YOU'RE HAVING: A BRANDY OLD-FASHIONED, NOT TOO SWEET
Bryant's may be the darkest bar in America: Your check comes on a little lighted tray. But if you stay long enough in this 1938-vintage cocktail lounge, drinking its Saint Paddy's Day punch (a secret recipe) or old-fashioneds (made in the traditional Wisconsin style: with brandy, not whiskey) and listening to the 1960s R&B playing on the McIntosh Hi-Fi system, which cost a princely $21,000 in 1971, the last time Bryant's was redecorated, the place will keep getting lighter and lighter until you've got no trouble seeing at all.
1579 South Ninth Street; 414-383-2620
