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Bar Oliver, Chinatown

BARS • First Round

If you had Chinatown’s Chatham Square as fall 2024’s hipster restaurant and bar scene epicenter, please collect your winnings at the window. First came Bridges. Now, across the square on the oddly triangular corner of St. James Place and Oliver Street, we welcome Bar Oliver. 

Arriving just after its 530p opening on a recent weeknight, I…