Lantern’s Keep

On our lists of the best speakeasies and cocktail bars in New York.

Tucked into one small room at the back of the Iroquois Hotel's lobby, this cocktail bar keeps faux Degas ballerina paintings on the walls and picks up spillover light from the lobby outside. The Da Toscano team now runs the food and drink program, serving Italian aperitivi alongside snacks like steak tartare, arancini and meatballs. It keeps hotel-bar hours, open daily from four in the afternoon until eleven at night.