Let Secret New York Hidden bars & restaurants guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating guide book to New York Citys bar and restaurant scene. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.
The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track.
In its 4th edition, Secret New York Hidden bars & restaurants features 150 secret and unusual secret spots.
Inside Secret New York Hidden bars & restaurants:
A supperclub on a helipad Have dinner in a dumpster Discover a hidden heavy metal bar in Brooklyn Enjoy a dim-sum restaurant that turns into a nightclub New Yorks most legitimate speakeasy Experience a Swiss ski chalet accessed through a kitchen Have dinner in a referral-only Japanese restaurant Drink in a grungy underground sake bar Visit an open-to-the-public dining room in the United Nations Feast on gourmet donuts inside a car wash
A hundred places with amazing decor, eccentric owners, bizarre food, old-time survivors and more that will please and astonish underground and postindustrial design buffs, refined gourmets and cocktail drinkers, world food lovers and anyone curious enough to discover the infinite possibilities to have fun in New York.
An absolute must-have guide to enjoy the amazing, hidden New York City bar and restaurant scene.
Dont miss - Each chapter of this Secret New York Hidden bars & restaurants travel guide book corresponds to a different part of the city so that one can always find a hidden or secret place to discover.
Astoria
ASTORIAS SECRET 10
Brooklyn Boerum Hill
GOVINDAS VEGETARIAN LUNCH 12
Brooklyn Greenpoint
GLASSERIE 14
SAINT VITUS 16
Brooklyn Prospect Heights
WEATHER UP 18
Brooklyn Williamsburg
CELLAR AT ST. MAZIE BAR & SUPPER CLUB 20
HOTEL DELMANO 22
MEXICO 2000 BODEGA 24
WYTHE HOTELS BASEMENT BAR 26
Chelsea
BATHTUB GIN 28
THE HIDEOUT 30
NORWOOD 32
RAINES LAW ROOM 34
THE TIPPLER 36
LOULOU 38
LA NOXE 40
Chinatown
APOTHEKE 42
ATTABOY 44
PULQUERIA 46
SAINT TUESDAY 48
Diamond District
DIAMOND DISTRICT RESTAURANTS 50
Downtown Brooklyn
SUNKEN HARBOR CLUB 52
East Village
DEATH & COMPANY 54
DECIBEL 56
NUBLU 58
PLEASE DONT TELL 60
THE RED ROOM 62
RUSSIAN AND TURKISH BATHS CAFÉ 64
STREECHA UKRAINIAN KITCHEN 66
Elmhurst
SUSHI ON ME 68
Garment District
FREIGHT-ENTRANCE RESTAURANTS 70
Gramercy
DEAR IRVING 72
TAPROOM AT THE PLAYERS CLUB 74
Greenwich Village
124 OLD RABBITT CLUB 76
THE GARRET 78
LITTLE BRANCH 80
FREVO 84
Harlem
AMERICAN LEGION POST 398 86
JAZZ AT MARJORIE ELIOTS 88
Hudson Square
PINE & POLK 90
CHEZ ZOU 92
JFK
THE 1850 SPEAKEASY 96
Kips Bay
J. BESPOKE 100
EDIES 102
BAR CALICO 104- 6 -- 7
CONTENTS
Koreatown
GAONNURI 106
JEWEL THIEF 108
Lower East Side
THE BACK ROOM 110
BEAUTY & ESSEX 112
FIG. 19 116
BLIND BARBER 118
BOHEMIAN 122
GARFUNKELS 124
BANZARBAR 126
Midtown
RPM UNDERGROUND 128
DEAR IRVING ON HUDSON 130
NOTHING REALLY MATTERS 132
Midtown East
CAMPBELL APARTMENT 134
KURUMA ZUSHI 136
NORWEGIAN SEAMAN S CHURCH COFFEE SHOP 138
SAKAGURA 140
UNITED NATIONS DELEGATES DINING ROOM 142
BURGER JOINT AT LE PARKER MERIDIEN 144
LANTERNS KEEP 146
Midtown West
WOMENS NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CLUB RESTAURANT
AND PUB 148
Morningside Heights
POSTCRYPT COFFEEHOUSE 150
Murray Hill
THE GARRYOWEN AT THE 69TH REGIMENT ARMORY 152
RAINES LAW ROOM AT THE WILLIAM 154
New York Harbor
HONORABLE WILLIAM WALL CLUBHOUSE 156
NoMad
PATENT PENDING 158
Queens Flushing
GANESH TEMPLE CANTEEN 160
Queens Glendale
FINBACK BREWERY TASTING ROOM 162
Queens Long Island City
DUTCH KILLS 164
Soho
APRČS-SKI FONDUE CHALET AT CAFÉ SELECT 166
LA ESQUINA 168
Sunset Park
MI PEQUEŃO CHINANTLA 170
The Financial District
OVERSTORY 172
Theater District
BAR CENTRALE 176
Upper East Side
BAR AND DINING ROOM AT THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS 178
THE STORAGE ROOM OF THE UES. 180
KEYS & HEELS 182
West Village
EMPLOYEES ONLY 184
DIN DIN SUPPER CLUB 186
Michelle Young is the founder of Untapped Cities, a web magazine about urban discovery and exploration in New York City and around the world. Michelle holds a B.A. from Harvard in the History of Architecture and a Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is also an Adjunct Professor. As a photographer, Michelles work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, and exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York and the Venice Biennale. Michelle is also the author of the book Broadway, about the history of the famous street and she is one of the authors of 100 Ways to Make History, published by the New York Public Library. She has been interviewed for The New York Times, Huffington Post Live, and appeared in numerous documentaries. Always looking for the next adventure, Michelle has traveled to over 40 countries, always with an S LR camera in tow, and as a Juilliard-trained cellist, toured around the United States as a cellist in an indie rock band.
Laura Itzkowitz grew up near Boston and lived in Paris and Rome before moving to New York City, though she comes from a long line of (outer borough) New Yorkers. She writes for Travel + Leisure, Fodors Travel, Refinery29, Saveur, and is an editor at Untapped Cities. She contributed to Fodor's Travel's forthcoming Brooklyn guidebook, writing the guides to her neighbourhood (Greenpoint) and nearby Williamsburg. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing and translation from Columbia University's School of the Arts and a B.A. from Smith College. She has been featured as a New York expert blogger in Time Out New York and named one of Hotel Club's Top 20 NYC bloggers. She likes her gin shaken, not stirred, and loves it when a bartender can surprise her with a new cocktail.
