Martiny's is on East 17th Street in Gramercy, inside a building that was an 1800s carriage house and later the studio of Philip Martiny, the sculptor who created the decorative work on Washington Square Arch. Takuma Watanabe opened the bar after eight years at Angel's Share, the Japanese cocktail institution that pioneered precision bartending in New York, and Martiny's carries that lineage in how it approaches the drink.

The focus is martinis and classic cocktails executed without excess. The Grand Martini is gin with sherry, port, and cognac, finished with a grape garnish. The rest of the menu maintains the same discipline. Three levels give the room different moods depending on where you end up.

In 2024 Martiny's ranked 24th on the World's 50 Best Bars list and 15th in North America in 2025. For a bar that opened quietly in a carriage house in Gramercy with no particular fanfare, that trajectory is one of the more interesting stories in recent New York cocktail history.