Snow and his father built out much of the space, while the team created cocktails with bartender Brian Miller. They rotate, remaining refreshingly $12-15 per cocktail, rare for quality bars in Manhattan. Cocktail names go a la Friends’ episodes: The Gin Drink, The Whiskey Drink, etc. At times it can have a house-party vibe but is relaxed, veering from 80s tunes to obscure albums and genres Cleve hand-selected. These three have made this half basement bar a welcome spot for good vibes and impeccable yet unfussy cocktails. In fact, a blessedly wide age range of experts bring decades of cocktail expertise to Lullaby: Boston’s pioneering barman and musician Brother Cleve (who tragically just passed away in September), with relaxed yet on-point hospitality from Harrison Snow and Jake Hodas. Opening in Lower East Side’s former Nitecap in April 2022, Lullaby refreshingly lacks the attitude Nitecap had. Gin joys have included a Key Lime Pie cocktail of gin, Empirical’s marzipan-rich The Plum, I Suppose spirit, winter melon, sweet cream, egg white, lime and soda. In the wood-lined backroom, a mid-century, retro vibe is seductive and soothing, with an entirely different food menu and cocktails inspired by food, like French toast, Japanese noodles, Waldorf salad, mango sticky rice or cold pizza. Cocktails are numbered, with a recent Gin #7 being gin, amontillado sherry, Cherry Heering, white cranberry, lemon verbena, and even a vegetarian fried tofu, sesame, peanut butter, fried shallots sandwich keeping step with fried chicken. First, the casual front bar served cocktails on tap and fried chicken sandwiches. In 2020, they opened DCP as a brick-and-mortar in the Lower East Side, offering two totally different bar experiences. This is thanks to gracious service and imaginative drinks from GN Chan, who, with Faye Chen, began DCP as a pop-up in a vintage VW minibus in 2017. Double Chicken Please Credit: Virginia MillerĪrguably, Double Chicken Please (DCP) is the most exciting new NYC cocktail bar, shooting straight to #17 in the inaugural North America’s 50 Best Bars this summer. There are key newcomers worth seeking out, including spots like Lullaby, an example of a “hospitality first” bar. Since the pandemic, there is a refreshed spirit and humility in some NYC bars, which leads to better hospitality, a factor a lot of other U.S. Given the over-focus of bar lists and awards here, NYC is also lined with over-hyped bars or bars with attitude. New York City, as one of the three key pioneering bar cities both in the 1800s (the others being San Francisco and New Orleans) and one of two (alongside SF) leading the global cocktail renaissance of the last 30-ish years, has no end to destination-worthy bars.
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