Rank a cocktail bar on the drink first — thirty-five percent of the score, more than any other room gets for any other thing — and the list rewrites itself. Bar Snack sits above Sip & Guzzle. Amor y Amargo, a stirred-and-bitter room you enter through a shop, sits third. Death & Co and Katana Kitten are not here; both fell short on the tab, which is exactly what the tab is for.
Every room below cleared 8.4 on the editorial score, which is where the table's first real gap falls. The number beside each entry is that score unless two independent platforms had enough reviews to add a second layer; where they didn't, the entry says so. 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.
