One of the great cocktail bars of the modern bay area cocktail renaissance. Make sure to try the Ginger Rodgers.
Specializing in incredibly good and classic cocktails, Death & Company is one of New York's best bars. With a speakeasy style and a very well crafted menu it is hard to go wrong with any of the drinks here.
With a feeling not unlike the restaurant Absinthe in San Francisco, Flora has one of the best cocktail menus in Oakland.
Opened in 2008, Beretta has become one of San Francisco's most celebrated bars. They serve food, like pizzas and italian tapas-like stuff, all of which is excellent, but the cocktails are the main event here.
Rye is consistently mentioned in the relatively short list of great bars that are pushing the art of the cocktail in the bay area right now. They use freshly picked ingredients and some of the more unusual liquors and locally made spirits to create some pretty original drinks.
In the 1920s when Prohibition in America took hold many American expats took solace at the opulent bar at the Savoy Hotel in London. This also happened to be around the time that one of the patron saints of cocktail time, Harry Craddock was running the bar there.
The Hotel Hannong is a 3 star historic hotel in the heart of the capital of Europe, Strasbourg, France. I spent one night there and we quickly found out that the main attraction of the hotel is its wine bar with an extensive selection of Alsatian wines.
Can't say too much about this place, it is a speakeasy in san francisco that you need the password to get into. However you can make reservations through their website at http://www.bourbonandbranch.com
The Burlington is a great bar in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. The name comes from a Wisconsin town where the owners used to spend time during the summer.