Madam Mikette's is on 2nd Avenue in the Turtle Bay section of Midtown East, and the story behind the name gives the place more texture than most bars operate with. Mikette Cuba was a fortune teller who was fined twenty-five cents by an undercover NYPD officer in April 1929 for the crime of illegal fortune telling. The bar commemorates her with a décor scheme that evokes a roaring-twenties fortune-telling parlor: draped fabrics, dim lights, and an atmosphere that reads as deliberately theatrical without being ridiculous.

Over a hundred bottles of whiskey and bourbon sit behind the bar alongside a craft cocktail program built on house tinctures, freshly squeezed juices, and premium ice. The Empress Room in the back accommodates up to 250 guests for private events and has its own bar and entrance. Saturday brunch is bottomless jazz.

Open until four in the morning Tuesday through Saturday, noon on weekends. Madam Mikette's operates late enough and consistently enough that it functions as a reliable second stop as much as it does a destination.