Bikini Lounge

This wood-paneled Grand Avenue bar has been around since 1947 and used to welcome truckers as they traveled through town on U.S. Route 60. Phoenix has changed a lot in the decades since the tiki drive bar opened, but it still remains a place that sucks you in and dares you to leave. The bartender serves beer on draft from a glass he just took out of the freezer behind a bar that is decorated with kitchy tchotchkes. Bargoers sit at tiki-style tables, play pool and share a cig at the bar’s outside patio. It fills up on Tuesdays, or 602’sdays, as a DJ spins actual vinyl to play self-described “funky mutant dance music.” Before you know it, you’ll be ordering another round and heading to the dance floor until the bar closes. Just remember to make a trip to an ATM before visiting this cash-only establishment.