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Clover Club
A foundational Brooklyn cocktail room where pre-Prohibition technique, dark wood, and careful glassware still feel current.
Why we ranked it a top bar:
At 210 Smith Street, Clover Club remains one of Brooklyn’s great temples of civilized intoxication. It is not new, and thank heaven for that. Newness is too often the garish cousin of quality. Here, the pre-Prohibition spirit is not a costume but a discipline: shaken egg whites, dark wood, careful glassware, and bartenders who appear to believe that a cocktail deserves a spine.
Who would like it: classic-cocktail loyalists, people who want a grown-up room, brunch drinkers, and groups that want polish without Manhattan stiffness.
Drinks: deep classic-cocktail work, house signatures, and drinks with historic manners.
Food: more substantial than the usual cocktail-bar scraps.
Crowd: Carroll Gardens regulars, cocktail students, old friends at booths.
Best night: Wednesday for conversation; Saturday brunch for daylight indulgence.
Price: $$ in the report.
The report identifies Clover Club as one of Brooklyn’s foundational cocktail rooms and a top-tier Time Out Brooklyn pick.