"Even more low-key, and in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, which is comfortable, restrained, and quietly eccentric. Jazz in the background, a few excellent cocktails...and Del Pedro behind the bar..." Mehr erfahren.
"Thank God the developers haven't yet discovered the Saloon in the basement of Grand Central Station. It's hiding behind the Oyster Bar -- don't tell anyone." Mehr erfahren.
"A lot of people hate the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel. It's expensive, the decor is contrived, you have to make a reservation to get in after 9:00 p.m. What detractors fail to appreciate..." Mehr erfahren.
"situated in a 185-year-old building at the southern tip of Manhattan. The Dead Rabbit is not low-key; it's insane—so geeky and so history-obsessed that by all rights it should be an impossible..." Mehr erfahren.
"If they gentrified the old brick section of heaven, the Brooklyn Inn would be the neighborhood bar." Mehr erfahren.
"Trim, neat, and exceptionally friendly, this well-liked establishment has a small but useful dinner menu, a reasonably priced wine list with an excellent array of sherries, and—the reason it's..." Mehr erfahren.
"New York hotels used to be famous for their bars—elegant places where the chemists behind the stick took pride in their mastery. That changed. In recent decades, they've become overdecorated..." Mehr erfahren.
"It has been there since the 1870s and has the memorabilia to prove it. And if you don't like to read, they also carry about 200-odd single malts." Mehr erfahren.
"This isolated cocktail bar is attached to a Japanese restaurant but entirely separate from it. It's dark and quiet and has an impressive selection of whiskeys. They don't seat groups larger than..." Mehr erfahren.
"A few shelves of Irish whiskeys, one of the better pints of Guinness in the city, friendly but not naive bartenders, addictive sliders, various dark, churchy seating areas, and a good crowd..." Mehr erfahren.
"A half dozen carefully selected drafts. One rotating cask ale, always fresh. Belgian beers divided into Flemish, Wallonian, and lambic styles. Cheese and charcuterie on a cutting board. There's..." Mehr erfahren.
"The world has seen no stranger political entity than the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which united at least ten different nationalities who cordially hated one another and agreed on one thing and one..." Mehr erfahren.
"Pouring Ribbons, in a rather unlikely upstairs space in the deep East Village, is a paradise for the unashamed cocktail geek: spectacularly sophisticated, adventurous modern drinks in the classic..." Mehr erfahren.
"From 1800 until approximately the Nixon era, it was universally acknowledged that the best bars in the world were found in New York hotels--the old Waldorf-Astoria, the Metropolitan, the New York..." Mehr erfahren.
"Once you get past the slightly gimmicky name (PDT = Please Don’t Tell) and the more than slightly gimmicky phone-booth entrance, this cocktail bar that requires table reservations is the epitome..." Mehr erfahren.
"First time I went to P.J. Clarke's, oh, hell, a few years ago now, I was drunk at the bar with a bunch of friends and we turned to watch this old dude with a golden cigar tube poking out of his..." Mehr erfahren.
"Lower Manhattan once had dozens of bars like this--gruff joints where you could sink a couple of beers and a whiskey or two alongside the regulars without fear of harassment as long as you kept..." Mehr erfahren.
"The streets outside Minetta Tavern are crawling with NYU students, but they never go in this former speakeasy in the heart of Greenwich Village. Probably because it's too old, too comfortable, too.." Mehr erfahren.
"Used to be, a nightclub was a dark, smoky place where well-dressed people sipped well-made drinks and made clever, well-educated chitchat while a hot Cuban band played rumbas. Little Branch does..." Mehr erfahren.
"Sure, it's a gay bar, but this dingy, loose-hinged old survivor is still more masculine than 90 percent of the straight bars in America. If Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams were drinking..." Mehr erfahren.
This place is a classic, impossibly narrow New York bar and one of the few places that remain from pretransformation Times Square. Boxing posters and Christmas lights: a perfect place." Mehr erfahren.
"Nobody knows Grassroots is there, but it's always full. Three reasons: beer, darts, conversation. And enough gloom to keep the NYU students from making it a 'college bar.'" Mehr erfahren.
"...where the taps work, and there's more than one grade of booze. By local standards, that makes it a palace--although if it were a real palace, its own inhabitants would be plotting its overthrow." Mehr erfahren.
"Go for the cocktails -- we like the manhattan. They're some of the very best in the country." Mehr erfahren.
"With Clover Club, the modern cocktail bar enters its next generation, the one that does everything good the previous one did, but without waving its arms around and shouting 'Hey, lookit me!'..." Mehr erfahren.
"The name is accurate, as far as it goes: There are indeed many, many cognacs, Armagnacs, brandies de Jerez, and other fine grape and fruit distillates, all ranked on shelves like so many..." Mehr erfahren.
"Also in the East Village, it harnesses the power of lab science in the interest of intoxication, deploying processes such as pressure infusion, vacuum distillation, centrifuge separation..." Mehr erfahren.
"Attached to this little bar--manned by a bartender so closemouthed that some think he's kidding--is a high stone wall surrounding half an acre of gravel punctuated by rows of century-old trees..." Mehr erfahren.
"It's a former speakeasy where you still feel as though you're getting away with something. Even in midtown." Mehr erfahren.
"Ten or fifteen years ago, it was hard to get a decent drink in New York, particularly if you wanted anything other than a martini. Back then, my wife and I, unburdened by offspring or daytime jobs.." Mehr erfahren.
"Long before That ‘70s Show was a show, it was, in fact, my life. (Just substitute central Indiana for Wisconsin.) So you can imagine how pleased I was upon the opening of Barcade, a cavernous..." Mehr erfahren.
"This tiny, candle-lit, boho bar and performance space in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is an Anti-Dive. There are competent barmen who know the extensive wine and spirits list, smart conversations, and..." Mehr erfahren.
"Once you master the dress code and navigate the gantlet of staff members by the door whose sole purpose seems to be to keep the riffraff out by making them--you--feel like an eighth-grader at a..." Mehr erfahren.
