The capital of the whiskey parlor: the Flatiron Room pours rare bottles under live jazz at two Manhattan addresses, the Brandy Library shelves its spirits like first editions in Tribeca, and Copper & Oak packs a staggering back-bar into a tiny Lower East Side room. Midtown smoke, whiskey everywhere.
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Rare whiskeys, bottle-keep lockers and live jazz on a small stage, the golden-age whiskey parlor, alive in NoMad.
Pip’s Tip Live jazz nightly and bottle-keep lockers. Book ahead, the room fills.
The Flatiron Room's uptown sibling, same rare bottles, same stage, a few blocks north.
Pip’s Tip The uptown sibling, same bottles and same stage, a few blocks north. Usually the easier reservation.
Brown spirits shelved floor-to-ceiling like rare books, with spirit sommeliers to guide the pour, Tribeca's reading room for whiskey and cognac.
Pip’s Tip Spirit sommeliers guide the pour. Brown spirits shelved floor to ceiling like rare books.
A tiny Allen Street den with a back-bar hundreds deep, the Lower East Side's serious whiskey secret.
World-renowned Irish-American grog house with 72 historically restored 19th-century cocktails and whiskeys of the world downstairs.
Enter through a vintage phone booth inside a hot-dog shop into one of the city's original modern speakeasies, still pouring award-winning whiskey cocktails.
A West Village institution behind a psychic's-storefront door, Prohibition-era glamour and a bar program that helped define modern NYC cocktail culture.
Tin ceilings, a hand-carved mahogany bar, and a whiskey list as old-school as the room, pouring since 1892.
A Jazz Age financier's private office turned grand cocktail hall, tucked in the corner of Grand Central, live piano and a scotch list to match the marble.
Home of the original Red Snapper beneath the Maxfield Parrish mural, one of Midtown's most storied rooms for a proper bourbon.
A dim, wood-paneled Theater District throwback with rum in the name but a whiskey list deep enough to anchor any pre-show drink.
Ludwig Bemelmans' hand-painted murals, nightly piano, and a martini list that's drawn socialites and moguls for generations.
Harlem's longstanding cocktail destination, named for a 19th-century saloon, classics done right alongside a serious whiskey shelf.
A modern reincarnation of a 1920s Harlem speakeasy beneath Red Rooster, live jazz, DJs, and a whiskey pour worthy of the room.
James Beard-winning oyster and absinthe bar with a garden out back and a whiskey program as considered as its 30-variety raw bar.
A slick, subway-tiled Prohibition-style watering hole since 2007, whiskey and scotch cocktails built for a low-key Brooklyn night.
A hidden-behind-a-restaurant Japanese cocktail bar that's been quietly perfecting precision whiskey drinks since the early '90s.
No sign, no menu, no website, just tell the bartender what you like and let them build you something with whatever whiskey suits the mood.
Live jazz, rare bottles, and lockers with your name on them, the New York whiskey parlor the way the family imagines it. Carnegie Club cigar first, Flatiron pour after.
One lounge, one whiskey bar, one golden evening. Members hear first.
Every whiskey bar here pairs with a PIPS cigar lounge across town, see the Lounge Guide for the other half of the evening.
