
BOTW 2026 Drinking Winners & Finalists

The dive bar’s absence left a hole in the world of watering holes, but now as vaccination rates rise and COVID cases fall, we can begin returning to the ways of the before times.
We all have our watering hole — the local bar we visit for a drink without thinking, where we know all the bartenders, the specials and what’s on the jukebox.
MDRD, a Spanish restaurant perched on top of the Amway Grand Plaza, opened in February.
Winter is hardly enough to stop Michiganders from dining and drinking outdoors.
