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Bars have always been an escape. But this year we've seen those escapes get wild, strange, and even spiritual. It takes determination to open up a bar that has undercurrents [...]

This article from Esquire magazine highlights some of the best bars in America in 2024. The bars mentioned offer a variety of experiences, from intimate lounges to tropical wonderlands. Each bar has its own unique atmosphere and specialty cocktails. Some notable bars mentioned include Tigre in New York City, Dawn Club in San Francisco, Medium Cool in Miami Beach, Paradise Lost in New York City, Martiny's in New York City, Sip & Guzzle in New York City, Refuge in Houston, Equal Measure in Boston, and Nine Bar in Chicago. These bars provide patrons with a range of options for enjoying a night out, whether they're looking for a lively dance floor, live jazz, or a sophisticated cocktail experience. [Extracted from the article]

This document provides a list of various hotels around the world, highlighting their unique features and attractions. The hotels mentioned range from luxurious resorts to boutique accommodations, each offering a distinct experience. [Extracted from the article]

This document provides a collection of short descriptions of various restaurants across the United States. Each description highlights the unique features and offerings of the restaurant, such as the menu, ambiance, and culinary style. The descriptions aim to capture the diverse and innovative nature of the restaurant scene, showcasing a range of cuisines and dining experiences. Some notable restaurants mentioned include Ilis in Brooklyn, which focuses on locally sourced ingredients cooked with fire and ice, Burdell in Oakland, which reimagines soul food and California cuisine, Corner Office in Taos, Nami Kaze in Honolulu, and Ubuntu in Los Angeles. The document also recognizes Maya-Camille Broussard as the Pastry Chef of the Year and Brooks Headley as Chef of the Year. [Extracted from the article]

- K. S. do the big cocktail splash-out Sometimes you want a big night out where the cocktails and bar bites both take center stage. What feels delightfully uncommon, and why the thirty or so seats are filled by 6:30, are the inspired drinks from beverage director Abe Vucekovich based on … birds of the Midwest? MOTHERSHIP SAN DIEGO For many, the Mos Eisley cantina in Star Wars was their first bar fantasy, and Mothership is the best realization of the dream to drink on another planet, which is why, on many days, you'll see a line out the door as if it were a Disney ride. This joyfully odd drink menu was the brainchild of Abe Vucekovich, Meadowlark's beverage director, who used to work in one of the country's most serious temples to the cocktail, just a few L stops away, the Violet Hour. [Extracted from the article]

The owners of República, the Mexican tasting-menu spot that's a pillar of Portland's dining scene and where Gomez was chef de cuisine previously, felt that he deserved his own restaurant. Sitting at the chef's counter at Comedor Lilia in Portland, chef Juan Gomez will tell you how freeing it is to cook the food of the Pacific Northwest through a Mexican lens as an expression of himself - hence his signature dish of a pork-collar confit served with pan arabe. At his first restaurant, Kann, chef Gregory Gourdet gives Haitian cuisine soulful finesse in a joyful room capped with a golden ceiling. Over dessert at Kann one fall evening, chef Gregory Gourdet told me that he almost didn't want to serve Haitian food in his first restaurant. [Extracted from the article]

True to its Buckhead roots planted nine floors below, St. Julep also offers a bevy of Outkast-themed drinks, such as the Bowtie, the 13th Floor, and the Ms. Jackson - this last one like a Big Gulp for big kids, with Tito's, cherry Heering, hibiscus, and lime. Then there's the cocktail menu, mashing up both regional influences and dreamed up by famed mixologist and beverage director Jim Meehan. The bar chefs - led by Steven Enrique Salazar - click on a spotlight when they serve you a drink, and the drinks deserve such lighting. IT MAY HAVE BEEN A WHILE SINCE YOU PUT ON A PAIR of "nice pants" to go to a bar, but when that very 2022 confluence of joie de vivre and pandemic ennui begins to stir and you hear about a new piano bar with red booths or a semisecret room with Kubrick-level design details or a place that has the best damn Sazerac in the world, you put one leg in after the other and you order yourself a Lyft. [Extracted from the article]

- K. S. 3 HAIL to the CHIP No matter how many snacks you lay out in your party spread, if potato chips are in the mix, potato chips will win. - JUSTIN KIRKLAND 8 BECOME the Emperor of ICE CREAM… SANDWICHES IT'S-ITS are where IT'S AT I'm told that if you grew up in northern California, It's-Its are as common as, say, Klondike Bars. COLUMNS We could almost reach out and touch that disco ball on a velvet stick, couldn't we?. [Extracted from the article]

1130 Maine Avenue SW -K. s. SERENATA At this gently curving bar in the heart of La Cosecha, a newish Latin American marketplace, the drinks, overseen by beverage director Andra "AJ" Johnson, can have a pantry's worth of ingredients. ON APRIL FIFTEENTH, at 8:42 P.M., I had a drink. 1263 West Temple Street -K. S. Louisville TROUBLE BAR "Whiskey got me into trouble"-that's the promise painted on the outside of Trouble, where the bar's stocked with bottle after bottle of Kentucky booze and all that stuffy Bourbon Trail hero worship is dropped at the door. Then walk deeper into the underground cavern, where you'll encounter a library, a vault turned drinking nook, a sprawling bar serving draft drinks, a wall of (tastefully) naked ladies, followed by a backroom cocktail den with a fireplace and a photo of Richard Gere smoldering against the booze bottles. [Extracted from the article]

700 King Street, Suite B - Osayi Endolyn CHICAGO THE BAMBOO ROOM If tiki bars are fantasy, then the Bamboo Room, tucked within Three Dots and a Dash, is the fantasy within the fantasy - a rarefied, rum-fueled fever dream presided over by barman Kevin Beary. 630 West Lake Street - K. S. CINCINNATI WÓDKA BAR The very existence of a bar devoted to vodka feels like a rebuke to all the bartenders who've scoffed at the spirit. 229 South Forty-fifth Street - J. G. FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY To get an idea of the ambition of the drinks at Friday Saturday Sunday, ask bartender Paul MacDonald to explain the cocktails he makes based on the Fibonacci sequence. The green neon outline of a familiar cocktail glass draws you in for one thing: a martini - large, strong, ice-cold gin or vodka?. [Extracted from the article]

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK As with many Aces around the globe, the Brooklyn outpost is very much about building a cool community hangout the only way the Ace can. The purpose-built brutalist structure of concrete and wood is home to a lobby with a buzzing bar anchoring all of the loungy furniture, where folks Zoom on laptops by day and old-fashioneds are being stirred come nightfall. [Extracted from the article]

The article highlights suggestions for several restaurants for parties including Celeste, in Boston, U.S.; Tourists Radio on Spotify; and Angler in San Francisco, California U.S.