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                <title>Death &amp; Co.</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The best example of NYC's prolific cocktail scene. Steeped in the pre-prohibition craft, these bartenders will make you a memorable cocktail.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Where the beautiful people go</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Pastis is Zagat’s favourite and for good reason; its cocktails are marvellous (a New Yorker’s true bar barometer), its people beautiful and the food ain’t bad either.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tao Restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Great Asian restaurant steeped in New York cool, where you have a good chance of clapping your eyes on a genuine A-lister. Food, music and service all first class at quite reasonable prices. Amazing Kobe beef [again, reasonable prices], which is brought to your table with a steaming bowl of Miso soup, which you place the beef in to cook. A very imaginative cocktail menu, which includes the classy looking and tasty Nirvana. An all round great experience!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cocktails</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A proper end-of-the-day marguerita with more booze than ice in it, served by a truly professional bartender in a proper hotel bar. Do it!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Rooftop Drinking - 230 Fifth</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Manhattan is blessed with all manner of vertiginous drinking establishments. 230 on Fifth however, possesses a number of features which distinguish it as a great place to take in a drink and some views whilst on business. Its central location opposite Madison Square Park means every famous New York skyscraper, brimming with decades of successful deals, loom over you. The smart dress code means you can take an important client there with confidence and the great Malaysian-themed menu means you can avoid the pitfalls and potential embarrassment to colleagues of drinking on an empty stomach. In addition, besides an enormous outdoor terrace, the fancifully decorated interior offers some outstanding vistas even on a chilly winter's evening. Highly recommended.]]></description>
                
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                <title>King Cole bar in the St Regis Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fabulous all-American bar in one of the best NY hotels where the bloody mary was invented. You have to go in the cosy bar with comfortable leather armchairs, fabulously attentive staff, lovely nibbles and, of course, the best bloody mary in town.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Vlada Lounge/Bar</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Recently opened in Hells Kitchen. This really is a sexy place - with no attitude and a good vibe.  It's billed as a 'stylish, sophisticated gay bar'. Early evening is happy hour, half-price martinis. America seems to like 'shaken' martinis - everyone knows they should be stirred but, what the hell, when in the USA, do as the Americans do.  <br><br>They're lethal. The music gets going a little later, and an upstairs level opens up, doubling the capacity. It's dark, loud and full of gorgeous boys and girls - many still in their work suits, others out for the evening. I was out on the town on my own, and I really liked it there - the people were friendly and were happy to chat. I left, several hours later, staggering, but smiling.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Grand Central Station - balcony cocktail bar</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Enjoy feeling part of the New York scene, especially early evening on a weekday, overlooking the beautifully elegant concourse of Grand Central Station and watching the world go by. Ideal for people watchers!]]></description>
                
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                <title>The View Lounge/Restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A revolving rooftop cocktail lounge/restaurant with absolutely stunning views over Manhattan. The full revolution takes about an hour and is particularly magical at night whilst enjoying a cocktail in style - not cheap, but well worth it - and the sensation of sitting inside a panoramic postcard of Manhattan. Particularly enjoyable if you are nosy is peering into the rooms of a high rise residence as you pass by...]]></description>
                
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