Youngblood hidden bar in East Village named to Esquire's 2022 list of the 25 'Best Bars in America'

Youngblood, a new 30-seat hidden bar in East Village, opened in April.

San Diego Union-Tribune

July 5, 2022 4:51 PM PT

Youngblood, a small hidden bar that opened last year inside CH Projects’ East Village speakeasy Noble Experiment, has been named to Esquire Magazine’s list of the 25 “Best Bars in America, 2022.” The list also features three other California bars: Mirabelle in Los Angeles, Snail Bar in Oakland and Scribe Winery in Sonoma.

Esquire staffers praised the secret nature of the glitzy one-room bar, which has just 30 seats, 16 of them at the bar. They also praised how the bartenders deliver guests a multicourse cocktail experience rather than a menu. Youngblood is at 777 G St., San Diego. Visit consortiumholdings.com/projects/youngblood.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.

Youngblood hidden bar in East Village named to Esquire’s 2022 list of the 25 ‘Best Bars in America’