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🍸 Cocktail Bars - The Crème de La Crème
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items We all love to grab a drink on the weekends and after work to yap with friends and loved ones. As a New Yorker, the bar is high when it comes to the cocktail scene. Here is a list of my favorite places to grab a delicious drink based on my travels th...
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As a native New Yorker, I grew up infatuated with the culinary and drink scene in NYC. Over the last 5-years I’ve gotten to explore a lot of the nightlife scene especially the NYC cocktail bars. My favorite of the favorite cocktail bars is mostly ske...
The best way I can describe these drinks is that they are inspired from edible food! Some of my favorites include the Japanese cold noodles, Mango sticky rice, and key lime pie! Reservation open via resy at midnight 6-days in advance. Reservations go...
Double Chicken Please
Behind a phone booth lies a speakeasy cocktail bar in the heart of the East Village. The spot is cozy and perfect place for a great date! The menu is full of seasonal cocktails and fun fact if you ever watched the movie Past Lives, directed by Celine...
Please Don't Tell NYC: Everything You Need To Know
As beautifully put in the name, when you come here you need to dress to the NINES. A jazzy piano bar decorated in a timeless red glamour interior, this is the spot to go to for superb classic drinks and live entertainment. My personal favorite drink ...
The Nines
Another cocktail spot with great drinks and live entertainment. Within the Carlyle Hotel in Lenox Hill, Bemelmans is an institution that serves some of the best martinis NYC has to offer. It’s walk-in only so I recommend going to with a small group b...
Bemelmans Bar | Upper East Side Cocktail Bar NYC | Rosewood
Right off the L train in Bushwick, this place has become such a popular spot to grab a drink since it opened in 2020. The guava pisco sour hits every time as well as the passion fruit spritz. If you’re a huge Negroni lover, then the fan favorite Negr...
Palmetto
From the creators of the SG Shochu in Tokyo, the bartender duo Shingo Gokan and Steve Schneider opened a NYC location to meld both American and Japanese bar culture. The West Village bar has the New York saloon themed upstairs (Guzzle) and Japanese s...
Menus - Sip & Guzzle
Previously located in the East Village, the walk-in only speakeasy West Village spot is rightfully exalted for its concoctions. Their selection of clarified cocktails is unmatched with the drink, Paradise being my personal favorite!
Angel's Share (45 GROVE STREET)
This bar perfectly exhibits the chemistry behind mixology. Each drink is presented with a little pizazz. Whether the drink is exuding flames, waving smoke, or popping a bubble, these craft cocktails are both fun and delicious.
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If you ever need a break from the club scene, grab a tropical cocktail at Sweet Liberty. The menu offers a nice variety of classic cocktails with a fun and flirty twist. Don’t skip out on the food here either. Lobster rolls and Cuban tortas are a cou...
Sweet Liberty - Miami Beach
The Greek Zone is named after the international zone in Baghdad with purpose of incorporating and showcasing Middle Eastern flavors in the mixology world. The multicultural bar strives to source as much as their products from the Middle East as well ...
The Green Zone
From the former head mixologist at Angel Share, Takuma Watanabe opened a Japanese style cocktail bar right by Union Square. The incandescent spot offers delectable cocktails with a wonderful presentation and scrumptious bar bites. My personal favori...
Martiny's
Love everything about this spot! Fantastic drinks and a wonderful place to dress up for. It is a loungey atmosphere with a mix of classic and funky cocktails. Excellent martini list where you can adjust ratio. Fan favorites are the cigarette martini ...
TIGRE NYC
Europe
My love for cocktail 🍸 bars expands to every country I visit. I have been fortunate enough to travel 2-3x a year over the last several years. Here is my curated list of my favorite spots to grab a drink from the European cities I’ve explored thus f...
Amazing cocktails. Loungey spot with a unique and creative drink menu. My favorite was the electric yuzu cocktail with an edible flower that changes the flavor profile of the drink. Another great drink was the smokey bear.
Geneva Cocktail Bar | Le Verre À Monique | Genève
Perhaps the most eclectic bar I’ve been to, there’s a reason why Callooh Calloy is ranked in top 50 as one of the best bars in the world. The Shoreditch, London bar has seasonal menu with cocktails centered around a singular theme. When I went two ye...
Callooh Callay: About Us
You can never go wrong with jazz themed speakeasy tucked inside of a pizza shop! The menu is seasonal, rotating amongst different ingenious concepts. When I visited in June 2023, the menu offered drinks named after each bartender in honor of their 10...
Moonshiner: Prohibition is back!
The cocktail scene in London is neck to neck with NYC. This soho spot has an upstairs and downstairs each having different menus. Upstairs menu is more classic drinks and apertivos where the downstairs is rotational menu of festive cocktails. The men...
Bar Swift - London
Not exactly a cocktail spot, but Delirium is an institution in the beer brewery world with the largest selection of beers. Back in 2004 this bar broke the world record, offering over a whooping of 2000 beers. With this expansive menu there is somethi...
Delirium Cafe Brussels - Delirium Village
Comic book styled cocktail bar with quirky cocktails? Count me in! Each cocktail here tells a story accompanied by sketches on how each drink is made and served. The most artistic presentations I have ever seen. Didn’t expect to be a drinking a pisco...
ACONTRACORRIENTE - SALMON GURU
Great views and drinks!? What more can you ask for? This cocktail bar in Santorini offers a great selection of freshly concocted drinks with each having its own backstory on menu. Each sip illustrates how much thought and care the mixologists put in ...
PK Cocktail Bar