A Barcelona World’s 50 Best Bar is opening in NYC

Moe Aljaff and Juliette Larrouy, with Moe a co-founder of Barcelona World’s 50 Best Bar Two Schmucks, are opening a New York venue. Schmuck is opening this fall at 97 First Avenue, near East Sixth Street, in the East Village. In the meantime, the duo is hosting pop-ups starting February 8 on Thursdays and Fridays for eight weeks, at Back Bar inside of the Kimpton Hotel Eventi. It’s part of a larger series the hotel is putting on, bringing in top bartenders. Starting February 6, it’s rolling out a “luminary series,” with folks like Meaghan Dorman, a bartender partner behind Raines Law Room and Dear Irving, followed by Dale DeGroff, who theNew York Times called, “one of the world’s foremost cocktail experts,” on February 27. — Melissa McCart, editor