2629 Best Bars in USA

Besides serving excellent beer, Attic Brewing hosts great music ranging from funk and soul to rock and roll. A sizable outdoor area regularly hosts food trucks, and families (and dogs) are welcome.

Walking into this tiny cocktail bar feels like stepping into an old European barn—but one that serves cocktails and mocktails with seasonal ingredients and fresh juices, organic wines, caviar, and fancy tinned fish. Owner and Farmhouse Pottery co-founder Zoe Zilian created a cozy, elegant bar in the brookside 1915 building, which boasts exposed beams and a vintage brick floor; it's tucked away from Woodstock's main drag, but is a must-stop for an evening drink.

Boasting the largest dance floor on Mill Avenue, Aura offers 5,000 square feet of space to let loose. Given its location near campus, it's no surprise that Aura is a favorite of ASU students. If you need a vibe that's a little more postcollege, opt for a VIP table and bottle service.

A community beer garden of sorts—locals call it The ABGB—this hopping operation is a full-scale brewery, popular pub restaurant, and live music venue. Throughout the year, they offer a rotating selection of craft beers in a wide variety of styles, including lagers, ales, IPAs, and pilsners. The outdoor backyard is shaded by oak and elm trees and is a perfect backdrop for evening rockabilly and country gigs featuring local artists. Enjoy crisp pizzas, an assortment of super-stuffed sandwiches, and salads while you sip a few suds.

brings cosmopolitan panache to Hagerstown. This hip little spot could easily exist in New York City. Sip sophisticated cocktails at the sinuous brushed-metal bar, or nosh on gourmet pizzas in a private room with mod white leather couches. The lounge hosts weekly open mic nights, live jazz and acoustic music, and a dance party with a DJ spinning on weekends. Be sure to slip up to the city's only rooftop deck where urbane pleasures meet the distinctly rural pleasure of a sky crowded with stars.

This multitasking art deco venue offers both live music and club nights. The killer sound system, cavernous space, and multiple bars make it a perfect venue for both. The club is best known for its DJs, who often spin well past the 2 am cutoff for drinks. The crowd can be a mixed bag, depending on the night, but if you're looking to dance, you likely won't be disappointed. Upstairs is Bardot, which hosts special events including a Monday night showcase of up-and-coming artists.

Beer lovers from around the globe make a beeline to this late night neighborhood joint with pressed-tin ceilings. Boasting the best beer selection in New Orleans (and above-par pub food), the bar hosts a regular schedule of tastings and special events. The whiskey selection also ranks among the top in town. Sip your pint on the wraparound balcony upstairs, where you can watch streetcars roll past on St. Charles Avenue.

Arguably the most famous brewery in Boulder, Avery has grabbed impressive awards for its innovative ales and lagers; the Avery IPA was Colorado’s first packaged IPA. The brewpub offers a solid menu (complete with meat from the smoker), free brewery tours, and a dog-friendly patio. Try the White Rascal, which won silver for best Belgian-style witbier in the 2018 World Beer Cup competition.

Chef Grant Achatz applies his cutting-edge culinary style to cocktails at this West Loop bar, adjacent to his high-concept restaurant Next. Your newfangled old-fashioned might arrive injected into an egg of ice, or your drink's flavor might change subtly as its flavored ice melts. Inventive bar bites are on offer as well.

Once a delightful home-style shop by day and wine bar by night, the former Aviary Lounge's multipurpose design concept now focuses exclusively on wining and dining. The contemporary decor is still a lovely backdrop here, but the main star is the adventurous international wine list and the kitchen serves up wonderful gourmet pairings.

Don't let the '70s chill vibes fool you: Aviator Nation Dreamland is attempting to do a lot of things, and it does them very well. Part coffee house serving all day, part music venue, part surf and lifestyle shop, and part community hub, it's become an embodiment of the laid-back, sun-soaked spirit of Southern California. Opened in 2021 by Paige Mycoskie, founder of the retro-inspired clothing brand Aviator Nation, this multifaceted venue is just steps from the beach. The site's previous incarnations include its time as the Crazy Horse Saloon, which hosted everyone from the Beach Boys to the Doors to Fleetwood Mac. That aural history carries over into today's experience. The complex includes a large outdoor area with comfortable seating, perfect for enjoying a meal or watching live performances on the custom-built stage.

Ayu Dayclub, part of the opulent outdoor oasis that is Resorts World’s pool area, is designed to bring to mind the islands of Southeast Asia. The 41,000-square-foot space features music from a variety of genres, including EDM, hip hop, R&B, and new wave, from artists including Tiesto, Cash Cash, and Louis the Child. The DJs curate special playlists for big-event weekends.

This spot is great for feasting on huge portions of food and lavish quantities of liquor, but also for feasting your eyes on the fabulous people who flock here on weekend nights. It's a great stop before and after an Old Town event or a night of partying.

Every Friday and Saturday night from 10 pm until 2 am, come to Azúca to put some salsa or merengue in your step accompanied by live music inspired by blending the atmosphere of the Caribbean and Central and Latin America. Kitchen closes at 10 pm, but you'll be sipping on a specialty cocktail or other beverage until 2 am.

The design is red-on-red here, and the Asian-style cocktails are particularly polished at this Japan-meets-1950s-America lounge. Listen to live jazz while nibbling on American and Japanese-inflected treats and sipping inventive libations with international twists.

The slick rooftop bar of the Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC hotel would be worth visiting even without its sweeping Hudson River and Manhattan views. Sleek and glossy, B On Top has blue Portuguese tiles, an abundance of natural light, cool furnishings, and sexy servers. The music isn't too loud, and there is ample space—indoors as well as out. Cocktails are predictably pricey, but there are weekday happy-hour specials from 5 to 7 pm.

Among the offerings of Beale Street's three blocks of music clubs, one of the most popular is B. B. King's Blues Club, where top blues bands perform regularly.

This former speakeasy during Prohibition is once again serving cocktails. To find the Lower East Side bar, look for the gate with the toy shop sign, descend a staircase, walk through a dark alley, up another set of steps, and through a door that opens onto an ornate lounge.

Just north of downtown, this lively, rambling brewpub turns out well-crafted pilsners, red ales, and hazy IPAs. There are pool tables and sports on TV in the spacious taproom and a grassy lawn with picnic tables outside. They serve pretty tasty pizza, too.

Don't let the name deceive you: Backstage Bar & Billiards and Fremont Country Club is one location, albeit with separate venues. Live music is a constant at this adults-only hot spot on the southeast corner of 6th and Fremont Streets. Genres range from rock and metal to honky-tonk and rap. As the name suggests, billiards is a big part of the appeal. Optional table service includes cut-the-line passes and a spot near the stage.

The Badlands saloon in Commercial Center is acknowledged to be Las Vegas's oldest surviving gay bar, a 24-hour haven for local gay cowboys and city-slickers alike. It's decorated with a mock-log-cabin facade and offers cubbyholes in which regulars can store their beer steins. After national exposure when Badlands was featured on the reality show Bar Rescue in 2021, it has expanded upon its cowboy theme to be more versatile, with weekly trivia, karaoke, and drag show nights.

Although it draws plenty of gay customers, the festive and friendly atmosphere is popular with just about everyone in the Hillcrest area (and their pets are welcome, too). The bar staff stocks more than 100 brands of tequila and mixes plenty of fancy cocktails.

On the city's west side is Baker's Keyboard Lounge, a dimly lighted, smoke-filled club that's been open since 1934. Everyone from John Coltrane to Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, and Dave Brubeck has played Baker's over the years. The club offers nightly jazz and great soul food.

Here you'll spy young (thirtysomething) and upwardly mobile former frat boys and sorority girls sipping on powerful espresso martinis and munching on tasty burgers served sandwich-style on a baguette—considered by some to be the best in town. Classic cocktails are proper and stiff, bartenders always have something witty to say, and the wine list is one of the neighborhood's best.

The fruits of Yakima's hops and apple crops come to the westside at this sprawling joint facility. One of the state's best breweries brings its vertically integrated beers to the space shared with a creative-minded cidery. Together, they offer 32 drinks on tap, a rotating selection of food trucks, and plenty of seating of various sorts at the kid- and dog-friendly, indoor and gravel-lined outdoor space.