The Bennett

I was at the Bennet last night. The staff was really, really friendly and made a professional impression on me. Besides that the food and cocktails were also very good. I can totally recommend the cheese sandwich and the cheese plate. Both were delicious.

My wife and I had the most amazing new year's eve dinner here. The 6 course tasting menu was perfectly paired with the amazing cocktails this bar is known for. Our server, Jason, took such great care of us. He made the experience even better than expected. We will be returning to this bar many times and we'll be attending the new year's eve dinner every year it's held.

The space is small but the cocktails are on point. Finally a cocktail joint that doesnt try to mask their poor mixing skills by making the drinks too boozy. The cracker jack snack on the menu is a perfect compliment to the whiskey drinks on the menu. This place is not cheap, but would be nice for a pre-dinner drinks for a date, or just a casual night out with a friend.

Had dinner and a few cocktails on Halloween. It was a pretty quiet night due to that, but the burger I had was excellent, and the cocktails I tried were very good. Staff was friendly and prices reasonable.

Never been to Raines Law Room or the other establishments from this team but if The Bennett is any indication I gotta check em out soon. Stuck with whiskey for the night which led me to the Ideal Patriot and the Frank of America. The apple and maple work great with each, respectively. Get them. A side of beef jerky with the Ideal Patriot is the move. Trust me. Or don't. Wanted the cookies but alcohol drove me to the burger which for $17 is meh. Don't recall the fries too much. Oh well. Capped it all off with a delicious rye Old Fashioned. Went on a Thursday and the spot started to fill up even around 6:30p. Naomi and Chip are A+ behind the bar.

I was a little disappointed in The Bennett. It's owned by the famous NYC speakeasy The Raines Law Room so you'd assume it would be just as amazing. The Bennett is a speakeasy, but it doesn't feel that way. You walk into an unmarked restaurant and go through dark black curtains and you're in! It looks very TriBeCa and they have several cocktails to choose from all around $14 or so. I ordered the something "lunch" and it came in a tall glass. It's one of their sweeter drinks and was good, but they shoved so much ice in it, I barely had any drink to enjoy. The Bennett wasn't an bad place to go and we don't regret going, but there's many better places to go in a city full of the best bars in the USA. I recommend The Raines Law Room.

Cocktail perfection at The Bennett and its sibling, Dear Irving. Fantastic service complements the inventive approach to advancing classic drinks in new ways. The Ideal Patriot cocktail — bourbon, calvados, and more — is a new classic.

The well heeled crowd of the tribeca set converge here for top notch cocktails. Happy hour can be deafening on a nice day, but usually it's fairly civilized.