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    The keypad combination lives behind a bookcase at the Four Seasons, and the concierge will share it once you've booked one of the twenty seats. Bandista is a speakeasy cocktail bar whose drinks draw from Prohibition's smuggling routes and the tequileros who ran the Mexican border, which gives the menu a Latin angle that the 1920s decor alone wouldn't suggest. North America's 50 Best Bars placed it at number 47.

    The awards strongest first

    One number, weighted & current 90

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    The dishes from the writeups

    • Uncrustable

      “Our favorite is The Uncrustable, a brandy, mango, and golden milk clarified punch that you pour out of a giant glass flask—it’s light, summery, and a little surprising.”

      The Infatuation

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    Address
    1300 Lamar St, Houston, TX · Houston
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    • Monday Not listed
    • Tuesday Today 5 PM to Midnight next day
    • Wednesday 5 PM to Midnight next day
    • Thursday 5 PM to Midnight next day
    • Friday 5 PM to Midnight next day
    • Saturday 5 PM to Midnight next day
    • Sunday Not listed
    Phone
    7136501300
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Eat Score

The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    Drink Score

    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.