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A recent addition to the scene, The Gold Fish opened its doors in 2017 -- in a station that had been built 80 years earlier. Turning it into a bar took five months of "relentless" restoration, according to co-owner Robert Cooper.

The result is a lofty space filled with rustic painted brick, metal accents and a wooden bar top whose pine was salvaged from a 1930s cold storage facility. Eleven-foot French doors flood the interior with light, leading out onto a roomy patio that has fire pits, long picnic tables and live music. Specialties include craft cocktails -- with many of the all-natural juices squeezed in-house -- and an extensive selection of whiskey.

"We weren't searching for a gas station," said Cooper. "All we knew was that we wanted a building with character -- and we found that here."