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🎸 Lower East Side & East Village: Eats, Bars & Hangouts
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Pastrami, pierogi, speakeasies, and indie venues downtown — my favorite way to spend a night east of Broadway.
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Hang onto your ticket and order the hand-cut pastrami on rye — tip the cutter for a taste.
Katz's Delicatessen
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Appetizing shop since 1914 — get a bagel with Gaspé Nova, scallion cream cheese, and capers.
Russ & Daughters
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Grab a warm bialy with butter — the OG bialy bakery.
Kossar's Bagels & Bialys
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Old-world knish shop on Houston since 1910 — the potato knish with mustard is the classic.
Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
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The blueberry pancakes with warm maple butter are worth the brunch wait.
Clinton St. Baking Company
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Get the Tokyo shio or the triple garlic mazemen, plus the pork meatballs.
Ivan Ramen
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Filipino-Southeast Asian party food — the sisig with a fried egg and a beer on the patio.
Pig and Khao
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Natural wine bar with small plates that punch way above their size — sit at the bar.
Wildair
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Retro slice shop milling its own flour — a cheese slice and a Hotboi slice.
Scarr's Pizza
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Historic food hall — graze through the vendors and grab lunch upstairs overlooking Delancey.
Essex Market
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Floor-to-ceiling candy store since 1937 — nostalgic sweets you haven't seen since childhood.
Economy Candy
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Book a guided apartment tour to see how immigrant families actually lived on Orchard Street.
Tenement Museum
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The best-sounding mid-size venue in the city — catch a band on the rise.
The Bowery Ballroom
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Tiny room, great bookings — see someone before they blow up.
The Mercury Lounge
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No menu — tell the bartender what you like and let them build you a drink.
Attaboy
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Ukrainian diner institution since 1954 — pierogi, borscht, and a stuffed cabbage.
Veselka
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One of NYC's oldest bars — two mugs of light or dark ale, sawdust on the floor.
McSorley’s Old Ale House
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Enter through the phone booth inside Crif Dogs — reserve and pair a cocktail with a deep-fried hot dog.
Please Don't Tell
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One of the bars that defined the modern cocktail — go early to snag a seat.
Death & Co East Village
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Restored 1930s dive-turned-cocktail-lounge on St. Marks — cozy and reliably fun.
Holiday Cocktail Lounge
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Graffiti-covered underground sake den on East 9th — order a sake flight and some snacks.
Sake Bar Decibel
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Vegetarian diner with a cult following — get the Superiority Burger and a gelato.
Superiority Burger
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Late-night falafel pita for a few bucks after a night out.
Mamoun's Falafel
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Dog-run people-watching and the heart of the neighborhood — great on a Sunday.
Tompkins Square Park
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Catch a Friday-night poetry slam — electric energy.
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
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