Following a 2007 ban on smoking in restaurants, Wayne Curtis for The American Scholar reports that New Orleans has finally banned smoking in bars. The law will officially go into effect…
Over the last 15 years "speakeasy" has become synonymous with "cocktail bar." Now that the aesthetic has run its course, bar owners and designers are charged with redefining what the…
Every street in the grid of Melbourne’s Central Business District (CBD) is connected by quaint cobblestone lanes, designed to allow rear access to businesses. In these dark, graffiti-covered alleyways, bars…
If "third places" are our social venues outside of home and work like bars and cafés, then "fourth places" are, arguably, those third places fictionalized in novels, movies and on…
Taking over a bar with a fiercely loyal following is hard. But some owners have figured out how to move forward while paying homage to their inherited establishment's roots. Drew…
Even today you can still find them, lurking on corners, under old neon beer signs or behind sketchy windowless facades constructed to hide the activities inside. These dives, in the…
Chicago is one of those cities blessed with late-night bar licenses, and it’s not unusual for bars to remain open through 2 a.m. on weekdays and 3 a.m. on Saturdays…
Just up the Boulevard Saint-Germain from its rival, Les Deux Magots, is Café de Flore, the Left Bank’s other iconic café. One of the Lost Generation's regular meeting spots, the…
Most of the Hurricane’s origin stories point to Pat O’Brien’s in the 1940s, an while there's some evidence to refute the claim, it's still the drink's spiritual home, for better or…
This heroic slashie (half liquor store, half bar) sells a decent number of bottled brews in the smart liquor store up front, and offers more than 475 artisanal beers in…
