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NYC Drinks
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Bars worth the trip: speakeasies like PDT and Attaboy, Bemelmans' piano bar, the Irish coffee at The Dead Rabbit, Death & Co, Double Chicken Please and a few classic dives.
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A roughly 90-year-old longshoremen's bar near Pier 6, crammed with life preservers, model ships and ship wheels under an iconic neon sign, with a pool table and weekend karaoke. Dive bar (maritime) · Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn · $ · Walk-in only
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One of the city's oldest gay bars, site of the 1966 'Sip-In' protest, now a cash-only West Village dive with cheap drinks and a griddled burger cooked right behind the bar. Historic gay bar / dive · West Village, Manhattan · $ · Walk-in only
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A small beer hall tucked inside the Arthur Avenue Retail Market, pouring New York craft beers at long picnic tables between the butchers and cheesemongers. Beer hall · Belmont (Arthur Ave), Bronx · $$ · Walk-in only
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Drinks in the lobby of the legendary Hotel Chelsea feel like a country-estate salon: a gold chandelier, armchairs, a bay-window sofa and the coldest, strongest martini with garnishes on the side. Hotel bar · Chelsea, Manhattan · $$$$ · Walk-in only
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The dim, glamorous East Village bar that helped launch New York's cocktail renaissance in 2007, with a menu running from light and playful to boozy and serious. Classic cocktail bar · East Village, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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A tiny saloon-like East Village bar with the city's deepest wall of bitters and amari; try the Sazerac made with eight different amari. Amaro & bitters bar · East Village, Manhattan · $$ · Walk-in only
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The original phone-booth speakeasy, entered through Crif Dogs, a tiny taxidermy-dusted room pouring inventive drinks since 2007. Order a hot dog from next door. Speakeasy · East Village, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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Find the hidden Cortlandt Alley door, ring the bell and descend to a concrete-clad sub-basement bar beneath the Walker Hotel Tribeca for a moody, Goodfellas-style night out. Speakeasy · TriBeCa, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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The West Village pioneer of the modern cocktail revival, with white-jacketed bartenders free-pouring Manhattans and martinis, steak tartare and a free 'Sober Up Soup' at closing. Classic cocktail bar · West Village, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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A globe-lit, green-banquette Williamsburg bar where great martinis meet red-sauce snacks: a crispy smashed meatball parm and charred grilled wings. Italian-American bar · Williamsburg, Brooklyn · $$ · Booking recommended
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An elegant, wood-paneled hideaway above Eleven Madison Park with contemporary murals and complex drinks, like a piña colada-Negroni hybrid topped with a frozen Campari disc. Cocktail bar (above EMP) · Flatiron, Manhattan · $$$$ · Booking recommended
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A tiny, atmospheric East Village wine bar focused on Central and Eastern European bottles, with a tight, often vegetarian menu around a communal high-top. Wine bar (Eastern European) · East Village, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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A 20-seat tasting room beneath Echo Lake stocked with decades-old rums and rare spirits from the owner's collection; try the Venetian Spritz made with a 1950s aperitivo. Vintage spirits tasting bar · Williamsburg, Brooklyn · $$$$ · Book ahead
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A narrow Times Square dive plastered with boxing memorabilia from late owner and trainer Jimmy Glenn, where beers are still remarkably cheap and the grit survives. Dive bar (boxing) · Times Square, Manhattan · $ · Walk-in only
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A maximalist, bartenders'-bar in Gowanus with disco balls and cushioned walls, slinging martinis, Midori sours and beer-and-shot combos into the small hours. Disco cocktail bar · Gowanus, Brooklyn · $ · Walk-in only
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A retro, diner-meets-dive Williamsburg bar from two Grand Army vets: guava Negronis with malted milk, a Greek salad martini, blueberry pancake margaritas and a downstairs dive bar. Neighborhood cocktail bar · Williamsburg, Brooklyn · $$ · Walk-in only
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A sawdust-floored Irish bar in the Financial District with live fiddles downstairs and a cozier parlor upstairs. The Irish coffee is the essential order. Irish pub & cocktail bar · Financial District, Manhattan · $$ · Booking recommended
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Kenta Goto's intimate, hardwood-and-leather Lower East Side bar for Japanese-inflected cocktails like the cherry blossom-garnished sakura martini, plus okonomiyaki and miso-glazed wings. Japanese cocktail bar · Lower East Side, Manhattan · $$ · Walk-in only
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A century-old Greenwich Village café reborn as an all-day bar; the signature Garibaldi, Campari with fluffy fresh-pressed orange juice, is the essential order. Aperitivo & cocktail bar · Greenwich Village, Manhattan · $$ · Booking recommended
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A dark, saloon-style Long Island City bar from Sasha Petraske's school, famed for crystal-clear hand-cut ice and bespoke cocktails made to your taste. Classic cocktail bar · Long Island City, Queens · $$ · Walk-in only
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Old New York in a glass: white-jacketed bartenders, live piano and Ludwig Bemelmans's whimsical murals inside the Carlyle. Expect pricey martinis and a music cover. Classic hotel bar (live music) · Upper East Side, Manhattan · $$$$ · Walk-in only
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A candlelit Lower East Side natural wine haunt for nearly two decades, with daily happy-hour carafes, cheap oysters, boquerones and cheese. Natural wine bar · Lower East Side, Manhattan · $$ · Walk-in only
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A minimalist, tea-parlor-like bar turning citrus peels and foraged plants into house distillates, with zero-proof versions of nearly every cocktail, including a pine-needle 'martini.' Sustainable cocktail bar · Clinton Hill, Brooklyn · $$ · Walk-in only
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A retro-futuristic East Village bar for nerdy cocktails: whey and horseradish martinis, a rhubarb-mushroom clarified gimlet and randomized punches of the week. Experimental cocktail bar · East Village, Manhattan · $$ · Walk-in only
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A tastefully cluttered, Victorian drawing-room bar off a NoMad hotel lobby, with geography-themed cocktails using calamansi or sesame-washed scotch, plus a burger and hot dog au poivre. Hotel cocktail bar · NoMad, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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A velvet-and-vinyl 1960s-style underground lounge from Mr Lyan, serving unfiltered potato-vodka martinis and a savory koji-miso 'hardshake' sour. Experimental cocktail lounge · NoMad, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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A beloved Japanese-style cocktail bar reborn in a narrow West Village basement, mixing improbable ingredients like cream cheese, pistachio milk and soy sauce powder into elegant drinks. No standing, groups of four max. Japanese cocktail bar · West Village, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended Good to know: Now at 45 Grove St; the East Village original closed in 2022.
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A three-story Gramercy carriage house filled with antiques, where an alum of Angel's Share serves refined drinks like the whiskey-and-matcha Tea Ceremony. Japanese-style cocktail bar · Gramercy, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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A laid-back, '70s-style bar where snacking is half the fun: pickle-dusted cheese curds, a Spice Bag of chicken tenders and fries with curry sauce, mini martinis and Guinness. Cocktail bar & snacks · East Village, Manhattan · $$ · Walk-in only
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An oval cocktail lounge above Saga on the 64th floor of an Art Deco tower, with a wraparound terrace and postcard views of downtown, plus surprisingly friendly service. Sky-high cocktail lounge · Financial District, Manhattan · $$$$ · Book ahead
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A neon-lit 1951 Art Deco bar on Atlantic Avenue revived by Toby Cecchini (the Cosmopolitan's inventor): cold martinis, frozen drinks and a burger that rivals the cocktails. Classic cocktail bar · Cobble Hill, Brooklyn · $$ · Walk-in only
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A seven-table tiki hideaway dressed like a sunken ship, upstairs from Gage & Tollner, pouring rum-heavy tropical drinks on cozy nights. Tiki bar · Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn · $$ · Walk-in only
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Masahiro Urushido's always-packed two-level bar: highballs and boilermakers upstairs, izakaya energy downstairs, and a shiso-spiked amaretto sour worth the trip. Japanese-American highball bar · West Village, Manhattan · $$ · Booking recommended
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Like a wealthy friend's basement, with vintage leather couches and martinis served with personal olive-oil droppers, from the team behind Barcelona's Two Schmucks. Put your name down and wait. Cocktail bar · East Village, Manhattan · $$$ · Walk-in only
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Two bars stacked in one: precise Japanese-leaning cocktails like the Mirepoix martini downstairs at Sip, and a disco-ball party upstairs at Guzzle, home of the giant espresso martini and a wafer-thin bikini sandwich. Cocktail bar (two concepts) · West Village, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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A romantic, New Orleans-inspired Williamsburg bar with suspendered bartenders, a horseshoe bar, a deep oyster list and absinthe drips, plus a lush garden in warmer months. Oyster & absinthe bar · Williamsburg, Brooklyn · $$$ · Booking recommended
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Behind an unmarked Eldridge Street door, there's no menu: name a spirit or a mood and the bartenders build your perfect drink. Tiny, dim and usually lined up. Classic cocktail speakeasy · Lower East Side, Manhattan · $$ · Walk-in only
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Two bars in one: a walk-in front room with cocktails on tap and fried chicken sandwiches, and a back room where drinks reimagine dishes like cold pizza, Japanese cold noodles and mango sticky rice. Cocktail bar · Lower East Side, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended
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A red-lit, rowdy Mexican-American cocktail bar where mezcal shots come chased with beef consommé. Order the green mango martini or the mole Negroni, and expect conga lines late. Mexican-American cocktail bar · East Village, Manhattan · $$$ · Booking recommended