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With its candy-colored Caribbean feel and shabby-chic aesthetic, this East Village rum bar feels like a jaunty, pre-Fidel Havana. Enter through Carteles (the Cuban sandwich shop on the ground floor) and head toward the back, where a refined maître d' awaits, ready to escort your party to the lounge upstairs. The color palette--lots of greens and pinks, highlighted by candles and the glow of mismatched lamps--casts a shadowy warmth about the bar. Friendly cocktail waitresses scoot from table to table, delivering craft concoctions like the El Cobre (aged rum, Armagnac brandy, blood orange...

With only a few bar stools and waitresses shuttling drinks to and fro at all times, the white and blue tiled bar feels like more of a service station than a place to sit and have a drink. Stick to table service.

Delicately crumbling Cuban rum bar from liquor aesthetes behind Mayahuel and Death & Co. Batista-nostalgic jewel box of ‘50s pink and green, curly ironwork, tin cups. Sugarcane specialties poured by the finger, punch bowls in four sizes. Mixology queen Charlotte Voisey's fizzes, coladas share stool space with guest sips from likes of St. John Frizell, Jim Ryan, whose 6-Toe Punch is an ode to...

With its candy-colored Caribbean feel and shabby-chic aesthetic, this East Village rum bar feels like a jaunty, pre-Fidel Havana. Enter through Carteles (the Cuban sandwich shop on the ground...