A nautical themed basement bar with big booths and high ceilings. They make good cocktails here, but it doesn’t get too busy, and that’s probably because it’s hidden down a set of stairs on Lafayette Street. If you’re in Soho, and you need a semi-quiet cocktail in a space that’s larger than you expect, come here.
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Botanica Bar is a classic NYC dive that is an ideal place to gather a group, especially during Happy Hour.
The Up & Up is a cocktail bar in Greenwich Village where you and a date can have fancy drinks in a relatively low-key basement space.
The Handy Liquor Bar likes to pretend Prohibition just ended, but it's still a good spot for a cocktail despite the aggressive theme.
Sweetwater Social is somewhere between a big bar and a club, and it tends to get a lot of action at peak times. Use it for larger groups.
