2022Best of the ValleyBOV Food & DrinkBest of the Valley 2022 Spotlight on Beer, Wine & Bars
Our picks on the best spots in the Valley for a brew, a pour and a vino.
Our picks on the best spots in the Valley for a brew, a pour and a vino.
Riffing on the traditional flip, Rough Rider general manager4 Jarrett Reynolds created this sexy sipper that breathes elegance and romance.
Photo by Nikki Buchanan Key Lime Pie at Lon’s at the Hermosa Inn The weather has been perfect for eating outdoors, and what better place to do that than Lon’s? I had a great lunch there the other day, one of the standouts being this key lime pie, topped with whipped cream, lime zest and toasted coconut. The graham cracker crust was especially buttery, and the tart custard filling, creamy with condensed milk, had...
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Rough Rider interior | Photo by Madison Rutherford This Theodore Roosevelt-themed bar/restaurant fits in with its surroundings. For starters, a colorful portrait of the former president adorns one side of the Ten-O-One building where Rough Rider resides, not to mention its position in the heart of the Roosevelt Row arts district, which also houses Roosevelt-inspired beer bar The Theodore. The area is rife with homages to Roosevelt, most of which are done in tasteful...
Pigtails Downtown interior | Photo by Nikki Buchanan Maybe I’ve read The Great Gatsby too many times, but I’m fascinated by the speakeasies of the ’20s and early ’30s — back when bars, liquor and the drinking of liquor were made illegal by the Volstead Act, which, of course, just encouraged people to seek out illegal bars selling illegal liquor, where they could happily drink illegally as long as they did it quietly...