"Bacchanal is part wine shop, part outdoor restaurant, part live music venue—a triple threat that guarantees a good time. Enter through the wine and cheese shop, where chilled-out clerks will direct you to a juicy Gamay or thick hunk of Humboldt Fog goat cheese. Then take your bottle and assembled snacks out to the sprawling backyard, where some of the city’s best jazz bands play for zero cover. The full Mediterranean menu (fregola sarda, sardines in escabeche) and touches of Southern hospitality (heat lamps for winter, bug spray forever) will keep you there well into the evening. Don’t forget to bring cash to tip the band." - ByAliza Abarbanel
Photo by Aliza Abarbanel