Let’s take a moment to talk about the greatest bar in the world.

The Treehouse, in Columbus, is very hard to find. It doesn’t serve food, unless you count packets of chips. It doesn’t have beer on tap, only bottles or cans. Parking isn’t even always adequate.

The Treehouse has no sound engineer on staff and no stage. The view of bands who play there is partly obscured by a large silver maple tree that grows through the middle of the room.

Despite all of this, Esquire Magazine says The Treehouse is one of the Best Bars in America and you’re not going to find many people, if anyone, who disagrees.

The staff is friendly and so are the patrons. Inside the Treehouse, everyone is family. Even sworn enemies, of the you-stole-my-girlfriend variety, have been witnessed to be perfectly cordial to each other, while there.

Bands and solo performers of every genre are welcome at the Treehouse where they play in a small room lit only by strings of holiday lights. On the best nights, when there’s a band playing music they love to a small crowd of friends and fans, it’s absolutely magical.

It’s like they say, the Treehouse is hard to find and harder to leave.