83 cities. Five stops each, verified in live map data, walked in the only order the city allows. Every road ends near a bed.
- Dublin — The Temple Bar Confession
Five pubs, one confession: the best of Temple Bar was never on the main strip. · via DUB
- Bangkok — The R&R Run
Washington Square is a Marriott now. · via BKK
- New Orleans — The Vieux Carré Procession
The Quarter has been serving drinks longer than the republic has been collecting taxes on them. · via MSY
- Prague — The Cellar Docket
Prague does its drinking below street level, where the beer has been settling arguments since before the New World was news. · via PRG
- Manila — The Ermita Reveille
Malate and Ermita buried most of their golden age. · via MNL
- London — The Fleet Street Brief
Five pubs between the courts and the old presses, where England's lies were printed and its verdicts drunk to. · via LON
- New York — The Village Docket
Five rooms that survived Prohibition, developers, and improvement. · via NYC
- Tokyo — The Yamanote Testimony
Four eras of Tokyo drinking, stitched together by the Yamanote line. · via TYO
- Singapore — The Emerald Appeal
From the most famous bar in the East to a basement with no sign, in defiance of the heat and the prices. · via SIN
- Abu Dhabi — The Corniche Recess
The capital does its drinking indoors, licensed and air-conditioned, as God and the municipality intended. · via AUH
- Dubai — The Creekside Retainer
Old Dubai first, new Dubai later, dinner unlicensed and unmatched in the middle. · via DXB
- Kuala Lumpur — The Changkat Adjournment
KL drinks in layers: colonial ghosts, helipads, street woks, and basements with no signage. · via KUL
- Paris — The Zinc Testimony
Five zincs between the Opera and Montparnasse, in the footsteps of everyone who ever came to Paris to work on their drinking and called it writing.. · via PAR
- Amsterdam — The Brown Café Deposition
Brown cafés: rooms stained by four centuries of smoke, gossip, and genever. · via AMS
- Barcelona — The Raval Verdict
Barcelona eats late and judges later. · via BCN
- Rome — The Trastevere Motion
Espresso above the Spanish Steps, wine by the Campo, dinner across the river. · via ROM
- Munich — The Bräuhaus Objection
Munich's case law is written in litres. · via MUC
- Sydney — The Rocks Affidavit
Three convict-era pubs on the Rocks, then two basements in the city. · via SYD
- Buenos Aires — The Bares Notables Brief
The only city on Earth that gives its old bars legal protection, then fills them nightly to prove the law right. · via BUE
- Rio de Janeiro — The Boteco Absolution
Rio forgives everything at a boteco table. · via RIO
- Lima — The Cordano Petition
Start across from the presidential palace in 1905 and end in a Barranco mansion. · via LIM
- Mexico City — The Cantina Appeal
The Centro's cantinas have been hearing appeals since Porfirio Díaz. · via MEX
- Madrid — The Cañas Verdict
Madrid never closed anything worth keeping. · via MAD
- Edinburgh — The Auld Reekie Summons
Edinburgh has been drinking on the record since the 1300s. · via EDI
- Vienna — The Kaffeehaus Injunction
Vienna's cafés are listed heritage and its schnitzel is case law. · via VIE
- San Francisco — The Barbary Coast Docket
Gold rush to Beats in five rooms. · via SFO
- Berlin — The Kneipe Precedent
Berlin's court of drinking convenes east to west: a beer garden older than Germany, a mirrored ballroom, the last instance itself, and a barman who decides what you are having.. · via BER
- Ho Chi Minh City — The Quiet American Brief
The R&R Run's sister city. · via SGN
- Phnom Penh — The Riverside Inquest
The correspondents filed from here when the story was the whole world. · via PNH
- Kathmandu — The Thamel Debrief
Every summit attempt since the seventies has been argued, funded or abandoned in a Thamel bar. · via KTM
- Mumbai — The Colaba Cross-Examination
Colaba has been cross examining new arrivals since the Raj. · via BOM
- Cairo — The Khedive's Sidebar
Khedival Cairo was built to argue in. · via CAI
- Istanbul — The Rakı Tribunal
Rakı is procedure. · via IST
- Budapest — The Ruin Bar Amnesty
District VII was left to fall down and the city chose to drink in the ruins instead. · via BUD
- Lisbon — The Ginjinha Hearing
Lisbon acquits itself nightly, one ginjinha at a time. · via LIS
- Osaka — The Kuidaore Indictment
Osaka's motto is kuidaore, eat until you fall down. · via OSA
- Boston — The Ward Boss Caucus
The machine that ran Boston was oiled in taverns, and the caucus never really adjourned. · via BOS
- Chicago — The Green Mill Continuance
Chicago perfected the art of delaying judgment. · via CHI
- Melbourne — The Laneway Deliberation
Melbourne hid its best rooms down alleys and behind unmarked doors, then deliberated for a century about telling anyone. · via MEL
- Copenhagen — The Bodega Parole
The bodega is Copenhagen's parole system: brown rooms, candle wax, bottles that open at noon, and everyone released on their own recognizance.. · via CPH
- Brussels — The Lambic Statute
Belgian beer is codified law: lambic sour by statute, trappist by covenant, and Brussels keeps the oldest courtrooms. · via BRU
- Shanghai — The Bund Settlement
The International Settlement wrote its own laws and poured its own whisky. · via SHA
- Belgrade — The Kafana Oath
The kafana is a courtroom where everyone testifies and nobody objects. · via BEG
- Athens — The Plaka Apologia
Socrates delivered the first apologia downhill from here and lost. · via ATH
- Havana — The Malecón Clemency
Havana forgives everything nightly: the heat, the shortages, the century. · via HAV
- Stockholm — The Bellman Bench
Bellman sang Stockholm's taverns into scripture in the 1700s and the city never quite sobered up. · via STO
- Helsinki — The Kallio Remand
Helsinki drinks with intent and without small talk. · via HEL
- Warsaw — The Wódka Arraignment
Warsaw was flattened and rebuilt brick by brick, and it drinks with the memory of both. · via WAW
- Bucharest — The Old Court Sentence
The Old Princely Court belonged to Vlad the Impaler, who knew something about sentencing. · via BUH
- Sofia — The Rakia Ruling
Sofia rules on everything over rakia and shopska, from socialist nostalgia to candlelit secrecy. · via SOF
- Zagreb — The Tkalčićeva Plea
Zagreb's old drinking street runs uphill between two rival medieval towns that once threw stones at each other across a creek. · via ZAG
- Bratislava — The Pressburg Probation
Pressburg crowned Hungarian kings, brewed for the coronations, and now serves probation terms of halušky and burčiak. · via BTS
- Ljubljana — The Dragon Bridge Inquiry
Ljubljana is small enough to cross in an evening and deep enough to never finish. · via LJU
- Riga — The Black Balsam Writ
Riga's medicine is 45 percent proof and blacker than a notary's ink. · via RIX
- Vilnius — The Užupis Constitution
Užupis declared itself a republic on April Fools' Day and wrote a constitution guaranteeing everyone the right to be idle, to be happy, and to love a cat. · via VNO
- Tallinn — The Hanseatic Habeas
Produce the body, preferably in the same medieval town hall square where the Hanseatic League counted its silver. · via TLL
- Valletta — The Strait Street Court Martial
Strait Street was The Gut: the Royal Navy's strip of jazz, gin and trouble, court martialled into silence for decades and now pleading its way back. · via MLA
- Luxembourg — The Grund Gavel
The EU's highest court sits on the plateau; the honest drinking happens in the ravine below it. · via LUX
- Nicosia — The Green Line Armistice
The last divided capital in Europe drinks within sight of its own ceasefire. · via LCA
- Hong Kong — The Star Ferry Subpoena
Served on both sides of the harbour, answerable the same night. · via HKG
- Seoul — The Makgeolli Mandate
The mandate of heaven now passes through market alleys and vinyl bars. · via SEL
- Hanoi — The Bia Hơi Quorum
Quorum is reached on plastic stools at the corner of Tạ Hiện, fresh beer brewed this morning and gone by midnight. · via HAN
- Taipei — The Rechao Rebuttal
Taipei rebuts quietly and wins on the evidence: tea poured by dissidents' heirs, night markets older than the arguments, danzai noodles from 1895, and a bar named for a gun that only shoots music.. · via TPE
- Penang — The Clan Jetty Covenant
George Town's covenant was signed by clans on stilts over the harbour and countersigned at the E&O's long bar. · via PEN
- Chiang Mai — The Lanna Leniency
The old northern kingdom judges gently: khao soi instead of sentences, a Tuesday jam instead of a hearing, and the Ping river carrying every appeal downstream by midnight.. · via CNX
- Kolkata — The Chota Peg Chambers
Calcutta argued the Raj to death over small whiskies and never stopped talking. · via CCU
- Macau — The Pataca Escrow
Macau holds four centuries of Portugal and China in escrow and pays interest in roast pigeon and vinho verde. · via MFM
- Nashville — Three Chords and the Truth
Harlan Howard's definition of a country song, walked as a night. · via BNA
- Memphis — The Soul Burger Subpoena
Rock and roll, soul and the blues all filed their first papers within a mile of here. · via MEM
- Austin — The Live Music Affidavit
The self-declared live music capital, sworn to under oath on a Tuesday when the room is half empty and the band plays anyway. · via AUS
- Detroit — The Motown Deposition
A city that exported a sound to the world twice, in sequins and then in drum machines. · via DTW
- Liverpool — The Mersey Beat Brief
Four lads walked these streets between art school and the ferry and rearranged the century. · via LPL
- Manchester — The Madchester Injunction
A city that turned rain and factories into two decades of records. · via MAN
- Glasgow — The Barrowland Verdict
Bands will tell you the Barrowland crowd is the best on Earth and the sprung floor is why. · via GLA
- Jerez de la Frontera — The Tabanco Testimony
Flamenco was born in these streets and sherry was invented to go with it. · via XRY
- Kingston — The Dub Plate Hearing
Ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub were all filed from this one small city. · via KIN
- Lagos — The Afrobeat Summons
Fela built a republic out of horns and grievance, and the city still runs on the sound he left. · via LOS
- Ibiza — The Balearic Adjournment
The island invented a way of playing records that the rest of the world copied badly for forty years. · via IBZ
- Goa — The Sunset Trance Petition
Freaks arrived in the sixties, stayed, and by the nineties had bent electronic music into a shape named after this coast. · via GOI
- Aberdeen — The Granite Sessions
A city cut from grey stone that sparkles when the sun finally bothers, built on fish, then granite, then oil. · via ABZ
- Wiesbaden — The Spielbank Confession
The Kurhaus took Dostoevsky's last thaler in 1865 and he wrote The Gambler in ten weeks to square the debt. · via FRA
- Montreal — The Quart Amendment
Quebec wrote its taverns into law and kept women out of them until 1986, and Montreal answered by making the tavern immortal anyway. · via YUL
- Seattle — The Skid Road Provision
Skid row is a Seattle word. · via SEA