Portland, OR:
The Teardrop
Ten01 Bistro with Kelley Swenson behind the bar
50 Plates
Clyde Common (Jeffrey Morgenthaler behind the bar; happy hour starts at
3 p.m.: $5 cocktails)
All of these are all within a few blocks of each other (and of
Teardrop).
Powell's Books which is an enormous local bookstore is right in the
middle - a square block multistory bookstore.
Reno, NV:
Chapel Tavern (the write: we're a small place but we're doing our best
to raise the bar, so to speak, in the land of sweet and sour long
islands and red-headed sluts).
London, UK:
Trailer Happiness
Milk & Honey
San Francisco, CA:
Harry Denton's Starlight Room atop the Sir Francis Drake Hotel
Beretta (1199 Valencia at 23rd in San Francisco),
Cantina (580 Sutter at Mason in San Francisco), and
Flora (1900 Telegraph at 19th in Oakland).
Club Mallard - Albany, CA (this one is in Tiki Road Trip, but we
haven't tried their proper cocktails yet).
Albatross Pub - Berkeley, CA
New York, NY:
Gramercy Tavern
PDT
Brandy Library
Employees Only
Philadelphia, PA:
Southwark Restaurant
Boston, MA:
Eastern Standard
Silvertone
B-Side - Cambridge
Seattle, WA:
Fu Kun Wu - Ballard (Seattle area), WA
Sambar
West 5
Vancouver, Canada:
Chow
Benita (said to have the best bartender in Vancouver)
Parkside
Chambar
West (said to have amazing food, and is pricey).
Vienna, Austria:
Hotel bar at Fürst Metternich. 500 Whiskeys and 250 cocktails.
The card is like a pocket book.
Berlin, Germany:
Rum Trader
Hamburg, Germany:
Meyer Lansky’s; Gänsemarkt 36
Located in the Centrum. It’s small and often crowded, but with fast and
professional barkeepers. It’s a popular after-work-hangout for business
people and employees. I recommend you test it during happy hour;
otherwise it’s very expensive. And if you’re nice and ask politely the
waitress might add a drink on happy hour condition, although it’s
already past.
Turmbar; Rothenbaumchaussee 2
Located near the university and Centrum. The location is a former WWII
round-shelter (Turm = tower) transformed into a cocktail bar. In a
spiral you go up until you are dizzy and reach the bar in the top of
the building. The wall is decorated with Maya inspired art. The whole
ambient is Latin and South American, including the music. It only has
one tiny window. After all, it was a shelter with thick steel-concrete
walls – hard to get windows in there.
Havanna; St. Pauli-Fischmarkt 4
Located near the Reeperbahn and the Seaport. It’s a small, maritime and
atmospheric bar with an excellent selection of booze and around the
corner from one of Hamburg’s tourist hot spots.
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