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While the top floor of this two-story renovated brownstone in the Old Fourth Ward serves mostly as a dance club with weekly karaoke, the dim bar below draws its own crowd for righteous pub grub (try the lamb burger) and easygoing cocktails. Join the bargain hunters on Tuesdays for the Three Ts $2 specials: tacos, tequila, and Tecate beer. Fashionable twenty-somethings congregate in the tiny, fenced-in backyard.

DRINK THIS: Picklebacks of Tullamore Dew and pickle juice.