Nye’s Polonaise Room Makes Esquire’s Best Bar in America List
Nye’s Polonaise has made Esquires list of the Best Bars in America, coming in at #9:
The best bar in America occupies a corner where the path to righteousness and the road to perdition run parallel, east to west, perpendicular to the muddy river that cuts this country in two, north to south. The best bar in America has occupied this physical and spiritual intersection since 1950. The best bar in America lies across the Mississippi from downtown Minneapolis over a bridge named for Father Louis Hennepin, and it has a sign on its yellow-brick exterior that points the way to Our Lady of Lourdes, cast in the red-neon glow of another that reads LIQUORS. The best bar in America also saw one of its doormen murdered last summer. The best bar in America is Nye’s Polonaise.
I was there on Tuesday night, sitting with Ember Reichgott Junge’s campaign for the 5th District as primary results came in. She sang us a song on the piano. The place is old, but fun.
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I don’t get it. So it came in at #9, but the copy reads “the best bar in america.” Maybe I’d understand better if I read the entire article for context?
Yeah, Nye’s is old, but that’s part of the appeal to me.
I love the main hostess with the coke-bottle glasses and big hair, love the gold sparkly plastic booths and 1960s light fixtures, love the piano, love the crazy polka dancers, love the massive prime rib, love the valet parking, and my list goes on.
Nye’s rules and I’m glad to see them recognized.
Funny, Nye’s just had a mention on Gridskipper. I haven’t been there in forever and a day, but I LOVE that have a frickin’ pianist to accompany you for karaoke. I got volunteered to sing once and I had to have her change keys for me.