This is a web site about the very best craft cocktail bars.

It is part travel guide, part review site.
The writers on this site are not bar owners or bar tenders, we are cocktail fanboys, on an endless quest for the best drinks in the world.
It is all just for fun - our own use of the word "snob" is tongue-in-cheek, and we remember that cocktails are ultimately for good times.

If any of the criteria below applies to you, then you are in the right place:

When you travel, do you plan your itinerary around visits to the best cocktail bars? Do you bring limes and bitters to parties? Do you are as much about how your drinks smell as how they taste? Do you think that seeing only Malibu, Myers', Bacardi, and Captain Morgan behind the bar means that this bar does not serve rum? Are you an expert on rums, gins, whiskeys, cordials, and brandies, but look down your nose at vodka drinkers? Is there a shelf in your kitchen full of crusty old cocktail recipe books rescued from thrift stores and used book dealers? Do you pick restaurants based on the quality of the drinks more than of the food? Do you go to liquor stores just to browse, window shop, or gain inspiration? Have you crossed state or international borders just to get a certain brand of liquor? Have you ever given bartenders detailed instructions on how to make a certain drink? Do you walk into bars, look over the booze selection behind the bar, and often realize that there is nothing that the bartender could make that you would want to drink?

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Do you watch the bartender making your drinks and know exactly which recipe book they've read?


Have you ever given a total stranger an impromptu dissertation on the history of the drink they are sipping?


When the bartender asks for your order, do your friends let you order first, and then order the same?


Do you prefer to sit at the bar, rather than at a table, even in a nice restaurant?


Do you regularly exceed the legal limits for Duty Free liquor shopping at airports, hoping that the customs guy won't notice?


Do your liqueurs, syrups, juices, and bitters take up more room in your refrigerator than your food?

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