New York Magazine

In the past decade, Rockwell’s has passed through a private-party stage and a popular gay-weekend stage to become basically a college bar in training; the bar manager is trying to lure students from the satellite campus of Long Island University.

A comfy bar and cafe with the slightest hints of brasserie glitz.

A solid Irish pub-and-grub that caters to both Brooklyn Heights locals and the corporate crowd.

This 90-year-old neighborhood joint is favored mostly by the local Borough Hall crowd; non-regulars might not even notice this bar, since it doesn’t prominently display its name.

Whatever low expectations you have of a bar in a DIY-minded art gallery, leave them at this elegant drinkery’s iron gates.

Speak Low delivers more charm than one would expect from a basement barroom tucked underneath a chain restaurant.