Credit: Sean Ellingson

The newest hip cocktail lounge & restaurant ridden with famous mixologist’s from Gold Bar, Milk & Honey and Boom Boom Room ready to create your perfect cocktail, can be found though an obscure door on the basement-level in the most touristy section of Little Italy. Once you find it, the steps leading down below take you through a dim lit speakeasy bar which leads you even further to a hidden outdoor garden patio where the chic crowd is already too cool for school. There’s no cocktail menu. You simply tell the expert staff or bartender your flavor profile of preferred spirit, salty or sweet and whatever other ingredient floats or sinks your boat and they deliver your created concoction. Believe me, a few concoctions and your flavor profile won’t matter much. The food is delicious. Braised Short Rib Sliders, Mini-Lobster Rolls, Beet Salad and Truffle Fries surely did the trick. The bar area is cozy and intimate with snug red booths where the DJ gets ready to do his thing. This is Mulberry Project, you better hurry. www.mulberryproject.com