Sidebar: Bartender's Bar Discovered in Midtown

The Intercontinental Barclay Hotel's lobby bar punches well above its weight

Manhattans for two at The Parlour Bar in the lobby of the Intercontinental Barclay Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

If a bartender takes you to a bar you’ve never been to before, you might write it off as an anomaly. But if a second bartender takes you to the same spot, you begin to wonder if there’s something to the place that you’re missing and start paying…