Drinks in Midtown

A trolley car parked here in 1931 and never left. The stage is hung with tinsel and old 45s, and the map by the bathroom is old enough to still show the Warsaw Pact. Betty Butts took it over in 2000 and charges bands no production fee, which is how it became home base for the noise and free-jazz players.

Until midnight daily · Walk-in dive; cash is safest and shows are rarely advertised.

Corner of 19th and Broadway, with more than 70 beers on tap and a Cajun-leaning menu. The bar runs to 3am daily; the kitchen stops at nine or ten.

Bar until 3am daily, kitchen until 9 or 10pm

Built into the old boiler house of White Way Cleaners in Edgehill Village, with the 1920s coal hopper and smoke stack left in place. There is no sign. Look for the gold triangle off Edgehill Ave.

5pm to 1am daily

James and Louisa Green opened it in a converted Charlotte Avenue repair shop in 2020 and left the SERVICE DEPT. sign hanging over the bar. Cocktails and tacos, and the door stays open until two on weekends.

Until midnight Mon through Thu, 2am Fri and Sat, 11pm Sun · Walk-in bar.

Division Street bar with a kitchen, open from eleven in the morning until three the next. Cheap and loud and reliably there when everything else has shut.

11am to 3am daily

In the old Café Coco space on Louise Ave, still pulling the Vanderbilt crowd. Coffee and Japanese comfort food until 3pm. Cocktails heavy on amaro Thursday through Monday from 5. Happy hour 5 to 7.

Dinner hours