"If you want to lounge on a couch in a wood-paneled room with an excess of rugs and oil paintings, The Portrait Bar in Nomad is currently your best option. Hidden behind the lobby of a new luxury hotel that's also home to the new Café Carmellini, this Italian villa-inspired spot is the ideal venue for an upscale date night, drinks before a show, or a meeting between two financiers who are plotting to close an orphanage. The cocktails cost $22, but that’s more or less standard for a buzzy new spot these days, and they come with a few free macadamia nuts, so you pretty much break even. Skip the $16 fries, but get the burger." - Bryan Kim, Will Hartman, Willa Moore, Sonal Shah
The Portrait Bar
