Crybaby Brings Jura and Savoie Wine to the Bowery on NYC's Lower East Side

Crybaby is a wine bar on the corner of Bowery and Broome on the Lower East Side, built around the Alpine wines of France. Its list is anchored in the Jura and Savoie, and coverage describes a lineup that includes oxidative whites, light-bodied reds and vin jaune, the yellow wine of the Jura.

The man behind it is sommelier Cameron Philip, who previously worked at Cote and Coqodaq. He developed the bar with partners Jeff Rogers and Amber Strickland. According to a preview published before opening, the idea took hold after a friend visiting New York asked him whether the city had a Jura wine bar. New York already has bars devoted to Champagne, Spain, Eastern Europe and Germany, and the same piece argued that a Jura and Savoie list felt overdue.

Alongside the wine, Crybaby serves cocktails and a French-leaning food menu. The room is styled in warm, blush pinks and green, with marble surfaces. Downstairs is a wine cellar, described in pre-opening coverage as a speakeasy-style space behind a hidden door.

Pricing is part of the pitch. Production in these regions is tiny, which makes assembling a list difficult, yet reports say Philip wants to make the wines approachable through by-the-glass pours and markups kept on the modest side. Jura and Savoie are the core, but the program is meant to reach across other Alpine regions too.

For Japanese readers, this is a chance to taste Jura styles such as vin jaune and oxidative whites in a place organized around them rather than offering them as a side note. Anyone who follows natural wine or small French appellations may find it worth a visit.

One note on names: Babysips, another Lower East Side wine bar, sounds similar but is a separate venue.

Address: 153 Bowery, New York, NY 10002.

(Details are drawn from points that agree across reports by The Infatuation, HelpNewYork.com, Champagne at the Dive Bar.)