Best New Bars of 2009

Patrick Heig reveals this year's list of the best new pubs in which to blackout. Smuggler's Cove, Rick House, Triple Crown (messy), Bloodhound (mixed crowd), and Blackbird (gays) all make the list. The top spot is a good one, but you'll have to read the original post to find out what it is, if only for the fact that it replaced one of the last remaining fecal flakes of the dot-com techno lounge era.