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The Narrows: The Bar Gods have apparently made it their goal for 2010 to put at least one speakeasy-inspired classic cocktail lounge in each and every neighborhood on the brink of gentrification. They can now check Bushwick off their list with the opening of the Narrows. Yep, it’s all there—art-deco mirrors, Depression-era tile work, a low-lit backyard, and the requisite bartenders in vests and moustaches. The bar stocks wine from The Brooklyn Collective and a decent number of microbrews, but it’s the cocktails, of course, that make you venture to a place like The Narrows. Unfortunately, the drinks don’t quite live up to their swingin’names. Two favorites—Lucky Lindy and Caufield’s Dream ($8-10)—sound enticing (both are gin based, topped with a cava float) but are sticky sweet. Come here for the quiet, spacious back patio, and ponder the irony of sipping pricey cocktails in a bar designed to conjure the Depression, located in a neighborhood not quite out of theirs.
* Photographs by Erwin Caluya
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