Best Outdoor Scene: Raines Law Room Garden

Flatiron’s Raines Law Room has established itself as one of New York City’s speakeasies, but there’s a secret we want to tell you: a clandestine garden.  The just-opened outdoor space fits only twenty people. Sit amidst an herb garden (red and yellow raspberries, mint, sage, basil) and have a cocktail made with these house-grown ingredients (what they don’t grow themselves they buy at the nearby Union Square Farmer’s Market). South Side Rickey with fresh mint?

—Stephanie LaCava