The Fake Gatsby

Published on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, by Kara Zuaro / Edit Post

Address: 20-22 Seventh Avenue S., at Leroy Street
Phone: 212-929-4360
Hours: Daily 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Little Branch
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• Entryway

A flight of stairs marked with a subtle brass plaque.

• Décor

Slightly musty, lantern-lit, high-backed booths, and 1940s photographs.

• Specialties

The refreshing Fruit Cup Rangoon, Little Branch’s version of the Pimm’s Cup, is served with a metal spoon-straw for scooping up fresh blackberries and thin slices of cucumber, and is cooled with a large rectangular ice cube. Oversize ice cubes are a signature ingredient at all of owner Sasha Petraske’s establishments: Bartenders chisel them off blocks as needed so that they fit snugly into glasses. The larger the cube, the slower it melts, which helps avoid a watered-down drink. Note that Little Branch accepts cash only.

• Best Bottle on Shelf

12-year and 18-year vintages of Elijah Craig Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.

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  • Sick of all these pussy-ass hipster places... give me the Hemingway anyday

  • I hadn't realized the comments are linked to reviews of all six bars.
    By THIS place I meant the NYC B Flat.

  • The entrance to THIS place looks so much like the entrance to "b-flat" in Tokyo, one of the most comfortable jazz clubs in the city.

    I wonder if anyone in NYC is interested in a comment like this.

  • yawn

  • i tried to introduce a topic six months ago about great little known bars in Manhattan...and it was taken off and I got an email from Chow explaining that this was a food-centric site.....how is this article different from my topic. Thats just annoying

  • "making a comeback in New York City"
    Yeah, last year. This is such old news.