Bowery
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The 50 nearest of the 202 bars within half a mile of Bowery, as New York on Tap listed them around 2008.
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Bowery BallroomPick
6 Delancey St. · under 0.1 mi
Still pouring
The best music venue in the city - hands down, and the likely locale of your favorite band's best set ever.
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12 Spring St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
A tiny lounge in the back and a small pub like room in the front. It packs beyond capacity on weekends with a business casual contingent.
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5 Spring St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Delta Charlie Tavern
Depending on night and time changes from a chill lounge to a packed pick up joint, but then depending on the night and time maybe your preferences change as well.
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199 Bowery · 0.1 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Ainslie, Ainslie Bowery, Cosmo
A low key intimate music venue in the spirt of the Mercury Lounge . A decent sound system, and reasonable drinks keep the crowd coming back.
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XicalaPick
151 Elizabeth St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Tashca
Warm and cozy wine and tapas bar, small enough and far enough off the beaten track that you feel like you've uncovered a hidden treasure.
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Home Sweet HomePick
131 Chrystie St · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
This unmarked bar with a garage sale design ethic is remincent of the LES that existed ten years ago. A grungy bar for the unselfconsciously hip.
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349 Broome St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now The Garret Nolita
A marketing blitz has brought out the weekend hordes to this former M bar space. Velvet ropes, lists at the door, and hundreds of people with nothing in common except for the fact they like going to newly opened bars.
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LoreleyPick
7 Rivington St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
Not an American adaptation of a beer garden, but a genuine biergarten - efficient service, humorless waiters, crisp beer, and lots and lots of Germans.
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128 Elizabeth St. · 0.1 mi
No license found in 2026
A jungle themed Chinatown billiards hall with one of the few snooker tables in the city.
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202 Mott St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Balzem
Reasonably priced suprisingly comfortable South African bar in SoHo.
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217 Bowery · 0.1 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Maison Nur
Small, dimly lit Morrocan themed bar packs on weekend. Watch the 20% gratuity on your tab and additional tip line.
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218 Bowery · 0.1 mi
Closed
Enormous frat bar, $6 pints, top 40 hip-hop, backwards baseball caps, polo shirts, shrieking girls roaming in packs. Sounds like a good time to you? Go there. And please stay the night.
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375 Broome St. · 0.1 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Quan Sushi Japanese Restaurant
Introducing the bakery bar: Coffee, quiches, sandwiches and baguettes by day beer, sake, and wine by night.
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194 Elizabeth St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
Dark and rustic Italian wine bar in the basement beneath the restaurant Peasant. Feels like a European wine cellar.
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FreemansRestaurant
191 Chrystie St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
This restaurant and bar at the end of Freeman's alley serves expertly crafted cocktails under the watchful gaze of countless wall-mounted animals. Like the mise-en-scène from a Wes Anderson movie, it's so self-conciously unhip that it's the hottest thing going.
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The Monday RoomPick
210 Elizabeth St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Dante Elizabeth Street
A varied and interesting wine list make up for the little varied or interesting clientele at this dimly lit wine bar attached to the restaurant Public.
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189 Chrystie St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
There is no door more exclusive and no shows more outrageous than the ones at this intimate vintage theatre.
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302 Broome St. · 0.1 mi
Closed
The palpable sexuality of this spot, may make you wonder if the environs have somehow been imbued with the spiritual essense of the thousands of orgasms experienced in this former Chinatown massage parlor.
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100 Forsyth St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Little Wayla / Wayla
The nautical themed Italian Restaurant and bar formerly known as Nautilus has a 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea vibe.
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191 Chrystie St. · 0.2 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Outer Heaven
$15 cocktails on the Lower East Side. We'll pass thanks.
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176 Mulberry St. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
Formerly Mare Chiaro, a Little Italy institution opened in 1908, it has recently beeen rechristened the Mulberry Street Bar and bedecked with no less than 8 plasma screens.
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JadisPick
42 Rivington St. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
A beautiful rustic wine bar frequently all but ruined by obscenely loud music that's so bad, and ill-befitting that it succesfully kills the ambience. Sadly this alone is probably responsible for an older post-frat crowd sharing a common disdain for sophistication.
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389 Broome St. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Broome St. Project
GoldBar does oppulence rather well. Gold ceilings, gold chandeliers, gold tables, gold curtains, gold walls covered in tiny gold skulls all add up to a significant wow factor. Unfortunatly they also add up to an environment about as comfortable and welcoming as a bank vault. A standard cocktail will run $14, and the door policy can be brutal.
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Milk and HoneyPick
134 Eldridge St. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Attaboy
Exquisitely crafted cocktails which lost much of their luster as the prices climbed from $8 to $11 and have no settled at $15. You'll need reservations to get in the door
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9 Stanton St. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Forsythia
Popular Italian restaurant and wine bar. The bottles are quite reasonably priced.
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Spring LoungePick
48 Spring St. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
Always crowded, but rarely uncomfortable corner bar provides a welcome respite from the usual SoHo/NoLita pretense.
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17 Stanton St. · 0.2 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Bonnie Vee
Formerly the Villedge Publick House, this pallatable sports bar has a decent beer selection, reasonable prices and a useful without being overbearing three plasma TVs.
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Florio's Pizzeria and Restaurant
192 Grand St. · 0.2 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Tomino
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20 Prince St. · 0.2 mi
No license found in 2026
A small Morrocan lounge beneath the bistro Jacques.
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54 Spring St · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Genkiya Mart
A sports bar plain and simple. If there's a good game on the wall to wall projection screens there are few better places in the neighborhood to watch it. But failing that there's little to recommend.
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Congee VillageRestaurant
100 Allen St. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
A huge multi-level Chinese restaurant with a Karaoke bar frequented by Asian businessman, their American counterparts, and the occasional hipster.
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17 Cleveland Place · 0.2 mi
No license found in 2026
This Nolita location of Bar Veloce closed and became Bar Tonno which then closed and became Room 4 Dessert only to close and become Bar Veloce again. The long bar that used to run the length of the room has been done away with and its place are a number of small tables.
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53 Spring St. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Beyond the Pale
Devoid of personality, but it stays packed, and sometimes lots of people makes up for little atmosphere - well, sometimes if you're drunk.
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Mexican RadioRestaurant
19 Cleveland Pl · 0.2 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: 19 Cleveland By Nish Nush
Simple, solid Mexican food that earns "oohs" and "ahhs" thanks to fresh ingrediants and eye catching colors.
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Fried DumplingPickRestaurant
99 Allen St. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Shelly's
Five tasty dumplings or four pork buns for a $1 dollar. A can of coke for $.75. One of the last true bargains left in this city.
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Eight Mile CreekPick
240 Mulberry St. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now The Mulberry
An Australian basement bar that's comfortable and warm, and manages to attract an over 20 crowd without being trendy or expensive.
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La EsquinaPick
106 Kenmare St. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
It's hard not to feel like a secret agent as you lead your friends into the unasssuming taqueria on the corner of Kenmare and Cleveland, through the dingy grey employees only door in the back, down through the kitchen and into the catacomb like space that is La Esquina.
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66 Rivington St · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
A clean, attractive, and sophisticated hard rock den makes about as much sense as an overmastered punk song, and a night out here will serve as an object lesson in why the LES can't keep continue its current trajectory to UES land without imploding.
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77 Delancey Street · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Grey Lady
White Slab Palace may look out onto bustling Delancey, but its ambiance is sexily subdued. The décor in this Scandinavian joint is as serene as a fjord, while the staff and soundtrack effortlessly balance chill with engaging.
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Lolita BarPick
266 Broome St. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Emma Peel Room
Comfortable and off the beaten track Lolita Bar is that rare Manhattan bar where you could almost imagine you were in Brooklyn.
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Grand BilliardsPick
90 Eldridge St · 0.2 mi
No license found in 2026
Inexpensive, divey chinatown pool hall.
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People LoungePick
163 Allen St. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Ms. Yoo
When this bar opened in 2003 on still edgy Allen street it was edgy and diverse, nowadays it blast 90's music and fills to capactity, and diversity amounts to people from Long Island mingling with people from New Jersey. Warning. Parking can be hard to find in this area.
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129 Orchard St. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
Lucky Jack's is big enough to have entrances on both Orchard and Allen street and the copper topped bar inside runs over 50ft long. Bars of this ilk tend to attract frat crowds, but this place is much better than most. Thank the indie rock sound track for that.