Maguchi Dreams of Highballs
The owner of Tokyo’s Rock Fish has spent more than 30 years perfecting his idiosyncratic, iceless highball.
- story: Dylan James Ho
- photos: Dylan + Jeni
Detroit’s Last Great Blues Bar
In a changing city, the 75-year-old Raven Lounge & Restaurant remains a spiritual home for America’s original music.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photos: Jenna Belevender
The Boy Wizard of the Midwest
With the opening of Colita, his second bar in two years, Marco Zappia has indelibly changed the Twin Cities’ cocktail scene.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Matthew Hintz
Why Won’t the Speakeasy Die?
The speakeasy aesthetic was once so ubiquitous it became a punchline. But long since the Edison bulbs burnt out, the hidden bar continues to flourish.
- story: Nick Fauchald
- photo: Dylan + Jeni
At Olive Garden, Chanta Hunter Presides
The Brooklyn native has been serving frisbee-sized “Italian Margaritas” in Times Square for more than a decade.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Eric Medsker
Drunk Food: A New Kind of NYC Slice
A roving portrait of late-night cravings. Up first, the other pie has a new curfew.
- story: Daniela Galarza
- photo: Eric Medsker
A Night at the Door With Three New York Bouncers
The eyes and ears of three very different bars tell us about their normal—and not-so-normal—nights on the job.
- story: Whitney Kimball
- photos: Lizzie Munro
Friends in Low Places
The original Foxz Tavern was a home base for the queers, punks, rednecks and redneck queers of Normaltown.
- story: André Gallant
- illustration: Nick Hensley-Wagner
Got No Time to Be Your Barroom Muse
At Brooklyn’s Diamond Lil, Jenna Gribbon’s painting offers a modern rebuttal to the backbar nude.
- story: Chloe Frechette
- photo: Alexa Bendek
You Will Instagram This: The Joe Strummer Mural at Niagara
The bar’s Technicolor mural of the Clash frontman has become a destination unto itself.
- story: Matt Rodbard
- photo: Instagram
What We’re Into Right Now
A glitter-topped Daiquiri, a new agave-focused bar, Detroit's drinking scene and more.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Daniel Krieger
At Happy’s, Midcentury Miami Still Glows Beneath the Grunge
Planted on an island causeway between beach and city, this relic of the Rat Pack heyday has acquired the patina of a true locals' haunt.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photos: Anthony J. Rayburn