Bars / Cocktail bar / Boerum Hill

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9.2 / 10

Barely Disfigured

Proper cocktails under red light, in a Boerum Hill room with a past.

MUSEENYC · August 18, 2026

Where
257 Smith St, Boerum HillOpen in Google Maps ↗
Price
$$$
Go when
After dinner
Good for
A date · Cocktails · Late night

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Proper cocktails, red light, and a room that trades on its own history — the building is said to have been an illegal brothel, and the bar has never gone out of its way to correct the story. It’s the one to take a date to when you want the room doing some of the work.

What to know

Better after dinner than instead of it. Prices sit at the upper end for the neighborhood, which is the trade for the room.

257 Smith St, Boerum Hill. Directions in Google Maps ↗