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On any given night, this business casual bar/restaurant bustles with homogeneous young professionals unwinding after a hard day’s work. The food at Merchants NY tends toward the bland and conventional. Nothing on the expansive menu, saturated with large-portioned, generic items, stands out. French, Italian, American, and Japanese, the offerings at Merchant’s slide all over the map. A venue like this is best for corralling large, undiscriminating parties who are looking to drink and eat copiously. Space is available for private parties, and Merchant’s on the East Side (a licensed cigar bar) has an entire downstairs lounge dedicated to smokers. — Gabriella Gershenson

Sat.—Sun., 11:30 a.m.—4 p.m.