A proper drink between dinner and dessert.
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These are bars you go to for the drinks themselves — a considered menu, careful technique, a bartender who can make you something that isn't on it. They sit best in the middle of a night: after dinner, before dessert, or as the nightcap. Restaurants with a strong bar are on the restaurant lists instead.
This guide ranks 6 cocktail bars in Upper East Side. Editors' picks come first, then the rest by rating, and the plans below build a whole evening around the best of them.
Routes around the top spots on the list, with the best-rated places nearby for the rest of the evening.
3 stops, all within a short walk
Bar Food
1442 1st Avenue (enter on E 75th St), New York, NY 10021
Upper East Side
4.7
Dessert Shop
1435 1st Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA
Upper East Side
3 stops, all within a short walk
3 stops, all within a short walk
Editors' picks first, then by rating.
