Why this Memphis hotel's 'colorful, high-energy cocktail bar' is ranked among the best in the nation
The Memphian Hotel's rooftop bar Tiger & Peacock made it on a list of the best hotel bars in the nation.
Food & Wine, a magazine that focuses on drink and food culture, recently released a list of "15 Top Hotel Bars in the US, According to the Experts." Despite the title saying there are 15 hotel bars, the list actually has 16 on it. Tiger & Peacock is the only hotel bar from Tennessee to make it on the list. This is the second best of list the hotel bar has made it on within the last year.
Here is what the list says.
Best hotel bars in the South
Tiger & Peacock was the only hotel bar from Tennessee, and one of the only hotels bars in the South to make it on the list.
The list described Tiger & Peacock as, "A colorful, high-energy cocktail bar is your reward if you make it up to the seventh floor of the South Cooper Street hotel. Tiger & Peacock is not a place for Arcadian unwinding — locals tend to flock here to dance late into the night surrounded by disco balls, stuffed animals, and neons."
Other Southern cities on the list include New Orleans; Dallas; Charleston, South Carolina; and Amelia Island, Florida.
15 best hotel bars in the United States
At the top of the list is the Silver Lyan bar in Washington D.C. It is located in the Riggs hotel. Food & Wine especially noted the variety of custom cocktails the bar has. New York was the city with the most hotel bars on the list with a total of four.
Silver Lyan in Washington D.C.
Sazerac Bar at The Roosevelt in New Orleans
Redwood Room at The Clift in San Francisco
Rarities at the Lotte New York Palace in New York
Midnight Rambler Bar at The Joule in Dallas
Bar Calico at Freehand in New York
Founders Club at Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle
Chandelier Bar at Four Seasons in New Orleans
The Lobby Bar at The Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida
The Club Bar at The Peninsula in Beverly Hills, California
Bar Marilou in New Orleans
Rowes Wharf Bar at Boston Harbor Hotel in Boston
Blue Bar at Algonquin in New York
The Bar at The Spectator Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina
Tiger & Peacock at The Memphian in Memphis, Tennessee
Portrait Bar at The Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York
This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Memphis hotel's Tiger & Peacock bar among best in US, Food & Wine says