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New York

New York contains almost every version of the modern cocktail bar: menu-free intimacy, Japanese precision, neighbourhood energy, technical experimentation, skyline luxury and institutions that influenced the global scene. Its extraordinary range is the point.

9 approved bars

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New York

Attaboy

134 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002, USA

Attaboy has no cocktail menu.

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Double Chicken Please

115 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002, USA

Double Chicken Please treats cocktails almost like industrial-design problems.

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Overstory

70 Pine Street, 64th Floor, New York, NY 10005, USA

Sixty-four floors above Manhattan, Overstory could easily rely on its extraordinary 360-degree skyline views.

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Death & Co

433 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10009, USA

Since opening in the East Village on New Year's Eve 2006, Death & Co has played an outsized role in shaping modern American cocktail culture.

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Employees Only

510 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014, USA

Employees Only has occupied its West Village address since 2004, behind the storefront of a fortune teller.

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Superbueno

13 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003, USA

Superbueno calls itself a Mexican American cocktail bar, which is exactly the point.

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Mace

35 West 8th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA

Mace takes spices as its creative vocabulary.

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Angel's Share

45 Grove Street, New York, NY 10014, USA

Angel's Share introduced New York to a distinctly Japanese interpretation of the cocktail bar in 1993.

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Katana Kitten

531 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014, USA

Katana Kitten is Japanese American in the most natural sense: Tokyo-level attention to the drink with the energy of a Greenwich Village neighbourhood bar.

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New York

Where to go

Attaboy

Double Chicken Please

Overstory

Death & Co

Employees Only

Superbueno

Mace

Angel's Share

Katana Kitten

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