4.4The Back Room
Lower East Side · New York, NY · 3.6 mi
One of two New York rooms still serving where it served during Prohibition — cocktails in teacups, beer in paper bags, and a bookcase door out back.

New York / New York
Ship lanterns, rum flights and brass portholes in an upstairs room that feels like a smuggler's cabin two blocks from the canal.
Getting in
Upstairs from the restaurant, nautical door.
Order this
Pearl Diver
Your passport
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One of two New York rooms still serving where it served during Prohibition — cocktails in teacups, beer in paper bags, and a bookcase door out back.
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The Gear Room
The definitive tiki text: rum categories, syrups, and why your mai tai tastes wrong.
Orgeat, falernum and grenadine — the three syrups every tiki drink secretly depends on.
Opaque on purpose: the drink is a secret, the vessel is the show.
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