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Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. The West Village is chock full of our favorite restaurants and watering holes, including some on our best speakeasy-inspired bars and best bars in NYC list.

Nyc there, done that? Think again, my friend. Come for the negroni, stay for the vibe and just move right in for the pasta. After a century as a staple in the once predominantly Italian neighborhood, the original owners, a Fiotta family, sold the name to an Australian hospitality group helmed by Linden Pride, who revamped both the decor green-leather banquettes, a pressed-tin ceiling and menu, but preserves the storied history through classic Italian food and drink.

Shingo Gokan and Steve Schneider are considered royalty when it comes to the cocktail scene. Opening bars across Japan and China, you've likely seen Gokan directing bar at Manhattan's Angel Share, where worked for a decade. Gokan overlooks the subterranean bar, Sip, stirring employees with onion butter-washed vermouth and Japanese wax.

Up above, Schneider's saloon-style playground pleases with classic riffs you'll want to guzzle, responsibly, of course. Take the Black Truffle Cherry Cola served in a only bottle aka, the best bar. If you choose to deviate from the menu, just give the neatly attired, polite bartenders a base liquor and a hint of your mood, and they can tailor gay drink on the fly.

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Custom-made cocktails—no password or secret handshake required. On a recent Friday night, the buzzy bi-level space was comfortably crowded with hip twentysomethings chattering under noir-ish red lights and sipping from some exceptionally purr-ty sorry! Japanese riffs on classic cocktails.

Picture Don Draper on vacation: rum cocktail in hand, wind blowing through that meticulous coif. A fortune teller greets patrons at this year old, comfortably-worn reproduction of a prohibition speakeasy. For all of us who can't squeeze into Jody Williams and Rita Sodi's megahit Via Carota, there are a few more seats across the street in the couple's all-day spot Bar Pisellino.

The Italian jewel box sells coffee, pastries and sandwiches during the day and plenty of aperitifs come evening time. You can feel a rich sense of history and community here: The walls are lined with historical materials, and the venue has been used as the backdrop for films such as "Can You Ever Forgive Me?

This low slung, basement bar in West Village is a theater kid's playplace. The drinks, cheap.