Bar 169 happy hour is great. Never crowded, shot+beer for $3, walking distance from $1 dumpling shop. Get here before the city's gentrification does... Read more.
If you want to grab a beer with friends and have a nosh, go here. -Eric Wolitzky, Top Chef Just Desserts
This beloved dive is the best bar to sing your heart out in a group. Every night, a pianist mines the Great American Songbook well into the wee hours for Broadway babies from all over the city. Read more.
One of our 10 best Manhattan bars- At one of the last vestiges of the Old Bowery, the Pogues get played nightly and the regulars are like family.
Drinks are about 50% gin, ranging from a eponymous dry martini to an exotic rum punch, while the snacking gets done with crispy fried oysters, chicken tacos and barbecue short rib sliders. Read more.
Upon entering Cienfuegos, one can’t help but feel like Old Havana and Calle Ocho have miraculously joined forces and landed in Alphabet City. Read more.
This spot takes the drinks-and-a-cut concept to the next level, w/ a 2-seat barber shop up front & behind a sliding door, a cocktail lounge decked w/ leather-cushioned wooden booths & old-school sofas Read more.
