Human progress can be measured by the increase of dining-utensil use and formal wear and the plummeting popularity of grog consumption and plank walking. Celebrate finer tastes with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of fine drinks at Squeeze Bar on East Bay Street.

At just 11 feet long and 8 inches wide, Squeeze Bar is the tightest bar in Charleston, filled to the gills with palate-piquing quaffables and boasting 100-year-old cypress wood wine racks, columns, and luxurious ostrich upholstery. Choose from a menu of innovative martinis such as the french pear, a fizzy meld of Absolut pear, house-infused vanilla vodka, brut champagne, and aphorism-spouting St. Germain elderflower ($8.50). Give lazy taste buds a loving slap in the face with the sweet and spicy martini, with a capsaicin-crammed habanero-infused tequila, pomegranate liquor, organic agave nectar, and a splash of soda ($8.50). Dessert martinis include the chic toasted almond, a swirling dervish of house-infused espresso vodka, amaretto, Kahlua coffee liquor, and a splash of cream ($8). An array of sparkling, red, white, and zebra wines delights vine-swingers, who happily join hands and skip in a very narrow oval around the bar’s cozy quarters.