Bars & Restaurants
Looking for a great cocktail? Dayton has you covered with some seriously creative cocktail bars.
Lily’s
Lily’s offers up some of the best tiki drinks this side of Hawaii.
Tender Mercy
They keep their magical drinks on tap and craft some of the most inventive cocktails around.
Van Buren Room
This speakeasy serves great drinks made with their spirits from Belle of Dayton distillery.
Salar Restaurant and Lounge
These cocktails change seasonally with some popular permanent selections that are available all year.
Old Scratch Pizza
This isn’t the pizza place experience I grew up with – Old Scratch creates some wonderful cocktails and changes it up for the season.
The Foundry
The cocktail menu sparkles – in some cases literally (thanks to edible glitter!).
Manna Uptown
Their cocktail menu is fun and perfect for celebrating. Every drink on their menu has something unexpected and delightful in store.
Sky
Sky Asian Cuisine‘s food is delicious and their cocktails are no different. Our perennial favorite here is We’ll Always Have Paris – a slightly sparkling cocktail featuring lychee puree.
Meridien
This place is gorgeous and the drinks are all your favorites reimagined.
The Century Bar
Century has an award-winning bourbon selection and uses it to make some of the smoothest (and sneakily powerful) cocktails around. They have drinks popular since the 1800s and new creations, too.
Wheat Penny Oven and Bar
In addition to delicious meals, this place serves up some great cocktails, too!
Silver Slipper
While Silver Slipper is known for their brilliant wine selection, don’t sleep on their creative cocktail menu.
Gather
The cocktails at Gather taste as wonderful as they look. Plus, this is the perfect place to unwind and listen to some live jazz.
Jollity
The cocktails at Jollity are the perfect complement to their amazing menu.
Sueño
With Tender Mercy downstairs, it would be hard for a lot of restaurants to create a cocktail menu that stands on its own, but Sueno manages to wow us every time.
Joui
Although very much a wine bar, Joui offers fantastic cocktails.
Still thirsty? Check out these great sangrias.
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