Two Doors Down
Bar · Lower East Side ·
Upscale cocktail bar with speakeasy, dance floor, great music
Upscale cocktail bar with speakeasy, dance floor, great music
"After a nearly decade-long run, Two Doors Down is closing its doors. In a post on Instagram, the owners said, 'The time has simply come to move on.' Its final service will be on Halloween. No cause for sadness, however. The owners wrote that this is a success story and continued to praise the neighboring businesses, its employees, landlord, and thank its customers. The LGBT and woman-owned business will have a goodbye bash on the evening of Saturday, October 26, with Buoy Beer for $5 a pint." - Courtney E. Smith
"This is how your Friday night on the Lower East Side could go down: you could start with a cocktail in the upstairs area of Two Doors Down, a new bar from the Cafe Balearica team, and then head downstairs to the hidden dance floor. This bar asks that you don’t take pictures of other people while inside, which means you can actually dance like nobody’s watching. " - Will Hartman, Willa Moore
"Sometimes, you drink a nice cocktail at a nice bar, and then go somewhere else to lose your dignity. But why bother moving from one place to another, when you could stay where you are, and just head downstairs? At Two Doors Down, a Lower East Side bar from the Cafe Balearica team (another two-floor destination), you can do just that. Upstairs, there’s moody lighting and big booths, and it’s a pleasantly quiet spot for a midweek first date, where you can fill any silences with old Kendrick and sips of a well-made cocktail. But on the weekends the downstairs comes into play. This is where you can listen to a DJ, dance under a disco ball, and forget all about the mediocre date you had upstairs the last time you were here." - Willa Moore
"Two Doors Down is so new, the ink isn’t even dry on the restroom graffiti, but since everyone who walks in gushes over its beauty, that might just be because nobody dares be the first to mar it. It has what it takes to duke it out in the Lower East Side, which has always been a destination, but really feels, these past couple years, to have taken on a defiantly strong party energy post-peak pandemic. Ask for Teremana in your margarita or paloma, then sip it while bopping along to old-school hip-hop, funk, and disco." - Brendan McGinley
"A discreet Lower East Side hangout from the team behind Cafe Balearica that positions itself as a dance-friendly spot for old-school NYC vibes." - Emma Orlow