So while you can pick out your seats online and watch the latest big-budget blockbusters in plush armchairs, the seven-screen theater also offers hand-picked indie films, a series of musicals, and weekly themed nights like Terror Tuesday (featuring forgotten horror movies like Twins of Evil) and yes, Weird Wednesday (anyone for The Gong Show Movie?). That’s probably thanks to the chain’s roots in Austin, where keeping things weird is a municipal motto.

Willoughby St., Brooklyn 71Īlthough it’s part of a national chain of more than 20 theaters and feels a bit like a traditional mall multiplex, a hipster heart still beats within Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Brooklyn. While they have just three screens currently, renovations are underway for a new, much larger second location at the former Pavilion theater in Park Slope, slated to open this winter.Ĥ45 Albee Square West, nr. Plus, there’s a brunch menu, featuring smoked-salmon crostini and a breakfast burrito, and an admirable dessert menu (waffle-cone sundae!) - all delivered to your seat.

Nitehawk also has excellent non-themed food offerings - Korean chicken tacos, Turkish lamb sliders, cheese and charcuterie plates, truffle popcorn - that change seasonally. All the elements of a top food-and-film experience - menu, drinks, movies - are not only carefully curated at Nitehawk, they’re also coordinated: During a showing of Get Outfor instance, you could order a sweet-tea soy-glazed tofu dish called “ The Sunken Place.” Or you could sip on a whiskey and lemon “Gunpowder Punch” while watching Free Fire.

While a number of dine-in cinemas have since opened around town, Nitehawk remains the best choice. In 2011, the same year it opened, Nitehawk successfully lobbied to overturn a state law barring booze in cinemas, making it possible for New Yorkers to enjoy a delicious meal and a cocktail inside a movie theater.

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