New York Magazine

A small hotel bar that's low on trendiness but high on coziness.

Located just inside the W New York’s front entrance is this gorgeously designed, glossy, and somewhat boring lounge.

Bar 12 purposefully straddles the line between cheap-beer drenched post-grad party spot and all-purpose sports bar.

Flickering firelight weekdays and spinning disco ball weekends.

This posh bar's happy-hour hubbub and weekend club madness are as different as night and day.

Serving up proud paraphernalia and $2 drafts, this Murray Hill bar has always been a corner clubhouse for city fireman.

This deco-inspired den of nostalgia conjures much of the charm of its namesake film.

Champagne is elegant and sparkling as is its namesake bar.

This former bar is now open for private functions only.

Bottle service, a working fireplace, and French country coziness.

Perched atop the crusty Water Club restaurant, the Crow’s Nest has a front-row view of the East River, making it feel like the upper deck of a cruise ship.

Avoid American football at Park Avenue South’s only authentic Irish bar.

It’s a lounge! It’s a fondue restaurant!

The 3,500-square- foot former post office on the ground floor of the Empire State Building has been restored to its original Art Deco look by Hospitality Holdings, which also owns the Campbell Apartment; it will start serving cocktails this fall.

An Irish pub that'll remind you why Irish pubs are so popular in the first place.

This pub takes its name from a handsome ship in Galway Bay, but the Irish theme plays out in other ways, too.

This Irish bar on steroids may be the only reason to visit the no man's land between Murray Hill and Koreatown.

A swanky sports bar named after its neighborhood—the very appropriate Murray Hill.

As you’d guess from the FDNY patches and prints of firefighting scenes, this go-to spot is owned by some of NYC’s Bravest.

Dark and swanky, this Fashion District lounge beckons with a French-manicured finger to the corporati.

With no affiliation to Maker’s Mark bourbon, this cleaned-up ex-dive offers a laid-back alternative to some of its rowdier neighbors.

Who knew samosas went so well with martinis?

Winter tans with bling expect more from a sports bar, and Mercury Bar delivers.

A downright sleepy, no-frills Irish pub.

Supposedly the first and only all-draft Guinness bar in the world.