The new location, directly across the street from the old one, sports not only 10 times more room but also a full liquor license, with a wisely chosen beer and wine list whose offerings pair well with spicy Asian food.

A couple of years ago when the movie The Reader came out, I learned something new about my husband: Food rules his life in an even more iron-gripped way than I had previously understood.

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Don’t know about you, but we could really use a drink right about now. So we’ve scoured the city to find our 21 favorite bars — from upscale jazz joints to dives where your beer bottle sticks to the table. We’ve also tossed in some personalities familiar with local nightlife and quotes we overheard while out on the town.

Even though the four sides of the square bar’s center island have high-quality TVs, you aren’t gonna want to don your red athletic jersey and meet your friends at Volare to catch the U of L game.

If you need proof that the Dundee Tavern is a true neighborhood hangout, consider the fact that one of the bar’s high-definition televisions was tuned to Wheel of Fortune on a recent Monday night — and patrons were actually trying to solve the puzzles.

The Zanzabar we know today is a resurrection of the building’s past life as a bar called, you guessed it, Zanzibar.

We think Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, had he been to Rich O’s, might well have altered one of his famous sayings to, “Any beer-drinker should be able to run the country.”