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Double Chicken Please

New York

True to name, Double Chicken Please politely offers a double dose of innovative concepts that earned it the No.1 spot in North America’s 50 Best Bars 2023. Entering the New York City space, guests are immersed in Free Range, a modernist take on the Lower East Side’s traditional soda taps. In the historic, exposed-brick room, the taps now serve kegged seasonal cocktails and beers.

Venturing deeper, one enters The Coop, an elegant lounge where culinary cocktails are the stars. Divided between Appetisers, Mains, and Desserts, the menu offers liquid takes on familiar foods. For example, tequila, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, burnt toast, tomato, basil, honey and egg white are mixed into Cold Pizza. The snacks menu offers actual food, including Taiwanese preparation of the titular chicken. The pioneering libations are the work of co-founders GN Chan and Faye Chen who imagined the venue after a cross-country bar tour in a VW minibus. The pair describe the project as a hacker’s design space; indeed, in DCP they’ve pioneered a new code.

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