New Yorkers have a history of drinking in speakeasies dating back to the Prohibition.
These days, a new breed of speakeasy has cropped up around the city, featuring old-timey touches like hidden entrances, tin ceilings, and cocktails made with classic ingredients.
Here are some of New York's best speakeasies, from 67 Orange Street in Harlem to the new Featherweight in Bushwick.
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67 Orange Street serves incredible fried chicken sliders with its cocktails.
2082 Frederick Douglas Blvd., Harlem
This Harlem speakeasy has an extensive menu of cocktails (ranging from classic gin and whiskey to champagne, cognac, and beer), with great food to back it up. We recommend the fried chicken sliders or lobster mac n' cheese.
When you arrive, don't be fooled by the curtains hanging in the windows. The place may look closed, but walk in the door and you'll find yourself inside an intimate bar.
Angel's Share is hidden inside a Japanese restaurant.
8 Stuyvesant St., East Village
This intimate speakeasy has tall windows that look out onto the East Village, and serves creative cocktails with impressive back-stories and high-quality ingredients.
Angel's Share is hidden behind a secret door inside Village Yokocho that looks like a storage closet at the top of some stairs. Warning: do not try to come in with more than four people — you will be turned away at the door.
Apothéke's bartenders prepare drinks wearing lab coats.
With an entrance below a neon "Chemist" sign hanging in a Chinatown alleyway, Apothéke may not look like a high-class bar. Yet after 9 p.m., a discerning bouncer only lets in clientele dressed to the nines or with reservations.
But it's well worth it. Once you get inside, "chemists," or bartenders wearing white coats, will mix complicated cocktails in a dark and classy setting.
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