Angel’s Share, an influential cocktail bar that was open in the East Village for more than 30 years, made headlines when it closed during the pandemic over a dispute with its landlord. The legendary bar returned at this new address this summer, where Erina Yoshida, the daughter of the original owner, is now running the show. It has new food and drink menus, with seating for 60 people.

Williamsburg cocktail bar Donna closed in 2020 after almost a decade in business. Now, the bar is back in Manhattan and it’s owned by its employees. On the menu: a mushroom Old Fashioned and the Brancolada, a creamy, slushy drink the original bar was known for.

The team behind the Manhattan bars Ray’s and Pebble Bar opened Jac’s on Bond this year. The Noho bar operates out of a restored townhouse built in the 1830s: Well-dressed customers and the occasional celebrity sip on drinks made with dill, cold brew, apricot, and lime. In an interview with Vogue, a partner at the bar described it this way: “We wanted it to be a watering hole — a place where you can go get a drink that’s not too fancy, but you know, fancy enough.”

Lise & Vito is a new natural wine bar in Greenpoint. Wines are divided into categories — sparking, white, orange, pink, and red — with roughly a dozen available by the glass (around $15 each) and a larger list of bottles. There are a handful of cocktails, too, including a Cosmopolitan and a mezcal margarita. The bar is owned by Brittany Myrick, a former sommelier at the Michelin-starred restaurant Estela whose career in wine started at Roberta’s pizza in Bushwick.

This Mexican American cocktail bar comes from a former employee of Ghost Donkey, a popular bar in the East Village that closed during the pandemic: It was a hangout for restaurant industry workers who lined its counter after other bars closed. Superbueno is going for a similar vibe. It serves drinks until 2 a.m. each night, and customers chase mezcal shots with beef consomé. Cocktails like a green mango martini and salted tamarind milk punch start at around $20.

Michael Solomonov, a famed Philadelphia restaurateur, is on an opening spree in New York City: He’s behind Laser Wolf, which opened here last year, and K’Far, located in the same building. Jaffa is the latest and probably last to open in the foreseeable future: The cocktail bar is located on an outdoor terrace at the Hoxton Hotel in Williamsburg. There’s a short food menu with oysters and shrimp cocktails, but the signature order is a frozen cocktail that tastes like a creamsicle.

ElNico is a new cocktail bar on the rooftop of the Penny hotel in Williamsburg. The drinks and food are expensive for the area, and part of what you’re paying for is the view. Cocktails, like a tomato martini and an Old Fashioned made with black sesame, cost between $18 to $20 each. The bar serves a full food menu of fancy Mexican dishes, like a sope with caviar and carne asada with bone marrow.

320 Club feels like a grown-up dive bar: an intentionally retro place where it’s possible to order a beer and shot combo for $6, during happy hour, and also a well-made Negroni. The bar is located in the back of Super Burrito, a burrito shop with two locations in the city. It serves a separate late-night food menu with burgers and nachos.

A chef trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine teamed up with a nightlife producer to open this new venue in Bushwick: It operates as a teahouse and dim sum spot during the day and a club with cabaret at night. Look out for a menu of congee made with purple rice and Chinese millet and drinks like herbal shots with vodka, baijiu, and blends of herbs.

Queer bars are on a hot streak: Oddly Enough, a lesbian-owned cocktail bar, opened last year in Bed-Stuy, and Mary’s Bar, a queer pub that’s also on this list, is newly arrived in Greenpoint. The latest to open is the Bush, a high-ceilinged “dyke bar” with disco balls and neon lights. In addition to cocktails, there are beef patties supplied by Tower Isles Cafe in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn.

Anaïs is the latest wine bar project from the team behind Brooklyn bars June, Rucola, and Rhodora. The bar — which serves wines, and cocktails, as well as nibbles — doubles as a bookstore and library, selling a selection of titles the team imagined the author Anaïs Nin would own. Though it’s billed as a home for erotica, the website Hell Gate argues that the smut could be dialed up a few notches.