"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The basement is probably the floor most forgotten. Attics are fun and charming, whimsical and spooky in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A basement bar should be at the top of any home renovator’s list – particularly if they love to entertain. This underused yet ...

GREECE, NY – Most Bills fans in Rochester watch the game on their couch, but not every at-home setup is created equally. Jeremy D’Amico, a Greece native, pulls out all the stops for gameday in his ...

When it’s time to get down, you’ve gotta go down! Downstairs, that is, because a new trio of top-shelf taverns are all bottom-floor. Close Company (this year’s writers’ choice for Best New Bar) offers ...

In the quiet afternoon before Sous Terre opens, you can hear the creak of footsteps overhead as the French bistro Jolie prepares for the night’s dinner service. It’s like sitting inside a secret ...

Located down a steep flight of well-worn wooden steps, the late, great Monroe’s was a classic basement bar in downtown Phoenix. During the day, this cramped cellar was a great place to nosh on pub ...

According to German tradition, there is a name for a bar housed in the basement of a city hall, and the owners of Tycoons Alehouse and Eatery snagged that name for the lower-level spot in their ...

Rachel Taft made her first visit to The Sidebar when she was 17 years old. A friend drove her from Annapolis to Baltimore to see a boyfriend’s hard-core punk band, and Taft remembers being awed by the ...

BAY CITY, MI – When you look at the Governor’s Quarters building, most wouldn’t expect that customers need to head downstairs to enter the restaurant and bar. But with historic pieces, lots of brewery ...

Most bars promise an escape. Uncharted Tiki Bar in New Braunfels' downtown district actually built one, and now it's gone.The immersive tiki hideaway that transformed a basement into a tropical escape ...

When friends come over to the Brenneman house, they know how to pick a beer on tap in the basement bar. “I’ll have a knee,” Rodney Brenneman says with a smile. The tap handles are shiny joints: a knee ...