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Find the best spots daily to eat and drink in hipster neighborhoods. Hit the roof, drink a beer and eat delicious at top-tier restaurants. Plan your nightlife adventure with maps and reviews of unknown micro-brews, rooftop parties, and independent drink.

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New cocktail lounges have a lot to contend with—remodeling, menu creation, staff training, and surly booze writers (guilty) are just a few of the pitfalls that await even the most optimistic would-be bar industry titan.

7 Classic Bars You Need to Visit Before You Die

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It’s often said that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

7 Legendary Bars That Should Be on Your Bucket List

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Accidentally meeting your favorite celebrity sounds incredible.

11 Celebrity Drinking Buddies We Would Ditch Our Friends For

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I once met a guy at a booze convention in Las Vegas who’d made a ton of dough in Silicon Valley and wanted to pursue his lifelong dream of owning his own island rum.

The Craziest Booze Names We Can’t Believe Are Actually Real

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My job is to go to bars and drink in them.

The 8 Types of Bars You’ll Go to in Your Life

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For those of you either too deep in a Snapchat fugue or too busy hate-binging Fuller House, allow me to bring you up to our current cultural velocity.

Yes, a Ban on Russian Vodka Would Actually Be the End of the World

Among my fondest memories from growing up in Philly was when the whole family would pile into our beat-up station wagon on Christmas Eve and drive out to the suburbs to see the ornate light displays on rich people’s houses.

Make Christmas Drunk Again!

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My mother doesn’t like it when I say this, but bars and churches are basically the same thing.

10 Things You Need To Do in Bars Before You Die

You don’t need me to tell you that 2016 was a steaming pile of chimpanzee excrement because we have a president-elect who reminds us every few hours on the Twitters.

Nine Toasts To The Nine Shitstorms of 2016

On the night after Donald Trump was elected president, nerves were frayed across the country, not to mention the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Walton Goggins Asked Me to Try His Booze Then Wouldn’t Let Me Taste It

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A Night at The Epilogue

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It’s been a good 20 years or so since the last time someone popped me good and hard in the face.