OUR  STORY

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

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

Visit us at both bars Tuesday through Sunday for cocktails, sake, shochu, Japanese whisky, and delicious drinking snacks.

Walk in only; complete parties seated first-come, first-served.

Accolades:

“Best U.S. Cocktail Bar” Finalist TOTC, 2022 & '18

"World's 50 Best Bars" 51-100, 2022 & '18

James Beard Award “Outstanding Bar Program” Semifinalist, 2018 & '17

“Essential Cocktail Bars of NYC” Eater, 2025

"Best Chicken Wings in 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

“Best Bars in America” Esquire, 2017

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

“Bar of the Year” Bon Appétit, 2016

"Goto's Sakura Martini is an undisputed classic of the modern cocktail scene, one of the few drinks invented in New York in this century that has a good chance of lasting into the next...

...At both locations [Bar Goto and Bar Goto Niban] you can eat celery sticks dressed with shio kombu, the single most compelling treatment of raw celery in existence." (The New York Times)

"Run to Bar Goto for what is perhaps the sexiest lighting in Manhattan: It’s awash with soft amber glow, save for bright, direct beams that illuminate the wooden bar top from on high. Forget what’s on the street outside, and it’s easy to imagine that you’ve stumbled into an intimate cocktail bar in Tokyo. Better yet, [the] cocktails taste sublime, all quiet magic. And the tight roster of carefully executed Japanese drinking snacks—think punchy miso-glazed chicken wings—keep the vibe from feeling ..sanctimonious...

...When we have people we really, really like visiting us in New York, this is where we take them." (Bon Appétit)

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

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