The French Toast is a vodka-based flip-style cocktail garnished with a bittersweet Espresso Martini–flavored “Oreo” rested on the rim of the glass.
• The front room is walk-in only, but if you want to visit the back room, it’s best to get a reservation. Reservations drop at midnight, six days in advance.
NICE TO KNOW
The neighborhood is packed with icons of the cocktail renaissance: Death & Co., PDT and Attaboy are all within walking distance. But there are plenty of new bars nearby worth checking out, too, like Superbueno, a maximalist bar inspired by Mexican American tradition, and Tigre, a sleek sibling to Maison Premiere.
NOTABLE AND NEARBY
From left: The bar’s take on cold pizza—a reverse-engineered margherita Margarita; co-founder Faye Chen.
Name a trend that defines our modern era of drinking—culinary cocktails, rotovaps, pre-batched drinks on tap, maximalism—and you’re likely to find it at Double Chicken Please. Nostalgia is a vital part of the bar, whether it’s in the culinary cocktails inspired by comfort foods, like French toast and red-eye gravy, or the front room decked out with brass taps that call back to the Lower East Side’s bygone soda shops. It’s hardly, however, a gimmick or a theme bar. What Double Chicken Please does best is lean into the playful absurdity of taking an immense amount of precision and R&D to reverse-engineer something like cold pizza into liquid form (a margherita Margarita, if you will). In the back room, there is no backbar; bottles are hidden behind a painting of a chicken crashing into an ice cream cone. The bar may use laboratory-like techniques, but the vibe is far from cold. When describing the space, co-owner GN Chan said: “I want people to feel like they’ve come to visit our home.”
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The neighborhood is packed with icons of the cocktail renaissance: Death & Co., PDT and Attaboy are all within walking distance. But there are plenty of new bars nearby worth checking out, too, like Superbueno, a maximalist bar inspired by Mexican American tradition, and Tigre, a sleek sibling to Maison Premiere.
NOTABLE AND NEARBY
• The front room is walk-in only, but if you want to visit the back room, it’s best to get a reservation. Reservations drop at midnight, six days in advance.
NICE TO KNOW
The bar’s take on cold pizza is a reverse-engineered margherita Margarita.
The French Toast is a vodka-based flip-style cocktail garnished with a bittersweet Espresso Martini–flavored “Oreo” rested on the rim of the glass.