Rick's Cabaret New York

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Twenty-one years in, Rick's Cabaret & Steakhouse on West 33rd Street still holds the stretch of Midtown Manhattan between Madison Square Garden and the Empire State Building. The club covers four levels. The main cabaret floor carries the stages and the nonstop topless show; the second floor holds Rick's Steakhouse and the Crystal Room, a private space for client dinners and game nights; the third is VIP territory, with private suites and a Sky Box looking down on the room below.

Up top, a rooftop patio trades the neon for open air and a view of the Empire State Building. The kitchen does a $15 prix fixe lunch, a cabaret menu of sliders and calamari, and a steakhouse card anchored by a 22 oz ribeye. Happy hour pours $10 drinks from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m..

Doors open at 11 a.m. on weekdays and 1 p.m. on weekends, and close at 4 a.m. every night, which around here passes for restraint.