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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

It is rare to drink in a bar your grandfather drank in, and rarer that the place got cooler in the meantime. Zanzabar, at 2100 South Preston Street just north of Eastern Parkway in Louisville, opened as the Zanzibar dive bar in 1938, and its distinctive Z still marks the building nearly ninety years on. The original closed in the 1980s and the space drifted through catering years as Nord's Brown Bag until 2008, when the Wettig brothers revived it as Zanzabar - keeping the 1950s fixtures and mid...