Best of Rhode Island 2008 Editors' Picks

E & O is a true-blue West Side joint, with barely a sign on the door but plenty of good-natured folk inside. If you need to sit in front of six plasma TVs while draining a beer and prefer texting to talking, turn around. If you want to catch up with the neighborhood (or as they say here, rad people with no bull) and enjoy a low-tech evening of old-fashioned conversation only interrupted by games of pinball or pool, pull up a seat and grab a draft.