Nurse Bettie

Nurse Bettie

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Posted 2011-05-05 by No longer writing for Weekend Notesfollow
Nestled in next to New York's secret speakeasy The Back Room, is quite the classy dive - all exposed brick, low lighting and top shelf offerings.

A heady tribute to buxom 50's pin-up Bettie Page , this Lower East side bar oozes under-the-table elegance. An extended happy hour including cheap but oh-so-classy cocktails ensure that clientele is a mix of tipsy ladies with smudged red lipstick and gentlemen dapper in their (second-hand) suits. And of course us, and a dishevelled German tourist who stumbled in later: the waylaid Back Room-seekers.

Pin-up bars are few and far between, and the novelty of a host of smouldering Bettie Paige angels warrants a visit to the bathroom at least. Anywhere you can sprawl on leather couches and drink a G&T for $5 without having to watch a football match is worth a visit in my book - and at $14 a creamy Night Nurse cocktail is hardly a splurge.

Best of all, Bettie has a healthy weeknight dance floor culture that flourishes under the watch of a bevy of handsome bartenders.

It's the suavest cheap drinking in the Lower East Side. Or so say the people who haven't made it next door...

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