Lexington Bar & Books

Formal and cozy? Armchairs, shelves of books, top-shelf cognacs, and single malts served by pearl-bedecked cocktail waitresses. Pretentious, yeah, but you'll feel like a grown up for a change. Wear a suit jacket and wax nostalgic about the good old days of Ought Three, or bone up on your Hemingway while you nurse a nice buzz. Stogie sales equal loophole in Bloomberg's ban, thus smoking is permitted...in fact, it's encouraged. Take that, Dr. C. Everett Koop!