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Beverage Director: Find the Best Bars to Drink at in Your City

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Find the best spots daily to eat and drink in hipster neighborhoods. Hit the roof, drink a beer and eat delicious at top-tier restaurants. Plan your nightlife adventure with maps and reviews of unknown micro-brews, rooftop parties, and independent drink.

Best Restaurants & Bars - Places to Eat & Drink - Thrillist

This in between season when the weather can’t be trusted, there are two sure-fire ways to spend your time: tucked inside a cozy bar when it’s cold, or posted up on a sun-drenched patio when it’s not.

Where to Grab a Drink in Dallas Right Now

Austin

With the all-consuming SXSW nearly upon us, an important question is being constantly texted to Austin locals from visiting friends and acquaintances popping out of the woodwork: “Where’s a good place to grab a drink?” Instead of taking the precious time out of your day to compile a list for that visiting classmate you haven’t seen since high school (how did they even get your digits anyway?), just forward them our hand-picked list of the best places to grab a bev within the city limits.

The Best Bars in Austin Right Now 

Pervasive dating apps have changed the game for the uncoupled, but believe it or not, it’s still possible to meet people the old fashioned way—face-to-face in an establishment that serves drinks.

The 10 Best Bars to Hit if You’re Single in Dallas-Ft. Worth

Nation

Tip These Queens

We’re assembling a dynamic task force of legendary drag performers to offer up their life lessons in and around cocktail culture, served with a stiff dose of etiquette and the occasional read.

Tip These Queens: Life Lessons from Legendary Drag Performers

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To call what The Cake Boys do “drag” would be a gross oversimplification.

The Cake Boys Are All About Chaos

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For two years during the pandemic, I interviewed performers remotely.

How Brooklyn Musician Mel 4Ever Became Her Own Superhero

Bat City residents have a complicated relationship with Sixth Street, the legendary Downtown avenue of bars that produces so many sloppy nights out, it's better known as Dirty Sixth.

The 10 Actually Acceptable Bars on Austin’s Dirty 6th

Of all the big cities in Texas for singles to mingle, we’re convinced Austin’s the best.

The Best Singles Bars in Austin

San Antonio

There’s no denying that San Antonio’s a fantastic place to sip on a margarita on the city’s iconic River Walk or drink a spicy michelada while floating in the pool at one of the many great hotels and resorts.

Where to Grab a Drink in San Antonio Right Now

Los Angeles

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When it comes to Halloween, there are few places that do it like Los Angeles.

Get Totally Freaked Out at These Halloween Events in LA

San Francisco

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Spooky season is officially upon us, which means a month of non-stop pumpkin patches, haunted houses, cauldrons of bubbling concoctions, terrifying amounts of candy, and magical masquerades, all culminating in one of the biggest weekends of the year: Halloween.

12 Halloween Events in San Francisco to Get You in the Spooky Spirit

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New York City’s nightlife is world-renowned.

How This Queer Party Promoter Found Community in NYC’s Nightlife

Summer is coming to a close, but that only means Dallas’s rooftop game is stronger than ever.

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Where to Grab a Drink in Dallas Right Now

Throw your empty ice shot glass against a bell. Sip a frosty mug under the glow of a pink neon light. Just get to the best bars in Dallas. Stat.

The Best Bars in Austin Right Now

Raise a glass to divey havens, disco ball–bedecked dance floors, and Mountain Dew–influenced concoctions at some of the best bars in Austin.

The 10 Best Bars to Hit if You’re Single in Dallas-Ft. Worth

Single and ready to mingle? Head to these places.

The Cake Boys Are All About Chaos

The drag king collective brings music, animation, and other elements of visual and performance art to their exhilarating shows.

How Brooklyn Musician Mel 4Ever Became Her Own Superhero

She’s sober, naked (sometimes), and excited to record her next album.

The 10 Actually Acceptable Bars on Austin’s Dirty 6th

The very best of the worst of the worst.

The Best Singles Bars in Austin

Where to mingle if you’re single.

Where to Grab a Drink in San Antonio Right Now

From urban wine and Texas whiskey to zero-proof mocktails and flaming tiki concoctions, remember these Alamo City bars.

Get Totally Freaked Out at These Halloween Events in LA

From annual faves like Knotts Scary Farm and Halloween Horror Nights, to haunted hayrides, family-friendly trick or treating, scare mazes, and a horrifying harborside pop-up from Shaq.

12 Halloween Events in San Francisco to Get You in the Spooky Spirit

From costume parties to immersive haunted houses, creepy cruises, and compelling cocktail concoctions, here are SF’s spookiest Halloween events.

How This Queer Party Promoter Found Community in NYC’s Nightlife

Come for the music, stay for the good vibes.

The 15 Most Essential Rooftop Bars in Dallas

Take the stairs for stiff drinks and great views.