In an old subterranean power plant, the Edison is the largest bar on this list. It’s also, in a way, the most impressive—because even when the place is filled to capacity, which is often, its bartenders manage to churn out cocktails like the classic Brown Derby (bourbon, clover-honey syrup, grapefruit) that rival those poured at twelve-seat speakeasies. Even better, the cocktails come with a show: Regulars arrive in trench coats and aviation goggles like characters in an Alan Moore comic. Women dressed as fairies serve vials of absinthe drinks from pushcarts. The pixies look as real as the defunct turbines in the back corner. Or maybe that’s the absinthe talking.