Campbell from William Kissam Vanderbilt II, whose family built the Terminal. The space was first leased in 1923 by John W. Located in the southwestern corner of the Grand Central Terminal building-above the northeastern corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue-the space is reached by a staircase from the terminal's balcony level. Temporarily closed in 2016, the bar was reopened the following year under new management. Renovations in 19 restored the space to its original opulence at a total cost of nearly $2 million. It was later used as office space, as a studio by CBS and as a jail by Metro-North Railroad. Campbell, a member of the New York Central Railroad's board of directors. The space, long known as the Campbell Apartment, was once the office of American financier John W. The Campbell is a bar and cocktail lounge in Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. You’ll go down an alley to get to the entrance where you’ll ultimately find The Back Room and its lovely décor and charming vibe.The space as John Campbell's office, c. This speakeasy was operational during Prohibition, and when you enter, you’ll be using the same entrance from back then. The Back Room: Set on Norfolk Street, consider it a game of hide-and-seek to find the placeĪt The Back Room, you’ll be drinking your alcohol out of teacups. La Milagrosa offers great mezcal cocktails ($11), great music and great ceviche. La Milagrosa – 149 Havemeyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211īar hidden behind a laundromat, you need to make a reservation to make your way inside this bar through a freezer door. PDT is as real as it can get! Beautiful hand crafted cocktails ($17) wait for you behind a secret wall within the phone booth. Not only is this bar hidden inside a hot dog shop called Crif Dogs, it’s hidden behind a phone booth inside the hot dog shop. Please Don’t T ell – 113 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009 Daytime haircuts and night time a class cocktail bar ($15), love this concept! Blind barber is so refreshingly unique. Have you been to a barber shop and realized there is a bar in the back. Blind Barber – 339 E 10th St, New York, NY 10009 The interiors are definitely worth a mention and yet another place with great cocktails ($20). Yes, “ The Campbell” is hidden inside the world famous, Grand Central station. This speakeasy is cleverly hidden in plain sight in the busiest metro station in New York city. The Campbell – 15 Vanderbilt Ave, New York, NY 10017 The Amelia, a vodka based cocktail is consistently the top-seller, generating over $1.4 million in gross revenue. Apart from great cocktails ($17), their food game is also very strong. Look for a red neon sign advertising a psychic and then for the live tarot card reader, and behind the red curtains you’ll find “ Employees only”. Employees Only – 510 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014 The menu is called ‘prescription’ and the bartenders are dressed in lab coats. In the spirit of Chinatown, all cocktails ($20) in Apotheke are made with local and organic herbs from Chinatown by bartenders that look like chemists. Our personal favorite, this bar is marked by a chemist sign outside the door. Apotheke – 9 Doyers St #1, New York, NY 10013 A copper bathtub in the middle of the bar is the perfect photo op for instalovers. A secret door that seamlessly blends with the walls of the coffee shop is a bar famous for it’s gin-based cocktails ($15). Hidden behind the Stone Street Coffee Company is the Bathtub Gin. Bathtub Gin – 132 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011 Now that we have clearly defined our very high speakeasy standards, let’s have a look at the 8 most mind blowing speakeasies in the coolest neighborhoods in New York City. c) While the drinks need to taste exceptionally great, they need to look beautiful too for the instaaddict in everybody that drinks for the gram. b) The interiors and the ambiance of course, duhhhh, it’s all about the experience. These according to us are the characteristics of an amazing Speakeasy: a) The harder it is to figure out where the entrance is, the better. Nobody is heard or seen, works like a charm! You pull out the drawer, drop in your change, shove the drawer back, call for what you want and then pull out the drawer again and there it is, “Straight” or “Spiked” just as you’d have it. A drawer runs into a wall of what appears to be a billiard saloon. No man knows who discovered the term “Speakeasy”, they are basically ‘holes in the wall’ or let’s just call them ‘watering holes in the wall’. Long ago, in the prohibition-era America, the “speakeasy” became a common name to describe a place to get an illicit drink. “Whisper, Speakeasy, the police are watching”!
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