Bar Pompette
Parisian-by-the-way of College Street. Weird-but-wonderful cocktails, like a birria margarita. Jazz days are a must
bar raval
come for the interiors -- sinewy wood, warm lighting, and the lived-in appeal of a Spanish bar. (read, Instagrammable.) Drinks and food are serious business. Arguably the only place in the city to properly day drink!
doc's green door lounge
groovy, groovy, groovy interiors and a martini program that means business
black dice cafe
my itinerary when friends come to visit: play pinball and highballs at black dice while waiting for a table at Sakai, grab dinner, then call it a night after tinis at Pinot Grouchios.