Guild Bar

Roman and Williams Guild is a furniture store in Soho where you can pick up a spacious willow basket for the very fair price of $6,500. Inside, there’s a restaurant called La Mercerie, and, just past the dining room, parked near displays of candlesticks and ceramics, you’ll find the five-seat Guild Bar. The bar is tiny and not at all private, but the department store-like setting provides some good people-watching, and the signature martini is one of the best in the city. Made with three gins, two vermouths, and a drizzle of saline solution, it comes with a sterling silver toothpick on the side that you can use to pluck olives out of a glass candy dish. For a little over $300, you can take the dish home with you.

photo credit: Gentl & Hyers