Bar Goto is an award-winning Lower East Side cocktail bar known for outstanding cocktails, relaxed, welcoming service, and some of the best bar snacks in New York City, since 2015.

In 2020, bartender-owner Kenta Goto and team expanded to open sister bar, Bar Goto Niban, on Bergen Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn (near Barclays Center).

Visit us at both bars for cocktails, sake, shochu, Japanese whisky, and small plates. Open Tuesday through Sunday. No reservations; complete parties seated first-come, first-served.

Accolades:

“Essential Cocktail Bars of NYC” Eater, 2025

“Best Bars in New York City”  Condé Nast Traveler, 2024

“Best Cocktail Bars in the U.S.”  Food & Wine, 2023

“Best Martinis in America"  Esquire, 2023

"World's 50 Best Bars"  51-100, 2022 & 2018

“Best U.S. Cocktail Bar”  TOTC Finalist, 2022 & 2018

James Beard Award “Outstanding Bar Program”  Semifinalist, 2018 & 2017

Esquire “Best Bars in America” 2017

“Bar of the Year”  Time Out New York, 2017

“Bar of the Year”  Bon Appétit, 2016

⚲ BAR GOTO 245 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002 [map]

⚲ BAR GOTO NIBAN 474 Bergen St. Brooklyn, NY 11217 [map]