This lower east side staple might be dreary from the front, but inside is a covered garden and often, customers with their adorable pet dogs. En savoir plus .
Try the house gin and tonic, a complex cocktail with little in common with your garden-variety G&T. It’s one of our #100best dishes and drinks of 2011. En savoir plus .
Head to Lovecraft, the upstairs is a bar-restaurant with fun cocktails and an Italian-leaning food menu while downstairs is a stage where jazz bands and nouveau-Balkan groups will play. En savoir plus .
Like a boozy remake of Weird Science, a trio of cocktail geeks have forged their own fantasy babe from scratch. Drink this: Evelyn Rose—gin, hibiscus tea, rose water, Lillet syrup and lemon. En savoir plus .
Proletariat is a much-deserved look into no-holds-barred beer geekdom, blissfully free of TVs, generic pub grub & high-fiving mooks. It holds only 12 stools & its menus have been replaced w/ a QR code En savoir plus .
Mac Sillick and Sandy Hall, the owners and culinary creatives behind this delicious Downtown venture talk “farm to sandwich,” locally sourced food, and why they moved from Crown Heights to LES. En savoir plus .
This Lower East Side locale boasts close to 100 varieties of cider, and with dishes like leeks with spaetzle and truffle butter, the vegetarian, British-centric menu isn’t to be overlooked. En savoir plus .