4.7Attaboy
Lower East Side · New York, NY · 0.2 mi
No menu, no sign, no promises. Tell them what you like and watch a shaker do the rest, in the old Milk & Honey room.
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New York / New York
The Back Room
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.
Getting in
Down the alley marked "Lower East Side Toy Company," up the iron stairs.
Order this
Whiskey served in a teacup
Your passport
Prohibition Original rooms like this one are catalogued across the trail — see every prohibition original bar.
Keep the night going
Nearest doors
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4.5Mother of Pearl
East Village · New York, NY · 0.5 mi
Pastel Polynesia in the East Village: pandan, rum and vessels shaped like things that swim.
Tiki Lounge
4.6Please Don't Tell
East Village · New York, NY · 0.6 mi
The bar that restarted American speakeasy culture: a phone booth inside a hot dog joint, a wooden door that swings open, and a room that has never needed a sign.
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4.5Death & Co
East Village · New York, NY · 0.6 mi
A black-walled East Village room that turned the cocktail menu into literature. Everyone sits; nobody shouts.
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The Gear Room
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The Savoy Cocktail Book
Harry Craddock's 1930 compendium, written while America was dry and London was not.
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Imbibe! — David Wondrich
The best history of the American bar before Prohibition closed it. Jerry Thomas as protagonist.
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
How a country talked itself into the dry years, and how it climbed back out.
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