Avoid downstairs and sit at the bar that sits twelve comfortably.

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Sto lounge bar and restaurant at the Westin Excelsior hotel sits right on the Arno River.

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The bar at Kanga-an, tucked away in a quiet residential neighborhood, sits inside a small early 17th-century temple once patronized by the Imperial family.

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