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This article from Esquire magazine highlights some of the best bars in America in 2024. The bars mentioned offer a variety of experiences, from intimate lounges to tropical wonderlands. Each bar has its own unique atmosphere and specialty cocktails. Some notable bars mentioned include Tigre in New York City, Dawn Club in San Francisco, Medium Cool in Miami Beach, Paradise Lost in New York City, Martiny's in New York City, Sip & Guzzle in New York City, Refuge in Houston, Equal Measure in Boston, and Nine Bar in Chicago. These bars provide patrons with a range of options for enjoying a night out, whether they're looking for a lively dance floor, live jazz, or a sophisticated cocktail experience. [Extracted from the article]

True to its Buckhead roots planted nine floors below, St. Julep also offers a bevy of Outkast-themed drinks, such as the Bowtie, the 13th Floor, and the Ms. Jackson - this last one like a Big Gulp for big kids, with Tito's, cherry Heering, hibiscus, and lime. Then there's the cocktail menu, mashing up both regional influences and dreamed up by famed mixologist and beverage director Jim Meehan. The bar chefs - led by Steven Enrique Salazar - click on a spotlight when they serve you a drink, and the drinks deserve such lighting. IT MAY HAVE BEEN A WHILE SINCE YOU PUT ON A PAIR of "nice pants" to go to a bar, but when that very 2022 confluence of joie de vivre and pandemic ennui begins to stir and you hear about a new piano bar with red booths or a semisecret room with Kubrick-level design details or a place that has the best damn Sazerac in the world, you put one leg in after the other and you order yourself a Lyft. [Extracted from the article]

- K. S. do the big cocktail splash-out Sometimes you want a big night out where the cocktails and bar bites both take center stage. What feels delightfully uncommon, and why the thirty or so seats are filled by 6:30, are the inspired drinks from beverage director Abe Vucekovich based on … birds of the Midwest? MOTHERSHIP SAN DIEGO For many, the Mos Eisley cantina in Star Wars was their first bar fantasy, and Mothership is the best realization of the dream to drink on another planet, which is why, on many days, you'll see a line out the door as if it were a Disney ride. 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. [Extracted from the article]