She says the secret behind these great cocktail bars is synergy.

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Appealing to the eyes as well as the ears this holiday season, VIZIO's LED TVs and sound bars offer consumers great options for any room in the house at an outstanding value.

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But when they are open, the bars still pull great pints of stout, serve hearty food and remain the extended living room for locals ready to chat about the weather, Irish football and maybe the economy.

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The map shows that the top metros for bars are clustered in the Midwest, Great Lakes and Plains.

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It's peak ski season and there's a great combination of California sunshine and well-covered slopes - the bars and restaurants are normally heaving.

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Brennan Appel of SouthSmoke.com, a hookah-merchandise supplier, reckons that there are now several thousand bars and lounges (nobody in the hookah trade is that great on specific numbers).

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Thanks to this new breed of coffee bars, those looking for a serious coffee education, or just a great cup, have more choice than ever before.

BBC: A speciality coffee scene brews in Hong Kong

He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.

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