Sun 13 Sep
Five New York rooms you can sit in tonight.
Sunday is the softest night of the week in New York, and tonight is all door. Not one of these five takes a booking you need, and two of them pour past 10pm if you eat late.
We never hold, resell or book a table. Availability moves minute to minute, so go early rather than late.
Uva
Upper East Side
An Italian wine bar on Second Avenue with a glassed-in back garden strung with vines and small lights. Deep by-the-glass list, plates made for sharing, and a room that lets two people talk for hours.
walk in — they take the door every night of the week
Their own site: "We welcome walk-ins every night of the week and reservations can be made via Resy." Sunday 11am to 1am.
Ruffian
East Village
Twenty-odd seats along a counter on East 7th Street, pouring Georgian, Greek and Austrian bottles by candlelight. Small plates arrive built around whatever they have opened for you that evening.
walk in and take the counter
Their own site invites you to "drop in for a glass" and lists Sunday hours of 3pm to 10:30pm. Bookings exist as well, so the counter is the door.
Aria
West Village
A narrow room at the quiet south end of Bedford Street, lined with bottles and lit low. Italian small plates and honest glasses, the kind of place a block keeps to itself.
walk in — there is no way to book them
Their own site lists Sunday hours of 11:30am to 11pm and carries no booking page or reservation link anywhere. It is a small room, so earlier is easier.
The Long Island Bar
Cobble Hill
A 1951 bar on Atlantic Avenue restored down to the neon, the chrome and the butterscotch booths. Toby Cecchini's daiquiris, a serious burger, and no reason at all to hurry.
walk in — there is no booking page to use
Their own site lists Sunday hours of 2pm to 12am and carries no reservation link anywhere on it. Loaded again this afternoon.
Roman's
Fort Greene
A short menu on DeKalb Avenue, rewritten every afternoon around whatever the farms sent that morning. Warm wood, a bar you can eat dinner at, and wine that leans natural without lecturing.
walk in — they say the door is always welcome
Their own site: "Reservations available via Resy, and we always welcome walk-ins." Sunday dinner 5pm to 10:30pm.
None of these work tonight? Tell us what does — $12.
Your party, your neighborhood, your hour. One person researches tonight and sends three to five rooms with the way in, under 10 minutes.
We loaded every one of these pages ourselves before writing this. Check their hours again before you put your coat on.
That’s tonight. Coat, keys, go.