Mr & Mrs Smith

The Bowery

New York, United States

Five years ago, no one would have looked to the Bowery for Manhattan’s hottest boutique hotel, but the one-time skid row has come up trumps with this irrepressible hipster hangout. The Bowery Hotel's light, bright bedrooms capture the classic style of New York apartments (complete with moodily lit tiled corridors), and its art-deco-inspired Lobby bar is a homey, wood-panelled haven from the unsleeping city.

Need to know

• Rooms 135, including 25 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $325.00, excluding tax at 14.75 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of $3.50 per room per night on checkout.
  Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency ($325), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
• More details Breakfast is chosen from an à la carte menu.
• Facilities Gym, DVD library, valet parking, laundry, free WiFi. In rooms: HD plasma TV, DVD/CD player, iPod dock and stereo system, CO Bigelow toiletries.
• Check-out Midday; later-check out is subject to availability. Check-in, 3pm.
• Children Welcome: high chairs and baby cots are available, and extra beds can be added to larger rooms for $40 a night. 
The Bowery works with a nanny service to provide babysitting, from $25 an hour.
• Also Non-smoking – except in the bar's patio area. As a concession to the Chihuahua-toting crowd, lightweight pets (30lbs or less) are warmly welcomed.

Food and drink at The Bowery

• Hotel restaurant With thatch-covered wine bottles swinging from beamed ceiling, distressed wood tables and a
copper-topped bar, Gemma is a picture of Tuscan rusticity. The food, however, is more polished than peasanty, and
the Nutella calzone is a particular treat.
• Dress code Edwardian dandy, backstage with the Ramones.
• Top table Gemma only takes reservations for hotel guests, so sweet-talk your way to a window table for people-watching, or to one of the leather-banquette booths – it’s possible to lose hours in them.
• Last orders Gemma’s pizza oven is switched off at midnight (1am weekends). The bar’s open until 2am (4am weekends).
• Room service A full menu based on Gemma’s à la carte offerings is available 24 hours a day.
• Hotel bar Since its opening, the Lobby Bar has shot to the top of the New York hot list, becoming a favourite destination for A-listers in search of a glam-drenched venue.

The Bowery 335 The Bowery, New York, NY 10003