Hotel Delmano
82 Berry St, between 8th and 9th Sts
Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-387-1945
Hours: Sun-Thu 5pm-2am Fri-Sat 5pm-3am
The inside of Hotel Delmano, the new, hotel-less lounge in Williamsburg, looks the way you imagined adulthood would look when you were a 9th-grader reading The Great Gatsby: gem-toned cocktails, smoky, lilting music, walls lined with tarnished, framed mirrors and portraits of Rough Riders. Drinks in perfect goblets arrive on silver trays and are served deftly by a beautiful woman named Blaze. Hotel Delmano attracts mostly Williamsburg 30-somethings with the financial wherewithal to be there and the inclination to eschew Manhattan and other (squarer) Brooklyn neighborhoods. It’s quiet, with old-school sophistication colored by new-school cool, and it affirms one’s (ok, my) first and deeply seated idea of what goes on during that smoky, mysterious Cocktail Hour — and well beyond.-Mary Block
