Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Sit down, get a shot and a beer, order the famous Charlie's double cheeseburger, and shoot the shit with your buddies. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Have one of their shaved-ice juleps and you'll never look at a frozen pond the same way again. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Sad that this place is no longer "The Rat," where the Pixies once played. But The Rat cocktail almost makes up for it. Almost. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. One of the regulars once took off his wooden leg and began strumming it like a guitar. So... grab a pint and socialize. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. While other saps pay out their ass at some tourist trap, the best blues in Chicago is played for locals on the North Side. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Great jazz and a superb martini. Order yours with vodka, extra dirty. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. All of the cocktails are solid, but we're ordering the whiskey smash. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. It's all about the gin martini in the plastic cup. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Well, kinda. Technically, we're talking about the lobby restaurant. Bar Marmont, up the street, is also good.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. This place is a speakeasy with cocktails that would have made a pre-Prohibition Broadway dandy smile. Our vote: a daiquiri.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Three words: Gun. Shop. Fizz. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We recommend ordering a gilded lily, although all of the cocktails here are excellent.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We recommend ordering a Hemingway, made from absinthe and champagne.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. No cover. Cheap drinks. A surprisingly solid Bloody Mary.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a pint of Guinness with a Jameson back. And if you see a local politician, hide. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Listen to the city's best jazz, blues, and zydeco while sucking down an Abita Amber. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. With a rotating selection of about 12 beers on tap from its 70-strong brew list, Monday nights, with $1.75 pints, can get raucous. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a pint from the wall of taps and marvel at the shrine to professional wrestling. We did. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Without question the best place in the country to find a beautiful woman who can gut her own trout. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. This windowless underground pub was utilized from the Civil War through Prohibition as a bootlegging hideaway. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a Lazy Magnolia on tap. Maybe their cheeseburger, if you're hungry. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Head upstairs. Elbow past the crowd. Get a seat on the balcony. Look at Johnny Reb. Sip your Wild Turkey, rocks. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Great live jazz. An even better list of bourbons. Try the Pappy van Winkle. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. A nexus for Lawrence's energetic music scene with DJs and bands performing nearly every night. Order a Free State's Ad Astra Ale. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Order a shot of Zwack Unicum, the national aperitif of Hungary, with a beer back. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. When? Morning, when the game's on. Premier League soccer in the day, punk bands at night, British round the clock. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Order the clam chowder and get a pint of the Ten Penny Ale. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a margarita.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Here, beers come in two sizes: big and bigger. You know what to do.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Before hitting the bathhouses and spas, get a Bloody Mary. They're great here.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Here, deep-woods flannel mingles comfortably with lawyer-wear and matching Orca Deck outfits. Get an Alaskan amber.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Now get yourself a Guinness and a cheeseburger.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a Hoegaarden and enjoy!
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We recommend the "Orange Thing" vodka martini, without feeling the least bit insecure.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We recommend having a pint of Olde Towne Amber Ale on tap, brewed right there in downtown Huntsville.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get yourself something cold.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Be sure to order the Bushwacker -- a staple beach drink made with dark rum, Kahlua, and coconut cream.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Play some bocce and order a black and blue, made with locally brewed Blueberry Ale and Coal Porter. Read more.
Congratulations, you have found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. This place has bloodstains, bullet holes, and the occasional free dental extraction from a pliers-wielding biker.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Relax on the (ridiculously comfortable) couches or take a dip in the pool - just don't forget to order a caipirinha.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a bottle of Rainier. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The people of Fromberg (pop. 400) will tell you Shirley Smith's place is the only constant keeping this town alive. It's amazing. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The Chokes & Cheese artichoke dip alone washed down with a pint of the Katy Trail pale ale. Done. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Clearly, this is a place to hoist a pint of Guinness. Slainte! Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The Blue Monday Jam is incredible. And the Blue Room martini ain't have bad, neither. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Toss some bowls (it's like lawn bowling) and drink some Boddington's. Nibble a Scotch egg. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Did someone say "tater tot hot dish?" Oh, I think someone just said "tater tot hot dish!" Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. As Biggie rapped, "Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis." Play 'em both and wash it down with a Chatterbox lager. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Play bocce. Drink Guinness. Repeat. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Play The Replacements' classic "Here Comes a Regular," Paul Westerberg's ode to the place where you're standing. Get yelled at. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Order the surprisingly inspired combination of a beer and a slice of berry pie. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Order a Jack and (never more than a splash of) Coke to stoke your courage for the best karaoke the Cities have to offer. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Miller or Miller Lite. And a burger. Because that's the only thing on the menu and because that's what people do here. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. What can we say? This is John Waters's favorite bar in Baltimore. That's reason enough to love it. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. When you tire of "Natty Boh," head for the Brewer's Art, housed in an old mansion. Belgian-style home brews are always on tap. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The popcorn is free and the dark and stormies are fantastic. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. And quite possibly, the best biker bar in America. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. On Wednesdays, a buck gets you a Schlitz. Eighteen more get you a place to sleep in the Band Room. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. They open on Saturday morning at 8 and close up shop by 1:30. Get the seven course breakfast: A six pack and pound of sausage. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The blistering swing combo takes requests and it has cheap shots of Jagermeister, which was supposedly introduced to America here. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The muffuletta, great. The Pimm's Cup, good. But, the Sazerac. Boy. What a Sazerac. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Opened in 1856, Tujague's has all the amenities you'd expect from a bar that old: none. But the Sazeracs are amazing. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. This place single-handedly revived the Warehouse District with its friendly charms and powerfully-strong drinks. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. It's cash-only and claims to be the oldest gay bar in the Kansas City metropolitan area. In summer, they play movies on the patio. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Order a Witches' Brew, a fruit juice and rum concoction, followed by a shot of grog. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Cheap drinks, bands like Spoon and Langhorne Slim, and a rotating collection of pinball machines. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The jukebox is outstanding. And legend has it that the Greenwood opened the day Prohibition ended. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a Tangermeister, a beguiling combo of Tang and Jagermeister. Or a High Life. That's good, too. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Order a vodka martini and ask them about the metal dome at the end of the bar. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We recommend a shot of Zwack Unicum, the national aperitif of Hungary, with a beer back. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a pitcher of Boulevard and cheer for the Cyclones. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Order a highball. Take off your hat. Don't put your feet up. And don't piss off the owner, Russ. His place. His rules. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. At Nicky Blaine's, everyone is sexy and full-blooded. Something about the lighting. Or maybe it's the Dean martinis. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get the Honker's Ale. Maybe a Slim Jim or bag of chips, if you're hungry. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Stop by on a Wednesday or Friday for the all-you-can-eat fish & chips. And have a Laphroaig single-malt, aged 10 years. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. This place used to be a third-shift bar for garbagemen and snowplow drivers. Now, not so much. But it's still good. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. With 150 beers on tap, including Trappist ales and mead, try to order something other than a Stella Artois. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The drinks are stiff -- get a manhattan -- and you can play bingo for inflatable rabbits. What's not to love? Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We'd recommend getting a lemon drop, but you can't go wrong with whatever the bartender's in the mood for. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Fifty bars are packed within four blocks of downtown Boise and this is the one we'd hit. Order a kamikaze. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Here, in a land where old tiki bars go to die, you'll find the real thing. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. From back when Hawaii drew only the better class of tourists. Clark Gable woulda loved it. In fact, he did. Mai tais, of course. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. And also, the undisputed beer Mecca of metro Atlanta. Get a Pierogi Primavera with a Bellhaven. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. If you're hungry, snack on the kitchen's white bean dip or truffle-Parmesan fries. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The city’s last real neighborhood bar, a place where journalists and lawyers and politicians have always communed at the same tap. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Two words: MoJo Fries. Steak fries smothered in cheese, bacon, jalapeños, and all the ranch dressing your failing heart desires. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Come for the girl who crushes beer cans in her cleavage, stay for anything else. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Find a seat at one of the deep booths or scattered tables and cherry pick gems from the stellar jukebox. Order shoestring fries. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Rowdy undergrads reign during the fall and spring semesters; grad students and locals drink early evenings away during the summer. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We recommend the barbecue ribs with fried okra and a 24-oz. PBR master cylinder. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Wrap your hands around a tall pint of Guinness and eat the best pizza you've ever shoved in your sunburned face. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Order the Bayou-spiced alligator with rattler venom sauce or grilled Braden River frog legs. Wash it down with a pitcher of Bud. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The Bahi's mai tais are legendary along Florida's Gulf Coast -- a rite of passage for locals turning 21. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Presumably, you are in Miami because you are looking for trouble. At the Deuce, you will have a very good time finding it. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. This isn't strictly a bar. It's a very decent Haitian restaurant with a really first-rate bar. Get the rum punch. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We recommend getting a Chicken Nixon and a Yuengling. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Pair up a Yuengling with a grilled bison or bacon cheeseburger. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a pint of anything on draft. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Low crimson lighting, classic cocktails, exceptional martinis.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a Bud and a shot of Jack at 8:45, right before the jazz starts. Come 90 minutes earlier if you want to sit at a table.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. This place opens at 6 a.m. and there will be a line. Get in it, and drink a White Russian for breakfast.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. And one of the best sports bars in L.A. Loud music, games on multiple TVs, and 11 p.m. happy hour on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. And yes, it's also the best place to race turtles. Order whatever the announcer's having.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. This place has a liquor license so old, you can stop in for a martini at the bar and pick up a six-pack on your way out.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Order a Don Julio, chilled, and enjoy the ranchero music, which has been playing here for decades.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. They turn out a martini that Bogart would've judged worthy of the name. That counts for a lot. (And try the sand dabs, too.)
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Fun fact: Redwood still maintains a direct phone line to the Los Angeles Times city desk across the street.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Sam's outdoor deck is one of the nation's most picturesque places to drink. Good luck biking back to the city.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. From the Cabernet-colored Naugahyde to the rollicking sing-a-longs, this place defined lounge culture. Raise a glass to Shirley!
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. After May, the expansive outdoor patio is the perfect place to have a Hefeweizen. Or three. (Even better after a day of rafting.)
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Before Laguna Beach was "Laguna Beach," locals flocked to "The Dirty Bird" on the PCH for stiff drinks and zero pretense.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We recommend getting a vodka gimlet from the upstairs bar.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The tenders of this small bar will do everything they can to make exactly what you ask for, even if it's a regrettable choice.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. You want a poolside cocktail in sunny L.A. You don’t want the bullshit Hollywood scene. This is the place. Get a martini.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. We cannot recommend this enough: Siete Leguas blanco margarita, up with salt.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Go next door for a sausage and tuck into a pint of Pliny the Elder at the bar. You're welcome.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Tosca’s is a monument to chrome and red leatherette and burnished wood. Good drinks, too.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. They make excellent cocktails, and the duende cocktail is especially good. Try it.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. No matter how many tourists drop in for a pint, it still feels as though it's full of locals. We recommend an Anchor Steam.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The Bloody Mary has so many vegetables, it's practically healthy. Get one.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a hamburger, coated so thickly with spices and so indulgent at 3:00 a.m. you'll see eyes rolling back in ecstasy.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. And also, one of Little Rock's best music venues. So tuck into a PBR and soak in the songs.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Come for the view but stay for the extravagant cocktails, like the cantaloupe martini.
Congratulations, you have found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Oddballs from all over the Southwest flock here, where little has changed since John Dillinger used it as his hideout.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Their generous portions of brat will make you blush, and the lederhosen-clad staff faithfully pour Köstritzer. Try them both.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. It's only open on Thursday nights, 8:30 until near-dawn. They only serve 40 oz. Budweisers. And good luck finding it. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. If you're here for brunch, we highly recommend getting a pitcher of mimosas and the Chorizo Con Huevos.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Gloomy. Dark. Perfect. It's like stepping back in time when the Nachez Trace ended here and rafts filled the streets. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. If you happen to be an East Coaster in L. A., you will find no better bar to drink yourself sane. Order a Pappy Van Winkle's, neat. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. The cocktails are flawless, and all of them are consumed right-side up. Order a Remember the Maine, with rye and Cherry Heering.
