The cocktail menu has a core selection of classics, including Strawberry Fields with vodka, lemon juice, honey, strawberries and parsley, and the Smoke + Dagger of whiskey, jalapeno-infused Combier, lemon juice, cucumber, and ginger. And the name? It’s a reference to the titles given to speakeasies during prohibition such as Blind Tiger and Blind Pig, a message to policemen to turn a blind eye to the activities going on behind the scenes.
The back room bar is hidden behind a rolling door, which opens up to a large lounge. Designed to feel like a retro dentist office, even the barber’s tools are on rolling dental trays. The entrance is a working two-seat barbershop. Open Mon-Fri 5pm-midnight Sat 6pm-1amĪlphabet City was the first location for Blind Barber, which opened in 2010 and has since expanded to Williamsburg and Los Angeles. Ploeser has a polite, midwestern air that makes him instantly likeable and easy to talk to and he loves the social aspect of bartending.Ĥ9 West 44th Street, +1 2, /lanternskeep. Head bartender John Ploeser and his team designed the list of 40 cocktails, from the refreshing Regal Business (gin, grapefruit, honey, lime) to the boozy Double Barrel (rye, dry vermouth, sweet vermouth, angostura and orange bitters). Chic black panelling contrasts with marble tables and Louis XIV chairs upholstered in powder blue velvet. Lantern’s Keep opened in 2011, but you wouldn’t know it from the decor, which looks more like a Parisian beaux-arts salon than a New York bar.
There’s no sign for it, but in-the-know imbibers are aware that if the lantern affixed to the Iroquois’s facade is lit, they can go inside and have a drink. But the Iroquois has a hidden little jewel box of a cocktail bar called Lantern’s Keep. Inside, the Algonquin has its famed Round Table restaurant, where Dorothy Parker gathered with editors of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Opened in the early 1900s, both the Algonquin and the Iroquois hotels exude the glamour of times past.
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