Best Bar Opening During a Pandemic

Centennial fans were downright despondent when even food pickup ceased a week into quarantine — but we needn’t fret. Around the corner, its owners were busy opening Midnight Oil. Overnight, The Nations had a walk-up drink window, the city’s most lethal frosé, enormous pizzas, bomb-ass cheese bread — all of which appeared when we needed it most. So did tequila, which Oil stocks 50 kinds of, including rare pours like Siete Leguas, Cincoro and Tears of Llorona. Always friendly and socially distanced, Midnight Oil let us know Cheers didn’t close — it just moved around the corner. (Both Centennial and Oil are open now. “Norm!”) ASHLEY BRANTLEY

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