4.5King Cole Bar
Midtown · New York, NY · 0.6 mi
Maxfield Parrish's mural presides over the room that invented the Bloody Mary's better-dressed cousin.

New York / New York
A 1920s railroad executive's private office — leaded glass, hand-painted beams — hidden inside Grand Central Terminal.
Getting in
Enter from the terminal's west balcony or the street door.
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4.5Midtown · New York, NY · 0.6 mi
Maxfield Parrish's mural presides over the room that invented the Bloody Mary's better-dressed cousin.
4.6Theater District · New York, NY · 0.8 mi
The jazz corner of the world, reopened and still running two sets a night with a bar rail worth claiming.
4.6East Village · New York, NY · 1.7 mi
Rules on the wall, silence in the room, and the most precise stirring in Manhattan — through a restaurant door most people walk past.
4.6Upper East Side · New York, NY · 1.7 mi
Ludwig Bemelmans' Central Park murals, gold-leaf ceilings, a piano after five, and the most civilized martini north of 59th Street.
The Gear Room
Harry Craddock's 1930 compendium, written while America was dry and London was not.
Bitters, demerara syrup and a rocks glass. Nothing here is optional and nothing is extra.
Directional freezing makes hotel-bar ice at home. Dilution slows, drink stops racing.
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