![]() Hosted by Charles von Herrlich, our co-owner & wine expert, wine tours are more party than tour. Lounge at Atera, 77 Worth Street (near Church Street), TriBeCa (212) 226-1444 for birthday parties, showers, special events, and any and all gatherings for family & friends. Named the Strato, it’s a layered affair composed of coffee, cream and one and a half ounces of the bitter Italian amaro Fernet Branca. The restaurant’s idea of a nightcap, however, sounds Atera wants diners to think of the den as a before- and/or after-dinner option. There are also four coffee choices the Chemex entry will set you back $18. The completed cocktail is placed on a slate plank. Duff preps most drinks by blasting each glass with a shot of cooling liquid nitrogen. Saffron-infused gin with house-made tonic.) Prices run from $15 to $18. (It’s not on the menu yet, but look for an intensely aromatic And in the Sass, rye and a sassafras root syrup fight for flavor dominance but ultimate call it a draw. A drink called the Loose Tai injected the Mai Tai formula with a malt syrup that blendsĭeeply and complexly with the dark rum. as well as a ground sumac berry garnish - lending what is basically a pisco sour an added bitter dimension. The sumac in the Sour Sumac comes as a syrup The chef’s touch arrives in the form of unusual ingredients (marigold, saffron, sorrel, geranium) and unexpected flavors that leap out of familiar cocktail constructs. Lightner said he wanted the cocktails to “match philosophically with the food.” Indeed,Ī few of the drinks served in the lounge will accompany certain dishes upstairs. ![]() Matthew Lightner and the Atera team, which includes the bartender Brandon Duff, formerly of Weather Up TriBeCa. The list, currently nine drinks strong, is a collaboration between the chef There are a handful of wines by the glass ($12 to $40 ) and beers ($10 to $16), but the focus is on cocktails. Diners who have reservations upstairs get dibs on a certain number of seats, but some space will be set To get a space here you need only to e-mail Reservations are first come, first served. The brashest thing in the room may have been the incongruous soundtrack, with early 1970s selections by Elton John and Joe Cocker. ![]() The men wore dark suits, open collar, no tie the single woman present donned a simpleīlack dress. ![]() No vibrant colors messed with the design scheme. The men and women who scored first-night seats seemed to have dressed to blend in. (Would a bar with only one stool really count as a bar?) Hand-troweled concrete walls of dark gray seal the darkened room’s cool, subdued, no-one’s-going-to-find-me-here feel. The two-stool bar, meanwhile, is probably the smallest More expansive parties can occupy a single four-seat couch. Black leather chairs face each other over simple, square, flat wooden tables. The lucky few who knew the place was open reported to a shiny elevator near the maitre d’ desk and took a one-flight journey down to an L-shaped, The Lounge at Atera, a 12-seat bar, opened for business Tuesday night downstairs from Atera, the 18-seat TriBeCa restaurant that has won acclaim (and three stars from Pete Wells of The Times) for its elaborate tasting menu. And it’s right under a reigning den of exclusivity. Starter, an occasional column, takes a look at newly opened restaurants and bars. Credit Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times ![]()
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