Yacht Club Lands on List of North America’s 50 Best Bars

Mary Allison Wright and McClain Hedges, the husband-and-wife team that owns Yacht Club, have reason to celebrate.

It landed at number 42 on this year’s list of the 50 Best Bars in North America. The news was announced at a live event in San Miguel Allende, Mexico, on May 4; it was the second round for a list that launched in 2022.

In the inaugural edition of the 50 Best Bars in North America, Death & Co’s Denver location inside the Ramble Hotel in RiNo landed at number 36. That bar is an offshoot of a concept that started in New York City, but Yacht Club is a Denver original.

Wright and Hedges, who met while following Phish on tour and moved to Denver from Tennessee, have been staples on the local bar scene for a decade. In 2014, they opened what was then dubbed RiNo Yacht Club inside the…