Esquire published its list of The Best Bars in America in 2026 and included one Arizona bar.
The editor, Jeff Gordinier, introduced bars as places of gathering, communication and planning, dating back to 1776 when social media wasn’t even a thought. He credited the beginnings of the United States to the Atlantic seaboard taverns, where rebels met and fleshed out their ideas.
For this list, Gordinier gathered some of his best writers to write about bars “where that deep sense of American comradeship is alive and well.”…