Excessive concrete jungles like New York (#1), Los Angeles (#2), and Chicago (#three) are top-tier cities for cocktails with a view. Our greatest merchandise usually supply quick access to high quality, albeit costly, drinks. The climate ranges from very best to unpredictable, which clearly hasn’t stopped bar homeowners from elevating their sport on the rooftop.
On the backside of our rating barrel are a lot smaller cities like Springfield, Massachusetts (No. 289), Sioux Metropolis, Iowa (No. 286), and Beaumont, Texas (No. 283). Right here, rooftop ingesting holes are as uncommon as a Dalmore 62. You could have to drive (sober) to the closest huge metropolis for a chilly drink on the highest flooring.
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New York rose to the highest of our leaderboard with 77.48 factors, greater than 35 factors increased than Los Angeles, our silver medalist, due to No. 1 rankings in each Entry and Buyer Satisfaction.
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The variety of upper-floor ingesting institutions in New York (#1 total) is thru the roof at greater than 850. That is about 2.four instances greater than in Los Angeles (#2), the town with the next-highest quantity, 354.
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In 40 cities, rooftop lounges are extra common than rooftop bars: 30 are within the West and Southwest. Los Angeles (No. 2 total) has 50 extra rooftop lounges than bars, the largest distinction, adopted by Las Vegas (No. 6) with 23 extra and Miami Seashore, Florida (No. 18) with 19 extra.
hidden treasure
A Spanish phrase that means “hidden,” Escondido (No. 71 total) in California is certainly an obscure however valuable gem. It is the one metropolis with a prime 10 rating (No. 7) for Client Satisfaction that did not make our prime 15 total.
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Regardless of providing essentially the most inexpensive liquor, the one two rooftop ingesting institutions in Boynton Seashore, Florida (No. 203 total), must work on the standard of the drinks. The companies collectively had the bottom common Buyer Satisfaction rating in our complete rating, tied with Mesa, Arizona (No. 263).
Misplaced alternative
Decrease menu costs and extra very best climate might appeal to the thirstiest of outdoor-loving patrons, however traders in Yuma, Ariz. (175th total), aren’t capitalizing on this profitable mixture. Yuma lacks each rooftop ingesting institutions (No. 265 in Entry) and top-tier spirits (No. 275 in Buyer Satisfaction).
Shaken, not deterred
The cruel north climates of Buffalo, New York (No. 209 total), Grand Rapids, Michigan (No. 147) and Pittsburgh (No. 109) might have residents shivering as they sip sizzling punches off the roof, however these chilly temperatures are clearly no hindrance. All three cities made the highest 75 on Entry and serve first rate drinks.
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Among the many prime 10 cities with essentially the most highly-rated and most-reviewed rooftop bars, Savannah, Georgia (#11 total) and Charleston, South Carolina (#20) are the one two with fewer than 670,000 residents. Each have populations of round 150,000.
