The 5 Cocktail Bars That Make The Upper East Side Worth Staying Uptown For

Five bars currently define serious drinking on the Upper East Side, and between them they cover just about every register the neighborhood has to offer. Bemelmans Bar, inside The Carlyle at 35 East 76th Street, remains the UES’s unofficial official cocktail bar, its Ludwig Bemelmans murals and nightly piano intact since the 1940s. The Lounge by Casa Tua, part of the newly reborn Surrey at 20 East 76th Street, brought Miami-honed glamour to Madison Avenue and stays open to the public until…

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