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Fancy Tipples: Rarified Bars Around the Globe

Broken Shaker Miami

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The world’s most alluring bars are striking windows into the cultural fabric and the social zeitgeist of their respective cities. Of course, a few of them have no other purpose than to look drop-dead sexy. Whether it be an ode to luxury dripping with diamonds or a rowdy speakeasy with personality in spades, a hot bar is often at the fulcrum of a city’s pulse. Here’s a carefully curated selection of intoxication at its finest.

Dead Rabbit NYC
Photo Credit: The Dead Rabbit

The Dead Rabbit Grocery & Grog, New York

Two Belfast natives walk into a bar…well, subvert the script, because Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry’s lush interpretation of the traditional Irish pub experience fuses the plush intimacy of a high-end cocktail bar with the bonhomie of an Irish watering-hole. It’s the cocktails that rule the roost at The Dead Rabbit Grocery & Grog. Try the Bad Blood and its feisty assemblage of Plymouth, Rossi Bianco Vermouth, Campari, and a Cinnamon sting, or the Kappa Pisco, Vermouth, Macadamia Nuts, and Boston Bittahs kick of the Tinderbox for a taster. The 64-drink menu changes every year, but the happiness quotient never fluctuates.

Siddharth Dasgupta

Siddharth Dasgupta has a thing for character, both in the horizons he seeks and in the stories he pursues. As an Indian poet and novelist who also articulates travel and luxury experiences for a gamut of global publications - Conde Nast Traveller, Travel + Leisure and Harper's included - words are at the heart of everything. When Siddharth is not being consumed by a story, black & white photograph...(Read More)

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