The amount of young professional people (many of which are represented by beautiful women) and lots of disposable income (lower living costs and no state income tax) means that this town likes to go out and go out often. A car is required to engage in the whole Dallas scene as many of the city's great joints are spread out over the vast metropolitan area so caution is required. This is the worst public transportation city in the land.

Time Out Tavern
The Time Out Tavern is Cheers without the laugh track. The "TOT" - as regulars call it - is a sports bar with no food, just plenty of cold beer and an occasional shot of Old Overholt enjoyed by a faithful throng of regular customers.

Club Schmitz
Before air conditioning, superhighways and convenience stores on every corner, there were roadhouses. A must stop along the road. A place for an ice cold Falstaff and a basket of food. Once miles away from home, Club Schmitz retains the roadhouse feel despite the fact that Dallas has now grown up around it.

Adair's Saloon
Often when interviewing for a new job, one is administered the “three beer test.” That is when a prospective candidate, after a day of interviewing, is taken out by a select group from the office and given at least three beers to see if their personality changes dramatically. Flunk the “three beer test" and kiss your job opportunity good-bye. Upon arriving in Dallas in 1984, I was given the “three beer test” (it was more like a nine beer test) at Adair’s Saloon - a honky-tonk bar with ice cold cans of beer, great burgers topped with a red hot jalapeño peppers, and a juke box full of songs about lost pick-ups, lost dogs and lost souls.

Little Indians Athletic Club
Exclusive clubs are usually reserved for the elite. Places like the country club, polo club or university club, where the white-gloved servers address you formally and discussion ranges from portfolios to ports of entry. Let me then introduce you to my club - the world’s first exclusive dive bar - in an industrial area on the Grand Prairie/Arlington, Texas border.

Elbow Room
There is this really cool bar that sets alone in the usually unbearably heat of East Dallas, just down from Baylor Medical Center. That must account for all of the “scrubs” that hang out there.

The Library Bar
Out of the glitz and glamour that is the Dallas bar scene is a classy, stoic gem called the Library Bar. Located in the Melrose Hotel, trendy seems to have passed this bar by. And unlike most hotel bars, one is more likely to meet a local than a flange salesman from Omaha.

Roses
Usually places on this web site involve establishments that serve alcoholic beverages. But there is a place in Dallas so unique – liquor or not – that it can’t be overlooked although it is so easy to overlook.

Lee Harvey's
There is a gem of a little bar with the controversial name in a transitional part of a city trying to forget one of the most significant historical events of the 20th century. Once you get past all of that, you’ll be glad that you tracked down Lee Harvey’s.

Milo Butterfingers
Back in the Vietnam era, the gap between the younger generation and older generation was at its height. How ironic that Milo Butterfinger’s - where a portion the Oliver Stone Vietnam era motion picture Born on the Fourth of July was filmed - is one of the few bars where very young and very old frolic in alcohol bliss.

Primo's Bar and Grill
Sometimes things just work out. When Eddie Cervantes opened Primo’s in Uptown Dallas well over a decade ago, there was no up in Uptown. A blighted area with great potential, most all traffic and dollars were heading to Far North Dallas. But Primo’s was an immediate hit, and his perseverance paid off. The area is now thriving and Primo’s is in a primo location.

Cafe Gecko
Belt Line Road in Far North Dallas/Addison tends to be a conurbation (I just got a word-of-the- day calendar) of chain restaurants and humorless, bland places of libation. One place stands apart despite the strip mall locale: Café Gecko.

The Grapevine Bar
“When ev’ry night the set that’s smart is intruding in nudist parties in studios. Anything goes.” Cole Porter may have never been to the Grapevine Bar. But he understood.

The Lakewood Landing
Lakewood is an upscale neighborhood in East Dallas. It would be fitting then that the neighborhood would play host to Dallas’ only “upscale dive.”