Founders Gabriel Orta and Elad Zvi have since exported their South Beach–rooted, Middle Eastern– and Latin American–inflected tropicality to the Freehand in Chicago, then Los Angeles, and at long last, Manhattan. Both barmen have moved to this city for the opening, and brought in Evan Hawkins (formerly of Mother’s Ruin and Basik) to help run the show. The bar is outwardly laid-back, but this belies Orta and Zvi’s meticulousness. “We don’t care how much money you have; we don’t care where you’re from; we don’t care about none of that,” Zvi says. “What we are very, very picky with is our product. With the food, with our drink, with our service, with our music, with our décor.”