Manhattan is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in New York City. Rye whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters stirred over ice and strained into a chilled coupe with a brandied cherry. Start with where to eat Manhattan in New York City.
Manhattan · New York City
Rye whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters stirred over ice and strained into a chilled coupe with a brandied cherry. The drink that gave the borough its name in the late 1800s; canonical NYC bar order.
The Manhattan emerged at New York bars in the 1870s and 1880s, with a Manhattan Club origin story long attached to a Lady Randolph Churchill banquet (the 'Winston's mother' tale that was debunked when historians showed Lady Churchill was in England that month). The classic 2:1 rye-to-sweet-vermouth ratio with Angostura crystallised by the 1900s and the cocktail was codified in Jerry Thomas's later bartender manuals. Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle, Death & Co and Attaboy run defensible classical versions; the brandied cherry (not maraschino) is the modern bartender's standard.
Where to eat in New York City:
- Katz's Delicatessen
- Atomix
Where to eat Manhattan in New York City: the editor picks