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PIPS Speakeasy Guide · Behind the Door

New York

Through the phone booth, past the grey door, up from the gin joint.

New York invented the modern hidden bar: PDT through the phone booth inside Crif Dogs, Attaboy behind a scratched grey door on Eldridge where there's no menu at all, and Bathtub Gin behind a Chelsea coffee shop with burlesque some nights. Knock twice.

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NoMad
Black-Owned

67 Orange Street at Back Bar

851 6th Ave, New York, NY
From 5pm · find the hidden Back Bar entrance

Karl Franz Williams' famed Black-owned Harlem speakeasy, now shaking its celebrated cocktails in residency behind Back Bar's hidden door.

Pip’s Tip In residency behind Back Bar in NoMad, from five. Karl Franz Williams' Black-owned Harlem room.

East Village

Please Don't Tell (PDT)

113 St Marks Pl (via Crif Dogs phone booth), New York City, NY
Reservations · enter through the phone booth

The phone booth in a hot-dog shop that started the modern speakeasy wave, still one of the world's great bars.

Pip’s Tip Through the phone booth inside the hot-dog shop. Reservations, and they go the moment they open.

Lower East Side

Attaboy

134 Eldridge St, New York City, NY
Evenings · no menu, no sign

Behind a scratched grey door on Eldridge. No menu, just world-champion bartenders reading the room.

Pip’s Tip Scratched grey door on Eldridge, no sign and no menu. Tell them what you like and let them work.

Chelsea

Bathtub Gin

132 9th Ave (behind Stone Street Coffee), New York City, NY
Evenings · burlesque nights

Slip through a working coffee shop into a Jazz Age den, copper bathtub included, burlesque on weekends.

West Village

Employees Only

510 Hudson St, New York, NY
Nightly from 5pm · beneath the neon Psychic sign

Bartender-owned West Village institution behind a psychic's neon sign, serving precision cocktails and late-night steaks until nearly dawn.

East Village

Death & Co

433 E 6th St, New York, NY
Nightly 6pm–1am · unmarked door

The East Village pioneer that launched America's craft cocktail renaissance, still pouring impeccable drinks behind an unmarked black door.

West Village

Angel's Share

45 Grove St, New York, NY
Tue–Sat from 5pm · walk-in only, no standing

The legendary Japanese speakeasy reborn on Grove Street, hushed, seated, walk-in-only, and worth every minute of the wait.

Lower East Side

The Back Room

102 Norfolk St, New York, NY
Nightly · enter via the toy-company gate

A genuine Prohibition-era speakeasy where cocktails arrive in teacups and beer comes wrapped in paper bags behind a toy-company gate.

West Village

Little Branch

20 7th Ave S, New York, NY
Nightly from 7pm · unmarked basement door

Sasha Petraske's candlelit basement den with live jazz, hand-cut ice, and perfectly balanced classics off Seventh Avenue South.

Lower East Side

Fig. 19

131 Chrystie St, New York, NY
Tue–Sun from 6pm · through the art gallery

Hidden behind a working Lower East Side art gallery, this moody chandelier-lit hideout pours inventive cocktails until the small hours.

Midtown

Nothing Really Matters

210 W 50th St, New York, NY
Nightly · inside the 50th St subway station

Award-caliber cocktails hidden inside the 50th Street subway station, descend the stairs, skip the Times Square chaos entirely.

Chelsea

La Noxe

315 7th Ave, New York, NY
Nightly · door inside the 28th St subway stairwell

A jewel-box lounge behind a mystery door in the 28th Street subway stairwell, serving Dominican-inflected cocktails to a lucky few.

NoMad

Patent Pending

49 W 27th St, New York, NY
Nightly · hidden behind the Patent Coffee counter

Coffee shop by day, Tesla-themed subterranean cocktail den by night, tucked inside the Radio Wave Building where Tesla worked.

Downtown Brooklyn

Sunken Harbor Club

372 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Wed–Sun 5pm–late · stairs above Gage & Tollner

A shipwreck-chic nautical fantasy hidden above landmark Gage & Tollner, mixing some of the world's best tropical drinks.

Brooklyn Heights

Le Boudoir

135 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Fri–Sat from 7pm · through the hidden bookcase

Marie Antoinette-themed den behind a secret bookcase, built into old Atlantic Avenue subway tunnel remnants with weekend burlesque shows.

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Attaboy

No menu, no sign. Tell them how you feel and the best bartenders in America build the answer. The Lower East Side's grey-door legend.

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