5 pm-2:30 am nightly.

Despite looking like some 1970s Aspen fondue hut, Valentine’s is more 1919 West Bank in character, a defiantly bohemian holdout in Old Town’s fratbag-and-Voodoo triangle. The place even serves absinthe (the real stuff, with wormwood, for $10); you almost expect to see Toulouse-Lautrec watching the poetry readings and alt-comedy shows from the upstairs loft.