert as if they never got the memo that this wasn't southern France. An old-school family winery with deep roots in the state, it produces estate whites that work equally well poolside or alongside a meal. Kent Callaghan is the most tenured winemaker in Arizona, which counts for something out here in the high grasslands.


  46. Dollar bills papering the walls floor to ceiling, Christmas lights above, and a stage that gets a rock band most nights of the week: Chopper John's is a dive bar that knows exactly what it is. The black-and-red room off Indian School Road draws regulars who look like they were designed to match the decor. Pool tables, a patio for smokers, and baseball on the TV fill in the gaps between sets.



  47. Address
    1311 S Ervay St, Dallas, TX 75215, United States
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  48. Portraits of the late Queen and Buckingham Palace ephemera cover every surface, which tells you exactly what kind of pub this is. Footy on the TVs, jerseys and flags around the bar, bangers and mash from the kitchen, and a tap list that runs well past Guinness. The native-English owner has a story involving Bar Rescue's Jon Taffer that he'll gladly share on the patio, in language the royals would find bracing.


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    4240 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85012, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–2 AM

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  49. Rank 15445. Ginger's

    Cocktail Bar


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    2115 Jackson St, Dallas, TX 75201, United States
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    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Friday 6 PM–1 AM

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  50. The floor doesn't fill until after midnight, which tells you everything about the kind of night Karamba is built for. It's a Latino gay nightclub where dancers in little more than underwear work elevated platforms while the DJs do the heavy lifting, threading reggaeton into club classics into top 40 without a seam. The pours are generous enough that an Uber home counts as planning ahead, not an afterthought. Phoenix New Times named it the best after-hours dance spot in town.


  51. Rank 15445. King Pigeon

    Cocktail Bar

    A medical-grade centrifuge sits behind the bar at this East Walnut Hills cocktail spot, which tells you something about the ambition level before you've ordered. The menu changes twice a year and follows the adventures of a small pigeon, which sounds precious until you're drinking something clarified by milk-wash or cryo-concentrated into a flavor you can't quite name. The kind of place where the science is real and the whimsy is, somehow, also real.



  52. Address
    1300 S Polk St, Dallas, TX 75224, United States
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  53. A honky-tonk dive bar on the east side of Phoenix where the lineup might be line dancing one night and back-to-back rockabilly the next. The bar menu runs wings, burgers, and nachos, there's a daily food special, and happy hour runs weekday afternoons. Sports play on multiple screens for the crowd that isn't there for the boot-scootin'. An old-school institution that closed for a stretch and came back, which says something about how much the neighborhood wanted it back.


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    2303 N 44th St, Phoenix, AZ 85008, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–2 AM

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  54. Rank 15445. Trevor’s

    Cocktail Bar

    The cocktail list pulls from the shelves around you, which tells you exactly what kind of place this is: part upscale liquor store, part proper bar, and committed to being both at once. Depending on which Phoenix-area location you land in, the extras might include a golf simulator, pinball, a pizzeria, or a cigar lounge. The drinks run from spritzes to stirred classics, and the bottles for sale are genuinely worth browsing.


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    7340 E McDowell Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85257, United States
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    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 9 AM–Midnight

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    2465 SW 17th Ave, Miami, FL 33145, United States
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    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 7 AM–Midnight, Noon–11 PM

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    1033 E Vandergriff Dr, Carrollton, TX, United States
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    Closed now, opens 3 PM

    Friday 3 PM–11 PM

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    4528 Nations Crossing Rd, Charlotte, NC, United States
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    Closed now, opens 2 PM

    Friday 2 PM–10 PM

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    933 Fell St, Baltimore, MD 21231, United States
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    Open now, until 6 PM

    Friday 9 AM–6 PM

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    932 W Davis St, Dallas, TX 75208, United States
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    Open now, until 7 PM

    Friday 6 AM–7 PM

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  60. A Sicilian family splits the room between a bakery counter stacked with lobster tail pastries and sweet cannoli and a full sit-down dining area with a bar, so you can eat chicken parm and lasagna, then carry dessert home. The savory cannoli, stuffed with sausage, jalapeños, and oozing mozzarella, has earned its own following. Finish with the house limoncello, made cream-style in the Sicilian way, which lands somewhere between a digestif and a milkshake.



  61. Address
    5251 Spring Valley Rd, Dallas, TX 75254, United States
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    Open now, until 2:30 PM

    Friday 11 AM–2:30 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  62. The stripper pole is decorative, full stop. That's the first thing to know about this Cedars bar, the second being that management wears suits while you eat a roller-grill hot dog next to a cigarette machine. It's dark and a little flirty, with pool and darts keeping things grounded. The dirty martini, made with fresh-pressed olive juice and an anchovy-stuffed olive, does a lot of heavy lifting for a place that also sells boxed candy.


  63. Spicy Boy's is a casual Cajun counter-service joint in Cleveland Park, the sort of place where you order at the register and eat with plastic forks. The gumbo is a smoky, densely layered stew that has talked more than one regular out of their stated plan to branch out. The Nashville Scene has handed out Best of Nashville nods for the gumbo, a rum-heavy Painkiller, and a root beer float, so dessert is covered.


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    924 McFerrin Ave, Nashville, TN, United States
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    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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  64. Rank 15475. Armoury D.E.

    Eastern European

    Hungarian comfort food in a Deep Ellum cocktail bar is a combination nobody asked for and nobody wants to question. Armoury D.E. runs a casual, lived-in room where the drinks are serious, the kitchen leans into paprika-forward territory, and there's usually a free live show happening out back. The burger of the week has a following. Dallas Observer named it home to the city's best Bloody Mary and best bar food, which checks out.


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    2714 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75226, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–2 AM

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  65. Rank 15475. Butcher & Bee

    Seasonal Middle Eastern

    Butcher & Bee is a Middle Eastern-leaning, mostly meatless sit-down restaurant on Main Street, and it adds a 2.2 percent charge to every check to fund staff health insurance. The kitchen takes seasonality seriously enough that August arrives as tomatoes in everything, cocktails included. The "Order Like a Pro" option hands the menu to the cooks, a relief if you hate choosing. Nashville Scene has named it Best Restaurant.


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    902 Main St, Nashville, TN, United States
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  66. Rank 15475. El Turco

    Turkish





  67. Address
    2934 Main St, Dallas, TX 75226, United States
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    Open now, until 9 PM

    Friday 8 AM–9 PM

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    1612 17th St, Denver, CO 80202, United States
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    Open now, until 6 PM

    Friday 6:30 AM–6 PM

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  69. Rank 15478. Annie Oakley’s

    Cocktail Bar


  70. Rank 15478. Aoko

    Sushi



  71. Address
    109 Green Ln, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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    Open now, until 5 PM

    Friday 8 AM–5 PM

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    1928 S Akard St, Dallas, TX 75215, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–10 PM

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  73. Enormous screens cover the top half of a high-ceilinged room, with smaller ones tiling every corner so there is no bad angle on the game. Backyard is a sports bar and casual eats spot in north Phoenix, with a long beer list, wings, burgers, and pizza keeping things low-key. There is also a dog park on the premises, because apparently watching the game while your dog runs laps was a need that went unmet for too long.


    Address
    21001 N Tatum Blvd, #14, Phoenix, AZ 85050, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–Midnight

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  74. Oak Cliff locals have been calling it "Barb's" for decades, which tells you everything about what kind of place this is. A low-key dive bar with a retro-cool vibe, it runs karaoke on Thursdays and Sundays and burlesque on the third Wednesday of every month, so there's always a reason the room is full. Between sets, the jukebox swings from disco to hip-hop without apology. Your bartender probably drinks here on their nights off.




  75. Address
    1516 Wazee St, Ste A, Denver, CO 80202, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4:30 PM

    Friday 4:30 PM–2 AM

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  76. Address
    1508 S Mint St, Charlotte, NC, United States
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–1 AM

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    Resy
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  77. Address
    1710 Alton Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33139, United States
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–2 AM

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  78. Rank 15478. Brown's Diner

    American Diner


  79. Rank 15478. Cafe Balkan

    Eastern European

    The bureks sell out before the lunch rush is over, which tells you something about this family-run Balkan restaurant in north Phoenix. The menu runs to exactly the kind of southeastern European comfort food that improves overnight, including a goulash with mashed potatoes that does most of its best work as leftovers. Silky veal soup, warm lepinja flatbread, and a pastry case for dessert round out a meal that requires zero willpower to finish.



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