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  1. Address
    3008 36th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–Noon

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    5655 Hillcroft Ave, Houston, TX 77036, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  3. Rank 8330. Sidecar

    Cocktail Bar

    A backlit bar lined with spirits sets the mood at this mid-century modern cocktail bar tucked into Broadway Village. The namesake sidecar anchors the menu, but the house originals are where things get interesting, and the kitchen next door at Falora handles food duty. Warm wood, polished concrete, and a mix of high-tops and booths make it cozy without trying too hard.



  4. Rank 8330. Sky Bar

    Cocktail Bar

    Telescopes on the patio, solar panels on the roof, and a ginger bitters program that takes itself seriously: Sky Bar is an astronomy-themed bar on Fourth Avenue that lets the night sky do the decorating. The kitchen is Brooklyn Pizza Company next door, so you're eating well. Day drinkers can pull breakfast calzones and pastries into the rotation, which is a fine way to study the cosmos before dark.


  5. Rank 8330. Smish Smash

    American


    Address
    945 Market St, San Francisco, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 4 PM–8:30 PM

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  6. Rank 8330. Southeast Impression

    Southeast Asian

    A strip mall in Fairfax with walls of actual greenery sets the scene for this casual Southeast Asian restaurant covering Thai, Malaysian, and Singaporean ground with real range. Chili crab comes with soft-shells in a red sauce and sweet buns for mopping, and a fried rice pyramid topped with lump crab closes the loop nicely. The pandan castella cake keeps dessert from being an afterthought.


    Address
    9530 Fairfax Blvd, Fairfax, VA 22031, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–3 PM, 4:30 PM–11 PM

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    Resy
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  7. Rank 8330. Supreme Shawarma

    Spit-roasted Middle Eastern



  8. Address
    128 E Congress St, Tucson, AZ 85701, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–2 AM

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  9. Rank 8330. Taco Mix

    Mexican



  10. Address
    3010 S 99th Ave, Unit 102, Tolleson, AZ, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10:30 AM

    Friday 10:30 AM–11 PM

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  11. Address
    403 N Sixth Ave, Unit 135, Tucson, AZ, United States
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–11 PM

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  12. Address
    2890 E Skyline Dr, Tucson, AZ 85718, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  13. Address
    143-09 Holly Ave, Flushing, NY, United States · Queens
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    Open now, until 8:30 PM

    Friday 8:30 AM–8:30 PM

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  14. Address
    501 E Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10:30 AM

    Friday 10:30 AM–9 PM

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  15. Address
    237 Seventh St E, Saint Paul, MN, United States
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    Open now, until 3 PM

    Friday 7 AM–3 PM

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  16. Rank 8330. The Cork Tucson

    Steakhouse

    Adobe fireplaces, dark wood beams, and exposed brick set the mood at this old-school steakhouse that's been around forever in Tucson's east side. The menu runs from steakhouse classics into stranger territory, kangaroo tenderloin among them, and the surf and turf gets a hit of Tajín that signals exactly where you are. Classic martinis arrive loaded with ice chips, and happy hour has clearly had regulars for decades.


    Address
    6320 E Tanque Verde Rd, Tucson, AZ 85715, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 3 PM

    Friday 3 PM–10 PM

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    OpenTable
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  17. Picnic tables under string lights, bocce ball on the lawn, and the Santa Catalinas sitting out there like they're part of the decor. This is a casual, all-outdoor spot inside a native botanical garden, the kind of place where kids vanish into a gemstone dig pit and adults happily let them. The menu leans comfort food, with scoop fries and Irish nachos doing the heavy lifting.


    Address
    8991 E Tanque Verde, Tucson, AZ, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–10 PM

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  18. Address
    159 W Commonwealth Ave, Chandler, AZ 85225, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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    OpenTable
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  19. Rank 8330. The Monica

    Mexican

    String lights turn a downtown alley into a courtyard, and that outdoor patio is reason enough to seek this place out on a warm Tucson evening. The Monica is a casual Mexican restaurant where the kitchen plays with familiar forms, running tamale dough through a eggs Benedict riff that shouldn't work as well as it does. The room reads urban but unfussy, the kind of spot that pulls in a mixed downtown crowd without trying too hard.


    Address
    40 E Congress Tucson, AZ, United States · Tucson
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    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–11 PM

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  20. Address
    10301 Katy Fwy, Houston, TX, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9 PM

    Friday 7 AM–9 PM

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  21. Address
    6335 N 16th St, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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    Closed now, opens 3 PM

    Friday 3 PM–Midnight

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  22. Rank 8330. The Royal Room

    Cocktail Bar


    Address
    450 N Sixth Ave, Tucson, AZ, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–2 AM

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  23. Address
    424 N Fourth Ave, Tucson, AZ, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–2 AM

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  24. Address
    320 Wilson Rd, Humble, TX 77338, United States
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    Open now, until 2 PM

    Friday 6 AM–2 PM

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  25. A tea shop on Speedway with a drive-thru and a menu that branches into something like 4,500 combinations if you're counting. The drinks lean creative and a little tropical, built around named blends like the Rainforest or the Bayou, pineapple and dark cherry meeting lime, white peach cutting through raspberry. You can get your tea as a soda, latte, chai, or snow, which covers most moods and most temperatures Tucson throws at you.



  26. Address
    2033 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85719, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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  27. Rank 8330. Truong Tien

    Vietnamese

    Tucked deep inside the Eden Center mall, this Vietnamese restaurant operates on the assumption that you came ready to work for it. The staff speaks limited English and menu descriptions don't give much away, but the rice-cake and tapioca-dumpling appetizers, some banana-leaf-wrapped, some chicharrón-crusted with tiny shell-on shrimp, make the ordering process forgiving. The spicy lemongrass noodle soup with rustic meatballs in a rich beef broth is what regulars are usually after.


    Address
    6763 Wilson Blvd, Unit 6D, Falls Church, VA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10:30 AM

    Friday 10:30 AM–8 PM

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  28. A two-story craft beer bar inside Tucson's Metal Arts Village, with a sprawling patio equipped with misters and a clear sightline to the Santa Catalina Mountains. The taps rotate through local and regional brews, and the bottle list wanders into sake and Mexican wine, which keeps things interesting. Pizza comes in from a neighboring spot, so the food situation is handled. It's the kind of place that's genuinely hard to leave once you've settled into a corner.


    Address
    3230 N Dodge Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85716, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–11 PM

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  29. Rank 8330. Union Public House

    Gastropub American

    Thirty beers on tap and a whiskey wall that takes a minute to read: this is a gastropub in St. Philip's Plaza with exposed brick, wood beams, and a patio worth claiming on a good Tucson evening. The kitchen grinds its own burger meat, finishes it with bacon jam, and handles brunch on weekends. The bar runs late, closing at 2 a.m., which explains the crowd still there long after dinner has become a memory.




  30. Address
    73 E Pennington St, Tucson, AZ 85701, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–2 PM

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  31. Address
    222 N Fifth Ave, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  32. Rank 8330. Westbound

    Cocktail Bar

    Two repurposed shipping containers in the MSA Annex form this open-air bar, with shaded communal tables, a fire pit, and a walk-in bottle shop stocked with beer, wine, and spirits. Draft cocktails rotate through things like a Mai Tai and a Cactus Wren, and the crowd tends to bring food over from the neighboring stalls rather than going anywhere near a kitchen. It's the kind of place that makes an industrial parking lot feel like a deliberate destination.


  33. Rank 8330. White Bear

    Chinese


  34. Rank 8330. Wild Garlic Grill

    Californian French


    Address
    2870 E Skyline Dr, Unit 120, Tucson, AZ 85718, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  35. Address
    5223 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  36. The tables closest to the bridge put you near enough to hear the river running over the dam, which sets the mood before the food even arrives. This is an upscale farm-to-table restaurant on the Finley Farms property, where some of what ends up on your plate was grown out back. The seasonal menu leans into that, and the patio alone makes a strong case for lingering over one of their cocktails well past dinner.


    Address
    802 Finley Farms Ln, Ozark, MO 65721, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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    SevenRooms
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  37. Address
    3408 Waialae Ave, Honolulu, HI 96816, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–6 PM

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    Tock
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  38. Rank 8575. Prime + Proper

    Modern American Steakhouse

    Glass, marble, and open-flame grills fill a room that makes clear this is a steakhouse with architectural ambitions. Downtown Detroit's Prime + Proper dry-ages its USDA Prime and Japanese Miyazaki cuts in-house before the fire gets anywhere near them, which is either discipline or showmanship, and possibly both. The wine list swings between Napa and the Old World. It ranked 65th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, for what that's worth on a Tuesday night in Michigan.


  39. Rank 8576. Posse East

    Burger Joint

    The queso has been pulling in UT students and neighborhood regulars since before most of them were born. Posse East is a campus-adjacent sports bar on Duval with wood-paneled walls, neon signs, a live music stage, and a covered patio that fills up on game days. Outside, a lone palm tree gives it an oddly Californian silhouette; inside, it is pure Texas roadhouse. Cold beer, solid burgers, and that queso keep the cycle going.


    Address
    2900 Duval St, Austin, TX 78705, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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  40. Rank 8576. Trino

    Modern Latin American Steakhouse


    Address
    738 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60661, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4:30 PM

    Friday 4:30 PM–11 PM

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    SevenRooms
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  41. Address
    2845 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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    Resy
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  42. Address
    369 Bird Rock Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2 PM

    Friday 6:30 AM–2 PM

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  43. Address
    1265 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–11 PM

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    Resy
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  44. Address
    1265 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–1 AM

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    Resy
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  45. The mid-century room, with its bright orange window frames and striped banquettes, looks like someone raided a very good vintage furniture store and then had the taste to stop. Dan Kluger's West Village restaurant leans vegetable-forward without making a cause of it, and the wood-oven pizzas made with house-milled whole wheat flour keep tables ordering rounds they didn't plan on. A downtown crowd that takes its produce seriously fills the place most nights.


  46. Rank 8578. Make My Cake

    Southern


    Address
    409 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–7:30 PM

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  47. Rank 8578. Make My Cake

    Southern Bakery



  48. Address
    40 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos, CA 95030, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM

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  49. Address
    195 E Campbell Ave, Campbell, CA 95008, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM

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  50. Address
    330 Ingalls St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM

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  51. Address
    271 State St, Los Altos, CA 94022, United States
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    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM

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  52. Address
    1265 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–Midnight

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  53. Address
    600 N Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2 PM

    Friday 8 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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    Tock
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