(Thrillist tip) No menu, so get comfortable w/ the pro bar staff and bare your soul..modern classics, like the Penicillin, with whiskey, honey-ginger syrup, lemon, and Islay Scotch.
(Thrillist tip) See the "Garden to the Glass" menu section for inventive drinks like the Victory Garden, made with gin, tomato water, strawberry, and sherry.
(Thrillist tip) Leyenda has some seriously knockout bar food from Suenos vet Sue Torres...settle in for a cocktail like upgraded Mai Tai ( called the Tia Mia) & some roast pork tacos for dinner.
(Thrillist tip) Bar owner Toby Cecchini is best known for inventing the Cosmo, but won't find on the menu...post up w/a classic Boulevardier served in a coupe glass & one of the borough's best burgers
(Thrillist tip) The premise for this East Village den’s menu, from Experimental Cocktail Club's Nico de Soto, is pretty straightforward: each drink is based on an individual spice.
(Thrillist tip) Dutch Kills’ classic-leaning cocktails -- not to mention the kickass bar food from M. Wells, and an $8 Monday-through-Thursday happy hour -- make any amount of jostling worthwhile.
(Thrillist tip) Dessert-y Rum Oshiruko, made w/ red bean soup & dark rum, served on crushed ice w/ mochi ice cream... chicken wings here are required eating. can’t go wrong w/ the sesame celery.
(Thrillist tip) Everything, down to the food, is animal-free (unless you count the bourbon-and-passion-fruit Shark Eye cocktail, served in a ceramic shark's head w/ “blood” streaming from its jaws)
(Thrillist tip) Drinks here are as delicious as you'd expect from the woman behind the Raines Law Room, but it's the vibe -- or vibes, really -- that make this spot a draw.
(Thrillist tip) Seating here isn’t plentiful, so come early and get the 8 Amaro Sazerac, a "House Favorite," which mimics the original beautifully while ditching the rye whiskey altogether
