![]() The Backstory: Three quarters of a century on, the Alibi is thumping along strong as ever. Image: courtesy Another Believer/wikimedia The Fun-as-Ever Stalwart: Alibi Here’s where we’re feeling it most this year. ![]() The magic is supposed to feel effortlessly attained. Drinks and food-and even decor-are far from the only requirements of pulling this off, but it’s getting harder to get away with phoning in any of these details. It sits on our list next to serious bars from restaurateurs like Expatriate, and Gregory Gourdet’s Sousòl, an entirely distinct concept from his hot-as-the-sun restaurant, Kann, and the brand-new Houston Blacklight, the Gado Gado and Oma’s Hideaway team’s fully freaked-out, glow-in-the-dark new bar, which they opened instead of a third restaurant this year.Ī great bar has to sustain this ineffable energy-call it that slippery word, cool call it the zeitgeist-that you can only really know by feeling. It’s a delicate dance of what you want a tavern to be, far above what you expect to find, without the souring of overrefinement. Take the Tulip Shop Tavern, ostensibly a rough-and-tumble, dive-y “tavern,” but really a world built atop thousands of scrupulously attended details.
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