Less Traveled

Looking for a unique cocktail experience? Take the road Less Traveled and taste the difference.

Step off the beaten path and into Less Traveled, where exceptional cocktails are always on the menu.

Why follow the crowd? Take the road Less Traveled and discover exceptional cocktails. Your next favorite drink is just around the corner!

Take the road Less Traveled and enjoy a cocktail that’s anything but ordinary. Sip, savor, and stay a while—your next great drink is waiting!

This next Q&A features one of our outgoing and knowledgeable servers, Ben. He joins us every summer while he's on break from college and is a fun and valuable member of our team!

Q: What is your favorite part about working at Less Traveled?
A: My favorite part is being in a fun environment and getting to joke around with all of my coworkers.

Q: What is your favorite way to spend your free time?
A: My favorite way to spend my free time is beating my bartender (Hayley) in pickle-ball, playing soccer, and sleeping in.

Q: What is your favorite Olympic sport?
A: Soccer!

Q: If you could do any job in the world what would it be?
A: I would want to be a Navy Seal (who's gonna carry the boats and the logs)

Q: If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
A: It would have to be any pasta from Italy or Crumbl cookies

Q: You get to have lunch with anyone, alive or dead, who is it and where would you eat?
A: I would choose to have one last supper with Jesus, as l've got a few questions for that guy

Q: If you could only buy three things from the gas station before a road trip, what would you get?
A: I would definitely grab an Arnold Palmer for my drink, chocolate covered pretzels for my snack, and for my last item I would buy a scratch off ticket

Take Me to Jamaica, a tropical and fruity escape. With Aged Rum, Nocino walnut liqueur, kiwi jam, pineapple sour, and cacao nib 🥝🍍

The weather is sunny this weekend and some drinks are best enjoyed outside ✨ Try a Crimson Club, with Raspberry Michigin, Raspberry Liqueur, super foamer and lemon.

Decisions can be hard, so why choose? Order an Old Fashioned Flight and you be the judge of which one is your favorite! The Old Aquavit Old Fashioned, with Old Aquavit, demerara, and leeward bitters, the Midwest Old Fashioned with Bourbon, Orange & Cherry Liqueur, and aromatic bitters, and the Smoked Chocolate Old Fashioned, with Bourbon, Rum, lapsang souchong, and vanilla cacao bitters!

Cheers to Industry Night! We invite our friends for a special discount every Tuesday until close! Come try our brand new summer menu! Full of hand crafted flavor, both new and returning favorites!

Happy 4th everyone! We will be closed today for the holiday but we will reopen tomorrow at 4p! Join us this weekend to try out our brand new summer menu!

Inside or out, Less Traveled is the perfect place to enjoy a cocktail while enjoying your creative hobbies like drawing!

No better place to cheers to the weekend than on our patio at Less Traveled 🥂

Despite the terrible storm earlier this morning and last night, we have power on Cherry St! We open at 4p today, both inside and on our patio! We hope everyone is safe from the weather!

Did you know our outdoor patio is nice and shady by 6 o'clock? Have your Friday night cocktails outside in the shade this weekend and cool off from this heatwave ☀🍸

We are so happy to introduce one of our LT bartenders, India for a little Q&A! When I asked India, she said people would describe her as “cute” and “could’ve been a comedian” 🤩🎤

Q: If you could have any profession what would it be?
A: I would want to be a ceramic artist and sell your art full time. I’m interested in all 3-D mediums, but mostly I’m interested in sculpture work. I’ve been mostly into human figures but i like to make things that evoke emotion. All my favorite art has made me feel all kinds of emotions.

Q: What’s your favorite summer activity?
A: I like being outside in any way, but preferably in the water. I’m a boat girl with no access to a boat (India is now accepting invitations to hang out on a boat lol)

Q: What is your favorite part about working for less Traveled?
A: I like the small, intimate atmosphere. It brings a lot of people in from our area and I’ve been able to make friendships with both coworkers and customers.

Q: What is your favorite spirit or cocktail?
A: Michigin is my favorite, because some of those juniper berries were picked with my own fingers! But seriously, I always enjoy Aquavit, because it’s the first spirit I had from Long Road and i always find myself coming back to it.

Q: What is your biggest goal?
A: To be employee of the month at Less Traveled…

Q: Okay, let’s play 2 Truths & a Lie
A: I’ve been on two billboards. I’m 5’2”. I’ve jumped off a 35’ cliff.

Our Spring Menu will soon be coming to an end... Which stop (or stops 😉) on the journey has been your favorite?? Let us know in the comments which cocktail was your favorite!

🎶 summer time, and the livin’ is easy 🎶
It’s patio season people! When the weather is warm the best place to have a cocktail is on the patio at Less Traveled! ✨☀️

We know not every cocktail has to have a sweet profile, so for our friends who prefer the dry, savory cocktails we present the Curry Me Home. With Coconut oil washed dry gin, bianco vermouth, curry leaf and basil oil. 🍸

The perfect patio companion, a Blood Orange Americano. With Red Amaro, sweet vermouth, blood orange and soda ☀

If you're looking for a summery bourbon cocktail, look no further. The Rincon brings summer to you with Straight Bourbon, Wendy Peppercorn, coconut oil rum, allspice, grapefruit and bitters with a Grand Absinthe mist. ☀

A long time star and a nod to our home on the West Side, the Polish Falcon is a classic with Vodka, lime, lemongrass and our house made ginger beer!

Unlock another stop on your journey with the Bergen Railway. With Straight Bourbon, Old Aquavit, carrot, chile, ginger, honey, lemon, smoked tea, and bitters.

Treat yourself to one of our hand crafted zero-proof cocktails like the Lemon Pepper Freestyle, with lemon, white peppercorn, almond, and rice milk 🍋

Take a sip, close your eyes, and imagine you're sunning yourself on the streets of Venice ☀️ The Venice Venture has Michigin, limoncello, lemon sorbetto, and jicama-grapefruit champagne. Ask your server about an N/A option!

Original Rum, tamarind-chile liqueur, Orange Liqueur, lime, and agave nectar make the Cantina a tangy and bright weekend sip 🌶

Bright and Crisp, the Nordic Sunshine has Original Aquavit, Orange Liqueur, lemon and celery bitters.

The Great Northern is another daring stop on our Viking Voyage portion of the Wanderlust menu! With Original Aquavit, Orange Liqueur, vermouth, lemon and honey.

We had a great time with the Travelers Tea as a warm cocktail in the winter so we've given it a new (colder) life as a spring cocktail! Still with Sovereign Gin, oolong syrup, lime acid, basil and grapefruit bitters.