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served on a big rock, and MAMA TRIED
take in a stellar musical With a wrap-around bar,
lineup at night that rivals starlight ceiling, and mod
those of spots in down- furniture, Mama Tried
town Nashville. Yep, I love is like an idealized ’70s Las
this place. 102 East Vegas bar that crash-landed
Palestine Avenue —K. S. in downtown Miami.
While manufactured dives
MIAMI can drip in irony, this
CAFE LA TROVA place gets the delightful
Deep in Little Havana is scuzzy details just right.
chef Michelle Bernstein and Bonus to the cheap beers vodka made with a home- on 701West, where Michelin-
barman Julio Cabrera’s and cigarette machine: made energy drink and starred chef John Fraser is
homage to 1950s Santiago excellent cocktails. Champagne. 16 West Twenty- cooking the bar snacks and
de Cuba. Cabrera is the 207 NE First Street —K. S. second Street —K. S. where sips like the Jasmine
You want the rendezvous to feel as dressed up and hassle-free as a Roxy Music song, so you decide on 701West.
keeper of the cantinero French sound as if they
tradition, the hospitable, NEW YORK 701WEST could be James Bond char-
well-groomed style of UNDERCOTE Sometimes you need to be acters. Don’t ask and we
bartending that originated The design? Luxe terrar- discreet. In fact, sometimes won’t tell. 701 Seventh Ave-
in Cuba. It’s the real deal ium bunker. The location? you want to meet someone nue, Eleventh Floor —J. G.
here, with focused drinks Tucked beneath Korean in a dark, plush corner of an
that go beyond the mojito steakhouse Cote. The vibe? Ian Schrager hotel bar that’s BAR PISELLINO
(although they make Exotic, classy, and unabash- eleven floors above Times Rita Sodi and Jody Williams,
an excellent one). Try the edly fun. And the cocktails Square. That kind of dis- the partners behind the
Presidente; it will put match, thanks to the creet. You want the rendez- beloved Via Carota, know
vous to feel as dressed up
creative effort of head
in doubt your loyalty to the
that details matter, and Bar
THE BEST BARS IN AMERICA, 2020 Rule No. 290 SORRY. A MARTINI SIPPED THROUGH A CRAZY long, it is not an Italian
and hassle-free as a Roxy
Pisellino is a veritable shrine
manhattan. 971 SW Eighth
bartender Sondre Kasin.
Street —K. S.
to those details. Amber-
Music song, so you decide
Try the artisanal Red Bull
hued and humming all day
bar as much as it is an eccen-
STRAW IS NO LONGER A MARTINI.
trically romantic fantasia
of what you imagine a bar in
Italy could be. If Sophia
Loren suddenly walked in,
you would not be shocked.
52 Grove Street —J. G.
OJAI, CALIFORNIA
TIPPLE & RAMBLE
If I were to design the per-
fect central-California wine
bar, I would put it outside,
so that drinkers could soak
in the West Coast sunshine,
swing in a hammock, order
some empanadas and a
platter of mezes and a bot-
tle of Grüner Veltliner, and
drink and eat at tiled picnic
tables under an awning
in the backyard. I don’t have
to dream that up, though,
because Tipple & Ramble
already exists. 315 North CHRISTOPHER GRIFFITH (BOTTLE CAPS). ADAM DELGIUDICE (MAMA TRIED).
Montgomery Street —J. G.

PHILADELPHIA
FIUME
Fiume feels like a studio-
apartment punk-rock
pop-up even though it has
Miami‘s Mama Tried is the been in operation for two
disco dive bar of your dreams.
decades. Last call comes
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