The Wooly

If you think vinyl bars are officially post-cool, The Wooly might be cool enough for you, with its library of cassette tapes and CDs, and fantastic sound system playing yacht rock. This Nolita bar and restaurant leans hard into a ’70s aesthetic, with forest-scape wallpaper and a few taxidermied birds, stopping just short of throwing a plastic cover over the leather booth in a sunny corner. Soak up your orgeat and amaro-laced whiskey sour with raw bar items and loungey snacks, like deviled egg tea sandwiches, or bigger things like miso-brined steelhead trout. And while The Wooly would be a solid place to wait for your table at Thai Diner, we could also see ourselves throwing back a few, accidentally forgetting our dinner plans, and floating away on a “Summer Breeze.”