Bar Kaiju
A mezzanine cocktail bar on the second floor of The Citadel food hall, run independently of the vendors below and built around a Japanese monster-movie theme. The drink list is printed as a deck of trading cards, each tied to a folkloric or kaiju creature with a cocktail built to match. It has placed on North America's 50 Best Bars two years running, climbing from No. 77 to No. 70.
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The Vibe
Red-lit and neon-soaked, with vintage kaiju film posters and Japanese artwork covering the walls. The room commits to the theme hard enough that the trading-card menu is playable, and the crowd treats a visit as part cocktail bar and part attraction. It overlooks the food hall from a lofty industrial second-floor nook, which keeps it noisier and less precious than its ranking suggests.
What to Drink
- Trading-card cocktail menu — the list is a deck; each card pairs a kaiju or folkloric creature with a drink built to matchtheir site
- Setting
- Bar lounge
- View
- None
- Formality
- Casual
- Music
- Background Music
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