Drinking Great Cocktails

Where to drink right now in New York City.

Part restaurant, part bar, Dante is one of the best spots for a cocktail and light bite in NYC.

Like the original on MacDougal, Dante West Village is a fun, drinks-first restaurant with an unfathomably deep cocktail list.

Layla is a cocktail bar that feels like a wine bar, and is perfect for dates of all shapes and sizes.

Essential spots for anyone who has thoughts about clear ice.

Salon Vert is a bar inside Printemps where you can drink a pastis colada while contemplating a tiny handbag purchase.

At this funky Red Hook restaurant, you can eat fried saltines and drink mai tai sodas.

From rooftop lounges to karaoke rooms, here's where to drink within walking distance of Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and Grand Central.

Call them what you want. Happening. Cool. Busy. Lit. These are the most fun bars in NYC right now.

This updated Korean pub in Midtown serves inventive cocktails and some incredible bar snacks.

Town House in New Rochelle is an American spot where Westchester day-ones meet the next generation of locals.

At these NYC bars and restaurants, the zero-proof cocktails are just as exciting as the boozy ones.

Patties—baked or fried—and rum cocktails flow in the former Momofuku Ko bar space.

Take it easy on a comfortable couch while a bartender mixes you a mood-reviving cocktail.

13 bars and restaurants for when you don’t just want any drink—you want a martini.

Dinner at this Indian restaurant is like picnicking in a meadow, if that meadow served excellent cocktails.

The perfect place for loitering with a strong cocktail.

The martinis might cost $30, but at least the snack mix is free.

FiDi's scene-iest spot is inside The Beekman hotel.

Drink a great martini and pretend you're in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel at this iconic hotel bar.

King Cole Bar is an iconic hotel lounge in Midtown East.

Instead of killing time at the Union Square Barnes & Noble, go get a writer-themed cocktail at this library-like hotel bar.

A subterranean seafood restaurant pouring seawater martinis.

Move over tiny ‘tini—Bar Snack’s snaquiri is the new it-drink.

In addition to basics like toilet paper and gummy bears, this Seaport shop has a bar in the back that’s great for first dates.