Louisville’s Best Bars
Spending time at a Downtown Louisville bar is an unmatched experience due to the breadth of the city’s drinking establishments. This is a hard-drinking city that Prohibition couldn’t shut down, as bootleggers divided the city into sections, taking advantage of Louisville’s love of horsepower proximity to Bourbon Country, where they we never lost our love for a finely distilled spirit.
From avant-garde cocktail bars where mixologists show off, to traditional bars with stiff classic cocktails, to beer halls celebrating the city’s newfound love of craft brewing, Louisville’s bars are among the best in the country. So check out this map of Louisville’s most-essential bars, as no trip to the Derby City would be complete without a visit to at least a couple of these fine establishments. Listed from A to Z.
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