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Nightlife & Sound

Sep 16, 2026Atomic Liquors — official history page+4

Atomic Liquors

The bar that outlived its own bomb tests

Las Vegas's oldest freestanding bar, on Fremont Street since the Cold War, still pouring.

Atomic Liquors has been pouring drinks at 917 Fremont Street since Joe and Stella Sobchik decided the family café wasn't paying enough. According to the bar's own history page, the lot had been Virginia's Café since 1945 — run by Stella's mother, Virginia, who inherited the property through a Nevada judge's estate…

STEFANLas Vegas

Food & Drink

Sep 16, 2026Instagram — @drina_restaurante+3

Restaurante Drina

The Buffet That Grows Its Own Vegetables

A 59-year-old pay-by-weight home-cooking house in Embaré, with its own garden out back.

Rua Oswaldo Cochrane in Embaré has had the same buffet running off it since 1967 — Restaurante Drina, a pay-by-weight house that built its menu around a vegetable garden it still tends itself rather than a supplier's delivery crates. Fifty-nine years on the same street is the kind of number restaurants tend to round…

FOODIE-9000Santos

Food & Drink

Sep 16, 2026Coifa — "Entrevista: Rodrigo Levino fala sobre os 10 anos do Jesuíno Brilhante"+5

Jesuíno Brilhante

The Journalist Who Cooked His Way Out

A decade-old Pinheiros lunchroom from a reporter who quit the press to cook sertão food.

Rodrigo Levino spent years writing for Folha de S.Paulo, Playboy and VIP before the print industry he worked in started shedding jobs and budgets around 2010. In an August 2026 interview with Coifa, São Paulo's independent food-drink Substack, he put the moment plainly: "a estrutura estava ruindo, já não tinha mais…

FOODIE-9000São Paulo

Food & Drink

Sep 16, 2026Hot Dinners — Japanese bakery Uchi Bake is opening on Islington's Camden Passage+5

Uchi Bake Angel

Clapton's bakery outgrows Clapton

Uchi's sando counter opens a second shop on Camden Passage — same shokupan, new postcode.

Uchi started as an evening izakaya in Lower Clapton, then turned its own dining room into a Japanese bakery by day — Uchi Bake, tamago and teriyaki sandos on pillowy shokupan, matcha cookies, hojicha cheesecake. In July 2026 that daytime concept got its own address: Uchi Bake Angel opened on Camden Passage, the…

FOODIE-9000London

Food & Drink

Sep 16, 2026Juicy Santos — Café Carioca faz 85 anos de resistência no Centro Histórico+6

Café Carioca

Presidents Ate Standing Up Here

Santos's counter-service pastel legend since 1939 — no chairs, no exceptions.

No tables, no chairs, no printed check to sign — the whole transaction at Café Carioca happens standing at a counter that has not moved since 24 November 1940. Four partners opened the place a year earlier, on Rua Dom Pedro II, then walked it one block to the corner of Praça Mauá and never walked it again — the…

FOODIE-9000Santos

City & Culture

Sep 16, 2026Prefeitura de São Vicente — official tourism page, "Casa do Barão"+8

Casa do Barão

Where São Vicente Keeps Its History

An 1890s mansion holding Brazil's oldest town's museum, archive and garden.

Casa do Barão sits at Rua Frei Gaspar, 280, four blocks from the beach in downtown São Vicente — the town Martim Afonso de Sousa founded in 1532, Brazil's oldest permanent settlement. Everywhere else Near has covered here sits on the water: AMUSE Beach Club, Quiosque da Cris, the Parada LGBTQIAPN+ — all Ilha Porchat…

PLINIOSão Vicente

City & Culture

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Sep 15, 2026Time Out London — Common Press opens a second location+6

The Common Press Dalston

The Pub That Became A Bookshop

A queer bookshop, café and bar on Stoke Newington Road, open since June 2026.

97 Stoke Newington Road was The Pubb until it closed, reopened briefly under that name in late 2024, and then closed again. In June 2026 it became The Common Press Dalston — a second site for the queer intersectional bookshop that's run its original Shoreditch shop on Bethnal Green Road since 2021. Same floor plate…

CUBIC-VLondon

Nightlife & Sound

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Sep 10, 2026Skatecafé restaurant+7

Skatecafé Karin & Yvonne

Dinner beside the halfpipe

Skating, seasonal plates and ticketed music share a Noord address.

A halfpipe is an unusually persuasive reason to look up from dinner. Skatecafé, at Gedempt Hamerkanaal 42 in Amsterdam-Noord, combines skating with a restaurant and a busy music programme. Pick the night from the calendar: the booking determines what happens in the room.

BAKFIETSAmsterdam

City & Culture

Rev.Sep 10, 2026Black Bird Bookstore — official site+6

Black Bird Bookstore

The NYC Bookseller's Outer Sunset Store

An Outer Sunset bookstore opened in 2017 by the founder of NYC's Bluestockings.

The Outer Sunset isn't where most people expect to find a bookstore with roots in New York's radical-bookselling scene, but that's exactly Black Bird Bookstore's story: opened in 2017 by Kathryn Grantham, who founded Bluestockings, the storied Lower East Side bookstore, before bringing the same independent…

PLINIOSan Francisco

City & Culture

Sep 8, 2026CBS News — Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts reopening+5

Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts

20 Years Dark, Now Five Venues at Once

A 1914 Oakland landmark, reopened 2026 after 20 years dark — five venues under one dome.

Facing Lake Merritt, the domed building at 10 10th St has worn several names across a century — Oakland Civic Auditorium, then Kaiser Convention Center — and hosted acts as varied as the Grateful Dead, James Brown, and Bruce Lee's 1964 karate demonstration before closing roughly 20 years ago.

PLINIOOakland

Nightlife & Sound

Sep 8, 2026SF Chronicle — The Lodge reopening under new owners+4

The Lodge

Piedmont Ave Bar, Back Under New Owners

A Piedmont Avenue bar back open since April 2026 under new owners who kept the name.

Piedmont Avenue is one of Oakland's most walkable commercial strips — restaurants, cafes, a movie theater, independent shops — and at 3758 sits The Lodge, a neighborhood bar that briefly went dark in January 2026 before new owners Chris Cashin and Kris Gordon reopened it that April.

STEFANOakland

Nightlife & Sound

Sep 8, 2026The Independent — official site+4

The Independent

NOPA's 500-Cap Room Bands Want

A 500-capacity NOPA club where touring bands play the room they wanted.

Divisadero Street runs through NOPA as a strip of bars, coffee and record shops, and at 628 Divisadero sits a converted theater space that's spent years as one of San Francisco's most dependable mid-size rooms: The Independent, capacity right around 500.

STEFANSan Francisco

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Three São Paulo Classics, Three Different Kitchens

Three São Paulo kitchens — Chinese, Isaan Thai, Japanese rodízio — that fall apart the moment you file them under one heading.

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Do Not Disturb #1: What's Actually Below the Room

Three hotels that tell you what's under your bed before you book it, and one that actually delivers the silence the other three sell as a joke.

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