# Best cocktail bars in New York City

Speakeasies, hotel classics and world-beating bars: the New York cocktail bars drinks writers and bartenders recommend.

- 2173 votes · 15 items
- Feb 3, 2025 · N. Green
- https://even.best/en/l/1434/best-cocktail-bars-in-new-york-city

## Top 10

1. **Employees Only** (236 · ▲252 ▼16) — West Village speakeasy behind a psychic's storefront.
2. **PDT (Please Don't Tell)** (178 · ▲205 ▼27) — Entered through a phone booth inside Crif Dogs.
3. **Death & Co** (170 · ▲188 ▼18) — East Village bar that helped define the modern cocktail revival.
4. **Attaboy** (119 · ▲143 ▼24) — No menu: bartenders make drinks to your taste.
5. **Dante** (108 · ▲139 ▼31) — Greenwich Village café-bar famous for its Negronis.
6. **The Dead Rabbit** (97 · ▲125 ▼28) — Irish bar in the Financial District with a cocktail parlour.
7. **Dutch Kills** (91 · ▲117 ▼26) — Long Island City bar with hand-cut ice.
8. **The Campbell** (91 · ▲115 ▼24) — Restored 1920s office of a tycoon inside Grand Central Terminal.
9. **Bemelmans Bar** (88 · ▲113 ▼25) — Jazz bar at The Carlyle with Ludwig Bemelmans's murals.
10. **Amor y Amargo** (81 · ▲103 ▼22) — Tiny bar devoted to bitters.
11. **King Cole Bar** (75 · ▲105 ▼30) — St. Regis bar where the Bloody Mary was popularised.
12. **Katana Kitten** (61 · ▲87 ▼26) — Japanese-American highball bar in the West Village.
13. **Angel's Share** (50 · ▲78 ▼28) — Speakeasy-style Japanese cocktail bar in the East Village, one of the pioneers of the revival.
14. **Clover Club** (27 · ▲33 ▼6) — Julie Reiner's Victorian-style cocktail bar in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, opened in 2008.
15. **Double Chicken Please** (15 · ▲27 ▼12) — Lower East Side bar opened in 2020, known for drinks inspired by dishes.

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