Elsewhere is the new offering from Brian Keyser, the owner of the Casellula Cheese & Wine Café. Also specializing in wine and cheese, it’s an attractive space, with exposed brick-work, a dinky enclosed garden area and old-fashioned wine barrels dotted about the front bar and doubling as stools…

The latest offer from the people behind the much loved Dram has a decidedly nautical feel, dotted as it is with captain’s wheels and old ship bits. The cocktails are pre-Prohibition era in origin, neglected recipes coupled with classic drinks. Their spiked punches are particular exciting and the bar also shares its predecessor’s focus on quality spirits…

Despite its name the Hotel Chantelle is not a hotel, it’s a smart, new LES bar that’s been a long time brewing. Based on a bar in Paris, the venue is housed in a nondescript building – but the interior is far from nondescript. The decor is Parisian in a flavour with a 1940s twist; there are elegant burgundy banquettes and an abundance of dark wood in…

The first thing you notice is the fountain. Walk into Ravi DeRossi's East 6th Street bar and restaurant El Cobre (appropriately situated next door to Cienfuegos and Carteles), and you’ll find the room dominated by a statue of the blessed virgin of El Cobre, with her palms out stretched and spouting water…