Owl's Tail

Upper West Side & Central Park


A snazzy neighborhood cocktail bar that feels more downtown than UWS with its cozy banquet sofa seating, tiled flooring and industrially bent lighting. Owl art, from Northwest Coast style to wooden carvings to a stupendous mural, pepper the place. The highly social L-shaped bar is your perfect perch for popular beat-the-heat cocktails like Bicycle Thief (Campari, gin, grapefruit, lemon, simple syrup and seltzer).

It's one of the coolest bars near-ish Lincoln Sq.


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