Ever since Whitfield closed at The Ace Hotel (now the Maverick Hotel), we've been looking forward to a new spot that would be a worthy successor.
In 2025, Hey Babe opened and had a menu that made us think this could be the place, and we went in as quickly as we could to check it out.
On the surface, Hey Babe feels like a proper hotel lounge, with a robust menu of craft cocktails, wine, and beer. This alone would put the bar in the running for one of the best hotel bars in the city. But throw on their robust food menu as well, and this is the kind of place you can go for drinks, food, or a little bit of everything and not feel out of place- for guests of the hotels and locals alike.
To put it bluntly, Hey Babe has just about everything we look for in a good cocktail bar.