Updated October 2026. This replaces our earlier, shorter version. You can usually tell within about ten minutes whether a cocktail bar is any good. Not from the awards on the wall or the number of followers it has, but from a handful of small things that are very hard to fake. I run Nectar, a Greek and Mediterranean cocktail bar and restaurant at 73 Broughton Street. I have a stake in this question, so read what follows with that in mind. But I also drink in other people's ba