![]() “With Cyllan, and his expertise, we’re gonna be the best cocktail bar in the universe that just happens to be underground," he says. A ten year lease leaves plenty of time to achieve his other casual ambitions for Nothing Really Matters. Gallo plans to introduce snacks (likely chips, caviar and crème fraîche) in the coming weeks, and frozen drinks will follow closer to the summer. “It kind of says it on everyone's face that actually walks in: They're wowed by the space, they're immediately transported somewhere else,” he says. “I knew that there was a precedent for this little subway station,” Gallo says. That beloved dive haunted this same passageway in the late 90s. He recalled the space’s previous iteration as the famed Siberia bar’s original location. Toggle on or off Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode. Gallo inked his deal for the quirky location after a long search in the months before the pandemic. Taskbar settings appear, which include icon size, taskbar location, and auto-hide settings. Classics, low- and no-ABV options are all on the menu. Cocktails like the Empire State (vodka, maple, spiced apple, lemon), Knickerbocker bramble (bourbon, rosemary-blueberry compote, lemon) and the Time Out (Jamaican hibiscus, ginger, soda) are named in nods to New York. There’s a disco ball in the corner and the bathroom is covered in glitter wallpaper. Inside, the long oak bar is backed by rows of bottles lit from below, illuminated like a boozy skyline snapshot. “But to me, it's more of a cool cocktail bar that happens to be in the subway station.” “Yes, we do have a speakeasy vibe,” Hicks says. It approaches notions of that often theme-y S-word. Nothing Really Matters is down the stairs and to the right, its large windows obscured by blinds Gallo designed and had custom made. ![]() But then, when they open the door, they’re like, wow.” “I’m overhearing the guy saying, this is really sketchy. “The other day I saw a couple walking down,” Hicks says. It looks like a subway station from 1984’s Ghostbusters. An illustrated haircut legend is still on display. The facade is adorned in signs for the newsstand and barber shop that previously operated in the station’s small retail areas. The cinematic subway entrance that leads to Nothing Really Matters is next to the Duane Reade on 50th Street near Broadway. It’s kind of like a mystery for people when they come down here. “It’s kind of like an old-school New York idea, where you walk down to a hidden cocktail bar. “Expect the unexpected, right?” says head mixologist Cyllan Hicks. It’s located between the entrance and the turnstile in the downtown-bound 1 train station at 50th Street and Broadway. Nothing Really Matters is the latest from Adrien Gallo, whose previous endeavors included Double Happiness and Grand Banks. NYC’s newest entry to the micro category of subway bars –pour houses adjacent to the otherwise dry MTA–opened on New Year’s Eve, we first spied in the New York Post.
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