One of the coolest bars Danny’s ever encoun­tered. Smack in the mid­dle of down­town Burque, Ano­dyne offers a wide assort­ment of beers and the cock­tails are gen­er­ously poured.

Dimly lit, equipped with just enough pool tables, (pay by the hour), smart effi­cient bar­tenders, intel­li­gent irrev­er­ent wait­resses and a view the haps on cen­tral, the ‘dyne holds its own with any bar we’ve vis­ited in NY, San Fran­cisco, Paris or Khat­mandu. The music is canned but cool – Augus­tus Pablo might fol­low the Pix­ies, Coltrane then Ojos del Brujo. With the extinc­tion of Fat Chance, Dingo Bar, and Jacks, Ano­dyne is one of the last bas­tions of old school Burque cool.

Also a comfy place to sit and write, read or chat. Check out the Wolver­ine table and for you gar­den vari­ety nerds, the Star Wars table. Tell Doug at the bar you like the Dal­las Mavs or the Cow­boys and you might have a new BFF. The chillest place in town to sit and have beer on any week­day evening, fun-but-jammed on the week­end, Anodyne’s among the cooled bars in the Southwest.

Mike’s got the door going in, so tip him on the way out. Paper­back wall full of ridicu­lous pulp pot­boil­ers. Good, cheap pool. Roy­alty among bar juke­boxes (cur­rently under repair). Good mix of hip­ster, col­lege & older crowds.