elcome to martiniboys.com Bars: Best In Show, the 2006 edition of a henceforth annual tradition crafted with you in mind. Yes, you!

The young, gorgeous, and thirsty bar crowd is the ficklest one in town. One minute the limos are double-parked in front of the club, expelling eager, well-dressed mobs brandishing limitless credit cards. Then suddenly they're gone! On to the next hot spot, leaving only a vacant building to mark their trajectory. Very hard to keep on track of this revolving-club phenomena.

So in rushes Bars: Best In Show! To completely and totally solve a fraction of your bar-seeking problems. The goal of this guide is to make the bar world a little less intimidating, to provide a couple of crib sheets for you to hit the streets with. Some places are new; some have remained hot forever. Nonetheless, it looks like it’s going to be a fun spring.


Best Place to Avoid Yuppies on E
2 Cats Cocktail Lounge
569 King Street Street West
Instead of focusing on being elegant, 2 Cats is more a watering hole that doles out its own dose of subtle cool. Cheap drinks, big crowds and blaring beats big enough to block out most stimuli are what’s on tap, but just like the clientele, this mix is part of the popular evening- and nightspot's appeal. Full Story


Best Place to Blow Out Your Rich, Little Liver
Avenue
21 Avenue Road
If you're gonna plunk down a wad of dough for some bad-ass martini, you may as well do it at the cocktail circuit left behind from the get-wealthy '90s. Really, Avenue is still the choice among the chichi networking hub, where generations of modern-fabulosi come to blow out their wealthy, little livers.
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Best Place to Park Your Butt
The Beaconsfield
1154 Queen West
This modest watering hole out in West Queen West is a destination itself. While folks in club gear dash across the street to The Drake, we repair to the Beaconsfield, where the room’s classy sophistication is distilled into a distinctive, ever-so-slightly funky cocktail of Victorian fixtures, Mahogany wood-paneled walls and leather banquettes.
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