In collaboration with Linden Pride from New York’s much acclaimed Dante, Neil Perry has created a comfortable jazz bar below his new Song Bird restaurant, and then some. Plush velvet chairs. A mint-green banquette wrapping the room. Lancelot-Royer Champagne by the glass, ham and gruyere toasties, and even a few caramel chews. It’s early days, and the floor team is still finding its feet, but all signs point to plenty of three-martini lunches and patty melts ahead. Come on down.

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