The NYC Bar Hit List: Great New Bars In NYC

"At Only Love Strangers, a bi-level jazz club on the Lower East Side, you can listen to live music six nights a week, and have a nice midweek date for under $50 a person. You could eat dinner here too (the mezze board is a nice snack), but we’d rather save our money for the cocktails. Our favorite, the Bossa Nova, is a refreshing mix of mezcal, yellow pepper juice, and pineapple. The bar is painted in the rich blue and stark white, there’s a disco ball downstairs, and—gauging from our experience sitting next to a group of people dressed entirely in 1940s clothing—a sense that anything could happen." - bryan kim, will hartman, willa moore, sonal shah, neha talreja, molly fitzpatrick