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This week, you can visit Kenya’s capital without ever leaving NYC.
One of Nairobi’s top speakeasies, Hero Bar, is flying into town from now until Thursday, October 2. For its first-ever arrival in New York, the bar will be making a superhero landing at one of the city’s finest cocktail institutions, Dante.
The Kenyan-based bar, hidden on the rooftop of the four-star Trademark Hotel, is ripped right out of the pages of a comic book. With colorful murals and homages to heroes, both real and fictional, the cocktail menu leans into the theme even further, broken up by “Sensei Sips” to “Sidekicks.” It seems the bar is the hero we’ve all been searching for, as the hidden cocktail lounge was listed on The World's 50 Best Bars annual ranking, coming in at number 69.
The bar’s arrival marks the finale of Dante’s Legends Series. In celebration of the bar’s 110th anniversary, the Greenwich Village bar has invited a handful of legendary, international talents for limited-time takeovers, including London's American Bar at The Savoy, Europe’s oldest cocktail bar, Harry’s New York Bar, and Singapore’s Long Bar, which has long been credited for the Singapore Sling.
“The final iteration of the Legends Series is a significant one,” said Linden Pride, principal of Dante. “After hosting five world-renowned bars at Dante over the course of the last eight months, we’re thrilled to end our series with an important milestone and exclusively offer a bar residency in NYC from Africa, blending signature hospitality and cocktail creativity that we’ve both become known for.”
Guided by Hero Bar, the last pop-up will follow the hero's journey. Guests will trek through five unique chapters via cocktails, including a butter-washed Plantain Old Fashioned with plantain banana syrup and chocolate bitters and the Tomatina, a berbere-infused Patrón tequila mixed with cherry tomato cordial and sake. Making for a pretty good sidekick, the voyage will be paired with Japanese and Kenyan-inspired eats, including Lamb Curry & Prawn Maki and Kitu Kidogo Mandazi, a deep-fried yeasty doughnut sweetened with cardamom. Kenyan music will be played throughout the evening, and guests will go home with a curated keepsake to remember it all.
The exclusive experience held inside Accademia Dante's space is only available to Mastercard cardholders. Book your table here and prepare yourself for the adventure ahead.