Bars
Explore all- When you’re done with syrupy slush in Waikiki, this place that first appears to be a tax office playing jazz music is where to set your drinking straight once again.
- But the Colorado spin-off of Death & Co is a successful exception. Instead of replicating the gloom of the original D&C, it occupies Denver’s Ramble Hotel, with a Mountain Time Zone mind-set of its own. Sunshine streams in through the long windows. The cocktails make complexity feel breezy.
- It practically telegraphs “We don’t take ourselves too seriously”—you can order french fries with ice cream and gravy. But look more closely and you’ll see that it specializes in subtle innovations, from the option of ordering each cocktail in a $5 elfin size to the food menu full of delicious, Filipino-inspired grub. Ambitious but unpretentious
- 24-year-old Maxine Miller borrowed $10,000 from her parents and opened the bar she’d preside over for the next 50 years. She became a surrogate mom to generations of college students missing their own mothers—though perhaps not all mothers dispense advice from a stool in reach of a wooden club in case of a bar fight. She’s gone on to that cocktail lounge in the sky, but the bar has been taken over by another business-savvy woman.
