The Brandy Library focuses on spirits, taking great pride in meticulously crafting over 120 classic cocktails, including the Sidecar. Not satisfied with their extensive offerings? Then bring your own. For a small corkage fee, they will store your own bottle for you.

To maintain a clublike feeling, memberships with are available; benefits include personalized glassware, a 10% discount on all purchases, free storage of cigars in their humidors, and storage of your own personal bottle, in which you are free to indulge, without a corkage fee.

Given the extraordinary charm of hundreds of types of brandy, scotch, bourbon, and the sorts of drinks your dad used to enjoy, perhaps it is time you too should be enjoying the generally peaceful atmosphere, punctuated only sometimes by boorish types from the Financial District discussing their latest mega-deal.