When the VinePair team isn’t busy working at HQ, we’re in the field doing what we do best: scoping out the best cocktails, wine, and beer in the five boroughs. Here are the cool, current, and flat-out excellent drinks you should try in New York right now, according to our editors.
After a scorching summer and steamy September, the VinePair team is more than ready to settle into autumn in New York. And along with our sweatshirts and fleece-lined jackets, we’re pulling some of our favorite seasonal drinking pastimes out of storage. Some of us are hitting our neighborhood haunts for creamy pints of Guinness, vermouth service, or Georgian wine. Others are spending their chillier nights parked at hotel bars or dropping into new, subterranean hotspots for Martinis and Midori-spiked cocktails. And after some careful research — we’ll call it imbibing with enthusiasm — we’ve narrowed down our favorite cups and cocktails we’ve encountered this month.
Here are the best things to drink in NYC this October, according to our editors.
A Cold Guinness at Inga’s Bar Credit: VinePair Staff
As we come into fall, one of our favorite things to drink is a fresh pint of Guinness, and one of the best pints in Brooklyn is at Inga’s Bar. They don’t have branded glassware, so you can’t “split the G,” but they pour a perfect pint — an “absolute creamer,” as Guinness enthusiasts would say. It’s the ideal neighborhood bar and restaurant with great drinks and fantastic food. We’re
