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...The bar has retained its low-slung, vaguely ’70s appeal, huge stone fireplace and all, but it’s updated with sleek sofas and a worldly cocktail list....
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...Old-timey lounge singers croon from the speakers. It offers beef tartare, and unnecessarily expensive, OK pastas....
...Everything is glass, from the ground-floor restaurant with its views over the park to the twin aquaria on the roof, one holding a bar, the other a cigar lounge....
...She points to Toronto’s wellness club Sweat and Tonic, which has a spa, gym and cocktail bar all under one roof, as an example....
...Of course it’s fine with your cocktail. Because Belgium....
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...There’s the Buck Stop Coffee Shop and Buckhorn Restaurant, where the drinks menu has garnered attention across central California (the expected regional wines, craft beers and mezcal cocktails are joined...
...with cocktails while a goat with the transplanted head of a former husband scampers around....
...As is it tempting to sneak into the restaurant’s fully functional cigar lounge — just for a peek. On this occasion, the rhubarb was more than enough....
...You can also grab one of the lounge chairs outside, although that might be a little too relaxing....
...However, visitors should certainly make time to have a drink at the hotel’s excellent cocktail bar, popular with both locals and tourists....
...In the cocktail world, I have been blown away by my experiences at Martiny’s, a stylish Japanese-style cocktail lounge that occupies a three-storey carriage house in Gramercy....
...The aesthetic challenge: to conjure a cocktail to visually compete. In three sizes, from £295....
...There’s an all-day, old-school coffee shop, a cocktail lounge next to the 70ft saltwater “lagoon” pool, and an outpost of Redfish, the poke-crudo café concept created by Foodland, Hawaii’s homegrown, retro-cool...
...At Overstory, one of the city’s hottest bars, cocktails are $24 before gratuity; at the famous jazz lounge Bemelmans Bar, half the Martinis are now over $34, plus up to a $35 per person cover charge at peak...
...The minibars are stuffed with local snacks, pre-blended house cocktails, and fresh lemons and limes with accompanying cutting boards....
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...There are also two restaurants, indoor lounges, outdoor dining terraces, and a pool surrounded by olive trees....
...There’s even a bespoke pool table in the lounge area made out of white marble....
...There’s a narrow winding staircase lined with yet more paintings that leads up to a Georgian-style lounge room with eight small tables....
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