Directory / New York / New York
Speakeasies in New York, NY
15 rooms worth the walk, from hidden door, hotel bar, jazz room, prohibition original, tiki lounge.
4.7Attaboy
Lower East Side · New York, NY
No menu, no sign, no promises. Tell them what you like and watch a shaker do the rest, in the old Milk & Honey room.
4.6Bemelmans Bar
Upper East Side · New York, NY
Ludwig Bemelmans' Central Park murals, gold-leaf ceilings, a piano after five, and the most civilized martini north of 59th Street.
4.6Please Don't Tell
East Village · New York, NY
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.
4.5The Django
Tribeca · New York, NY
A brick-vaulted cellar under a Tribeca hotel where the trio starts late and the room leans in.
4.4The Back Room
Lower East Side · New York, NY
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.
4.7Sunken Harbor Club
Gowanus · New York, NY
Ship lanterns, rum flights and brass portholes in an upstairs room that feels like a smuggler's cabin two blocks from the canal.
4.6Angel's Share
East Village · New York, NY
Rules on the wall, silence in the room, and the most precise stirring in Manhattan — through a restaurant door most people walk past.
4.6Birdland
Theater District · New York, NY
The jazz corner of the world, reopened and still running two sets a night with a bar rail worth claiming.
4.6Little Branch
West Village · New York, NY
A basement corner room with live jazz trios and drinks that arrive without ceremony but never without care.
4.5Death & Co
East Village · New York, NY
A black-walled East Village room that turned the cocktail menu into literature. Everyone sits; nobody shouts.
4.5Employees Only
West Village · New York, NY
A psychic's storefront hides a white-jacketed West Village institution where the last call is later than your judgment.
4.5King Cole Bar
Midtown · New York, NY
Maxfield Parrish's mural presides over the room that invented the Bloody Mary's better-dressed cousin.
4.5Mother of Pearl
East Village · New York, NY
Pastel Polynesia in the East Village: pandan, rum and vessels shaped like things that swim.
4.5The Ear Inn
Hudson Square · New York, NY
A Federal-era house that has poured through every era of the city, including the ones where pouring was illegal.
4.4The Campbell
Midtown East · New York, NY
A 1920s railroad executive's private office — leaded glass, hand-painted beams — hidden inside Grand Central Terminal.