Clover Club
Arguably Brooklyn's first proper cocktail bar, Clover Club has come to be more a beloved local that happens to make some of the best cocktails in New York. A massive…
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Extra Fancy
Extra Fancy is technically a restaurant, but really, it's a restaurant hiding inside a dive-y cocktail bar. This long, wavy countertop is home to some of Brooklyn's goofiest bartenders who can…
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Wallflower
Wallflower is a tiny dressed-up French bistro fronted by a cocktail bar. The drinks by Xavier Herit, formerly of Daniel, are all miniature works of art, delicately garnished with streaks…
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Pouring Ribbons
Above an ungentrified little stretch of Avenue B, Pouring Ribbons is a labor of love from Joaquín Simó and Alchemy Consulting. The bar—rendered in all shades of greens and blues—is…
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Mayahuel
Perhaps one of the first single-subject spirit bars (outside of whiskey) in New York, Mayahuel is fervently dedicated to the worship and preservation of agave. The work of Phil Ward, one…
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Death & Co.
Dark, brooding and considerably obscured from prying eyes, Death & Co. is everything one expects a New York speakeasy-style bar to be. Heavily decorated with awards, the East Village legend has never…
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Mother’s Ruin
When Mother's Ruin opened its doors in 2011, the term "cocktail bar" stretched a little to pull this odd little dive under its umbrella. This is a no-bullshit bar, first and…
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Experimental Cocktail Club
You can’t talk about the craft cocktail scene in Paris without mentioning ECC. Opened in 2007, it paved the way for an entire movement (and built its own imperial empire…
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Anvil Bar & Refuge
This is, more or less, where it all started in Houston. Opened in 2009 by a young Bobby Heugel who, by his own account, didn’t really know what he was…
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Captain Foxheart’s Bad News Bar and Spirit Lodge
Don’t let the somewhat secretive entrance, baroque name, dark wood and chandeliers fool you, Bad News Bar is about as comfortable as it gets. There’s a basement-bar nonchalance to the…
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