Quiet enough
to talk.
Loud enough
to stay.

A Hundred Years on Rendon

A bar room with
a long memory.

The building has been a bar since the 1920s — back-room poker, a one-legged pirate, and B-girls asking fellas to buy 'em a drink. Before it became Pal's, it was an old-man bar called Yvonne's: wood-paneling, drop-ceiling, and the kind of regulars who came in at noon.

Pal's opened on March 1, 2002 and kept what worked — corner-bar architecture, a long bar, fair prices — and added what was missing: a well-made cocktail, a thoughtful beer list, and the city's best food pop-ups passing through the kitchen most nights of the week.

"Pride of place smack in the middle of a vibrant neighborhood, classic corner-bar architecture, a long bar, a quality drink for a fair price, and regulars who fill its stools with friendly banter."