Chinatown · Speakeasy

Apotheke

It's one of the originals - the apothecary theme and lab-coat bartenders could feel gimmicky elsewhere, but this is the bar that did it first and still does it well on a genuinely atmospheric block.

Date nightGroupsLate night
Neighbourhood
Chinatown
Style
Speakeasy
Known for
An unmarked door disguised behind an old apothecary facade on one of NYC's oldest, crookedest blocks · Bartenders in white lab coats serving 'prescription' cocktails · One of the original 2000s-era bars that helped kick off Chinatown's modern speakeasy scene
Prices
$$$ · cocktails ~$17–21
Getting in
Walk-ins only
Food
Snacks and small plates
Hours
Nightly, roughly 6pm-2am per multiple current guides (confirm current hours - there's no posted sign, just a chemist's symbol by the door)
Address
9 Doyers St, New York, NY 10013

Map

Checked: Confirmed via NYC Tourism's official venue listing, Time Out's and Difford's Guide's current bar guides, and a January 2026 travel itinerary listing it as a current Chinatown stop; no closure found beyond a 2019 incident it reopened from the same night. Note: the bar's own domain currently has an expired SSL certificate, so the website field is left null here rather than linking a broken/insecure page - cross-source confirmation is otherwise solid. Checked Nov 2026.

Photo: an illustration of the mood, not this bar.

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