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.
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.
