Diamante's is on 8th Avenue in Midtown West, on the second floor, and the boxing theme is not decorative. Leather couches, vintage fight posters, a cocktail menu designed around the sport's culture, and pay-per-view fights when they're scheduled. The speakeasy format adds a layer of atmosphere to what is fundamentally a sports bar with higher cocktail standards than that description usually implies.

The combination of craft cocktails and PPV boxing in a prohibition-era-styled room is unusual enough that it works through sheer specificity. The crowd for a fight night is different from the crowd on a regular Tuesday, but the bar holds both without compromising either experience.

Midtown West between 8th Avenue and the Garden has enough different kinds of bars that Diamante's has a clear identity within the competition. The second-floor location adds to the sense that you've gone somewhere specific rather than just stumbled into a bar.