Bars

If you found a secret bomb shelter in your backyard, what would you do with it? If it were me, maybe I’d find a way…

Update, November 30, 2020: As a COVID-19 resurgence across Europe this month forces businesses to shutter once more,…

Barcelona is one of those places that feels a little impossible upon your first visit. It’s like Disneyland: The…

In the city of San Sebastian, winding streets and narrow corridors are tightly packed with Basque Country’s best…

During the first quarter of 2020, everything was going great for Chris Marshall. In early March, he was six cities…

Instagram has become, for me at least, an increasingly inhospitable environment over the past several months. If…

The other night I was reading a book where three characters go to a unicorn-themed bar. The servers wear horns and…

Over the past few months, Americans have demonstrated the difficulty of maintaining social distancing protocols, and…

Update, June 26, 2020: WPTV reports that Florida officials have banned bars across the state from selling alcohol…

Remember bars? Remember the crowds? Remember the endless struggle to get a drink? Remember stupid pickup lines?…

Whether you approve of it or not, beach towns are getting ready to open for the season, COVID-19 be damned. I live…

There’s a special kind of adrenaline rush that comes with the territory when you work in the service industry.…

The last newspaper I worked at used to have, back in the ’90s, the biggest classified section in the country. The…

Dear Salty,

Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington—what do they all have in common? They are the…

When you’re in a bar and you’ve had a few drinks, maybe you start staring at your shiny copper Moscow Mule cup and…

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Dear Salty: It’s snowing on a Friday night, and I decide I’ve been cooped up enough to head to the BBQ down the…

Call it a botched celebration of body positivity, or a shrewd marketing move calculated to go viral—we’re really not…

We love a good story about a bar that goes above and beyond for its patrons. Whereas many institutions provide a…