Alyson Sheppard is a food writer and hangover specialist based in the South.

Bars We Love: Smuggler’s Cove, San Francisco (Playboy.com)

Bars We Love: Smuggler’s Cove, San Francisco (Playboy.com)

Tiki bars are not a retro fad. They are a valid movement in America’s pop art history, says Martin Cate, owner of Smuggler’s Cove tiki bar in San Francisco. To this tiki historian and rum aficionado, the original tiki bar movement of the 1950s spoke to something very specific in the American psyche, and its modern resurgence does too.

http://www.playboy.com/articles/bars-we-love-smugglers-cove-san-francisco

Bars We Love: Polite Provisions, San Diego (Playboy.com)

Bars We Love: Polite Provisions, San Diego (Playboy.com)

City in a Glass: Austin, Texas (PasteMagazine.com)

City in a Glass: Austin, Texas (PasteMagazine.com)