"Bar Contra on the Lower East Side comes from the team behind Wildair—your first sign that the food here is going to be good. Bring a date, and order liberally off the tiny menu—we like the celeriac crumpet with seaweed butter, the sausage-stuffed chicken wing, and the sexy little red prawns from Montauk. Plus a cocktail, of course, like the Saltair. It comes with a Modelito sidecar, and tastes like the delicious salty-sweet dregs of a margarita." - willa moore, molly fitzpatrick, sonal shah