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A ceiling of raw oak slats, a wall engraved in cursive, and a large Roy Nachum piece set the scene for this Chelsea bar.

The Ainsworth is an upmarket sports bar boasting 40 flat-screens, 6,000 square feet, and a mid-thirties crowd.

The Malta brothers, food-world veterans with a dozen restaurants to their credit, revamped the pleasant but generic Sette as Bar Baresco, a Chelsea wine bar with the mission of promoting Southern Italian wines.

NYC's best bar to get taken hostage in.

Mellow Chelsea gay bar with more emphasis on drinking than coupling.

This urbane neighborhood bar delivers chill atmosphere and stiff cocktails with no hype.

The tiny lounge, with its potted palm trees, and PVC-happy celeb stalkers, is way too South Beach to actually exist in South Beach.

In the summer, this cocktail aerie feels like a trendy L.A. nightclub.

This swanky Chelsea nightclub is the next best thing to an African safari.

An in-door, out-door microbrewery and sports bar that’s all about summer sunsets.

Those accustomed to cramped comedy clubs may experience agoraphobia when they enter this renovated Strawberry Fields supermarket.

A dark and sexy lounge that feels full of possibilities, just like dusk itself.

A palatial two-story leather bar located near the West Side Highway.

Bombay comes to the boroughs with this Indian-inspired West Chelsea lounge.

A refined, roomy Irish bar for sports, conversation and championship darts.

One of the few strictly straight places in Chelsea, Flight 151 seems more than a little out of place on the Eighth Avenue strip.

This salvaged historic boat may be the city’s ultimate “dive” bar.

A shopping mall of a gay lounge, for tricks and treats every night of the week.

Danny Kane and Rod Surut have revamped one of the city’s truly lavish spaces, the former Biltmore Room, as a “super luxury restaurant/bar.”

Retro-futuristic style arrives in Chelsea’s northwestern corner with Glass, a design bar still in search of its crowd.

Founded by two comedians, Gotham succeeds in fitting in with its fine, Flatiron District neighbors.

Enthusiasm for sports runs deep at this unconventional, long-awaited gay bar.

Owner/author Sebastian Junger is the initial draw, but this traditional pub has much more to recommend it.

This Japanese-themed ballroom so resembles an over-the-top set for a kung fu movie.

Just like your house, except bigger, with bolder-face names and bottle service bigger, with bolder-face.