{"id":259816,"date":"2026-04-09T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259816\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:27:07","slug":"three-sacramento-bars-named-top-in-the-u-s-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259816\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Sacramento bars named top in the U.S. West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three popular Sacramento bars have just been named in the Tales of the Cocktail 2026 Spirited Awards<\/a> among its U.S. West region Top 10 in their category.<\/p>\n

The regional nominees \u201crepresent the best in the industry, leaving a lasting impact on their local cocktail communities and beyond,\u201d according to the Spirited Awards website.<\/p>\n

Downtown\u2019s The Snug<\/a> was recognized in the Best U.S. Cocktail Bar \u2013 U.S. West category. Two other watering holes, East Sacramento\u2019s Kru<\/a> and Butterscotch Den in North Oak Park<\/a>, made the list for Best U.S. Restaurant Bar \u2013 U.S. West.<\/p>\n

All three bars take their places alongside other luminary bars in the Bay Area, Southern California, Seattle, Denver, Phoenix and Maui.<\/p>\n

An interactive map allows users to navigate to each region<\/a> and see where honorees, nominees and awardees are. Only one California bar was selected in 2025<\/a>, San Francisco\u2019s Trick Dog.<\/p>\n

Honorees were selected by a panel of more than 250 industry experts, including bartenders, bar owners, educators and writers. They evaluated the bars based on \u201cstructured criteria,\u201d according to the website.<\/p>\n

The regional winners will be<\/a> whittled down to the U.S.\u2019s top 10 in each category in May. The overall winners will be announced at the 20th annual Spirited Awards ceremony on Thursday, July 23 at The Fillmore New Orleans during the Tales of the Cocktail conference.<\/p>\n

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The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Sean Timberlake is the food and dining reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He has been writing professionally for nearly 30 years, and about food for 20. A variety of well-known outlets have published his work, including Food Network, Cooking Channel, CNN, Sunset Magazine and SF Weekly.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three popular Sacramento bars have just been named in the Tales of the Cocktail 2026 Spirited Awards among…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-259816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}