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The Best Places to Drink in Oakland

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The best places to drink in Oakland, according to the experts: Food & Wine, James Beard Awards, and The Infatuation have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Friends and Family comes out on top.

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  1. Rank 1. Friends and Family

    The awards

    +1 more awards at Friends and Family
    Address
    468 25th St, Oakland, CA · Oakland
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  2. Rank 2. Viridian

    Cocktail Bar

    Cocktail bar in Oakland's uptown neighborhood, Viridian takes its interior cues from Hong Kong cinema and 90s album covers, which sounds like a mood board disaster but lands as something genuinely electric. The bar director comes from Lazy Bear, and the cocktails lean savory and seasonal with a pull toward Asian flavors. A Top 10 Nominee for a Spirited Award and a 50 Discovery listing round out a résumé that the room feels like it earned.

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    2216 Broadway, Oakland, CA · Oakland
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    Closed today, opens Wed 5 PM

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  3. Rank 3. Tallboy

    Cocktail Bar

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    4210 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA · Oakland
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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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      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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        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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          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.