Recap: Sweetbitter Episode 2 Shows Restaurant Staff Partying Hard | Eater

"Portrayed as a late-night watering hole where employees from many of downtown’s popular restaurants converge, this bar functions as a chaotic social hub: people drink heavily, gossip, and mingle across cliques, and interactions quickly slip into violence, theft, and drug use. Key incidents include the protagonist being persuaded to deliver a message that results in a slap, a cellphone theft engineered during the confusion, and a bathroom scene featuring a cocaine bump and a clandestine kiss. The place is depicted as implausibly barroom-cantina-like — a crossroads for the city’s restaurant world where camaraderie and danger coexist." - Greg Morabito