![]() Not only is this bar hidden inside a hot dog shop called Crif Dogs, it’s hidden behind a phone booth inside the hot dog shop. Please Don’t T ell – 113 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009 Daytime haircuts and night time a class cocktail bar ($15), love this concept! Blind barber is so refreshingly unique. Have you been to a barber shop and realized there is a bar in the back. Blind Barber – 339 E 10th St, New York, NY 10009 The interiors are definitely worth a mention and yet another place with great cocktails ($20). Yes, “ The Campbell” is hidden inside the world famous, Grand Central station. This speakeasy is cleverly hidden in plain sight in the busiest metro station in New York city. The Campbell – 15 Vanderbilt Ave, New York, NY 10017 The Amelia, a vodka based cocktail is consistently the top-seller, generating over $1.4 million in gross revenue. Apart from great cocktails ($17), their food game is also very strong. Look for a red neon sign advertising a psychic and then for the live tarot card reader, and behind the red curtains you’ll find “ Employees only”. Employees Only – 510 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014 The menu is called ‘prescription’ and the bartenders are dressed in lab coats. In the spirit of Chinatown, all cocktails ($20) in Apotheke are made with local and organic herbs from Chinatown by bartenders that look like chemists. Our personal favorite, this bar is marked by a chemist sign outside the door. Apotheke – 9 Doyers St #1, New York, NY 10013 A copper bathtub in the middle of the bar is the perfect photo op for instalovers. A secret door that seamlessly blends with the walls of the coffee shop is a bar famous for it’s gin-based cocktails ($15). Hidden behind the Stone Street Coffee Company is the Bathtub Gin. ![]() Bathtub Gin – 132 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011 Now that we have clearly defined our very high speakeasy standards, let’s have a look at the 8 most mind blowing speakeasies in the coolest neighborhoods in New York City. c) While the drinks need to taste exceptionally great, they need to look beautiful too for the instaaddict in everybody that drinks for the gram. b) The interiors and the ambiance of course, duhhhh, it’s all about the experience. These according to us are the characteristics of an amazing Speakeasy: a) The harder it is to figure out where the entrance is, the better. Nobody is heard or seen, works like a charm! You pull out the drawer, drop in your change, shove the drawer back, call for what you want and then pull out the drawer again and there it is, “Straight” or “Spiked” just as you’d have it. A drawer runs into a wall of what appears to be a billiard saloon. No man knows who discovered the term “Speakeasy”, they are basically ‘holes in the wall’ or let’s just call them ‘watering holes in the wall’. Long ago, in the prohibition-era America, the “speakeasy” became a common name to describe a place to get an illicit drink. ![]() “Whisper, Speakeasy, the police are watching”! ![]()
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