Swan Room at Nine Orchard

Start with the martini. It’s the kind that arrives perfectly cold, perfectly balanced, and sets the tone for everything that follows. The room itself is all height and restraint—elegant without being overdone—and the caviar service leans fully into the moment. It’s polished, indulgent, and no, you're not getting out of there without doing a little damage to your credit card but spoil yourself. It will be worth it.

The reason this room feels so grand is because it quite literally was. The bar sits inside what used to be the main banking hall of the Jarmulowsky Bank, a Beaux-Arts building from 1912 that’s now been restored into the Nine Orchard hotel. Which is a beautiful stay by the way.

When you’re sitting in—the soaring ceilings, columns, and grand scale, you can feel that this was once where immigrants deposited savings and bought passage for family members coming to New York. The space has been carefully brought back to that original grandeur, but softened with velvet seating, marble, and low light, turning what was once a place of transactions into one of lingering.

So when you’re having that perfect martini there, it’s not just a beautiful room—it’s one with a past, which is probably why it feels a bit more substantial than your average hotel bar.

It’s polished, indulgent, and no, you're not getting out of there without doing a little damage to your credit card but spoil yourself. It will be worth it.