Alex Stupak (Empellón's chef-owner) handles food and Jenny Willing (Standard International's beverage creative lead) handles drinks at Sloane's, the discreet second-floor cocktail bar inside The Manner hotel on Thompson Street in SoHo. The menu pivots on $24 cocktails — an olive-leaf-gin Dirty Martini with caviar olives, the London Calling, a Paper Plane — alongside Stupak's bar bites including a six-piece chicken-nugget set with three house sauces (Sichuan peppercorn, sweet-and-sour, smoky BBQ). The room reads mid-century Hollywood Hills: opulent, intimate, design-driven; the hotel is part of Hyatt's Unbound Collection via The Standard. For an upstairs cocktail hideaway by two operators with chef and bartender pedigree — the credentials are theirs, not the venue's, but the room earns its hour.