Clovis Nicolas Quartet (Until 2 AM)

Before

0.3 mi · 7 min walk - Greenwich Village

Domenico Parisi opened this on MacDougal Street in 1927 and the 1902 espresso machine he bought is still standing in the front. The walls are hung with Italian paintings and an old Medici bench, and nobody hurries you off a marble table. It runs to three in the morning most nights, which is later than almost any other café in the neighborhood.

After

0.4 mi · 8 min walk - West Village

Open on the Hudson Street corner since 1880, with the carved horse heads and the long dark bar still in place. Dylan Thomas drank his last here and the tavern has never once stopped mentioning it. It changed hands in 2019 and the fittings, the layout and the beer-and-a-shot pricing survived the handover.