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Double Chicken Please

New York

A two-part bar with culinary cocktails and killer chicken sandwiches

The daily queue that spills out of the entrance and extends down Allen Street is your human signpost to Double Chicken Please. Since opening five years ago this bar, more than any other, has become the darling of the New York scene and a trailblazer of its culinary cocktail trend. 

GN Chan and Faye Chen's bar may have felt like an overnight success (it debuted at No.6 in The World's 50 Best Bars in 2022 and took top spot in the North America list in 2023), but this was a concept that matured in their minds for some years, evolving from a touring pop-up to its bricks-and-mortar Lower East Side location. 

The result was not one bar but two. At the front is Free Range, a modernist take on the locale's soda tap tradition – updated to serve kegged seasonal cocktails and beers in an informal setting. 

Through the open partition is The Coop, a dark and sleek lounge that majors on culinary cocktails. These are not just ingredient-led savoury drinks, but go one step further, actually mimicking classical dishes. They're all show-stoppers, but if you're a first-timer try the Japanese Cold Noodle (rum, pineapple, cucumber, coconut, lime, sesame) or the Key Lime Pie (gin, plum, winter melon, sweet cream, egg white, lime, soda). Then, if you want to go savoury-sonic there's Cold Pizza or even Thai Curry.

You'll probably want some food with your food and this is your order (in both senses of word): get the Hot Honey Chicken Sandwich.

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