Skylark
The sister bar to Wicker Park’s Rainbo Club, Skylark is by far the coolest bar in Pilsen. It’s a timeless Chicago haunt: long wooden bar, cracked vinyl booths, faded linoleum,…
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Parson’s Chicken & Fish
The cheap-and-chic, finger-lickin’-good sister restaurant to Longman & Eagle, Parson’s was an instant classic from the minute it opened in the summer of 2013. Situated on a high-traffic corner of…
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Birra Più
Birra Più’s staff is full of Anglo-American beer aficionados, so expect British and American brewers to be heavily represented in the fridges and on tap. There are also plenty of…
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Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà
Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà (Macchè for short), which opened in 2001, has become a beacon for the Italian craft beer movement. A diehard beer enthusiast—his catchphrase is quanno…
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Open Baladin
Teo Musso, of the Baladin Brewing Company, and Leonardo Di Vincenzo, of Birra del Borgo, opened Open Baladin in Rome’s historical center in late 2009, broadening the city’s love affair…
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The Best Hidden Bars in Berlin
Berlin is a city of secrets. The busy thoroughfares and unassuming residential streets conceal a wealth of subterranean spaces and unmarked doors, labyrinthine courtyards and crumbling factories that may or…
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The Best Beer Bars in Berlin
Beer has been a part of German culture since the beginning of recorded history, and today’s brewers take great pride in a long tradition of quality. The famous Reinheitsgebot—the Bavarian…
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Bei Schlawinchen
If you want a beer at five in the morning, at ten in the morning or at two in the afternoon, Bei Schlawinchen is the only address you need. This…
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Freibeuter
Located on an unlikely residential street in Friedrichshain’s Samariterkiez, Freibeuter is an enclave of unreconstructed punk scuzz in a neighbourhood still reeling from rapid gentrification. There is a vague pirate…
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The Best Craft Beer Bars in Rome
Rome is Italy’s undisputed craft-beer-consumption capital, with dozens of pubs and shops featuring microbreweries from Italy and abroad. Though many places focus heavily on Italy, Belgium also gets its due.…
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