GRUBSTREET: The Absolute Best Downtown Date Bar in New York

By Vanita Salisbury
June 7, 2016

We’ve already named the best date bar uptown, and now it’s time to do the same for downtown. Here, our seven choices for the darkest, most romantic spots below 14th Street, from a slick Tribeca boîte to a graffiti-adorned sake bar.

This Tribeca outpost of Kathryn Weatherup’s Prospect Heights boîte is a slick, amber-lit space serving up classic and original boozy quaffs by Richard Boccato (Dutch Kills). Order one of those, or show off your wild and crazy personality and order bespoke — you really can’t go wrong. Move past the crowded front bar space to the back, where booths beckon you to snuggle in for oysters and bar snacks like artichoke gratin and truffled cheese toast from No. 7’s Tyler Kord.