Bridges & Bourbon describes itself as a high-end cocktail bar and restaurant in downtown Pittsburgh, on Penn Avenue in the Cultural District, with weekly events and specials and a brunch service on Saturday. The bar runs later than the kitchen, until eleven on weeknights and midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Hidden Harbor is tucked away in Squirrel Hill and offers, in its words, shelter from life's stormy seas: a tiki bar with a rum list that runs into the hundreds, a Tiki Time Machine tasting programme and a rum society it calls the Dead Parrots. Happy hour runs five to six, Tuesday to Friday, and the room closes at eleven midweek and midnight on the weekend.
Lorelei is, in its own description, an Alpine wine and cocktail bar, beer hall and bottle shop all in one, with a woodfired kitchen, on South Highland Avenue in East Liberty. The wine and cocktail bar leans on gin and amaro, the beer hall on the Alpine countries, and the shop sells both to take home.
The Warren calls itself a neighbourhood bar in the Cultural District, cocktails, wine and sushi on Seventh Street, open until two every night with the kitchen running to midnight. It does not take reservations, keeps a spirit list and cocktail list online, and books its private event space by enquiry.
Bar Botanico is a cocktail bar in Central Lawrenceville that describes its drinks as thoughtful cocktails in the heart of Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville, built around botanicals and house syrups. It opens at five on weekdays, takes Tuesday off, and opens at two on the weekend.
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