Located at 988 Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint, Sama Street is a bar-restaurant serving Asian-inspired cocktails and small plates. The liquid draw here is the cocktails as Sama Street’s drink menu features up to 20 house cocktails. A limited selection of wine and beer is also available. We received a good neighborhood vibe here, with a friendly and helpful staff. We look forward to returning here on our next north Greenpoint NYC bar crawl.
Located at 146 W. 46th street in Midtown Manhattan, Long Acre Tavern is a contemporary Irish (American) pub. This spot had been fighting for its liquor license for much of 2019 and in early August, it succeeded. During our visit, the full food menu was still TBD. The tap beer selection numbered around 18, but was lacking in its craft beer selection.
The Long Acre Tavern gets its name from the previous name for Times Square, which was called long acre square prior to the early 20th century. We look forward to returning here on our next NYC bar crawl through the area.
Looking west from the rooftop spot The Ledge, located at 321 Starr Street (at Cypress Avenue) on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn-Queens border.
Below is a photo of the tap selection at Svendale’s half-pint sized tasting room, located at 486 Court Street in Brooklyn. The tap room offers 16 tap beers made at its farm brewery in Dutchess County, NY. Not only is the beer tasty, we also found particularly notable the pour sizes typically come in four different offerings: 4oz, 8oz, 12oz and 16oz. We don’t recall seeing such a variety of pour sizes in all of our NYC bar hopping experience. We look forward to returning here.
Located at 213 Second Avenue in Manhattan’s East Village, Jackdaw is a recently-opened cocktail bar in the old Durden space (and Nightingale before Durden). The space is evenly divided between the bar one side with mainly high-top table seating on the other side of the space. The featured house cocktails number around ten and run $14 a piece, which is perhaps a hair cheaper than the going rate for artisanal cocktails for Manhattan in 2019. The beer selection consists of ten mainly quality craft tap beers and another ten or so bottled/canned options. The food menu is limited, think bar bites, flatbreads and cheese/charcuterie. Jackdaw is a great spot for your next Second Avenue East Village NYC bar crawl.
Located at 174 8th Avenue in Manhattan’s Chelsea, Jungle Bird is a recently-opened cocktail destination. Jungle Bird offers its own house cocktails at $15 a piece, which, in our estimation, seems to be the going rate for artisanal cocktails in 2019. Staff is friendly and the space is vibrant. Jungle Bird opens at 3pm daily. Include this spot on your next Chelsea NYC pub crawl. You won’t be disappointed.
Located at 545 West 30th Street inside the lobby of The Shed Arts Center on the southern end of Hudson Yards, Cedric’s is a newly opened (no-tipping-allowed) cocktail bar from Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. The bar takes up about half of the lobby space and offers numerous comfortable couch seating by the windows along West 30th Street. Cedric’s is a solid spot to visit once you’ve completed the walk along the High Line or your Hudson Yards visit.
Located at 225 Bowery atop the Sister City hotel in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Last Light is a rooftop bar. The bar has a fairly spacious indoor area, with outdoor decks on the eastern and western edges of the space. Thus, the spot offers 360 degree views of Manhattan, Brooklyn and beyond. As of our visit, Last Light opened daily at 3pm. In our NYC bar crawling experience, it is rare to find a rooftop bar that opens before 4pm almost anywhere in Manhattan. Worth a visit next time you’re bar hopping through the area. Do come prepared: this spot is another cashless enterprise.
Located at 1415 Second Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Workshop is a craft beer bar in an area of town that could use more of such spots. It’s another just-larger-than-a-shoebox type of space. Workshop offers ten hard-to-find craft beers on draught and another 10 bottled/canned beers. Workshop also offers an extensive house cocktail list. Workshop opens 4pm Tuesday – Friday and early afternoon on weekends (closed Mondays).
Located at 1 West 8th Street in Manhattan’s West Village, Lena Wine Bar is a small wine bar located just north of Washington Square. The wine focus here is on French wines and seating is rather limited: six or seven seats around the bar and a few two-seater tables. For food, numerous small plates as well as cheese & charcuterie pairings are available. Overall, Lena’s West Village location (their original location is on the Lower East Side) is a must visit if you’re visiting the neighborhood.
