Tigre

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"Reserve in advance to visit this swank Lower East Side cocktail lounge. Brought to you by the team behind Maison Premiere (another of our other favorite bars in NYC), there's a compulsory but complimentary coat check and dress-to-impress door policy, neither of which hampers the high spirits in the space. New York's bright young things fill the candlelit tables and banquettes and eight-person, U-shaped bar, requesting custom combinations off of the "Martini by Ratio" menu. The Cigarette Martini, made with Truman vodka and a juniper spirit from Copenhagen's Empirical, is among the most popular. Tigre also pours wine, spirits, and a tightly curated selection of retro and modern cocktails, with 1970s throwbacks like the Screwdriver alongside inventive drinks like the Mister Softee, named for the ice cream trucks that roam city streets in the summertime and made with Singhani, the Bolivian eau-de-vie." - Emily Saladino, Devra Ferst