Alyson Sheppard is a food writer and hangover specialist based in the South.

Bars We Love: Pinewood Social, Nashville (Playboy.com)

Bars We Love: Pinewood Social, Nashville (Playboy.com)

Americans usually spend their days going from home to work to home to work to home…you get the idea. There’s not a lot of in-between. To break up that monotony, establishments are embracing the idea of becoming “the third space”—the space where people can come to do lots of different things in one location. 

http://www.playboy.com/articles/bars-we-love-pinewood-social-nashville

City in a Glass: Portland, Oregon (PasteMagazine.com)

City in a Glass: Portland, Oregon (PasteMagazine.com)

Bars We Love: Edmund’s Oast, Charleston (Playboy.com)

Bars We Love: Edmund’s Oast, Charleston (Playboy.com)