The Best Places in Chelsea & around
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A rippled-wave glass exterior by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill makes this luxury hotel one of the more convincing arguments for Midtown's new Manhattan West development. Inside, Gachot Studios kept things calm and contemporary, which helps when the neighborhood outside is doing its usual impression of controlled chaos. Zou Zou's handles Eastern Mediterranean, Bar Pendry handles cocktails by firelight, and the Forbes Four Star and two Michelin Keys handle the expectations.
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Keys
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The fitness brand that colonized every upscale neighborhood in Manhattan eventually had to sleep somewhere, and Hudson Yards is where it landed. This luxury hotel pairs ultra-modern rooms with a 60,000-square-foot gym, a rooftop pool over the Hudson, and a spa that runs from cryotherapy to specialized facials. The architecture is by SOM, the interiors by Rockwell Group, and the vibe is less "hotel with a gym" than "wellness resort that happens to have beds." Forbes Four Star.
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
- Time Out Time Out: The 35 best hotels in New York City
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Selected Hotels
- Time Out The 35 best hotels in New York City
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- Esquire Esquire: The Best Bars in America
- Esquire Esquire: 1884 Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Esquire The Best Bars in America
- Esquire 1884 Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
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The neon sign and wrought-iron balconies have been drawing poets, musicians, and general troublemakers to this West Chelsea hotel for generations. A recent restoration brought it back without sanding off the mythology, which is a harder trick than it sounds. Rooms feel like somewhere a person could actually live, which many people famously did. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. Dylan Thomas drank here; Taylor Swift wrote a song about it.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
- Time Out Time Out: The 35 best hotels in New York City
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A rooftop pool in the Meatpacking District has a way of announcing itself, and this boutique hotel has been making that announcement since the neighborhood was still figuring out what it wanted to be. The surroundings have since settled into high-end retail and the Whitney, and the hotel has kept pace with a refreshed interior and a contemporary art collection that gives the common areas something worth slowing down for.
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 7. Bartolo
Spanish
Low ceilings with thick wood beams, amber light, and banquettes that make every table feel like a booth in the back of someone's private club. Bartolo is a Spanish restaurant in the West Village, the kind where you order oxtail braised in red wine and suckling pig and let the table fill up. The martini list has its own following, and the servers are sharp enough to keep a long night moving without making it feel rushed.
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- Esquire Esquire: Martini de Bartolo · The Best Martinis in America
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2025 · 1 star, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Esquire Martini de Bartolo · The Best Martinis in America
- The New York Times 2025 · 1 star, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 33. Le B.
French
Sapphire velvet banquettes and jacketed servers signal exactly what this is: a fine dining room where Angie Mar fuses classic French technique with her Chinese heritage in a Greenwich Village townhouse that glitters like a jewel box. The cooking leans rich and saucy, the way haute French is supposed to, and a tasting menu is available for those who want the full ceremony. James Beard semifinalist, 2026.
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- Esquire Esquire: Bemelman at the Ritz · The Best Martinis in America
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Angie Mar
- Esquire Bemelman at the Ritz · The Best Martinis in America
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Angie Mar
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 42. Nubeluz
Cocktail Bar
Fifty floors up in the Ritz-Carlton NoMad, this cocktail bar from the José Andrés group takes its name from the Spanish words for cloud and light, which is either poetic or on the nose depending on how far into the menu you are. The views run 270 degrees over the city, and the drinks lean into reimagined classics, from an adonis to a tom collins. Dress accordingly; the room expects it.
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- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Spirited Awards 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
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 46. Slowly Shirley and The Happiest Hour
Cocktail Bar
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2015 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The New York Times 2015 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 47. Kees
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 47. Seirēn
Spanish-Portuguese Cocktail Bar
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Rank 49. Mace
Cocktail Bar
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Time Out Time Out: #14 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Time Out #14 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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Rank 51. Whitehall
Modern British
Edison bulbs over factory-tiled walls and a ceiling that looks like it never quite finished being renovated: Whitehall calls itself a "gastro bar" rather than a gastropub, and the distinction holds. It's a neighborhood cocktail bar on Greenwich Avenue with a modern British menu running alongside, but people mostly come for the warm room and the staff who seem to mean it. Think London train station, interpreted loosely and affectionately.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 52. Bathtub Gin
Speakeasy
A red light above an unmarked door in a Chelsea coffee shop is the only signal that there's a cocktail bar behind it. Once through, the room opens into flocked wallpaper, fringed lampshades, and an antique copper bathtub sitting squarely in the middle of things, which everyone photographs and then pretends they weren't going to. The seven-seat copper bar is the calmer alternative. Dressed-up but not stiff, and a long way from the espresso machine out front.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 52. Soho House New York
Cocktail Bar
The Circle Bar sits on the top floor of this famously members-only Meatpacking District club, its zinc-topped bar jutting into a room of herringbone parquet and enormous Chesterfield sofas. The glass-walled wine cellar is purely decorative, but it sets the mood. Cocktails arrive at low tables where people who definitely knew the right person to get in are trying to look like they didn't have to.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 52. Wallflower
Cocktail Bar
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 55. El Quijote
Spanish
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2022 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2023 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- The New York Times 2022 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Spirited Awards 2023 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 55. Zou Zou's
Mediterranean
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 57. The Tippler
Cocktail Bar
Tucked into the basement of Chelsea Market, a former Nabisco factory, The Tippler is a cocktail bar with exposed brick, a long marble bar, and Oriental rugs thrown over the floor like someone's eccentric living room. The drink menu runs long and complicated, courtesy of the Tippling Bros. team. Come on a weeknight if you want to actually think; weekends belong to the Meatpacking overflow crowd and their very different priorities.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide