The drinks here are decent and there's never a crowd, even during peak hours. It's a good place for groups or a date. It's not too loud and has plenty of seating. Once I almost left my credit card, luckily the bartender chased me down to give it back to me. Good service here. I'd come back here for a chill night with friends.
Review Source:I love this place! Two years in a row, it is my chosen locale for my birthday gathering.
The atmosphere is relaxing and sophisticated, the passionfruit jalapeño martini is divine, Sunita is a kind and creative bartender/owner, and the space holds crowds comfortably.
I found this bar on Yelp, and I hope to transfer the power of a good review to someone else. Enjoy!
i got to meet Sunita, who is the owner and bar tender.
Such a cute little spot. Fairly empty during the weekdays after work, but very crowded during the weekends. Love the passion fruit cosmo. Sunita told me that her infused vodka was a big hit... its spicy... I'm scared of spicy foods but if you do, you should try it.
I had the notion to find a chill spot on the lower east side to grab a few drinks before dinner and thanks to the Yelp app, I found Sunita. Once I jumped out of the cab, I smelled someone grilling and sure enough it was in front of this place so I followed my nose...lol
We walked inside this small, quaint place and saw everyone having a good time drinking and conversing. We got the last 2 available seats @ the bar. The setting is very intimate as the lights are pretty dim and the music is mellow /hip hop. The walls are exposed brick and the vibe is real chill. The guys who run the place is really cool and accommodating. One of the guys walked up and said "go outside and grab you a plate" and they also told us they are gonna be bbqing out front most of the summer so to stop by anytime.
I got a pear martini x 2 which were very delicious and refreshing. They have a nice drink list and can make anything. Once they found out it was my friend's bday, they got us a cake tasting shot which was surprisingly good as I usually do not like "sweet" shots
This is definitely a spot I will visit again & again
Tiny bar with great drinks. You have to get there early if you want to grab a seat though. The space gets filled up pretty quickly so this isn't a bar you want to hang out in all night. I heard they were known for their drinks and they do have a small menu of special drinks as well as a selection of beers and other alcoholic beverages.
There seemed to be just one employee in the whole bar - not sure if she is Sunita - but she was great. Music was really good too.
Only lost a point because I got a little claustrophobic after a while
My absolute favorite bar and favorite bartender. If you appreciate a well made cocktail and sincere quality service you will love sunita. I don't go nearly as often as I like but I have been going there for many years and have brought many people to sunita and she has impressed all. The jalapeño passion fruit cocktail is my personal favorite but I've had all of her cocktails and they're all great. Bring a date here and you will thank me.
Review Source:This place was awesome the drinks were amazing and Sunita the owner was extremely friendly and nice to talk to. She always had great recommendations for drinks. The place is nice and intimate, quiet and a great place to talk to someone or a small group of people. the only problem is the sign for the bar/lounge is so small I walked past it the first time. My only gripe was that I had to select cocktails from the shorter weekend menu and not the regular menu.
Review Source:Very solid spot. Â Quiet. Â Intimate. Â Music is done very low in the background and doesn't distract at all. Â Great place to go to when you really want to talk and be heard with great cocktails. Â Drinks were well balanced and crisp. Â It is very quiet and small so you can't be intimidated by being heard with what you say. Â
Major props to the owner/bartender who was very friendly and open.
Sunita can do it all: take orders, mix the drinks and set the music. I could be mistaken, but I think Sunita was running the place on her own. Pretty impressive.
This place is cozy, intimate and relaxing. I loved the drinks that Sunita concocted and I got more than a little buzzed after two (I admit have a low tolerance, but the drinks were pretty strong).
I came for my friend's birthday and had a great time. Sunita is not a place for a dance party, it's more of a "sit down and talk" kind of place. I would say that Sunita is a great place to start the night.
Hands down, the best bar in the Lower East Side.. Sunita, who runs the place, is just the nicest person anywhere, and has a sixth sense on how to prepare drinks exactly the way you like them.
This place is way under-appreciated and I think suffers from being squeezed between Back Room and Nurse Bettie, with not a lot of signage, so people aren't aware of it. Â In a way, though, that makes it perfect. Â Hidden in plain sight!
Sunita Bar is named after the very friendly owner/only bartender, who takes her mixology very seriously.  This bar is intimate and definitely somewhere you could take a date for that "second drink" to get to know her better ;).  There's definitely a very chill vibe  - good music, comfortable couches to sit on, and great drinks.  I definitely recommend the jalapeno margarita - it's a spicy papaya/jalapeno combination that I guarantee you will enjoy.
That being said, Sunita Bar is great for parties. Â After being introduced to this bar a couple weeks ago by a good buddy of mine, my boyfriend decided to have his birthday party here last weekend and it was terrific. Â Because this place is generally not too crowded, it was very easy for him to have thirty or forty friends at the bar at any given moment. Â And even though Sunita was the only person working the bar, she did a great job at keeping everyone happy.
Sunita makes the best drinks! Yes, Sunita is the name of the bartender here. She is friendly, knowledgeable and oh-so talented.
I came for a friend's birthday. The place is very small and intimate. It has just a bar, a couch and a few chairs to sit at.
We sat at the bar and started to peruse the cocktail menu. The font on the cocktail menu is a little tough to read. I cant imagine trying to read it after a few drinks, but this is not the kind of place you get sloshed at.
Each cocktail is a recipe of ingredients that dont seem like they will go together, but they do. They really do. It took me a while to decide what to order because everything sounded delicious and I wish I had the time, money and the liver to try every drink.
Sunita said the jalapeno passion fruit martini was the most popular so I gave it a try. It was delicious! I dont like sweet drinks, and this was just perfect. The spicy jalapeno made the passion fruit less sweet. I had to stop my self from chugging the whole thing at once.
My second drink was the El Diablo. Tequila, creme de cassis and lime. It was really good, but not as good as the first drink. My friend had the lychee martini which was subtle and refreshing.
Each drink costs between $10 and $12. And each one is worth it!
So I don't really want to review place......... Â Â Â Not because it's bad, quite the contrary. Â I'm selfish and I don't like sharing ;) Â Sunita bar is a spot where you can escape the endless sea of people in Manhattan. Â Free yourself from this zoo of human's for one fleeting moment, kick back, and enjoy some excellent cocktails. Â Even on a busy weekend, Sunita bar has room for you. Â AND it's in the LES, how unexpected? Â Intimate decor, $10 - $14 drinks (jalapeno margarita is ma fav), and chill vibe is exactly what I need from time to time. Â High praise.
Review Source:Sure as heck would have never noticed this little place next to Nurse Bettie's if not for Yelp.
Go on a Friday at 7pm and have the place to yourself! Â Actually a bar when you can hear yourself talk at happy hour (though no happy hour specials offered...boo).
If it were dark out when we were there, would have been nicer with the candles and red couches.
Very relaxing vibe...cucumber martini was good. Â I thought it wasn't filled enough to the top and the glass size was too small for the price but when I left there spinning from just one drink I was proven wrong.
I love this bar! It's home of my absolute favorite cocktail ever, the Perfect Affair (the spicy jalapeno drink). Â Sunita can even adjust the level of spiciness for you, and she infuses the vodka herself. Â The drink goes for about $10, but I think that's a fair price for the quality and the work that goes into mixing. Â
The atmosphere is sophisticated/chic. Â It's a small space but a perfect place to bring a date. Â Sunita, the bartender and owner, is also super friendly.
Sunita Bar is where you go when your date is going well... very well... and you want to slow it down a bit, somewhere quiet, where you can get better acquainted. ;)
A cozy little hamlet of make out city, the owner Sunita is always there, whipping up cocktails with her Latin feel and flavor. Some of my perennial favorites are the cucumber martini (smells like a spa!) and the red pepper concoction (the heat!). There's always something new, and she'll most surely take requests.
Add it to the LES roster, filed under mellow sexytimes.
Given the high ratings and enthusiastic reception that Sunita has received from the Yelp community, I had high expectations for my first trip and I must say that they were met.
I think the the consensus among the Yelp community about the atmosphere, etc. is accurate. Â This is a great, chill place and a real gem in this neighborhood for people who want to be out on a Saturday night but don't want to be overwhelmed by huge crowds.
It really is a relaxed place to enjoy a cocktail and a conversation.
Sunita is an excellent proprietor and we really enjoyed her company.
I look forward to returning on a weeknight to enjoy a quiet drink on one of her red couches.
I've been here twice, and in just as many weeks. I usually don't frequent some place that much unless they are close to me and good or it's just that great.
Sunita fell into the second category. While not terribly far from me, it's a little bit of a trip compared to my other haunts.
What makes this place so nice is that it's not loud. By not loud, I mean in the sense that it's not flashy and gimmicky. It's utterly calming. Once you step through the door (which I completely missed both times, just know that if you see Nurse Something with the same door number, you'd passed it) life just naturally slow down.
Sunita is the owner and bartender of this bar. Though to call it a bar is a little misleading. A lounge would do it better justice. She makes all the drinks herself, and with real fruit thingies. The word escapes me right now. Very friendly, not that I had much of a chance to talk to her because it does get busy, for a one woman show, and you don't really come here alone, it's a bit too romantic for that.
I'd tried all the cocktails in the vodka section. I had the ginger saketini too. The first time I favored the ginger saketini, but that might be because I had an overload of sugar that day and needed something light to clean me out. The second time I couldn't get enough of the lychi. I love how the lychi is soaked in it's own juice before being dropped into my cup. I'm a bit of a slow drinker so by the time I finish the lychi has soaked in just the right amount of vodka. I hate it when it's completely soaked, too bitter and all the fragrances of the lychi is gone.
The signature jalapeno martini was good, but not my style. When it cooled (or is warmed...?) it's kind of gross. I suggest you drink it quick if you decide to get this one.
There's a variety of other liquor and such that is all around the same price. I didn't venture to try them. Just stick to simplicity and the menu and you'd be fine.
There's soft music in the background, no tv or anything else. It's very dim in there, the couches are a little ---make that quite a bit beat up, but it's masked a bit by the lighting. And beside you won't really care as it gives it the cozy feeling, especially with how tiny this place is. Then again any bigger and the service will suffer. I think it's the perfect size.
So glad I'd found this place. A bit sad I didn't find it before when I was living just around the corner. Oh well, better late than never.
---One last note:
I paid with card the second time and while it going through my bank it showed a different, read higher, amount than what my bill (plus tips) was. I was initially worried and was going to call Sunita about it, but got busy and once it gone through, it went through for the amount it was suppose to. So if anyone else had this mini heart attack, just know that it's not Sunita trying to scam you. And if it went through for the wrong amount, I'm pretty sure that Sunita would be reasonable enough to correct it, provided you have your receipt and/or she remembers you. All the more reason to talk to her no?
The passion fruit martini was the way to go! Wow. Anything that showcases their infused drinks was fantastic.
But stick to the menu. We tested the bartender by asking her to make a french martini and it was awful.
Also, when we went on a Friday at 8pm, the place was dead. Kind of a weird vibe when there's noone else in there.
I came here on a Thursday night because I wanted a quiet bar where I didn't have to yell. This place fit the bill. It is really small and there was a nice group of 10 people there, making the place a little over half full. The music was good and not too loud. The lighting and atmosphere were intimate and well done.
The bartender was nice and they had a good selection of spirits. I had a Woodford Reserve which was $12, a little expensive I suppose but not more than I figured it would be. I recommend it and would go back.
There are bars where you love to "pre-game"
There are lounges where you love to do the "last chance for romance" walk through
There are clubs where you love to get all "superstarred-up"
This ain't that spot.
Its intimate, has dope decor, chill owner/bartender, has zero pretense, comfy and definitely date-friendly.
I was forced to try the passion fruit martini by my date...and I forced myself to stop drinking more of them...so deelish. Â The mixed drink prices weren't cheap but I'll always pay more for quality. Â This spot isn't overrun by the masses yet so its enjoyable just relaxin in here.
Yea, this is that spot.
It's not often that on the LES you find a nice niche of quietness and class. It's very elegant, compared to the loud and brashness of the bars next door and the rest of the neighborhood.
The drinks are amazing!! Sunita is a great mixologist. She uses the freshest ingredients. Â She actually makes her own syrups and infuses her own liquors. Â She is a perfectionist and very methodic about what goes first and what goes after, in order to make you the perfect drink with the perfect taste. Great spot for a date or just a relaxing night. And yes, Sunita is the DJ, the bouncer, the bartender, everything!!!
I can't recall the name of the cocktail I loved best but I know it was a spicy mango martini. YUM!
You go Sunita!! GIrrrrlllll
Mahal kita!!!!!
First i'll like to thank my fellow Yelpers, I would not have known about this place or even attempted to try it without the awesome reviews i read before going.
  Sunita is charming! I'm not talking about the bar only. The owner Sunita is a sweetheart. I went there twice only and the second time i went she remembered my favorite drink (the passion fruit jalapeno martini) has to be spicier than she normally makes it. She gets an extra star for even remembering me!  oh i can't put more than 5...
   Anyways, If you're looking for a relaxing, laid back bar this is it. I had a good time the first time i went. Second time i dragged my friends there and had a blast.
I've been going to this bar for 2 years, it still has the same criteria like it did 2 years ago--low key w good music, good drinks w reasonable price, a place you can actually sipping your drink, relax and have a conversation w friends. Â I believe the bartender is also the owner of the bar, she's very friendly, makes great caipirinha and martini! Â the seatings are very comfortable, from not-so-crowded barstool, red leather couch, to small tables. Â I love bars like this kind!
Cons: she no longer serves my fav Mojito and there's no happy hour specials.
I say go here before even thinking about going to the back room next door. Â Sunita was such a lovely bartender who you can tell loves her bar and the people that come in. Â Had the passion jalapeno martini and after the initial shock of it went down it was a nice balance between sweetness and heat.
Its a great place just to grab a quick drink and socialize with a friend or two over it.
Ive been wondering aloud if the speakeasy movement is dead. Â Overexposed quickly, and pretentious even sooner. Â Plus with summer rolling around, Â you probably dont want to be holed up in a place without windows. Â A speakeasy with a view would be nice. Â And unfortunately, I already used up my allotment of 230 Fifth visits for my tenure in NYC.
Enter Sunita. Â
Music fits the low key, non pretentious, come here to unwind / welcoming atmosphere. Â What everyone says about the jalapeno martini is true. Â The other martinis, priced at $10, are equally delicious (sake/ginger/vodka martini? ... please & thanks). Â
I LOVE the seating, the availability of outdoor seats, not having to wait 10 minutes for a drink, the relaxed vibe. Â
What I dont like? Â Sunita doesnt fill my martini glass to the brim. Â tsk tsk. Â 4.5 stars.
I love sweet. I love spicy. Mix sweet and spicy and I'm yours for the night.
After having read and dreamt about the Passionfruit Jalapeno Martini for days, I finally got the chance to go last week. Let it suffice to say that I was not disappointed in the least. Sunita is a lovely lady and she will mix the drink for you just as you like it, so tell her how how you'd like it to be customized. My boyfriend ordered the cucumber ginger martini which was great as well.
I was there on a weeknight and it wasn't really crowded. It's a small place and it's ideal to catch up with friends or for a small group to kick off the night.
P.S: I saw two votes for monday nights as the best night, so I just wanted to point out that this bar is closed on Mondays.
Great little place I was chilling out at last night. Recommended by a girlfriend, 3 of came to have a go at absinthe which I've never tried before. Sunita, the bartender prepared it for us the way its supposed it be, with a special spoon & a heated sugar cube. It was DELICIOUS! If you want to try absinthe, this is the place. Sunita is very nice and takes the time to prepare it. I was also told the Jalapeno Passion Fruit Martini is very good and after my absinthe, I had one and I highly recommend it.
The bar is small and cosy. Great for a small group of friends and good conversations. I'm definitely coming back! :D
If you're looking for a chill place to kick it with friends, or a low-key spot for a first date, this is your joint. Plus you can spy on all the hip kids lining up to go to Back Room, which is right next door.
Nice, laid-back vibe, chill music, great drinks. Not the biggest space, but I've never had trouble getting seats, either at the bar or on those plush couches. The mango jalapeno martini that gets a lot of buzz is actually a passion fruit jalapeno martini, and definitely worth trying  (she can make it more or less spicy depending on what you like). Cucumber ginger martini is also legit... she slices the cucumbers on the spot, so it smells super fresh. Agreed with all the other reviewers: Sunita, the bartender, is awesome.
I used to live on the block of Sunita's Bar and was always drawn in by her warm smile! I always felt comfortable and in the midst of good people while at her sophisticated/relaxed bar that always drew me in to either start off my evening or end it there. It is right next door to the hidden speak easy bar called the backroom.
If you are into trying really good martini's - ask for her specialty -Jalapeno Mango Martini! She used to be a chemist in her previous life, so she's an expert!
What they said - quiet, chill, great drinks, and Sunita (the proprietor) is friendly and sweet.
I always stop here if I beat my friends to the LES and don't feel like dealing with loud crowds of douchebags (which, surprisingly, I am more willing to tolerate after I've had 3-4 drinks).
Also: the cucumber-ginger martini is fun.
-j
Sunita is a charmer, the place is both sophisticated and relaxed. The drinks are great and the people watching is top shelf. Â Go here for a drink this weekend. You will not be dissapointed.
The drink I trek here for?
The Jalapeno Mango Martini:
Not for the faint of heart, and it sorta creeps up on you, like a new experience that you are unsure of, but which you find yourself enjoying in spite of a nagging sense of inappropriateness.
This LES lounge is possibly the most down to earth, friendly, and relaxed environment is all of the neighborhood. I have been coming here religiously now for about a year, and have always received super gracious  and warm service.
High Points:
1) outside seating.
2)The draft beer list is always good and relatively cheep: $5 a pint.
Small, clean and inviting little bar tucked away amongst the trendier bars. I bet money Sunita's bar will out last them all!!
Mainly because of Sunita herself who is the charming, stylish but unpretentious bar owner. She pointed out that tonic in Hendricks is sacrilege and converted me onto soda. Later in the night when the English can lose whatever manners we're supposedly famous for, Sunita kept a smile. Â I don't give 5 stars unless there's a wow factor which is a little unfair on a bar like this. I should give it an extra one for the cleanliness of the restrooms late on a Saturday night in the LES.
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