The Happiest Hour Is Where Mad Men Meets The Tropics
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The Happiest Hour
[tw-divider]The Scoop[/tw-divider]
- Imagine a Don Draper-esque tiki bar with no-fuss cocktails, midcentury furniture, and cartoon palm trees galore— Acme’s Jon Neidich and top barman Jim Kearns (NoMad Hotel and Pegu Club) hit it out of the park with The Happiest Hour, posted up in the West Village
- With their “you pick ‘em we pour ‘em motto,” Hawaiian shirt-cladded bartenders pour reasonably priced, simple drinks over the horseshoe shaped bar ($12). Pick your liquor of choice as the base of any of their signature cocktails (rum, gin, or tequila)
- Try the Link Ray (celery, suze, lime, cane, and soda with your choice of jalapeño tequila, rum, or gin) and chill out with 50s sitcom-inspired snacks and a combination of bubbly rosé-loving gals, yo pros, and locals, all snooping around the West Village for their new watering hole
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It’s not too often that a notorious cocktail lounge develops a rep for their burger. Chef Thomas Lim crafted a burger so juicy and indulgent (similar to In-N-Out) that you might pass up the drink menu and go straight for the meaty goodness; a double patty stacked with an overflowing mass of melted American cheese, whole leaves of lettuce, tomato, pickles, confit onions, and “special sauce.” The bar only takes reservations for parties of six or more
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