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Dutch Kills
A low-lit Queens cocktail institution connected to Sasha Petraske's exacting style and custom-drink service.
Why we ranked it a top bar:
At 27-24 Jackson Avenue, Dutch Kills is Queens cocktail history with the lights low. Its connection to Sasha Petraske’s exacting style gives it a lineage, but lineage alone does not keep a bar alive. The room still offers the essential pleasure of being asked what you like and then being given something better than your answer.
Who would like it: serious cocktail drinkers, Long Island City locals, Manhattan skeptics, and anyone who loves bespoke service without downtown theater.
Drinks: custom cocktails, classics, and Petraske-school precision.
Food: not central to the experience.
Crowd: cocktail people, Queens locals, dates, and quiet obsessives.
Best night: Wednesday or Thursday.
Price: $$ in the report.
The report identifies Dutch Kills as one of Queens’s foundational cocktail bars and an essential cocktail-bar-map entry.