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Bemelmans Bar is a cocktail lounge and piano bar in the Carlyle Hotel, on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York City. The bar opened in the 1940s, serving wealthy Upper East Siders and numerous celebrities. Bemelmans has distinctive Art Deco decor, including murals of Madeline painted by Ludwig Bemelmans, author and illustrator of Madeline.
The bar was founded in 1829 [1] [2] and, according to the current owner, is one of the oldest bars in the country, having been in continuous operation since 1829 (even during Prohibition [3]), under various names such as Blue Pump Room, Old Abbey, Neir’s Social Hall, and Union Course Tavern.
The bar's last day was March 31, 2022, involving a line stretching down the block until last call. [3] Later in 2022, the bar reopened as a summer pop-up in the Hotel Eventi in Midtown by owner Erina Yoshida. The pop-up is also hidden, and has nearly all the same staff, some of the old tables and chairs, and some of the original cocktails.
TGI Friday's began as a cocktail bar that catered to single folks on New York City's Upper East Side. Alan Stillman opened the first location in 1965, and it was an instant success.
Bridge Cafe was a historic restaurant and bar located at 279 Water Street in the South Street Seaport area of Manhattan, New York City, United States.The site was originally home to "a grocery and wine and porter bottler", opened in 1794, and has been home to a series of drinking and eating establishments.
Entrance to The Oak Bar in August 2008. The Oak Bar is closely associated with the Oak Room and adjoins it [5]: 22 but is a separate entity. [2] [3] The Oak Bar was established in its current location on the northwest corner of the Plaza Hotel in 1945 when the hotel was owned by Conrad Hilton (or re-established – the area may have been part of the Men's Bar between 1912 and 1920).
Caranddo describes the bar's approach as "craft cocktails that can be made in five minutes or less." ... It’s the burger joint’s first location in New York state north of Westchester County ...
Maxwell's Plum was a bar at 1181 First Avenue, at the intersection with 64th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. A 1988 New York Times article described it as a "flamboyant restaurant and singles bar that, more than any place of its kind, symbolized two social revolutions of the 1960s – sex and food". [1]