Unique Restaurants & Bars in Manhattan

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Test your business savvy and play the market for cocktails at this stock exchange-inspired watering hole.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Discover the taste of mold.