Popular Bars & Clubs in New York
The Boom Boom Room
Neighborhood: Meatpacking District Category: Hotel, LoungeThe Standard Hotel's gorgeously refurbished top floors are now home to a bar, a cocktail lounge, a hot tub and a rooftop lounge.
The Ravel Hotel Rooftop Bar
Category: Hotel, LoungeThe Long Island City boutique hotel's rooftop bar is a candlelit, 6,000-square-foot open-air garden lounge, offering tap beer and summery cocktails.
The Bell House
Neighborhood: Gowanus Category: DJ, NeighborhoodThe handsome 300-person space is a music and party venue first, bar second.
Cielo
Neighborhood: Meatpacking District Category: DanceWhen Cielo first opened it was—like most Meatpacking venues—a tad too exclusive for its own good, which inevitably lead to super-stiff patrons only looking to hang somewhere with a "name."
Buddha Beer Bar
Neighborhood: Washington HeightsBeers in Heaven: Buddha Beer Bar.
Aria Wine Bar
Neighborhood: West Village Category: WineAt this West Village wine bar, have a cocktail.
Kiss & Fly
Neighborhood: Meatpacking DistrictYet another dramatic addition to New York nightlife that seems to be basing its concept on exclusivity, Kiss & Fly—located in the former Aer space—isn’t only “selective,” but sets a new standard in showy nightspots designed to appeal to the ‘new New Yorker.'
The Woods
Neighborhood: Williamsburg Category: DJ, MusicA rowdy, handsome and unmarked music and party venue in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Provocateur
Neighborhood: Meatpacking District Category: DJ, DanceGorgeous, zany, eclectic and decidedly female, Provocateur's the split-personality nightclub now operating out of the Gansevoort.
