The Top 39 Cocktail Bars Near La Bastide by Andrea Calstier
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Rank 1. Cenadou
Modern French
A bright, plant-framed room lined with royal blue chairs and dark wood, where French bistro foundations meet Provençal sensibility. Poached vegetables arrive with warm aioli, lamb rack sits atop smoked eggplant purée, and the baba au rhum gets its theatrical finish tableside—traditions refined rather than abandoned.
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Rank 4. OKO
Asian
The chef interprets Japanese cuisine through his own lens in a light-filled room where locals gather at a welcoming bar beneath soaring ceilings. An open kitchen sends out creative takes on nigiri, tempura, and hot dishes—miso black cod and crab-pork dumplings anchor a menu that rewards improvisation.
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Rank 5. Kanopi
Portuguese Mediterranean
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Rank 6. Café Alaia
Italian
At Café Alaia in Scarsdale, exposed beams and a double-height ceiling frame two long, narrow rooms that hum with easy conversation. House-made tortellini float in silken chicken broth; salmon arrives pan-seared with mustard sauce and market vegetables. It's the kind of Italian cooking that trades novelty for the comfort of things done well.
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Rank 7. Pizzeria La Rosa
NY-Style
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Rank 9. Ai Fiori
Italian
Fifth Avenue views and a marble bar set the stage for polished Italian cooking—Hiramasa crudo with sunflower cream, handmade pasta with braised rabbit. Service and linens match the formal room's marble and leather restraint.
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- VinePair 2025 · Drinks Professional of the Year · The Next Wave Awards · Meaghan Dorman
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
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Rank 11. Sugar Monk
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 12. Hutong
Chinese
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- 50 Best 2026 · #71 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2023 · Cartagena · The Best Martinis in America
- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
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Rank 15. Don Antonio
Neapolitan Pizza
A wood-fired outpost of a Neapolitan institution, Don Antonio channels four generations of pizza-making into dishes like the Montanara Starita—fried dough topped with house tomato sauce, smoked mozzarella, and basil—and frittatine, where fried spaghetti scraps meet ham and Buffalo mozzarella. The kitchen's lineage shows in every char and fold.
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #7 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 2026 · The Best Restaurants Around Times Square
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 17. Four Twenty Five
Contemporary
Benno and Vongerichten's Park Avenue dining room floods with daylight and restraint, a glamorous stage for cooking that roams Italy, France, and Asia without apology. A foie gras arrives with blood orange and warm spiced madeleines; even asparagus reads as a statement, while the chocolate tart at meal's end—layered with black cardamom and tonka—justifies its prominence.
- Esquire 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Grub Street 2025 · The 43 Best Restaurants in New York
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Rank 18. The Skylark
Rooftop Cocktail Bar
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Rank 20. Little Ned
Cocktail Bar
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- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
- Esquire 2024 · King Tusk · The Best Martinis in America
- Wildsam The 50 Most Essential Bars in America
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Rank 22. The View
American
- Grub Street 2026 · The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)
- The New York Times 2025 · Chocolate Cake · Our New York Restaurant Critic Names Her Favorite Dishes This Year
- Eater 2026 · The Best Restaurants Around Times Square
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Rank 25. Bohemian Spirit
Czech Eastern European
A Czech beer hall on the ground floor of the National Bohemian Hall, all wood paneling and vintage charm, where borscht arrives fragrant with dill and tangy precision, kielbasa smoke hangs above potato salad, and strawberry dumplings with gingerbread crumble close the meal. The pilsners are there, naturally, and the wine list leans European—a straightforward temple to hearty, old-world eating.
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- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- Time Out #12 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
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Rank 28. Sempre Oggi
Italian
The dining room sprawls across the Upper West Side like a gallery, all soaring ceilings and gilded sculpture. Sempre Oggi executes the Italian canon—house-made rigatoni with guanciale and roasted tomato, calamari brightened with herbs and crème fraîche—with enough precision to justify the grandeur, while a properly fluffy tiramisu closes things out with classical comfort.
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Rank 30. Wooga
BBQ Korean
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Rank 32. Veerays
Indian
A 1920s speakeasy clad in burgundy velvet and dark wood houses a menu of contemporary Indian cooking, where cocktails named for bootleggers sit alongside rogan josh—braised lamb shanks glossed with Kashmiri heat—and silken daal makhani. The kitsch is deliberate, the food genuine.
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Rank 33. Izakaya Futago
Japanese
Lunch brings a crush of office workers chasing homemade soba in dashi, while dinner settles into a quieter rhythm of beer and sake with yakitori and spicy fried chicken. The soba totto gozen set and the various rice bowls—sea urchin, salmon roe, marinated tuna—justify the crowds either way.
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Rank 34. Markette
European-influenced Caribbean
Mirrored walls and recessed lighting frame Chef India Doris's tightly edited menu at this Chelsea spot, where Caribbean and European sensibilities meet in salt cod fritters with habanero bite and braised oxtail topped with cheddar polenta—comfort elevated without pretense. A cocktail bar hums alongside.
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Rank 35. Ulivo
Regional Italian
Emanuel Concas runs this trattoria like a masterclass in regional Italian cooking, where house-made pastas—cannelloni al forno layered with short rib ragú—sit beside wood-fired dishes that reveal his Sardinian heritage, notably bottarga shaved over pici and seadas, the cheese fritter finished with honey. A meal here reads as deliberate and rooted, each plate a statement rather than a flourish.
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- Esquire 2023 · Eartha · The Best Martinis in America
- Time Out #5 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
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