Last year’s Good Food Guide Bar of the Year continues to offer some of the CBD’s best drinks service inside its plush (but not too fancy) high-ceilinged space, and plenty of innovative cocktails to boot. First-timers should gravitate to modern classics such as the Breakfast negroni or Basque Old Fashioned (just like a cheesecake only boozy, pictured above), but we’re also very much into the Miami Vice, combining the magic of a watermelon margarita with the Mango Weis.

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