New York Magazine

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.

If West 27th Street smacks of the Vegas strip, this nearby corner bar is the equivalent of a Nevada gambling den on the fringes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

A mini-chain, including a Hell’s Kitchen location plus another in Chelsea, with a split identity.

A Chelsea sports bar thriving with the after-work crowd.

A Mexican-themed bar located inside the Four Points Sheraton.

An inviting spot for Ace Hotel guests and the Flatiron after-work crowd alike.

The latest reincarnation of this seemingly cursed West Chelsea space—it previously housed Crobar, Studio Mezmor, and Mansion—has everything you’d expect.

Competent improv that's neither smarmy nor smug in a storefront black-box theater.

Is Marquee worth all the drama at the door to get in?

A small Chelsea club with an outsized attitude.