Mezzrow

The experience

A basement piano room at 163 West 10th Street opened in 2014 by Spike Wilner and Mitch Borden, the pair behind Smalls up the block, and named for the 1920s clarinettist Milton 'Mezz' Mezzrow. It was built deliberately as a piano-and-bass duo room in the tradition of the old Bradley's: exposed brick, a Steinway grand, marble tables, and the A train rumbling underneath. The music room holds about thirty people, so you sit a couple of feet from the instrument.

A thirty-seat duo room built for the piano, not for an audience.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.