East Village, New York
Reserve via Resy 7 days ahead. Walk-in queue often 60+ minutes.
The Bar That Defined Modern American Cocktails
Death and Co opened on East 6th Street in 2007 and effectively defined the modern American cocktail era. The Cocktail Codex and Death and Co books, both authored here, became required reading for the global craft cocktail movement. The drinks created at this bar — the Naked and Famous, the Oaxaca Old Fashioned — entered the global cocktail vocabulary.
The cocktail menu rotates frequently and runs to over 50 drinks at any time. The bartenders are formally trained and the build is precise. The Oaxaca Old Fashioned is the right first order for any visitor — the bar invented it.
The crowd is mid-thirties cocktail enthusiasts and visiting bartenders. Pair with Attaboy on the LES for the complete East Village + LES cocktail evening.
