Honey's opened in 2016 on Scott Avenue in Bushwick, the tasting-room and bar arm of Enlightenment Wines — the urban meadery operated by Raphael Lyon. The room is small, candlelit, and built around a single proposition: that mead, made well from a single producer, deserves the same shelf attention as wine and cocktails. The cocktail list rotates seasonally and leans on the meadery's own production.
It is the right room for a Friday-night detour after a Bogart Street gallery walk, a date that should feel a degree off the Williamsburg script, or anyone who has never had a cold-pressed mead. It is the wrong room for big rounds, for a cocktail snob who refuses honey-based spirits, or for anyone allergic to wax candles. The Infatuation's Brooklyn coverage calls it 'one of the best-kept reservations-free seats in Bushwick.'
A small, candlelit storefront with a poured-concrete bar, a sliver of patio out the back, and exposed brick walls. Eater New York's Bushwick coverage frames the space as 'closer to a tasting room than a cocktail bar,' which is accurate. The room is quiet enough for conversation; the patio fills first in summer.
Start with a flight of three meads ($24, picked by the bar) before ordering a cocktail. The seasonal cocktail list is short and built on the meadery's own ferments — the bar's Honey Negroni ($15) and a rotating spritz ($14) are the recurring orders. Regulars on r/Brooklyn consistently recommend the by-the-glass natural wine list as a sleeper move and the cured-fish snack plate ($16) as the right pairing.
Bushwick locals and a small natural-wine industry crowd Wednesday and Thursday; mixed weekend crowd Friday and Saturday after 21:00. Time Out New York's Bushwick bar coverage notes the room fills slowly and never quite tips into a party.
Honey's official site; Enlightenment Wines producer notes; Punch Magazine; The Infatuation; Eater New York; Time Out New York; r/Brooklyn; Google Maps reviews (n=800+).