New York Bar

“Don’t go. Stay here with me. We’ll start a jazz band”.

–Charlotte to Bob, Lost in Translation (2003)

Up there, where the New Yorker merges with the Japanese; where two strangers, despite feeling lost, met; where two metropolia coexist, you can find the New York Bar.

Located on the fifty-second floor of the Park Hyatt Hotel, which is also located in one of the most imposing architectural complexes in Tokyo, the Shinjuku Park Tower, this bar combines the most exclusive service and Japanese savoir-faire with a nostalgic air of the musical genre born in the United States at the end of the 19th century: jazz.

The New York Bar offers everything from an extensive menu of classic cocktails (which, curiously, brings together the widest range of Californian wines in Japan) to the most exclusive selection of liquors such as whiskey, cognac, and brandy. In addition, it is possible to find unique gastronomic delights prepared with caviar, bacon, vegetables, fruits, pork rillette, cheeses, and meat.

Shocking is the view of the Japanese skyline that can be seen from any point of the place. This is even romantic when you watch while listening to the jazz band that every night delights the bar regulars.

2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the New York Bar. For this special occasion, its renowned mixologists created Timeless Passion, a cocktail that fuses touches of vodka, wine, and apple juice. The ideal cocktail to toast for two decades of an incomparable place!

Up there, more than fifty floors above, in the building designed by Kenzo Tange, the architect who won the Pritzker Prize in 1987, in the exclusive district of Shinjuku, you can find the New York Bar. There, on a Sunday night two strangers having felt alone despite being surrounded by people met. His only desire is the company to overcome loneliness. I hope that one day they form that jazz band…