

OStudio is a natural wine bar, sure, but more like a waystation for forward-thinking often restaurant-less sommeliers-all welcomed by magnificently mustaschio’ed James Sligh-who pop in for short mind-blowing stints.

But it’s at the bar where his powers of convocation shine. The organic vessels he fires in the back-sconces, pots, vases-line the wall of the bar, tilting wildly, capacious nonetheless. Evidence of that is all around at OStudio, his combined workshop and wine bar in the Bed Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Shae Salisbury Brooklyn OStudio at Nightįernando Aciar, the puckish Argentinian ceramicist, knows how to make a good container. It’s all handmade ceramic and natural wine vibes at OStudio. What you’re having: If they’ve got it, an aged Yuho sake that might change your mind about having sake with bigger bolder foods. When I left, the rain had stopped, and for a moment, I did feel like I had just stepped out of a bar in Tokyo. There was only one other person there that evening, but within minutes we all started to feel like friends deep into a sake journey that brought us through junmai made using the yeast from flowers style to even a bottle made in Massachusetts. And it’s tiny: no more than 16 seats in the place, and the bar itself has about seven stools. It specializes in sake, a first of its kind in these parts. Perhaps it was the time and the weather when I arrived, but it felt like a world away here more Tokyo than Beantown. It was dark, late, and raining when I got to Koji Club, located in the Charles River Speedway, a little collection of bars and restaurants and shops that’s about a 20 minute car ride away from Downtown Boston. Then get out there, find your niche, and embrace the weird and wonderful. There are familiar spaces, too, some of which have been reinvented. This is our eighteenth edition of the list, and in all my years of bar crawls, I don’t think I’ve ever seen as much spirited originality-as many bars that make you say, “So strange, yet so awesome.” The pages that follow reflect that, with a slew of new bars to know. Over the past year, we criss-crossed the country to report on America’s finest drinking establishments. I think it was the first time I’ve ever seen a line to get into a bar at noon. From the drinks to the bathroom to the music, Mothership commits hard to the idea that you’re in a spaceship that made an emergency landing on a tropical planet. That same spirit of custom creativity is what drinkers sought out in an even bigger way at Mothership in San Diego.
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“We felt that people deserved novelty.” He knows his customers: Every seat at the bar was full by 6:30. What, I asked Vucekovich, had sparked the idea to try something so delightfully trippy? And why were we seeing such a right turn away from cocktail classicism here and in so many other bars we’ve been visiting lately? “People were ready for something more fun after the pandemic,” he explained simply. This joyfully odd drink menu was the brainchild of Abe Vucekovich, Meadowlark’s beverage director, who used to work in one of the country’s most serious temples to the cocktail, just a few L stops away, the Violet Hour. You looked at the glass in front of you, sipped, looked at the bird picture again-and all of a sudden, it clicked.

Each drink was meant to resemble a specific feathered friend. I was perusing the avian-themed cocktail menu at Meadowlark, an old library-like spot in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. – Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.Birds were on every page. Keep reading to see how many you’ve tried, and if your local favorite made the list. Stacker compiled a list of the highest rated Chinese restaurants in San Diego on Tripadvisor. In fact, a lot of the most popular Chinese dishes were created in the U.S., including fortune cookies, General Tso’s chicken, and chop suey. is really American-Chinese food, which is largely its own cuisine at this point because of how dishes have been adapted to suit tastes here. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Įditor’s note: China Max, Chun’s Seafood & Grill and Pacific Coast Chinese Food on this list are all currently closed.

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