BARS

Mix it up with local mocktails

If you need some inspiration for your own Dry January — or Dry Year ...

Drink your dinner

  Writer: Mathany Ahmed Photographer: Duane Tinkey Kitchen ingredients have always been a staple ...

Ring in the new year early

You don’t have to make it to midnight to celebrate well.

The best way to spend $100 at Middlebrook Mercantile

Middlebrook Mercantile is a curious little gem housed in a thoughtfully restored 19th-century schoolhouse ...

Raise a glass to Old Tavern’s revival

An early Old Tavern can and bottle, on the left, inspired the new can ...

At the Rook Room, connection is the name of the game

It’s game on for the Rook Room Game Lounge & Cafe. After six years ...

Raise a glass to Des Moines’ most creative cocktails

Noah’s Smoked Old-Fashioned at Aura Restaurant & Lounge (Photo courtesy of Aura) By Lily Allen-DueñasDes ...

Val Air’s new underground acts: a bar and supper club

  By Michael Morain Nearly a year after its grand reopening, the historic Val ...

The Contrary stirs things up in the East Village

When people step into the new cocktail bar and listening lounge that Billy Weathers ...

With Climbing Kites, Lua’s Flying High

Can-do spirit: Zack Dunbar, left, joined Whitney and Scott Selix to concoct Lua Brewing’s ...