The Cosmopolitan Bar & Grill offers the best of two worlds: a trendy bar catering to the younger crowd that fills Canton Square and a satisfying sit-down upstairs restaurant for those who want dinner after their drinks. If you're a martini aficionado, the bar offers a dozen varieties of this classic starter, along with tables and chairs so high that your feet will dangle in the air as you people-watch to pass the time during happy hour.

For some, Cosmopolitan begins and ends with a martini bar, but upstairs is a stylish dining room, rich in blue hues featuring painted skies and clouds. At mealtime, the menu provides a multipronged fork in the road. Do you opt for a variety of traditional pub grub appetizers such as crab dip, calamari and buffalo wings? Or take a chance on starters such as the blackened baby crab cakes, lollipop lamb chops or stuffed martini olives? If you're willing to try something new, you might enjoy Black and Blue, a dish of blackened chicken breast and bleu cheese with pasta tossed in vodka sauce; or penne Absolut, penne pasta in a creamy vodka sauce with spinach, sun-dried tomatoes and shredded Romano cheese. -- Pete Kerzel

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