Downtown’s Hotel Solamar unveiled the newly renovated Upper East Side Bar in May. Found atop of—and serviced by—Jsix restaurant, the second-floor venue features lounge chairs scattered throughout its 7,000 square foot space. The bar accommodates as many as 550 reception-style.
Queensborough Cocktail Lounge, a 1920s New York-inspired spot named for the borough of Queens, opened in Downtown San Diego in July. The top floor, Uptown Queensborough, is an 1,800-square-foot venue with leather-bound booths, antique brass fixtures, and marble-topped tables. It features brick walls and original New York City subway tokens inlaid in the mosaic bar floor, and it seats 55 for events. The lower floor, Downtown Queensborough, is set to open later this month. The 6,000-square-foot social club will be designed like NYC’s subways, with white tiled walls, vintage subway signs, metro booth seats, overhead subway grip handles, a custom DJ booth, private whiskey lockers, a full-service bar, a roving cocktail cart, live jazz, and a build-your-own-barrel-aged-cocktail program, according to San Diego Magazine.
