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1. 9:30 Club
A 1,200-capacity independent music club on V Street NW that opened in 1980 and moved to its current home, a former music hall, in 1996.
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2. Atomic Liquors
Fremont East bar that calls itself Las Vegas' oldest freestanding bar, with 20 rotating draft beers, bar food and a history that has drawn film crews and Anthony Bourdain.
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3. Atwater Cocktail Club
Award-winning cocktail bar on avenue Atwater, open nightly until 3am, ranked 32nd in North America's 50 Best Bars and run on a walk-in-only basis.
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4. Ball & Chain
Ball & Chain is a Calle Ocho bar established in 1935, with live Latin music and jazz from the afternoon, an outdoor stage and Cuban food.
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5. Botanist Bar
Inside Fairmont Pacific Rim, Botanist Bar serves inventive cocktails inspired by British Columbia's landscapes and is ranked among North America's 50 Best Bars.
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6. Coco Bongo Cancún
Cancún's famous show nightclub in Punta Cancún, mixing an open bar with acrobats, tribute acts and Broadway-style productions until the early hours.
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7. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
Family owned and operated since 1980, Dimitriou's Jazz Alley is a Seattle jazz supper club hosting touring artists, with its own dining menu.
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8. Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
The Green Mill in Uptown is a historic jazz club with Prohibition-era links to Al Capone's Outfit, live music every night and the long-running Uptown Poetry Slam.
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9. Licorería Limantour
A two-storey cocktail bar on Avenida Álvaro Obregón, open in Roma since 2011 and a regular on The World's 50 Best Bars list since 2014.
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10. Perch
French-inspired rooftop bar and restaurant high above Pershing Square, with outdoor patios, skyline views, cocktails and small plates, plus weekend brunch.
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11. Preservation Hall
A small French Quarter music hall founded in 1961 to protect and promote traditional New Orleans jazz, with live performances every night.
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12. Smuggler’s Cove
Smuggler's Cove is Martin Cate's rum and tiki bar on Gough Street, with more than 1,400 rums and a menu of over 80 historic and modern rum cocktails.
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13. The Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar
A long-running jazz and blues bar on Queen Street West presenting around 19 shows a week, most of them pay-what-you-can, with pub food and live music every day.
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14. Village Vanguard
A tiny, wedge-shaped basement jazz club on Seventh Avenue South that has hosted the music's greats at the same address since 1935.
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15. Wally’s Café Jazz Club
A family-run jazz club on Massachusetts Avenue, opened in 1947, with early-evening jam sessions where Berklee students play alongside veterans and live sets every night.
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16. Bar Raval
Grant van Gameren's College Street pintxos and cocktail bar, open since 2015, with a curved mahogany interior, sherries and highballs and a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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17. Bell in Hand Tavern
A Union Street tavern near Faneuil Hall that traces its history to 1795 and to a Boston town crier, and is believed to be one of America's oldest bars.
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18. Bemelmans Bar
The Carlyle hotel's elegant piano bar, painted with whimsical murals by Madeline illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans, with nightly piano and late jazz.
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19. Blues Alley
Founded in 1965 in an 18th-century Georgetown carriage house, Blues Alley calls itself the nation's oldest continuing jazz supper club.
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20. Café La Trova
Café La Trova is a Little Havana cocktail bar from cantinero Julio Cabrera and chef Michelle Bernstein, ranked among North America's 50 Best Bars.
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