Big D takes its whiskey seriously: Whiskeys holds down Exposition Avenue by Fair Park, Bourbon & Banter pours in a swanky underground room beneath the historic Statler Hotel, and Rye brings craft-cocktail whiskey work to Lower Greenville. Bishop Arts smoke, downtown pour.
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The Fair Park whiskey bar, a deep shelf and a neighborhood room on Exposition Avenue.
Pip’s Tip Fair Park neighborhood room on Exposition Avenue. Deep shelf, no ceremony.
An underground bourbon den beneath the historic Statler Hotel, once a beauty salon, now one of Dallas' best-hidden pours.
Pip’s Tip Enter through the Statler. Underground, and it was a beauty salon before it was a bourbon den.
Craft-cocktail whiskey work on Lower Greenville, a chef-driven room where the rye earns its name.
Pip’s Tip Chef-driven room on Lower Greenville, and the rye earns the name.
A scotch-and-cocktail hideaway inside a former 1895 meatpacking building in Deep Ellum, pairing an old-world whiskey arsenal with live music until 2am.
A downtown West End cocktail den with a smoked Old Fashioned worth crossing the skyline for, a block from the Dallas World Aquarium.
A French bistro-bar named for the classic bourbon-Campari-vermouth cocktail, holding down a candlelit corner of Bishop Arts.
Hotel ZaZa's art-filled restaurant and poolside bar, where late-night cocktails and a well-stocked bourbon list carry Uptown evenings well past midnight.
A subterranean cocktail lounge beneath The Joule Hotel, all low light and lower ceilings, where an award-winning bar team turns whiskey into theater.
A barnwood-and-string-lights Uptown icon where live music, a sprawling patio, and a deep bourbon list make for the quintessential Texas night out.
Part cocktail lounge, part lumberjack fantasy, throw axes, then settle into a lodge-style bar built around a genuinely serious whiskey program.
An Irish pub named for a windswept island off County Kerry, pouring a proper whiskey flight alongside half-price cocktails every Thursday on Henderson Avenue.
A Cajun cafe and lounge where full brass bands play until 2am and a whiskey in hand is practically house policy.
A low-key corner dive on Elm Street where the jukebox runs late and the whiskey pours are stiff, no pretense required.
Beneath the Statler Hotel, behind an easy-to-miss door: low light, deep bourbon, good banter. Dallas' best-kept underground pour.
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Every whiskey bar here pairs with a PIPS cigar lounge across town, see the Lounge Guide for the other half of the evening.
