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Best NYC Cocktails

1. Clover Club

9.3
210 Smith St (btwn Baltic & Butler St), Brooklyn, NY
Cocktail Bar · Boerum Hill · 369 tips and reviews

Akshay P.Akshay Patil: For a taste of their mastery, order an Athol Brose #3. (food-wise: the lamb burger is where it's at)

2. Little Branch

9.0
20 7th Ave S (at Leroy St), New York, NY
Speakeasy · West Village · 335 tips and reviews

Akshay P.Akshay Patil: Come ~8 on a Wednesday and nab a booth. Order at least one Bartender's Choice, but you can't go wrong with a Dark & Stormy or a Bee's Kiss

3. PKNY (Painkiller)

49 Essex St (at Grand St), New York, NY
Cocktail Bar · Lower East Side · 84 tips and reviews

Akshay P.Akshay Patil: The Chicago Fizz is excellent, but the Pina Colada is perfect.

4. Smith & Mills

8.7
71 N Moore St (btw Greenwich & Hudson), New York, NY
American Restaurant · Tribeca · 147 tips and reviews

Akshay P.Akshay Patil: If you love ginger, order up their Dark & Stormy and make-out with your glass.

5. Milk & Honey

30 E 23rd St, New York, NY
Speakeasy · Flatiron District · 144 tips and reviews

Steven G.Steven Goldbach: Let the bartender decide. They know better than you do.

PDT (Please Don't Tell) is one of Best NYC Cocktails.

6. PDT (Please Don't Tell)

8.2
113 Saint Marks Pl (btwn 1st Ave & Avenue A), New York, NY
Speakeasy · East Village · 439 tips and reviews

7. Death & Co.

8.8
433 E 6th St (btwn 1st Ave & Ave A), New York, NY
Speakeasy · East Village · 395 tips and reviews

Kathryn Y.Kathryn Yu: Go before 7:30pm on Sundays through Wednesdays. Sit at the bar. Don't trust the doorman's time estimates if he puts your name down--it's very hard to predict when people will leave.

8. Employees Only

9.0
510 Hudson St (at Christopher St), New York, NY
Speakeasy · West Village · 512 tips and reviews

Akshay P.Akshay Patil: The Billionaire Cocktail puts me in the most pleasurable of tipsy states.

9. Jack the Horse Tavern

66 Hicks St (at Cranberry), Brooklyn, NY
American Restaurant · Brooklyn Heights · 89 tips and reviews

Akshay P.Akshay Patil: Solid Old Fashioned -- I modeled my version of the drink off of the one here + the one at the Jakewalk

10. The Raines Law Room

9.2
48 W 17th St (btwn 5th & 6th Ave), New York, NY
Speakeasy · Union Square · 335 tips and reviews

Akshay P.Akshay Patil: Amazing cocktails, but almost *too* romantic. Be prepared to make out with your companion.

Marlow & Sons is one of Best NYC Cocktails.

11. Marlow & Sons

8.9
81 Broadway (btwn Berry & Wythe St), Brooklyn, NY
American Restaurant · Williamsburg · 254 tips and reviews

Akshay P.Akshay Patil: Try the Young Executive - An old fashioned variant with muddled orange that I actually like!

12. Apothèke

8.8
9 Doyers St (btwn Pell St & Bowery), New York, NY
Cocktail Bar · Chinatown · 434 tips and reviews

Akshay P.Akshay Patil: You'd be hard pressed to find cocktails this inventive and well executed anywhere else in the city. The crowd is more miss than hit, but the drinks are consistently a home run.