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Houston's bar life offers everything you'd expect from an international city. For instance, La Carafe, around since before the Civil War and located in the heart of downtown's Old Market Square, not only offers a great selection of wines and a superb jukebox, but has also been known from time to time to offer up one of its former patrons as a ghostly apparition. Don't let the out-of-the-way location of Marfreless scare you. The brightly colored, unmarked door under a stairway in the River Oaks Shopping Center opens up to a bar that serves some of the city's best martinis, with light classical and jazz to listen to and plenty of sweet, smooch-friendly couches for sweethearts in the dimly lit upstairs. Griffs in Montrose is the ultimate sports bar, Houston's oldest, renowned as the best place in town for quaffing brews, watching the game, and throwing darts. And needless to say, its St. Patricks Day celebrations are legendary. Finally, if you want to be the player yourself as well as watch a game, Dave and Busters on the Richmond strip will get you in the action. Compete with friends new and old at the latest virtual reality and video games or billiards and shuffleboard in the adult arcade. The two bars and the kitchen will make sure you won't get hungry or thirsty.

Other bars to check out:

Brian ONeills (Rice Village)
Icon Bar (Midtown)
Valhalla (Rice University campus)
Bronx Bar (Rice Village)