One added that hooks are particularly rare in the touristy French Quarter, where customers tend to be “messier,” i.e., more apt to forget a bag on a hook under the bar.

Sunny’s Bar has anchored Red Hook, Brooklyn since the 1890s. Poised near the water on Conover Street, it’s paradoxically popular and the kind of place people like to assign that hackneyed ...

Lisa (left) and Lauren Cassity stand inside Hook & Plow in Bend's Westside Yard in September 2023. Twin sisters Lauren and Lisa Cassity cut their teeth in the restaurant industry at a dive bar ...