Rank a cocktail bar on the drink first — thirty-five percent of the score, more than any other part of a bar's — and the list rewrites itself. Bar Snack sits above Sip & Guzzle. Amor y Amargo, a stirred-and-bitter room you enter through a shop, shares the top. Death & Co and Katana Kitten are not here; both fell short on the tab, which is exactly what the tab is for.
The number beside each entry is that score, never a blend. Hotel palace bars, beer halls and the city's old rooms are ranked on their own list. This one is for the drink.
All sixty-one bars we reviewed in New York, grouped by what you want tonight, are in the guide.
