damnlines.comdamnlines.comWest Village whiskey bar with a deep list, packed every night and all weekend per The Infatuation.
The Spaniard is a whiskey bar at 190 West 4th Street, not a line venue in the usual sense. No source we found reports a sidewalk rope or a door queue. The crush is inside: The Infatuation says 'the whole space tends to be packed every night and all day on weekends,' and describes sitting at the bar with 'crowds three-deep shouting' orders overhead. The wait here is for a spot at the bar or a table, not a place in line on the pavement.
Reservations run through Resy, but a booking is no guarantee of calm. The Infatuation notes the tables 'always seem to have reserved signs, even though some remain empty for hours,' so walk-ins hunting a table often end up standing. Time Out describes a late Friday night 'filled with a demographic similar to its sister bars: men looking for women and vice versa' and a room 'stacked with whiskey' — a bar crowd, not a dinner-reservation one.
Off-peak it reads differently. The bar's own site lists happy hour 4-7pm Monday through Friday, a noon open on weekdays, and an 11am open Saturday and Sunday, with service running to 2am most nights and 4am Thursday through Saturday. The Infatuation's framing — packed 'every night and all day on weekends' — leaves weekday afternoons as the obvious soft window, and nothing we found reports a queue then. We have no camera on this block, so treat all of the above as reported, not measured. The nearest live counts are on our West Village cameras below.
No camera here yet — but these lines are on camera right now:
Salt Hank's · 2 min walkclosedJohn's of Bleecker Street · 2 min walkclosedL'industrie Pizzeria · 3 min walkclosedNo source we found reports a sidewalk line or door queue. The Infatuation describes the crush as inside — 'the whole space tends to be packed every night and all day on weekends,' with bar crowds 'three-deep.' The wait is for a seat or bar space, not a rope outside.
No published source gives a wait time in minutes, and we do not have a camera here to measure one. Reviews agree it is packed on weekend nights; The Infatuation notes tables often carry reserved signs even when empty, so walk-ins may stand a while for a spot.
Yes — the bar's own site lists reservations via Resy. The Infatuation cautions that reserved-sign tables can sit empty for stretches, so a booking helps for a table, but the bar area still fills up regardless.
Weekday afternoons are the softest window. The Infatuation's own framing is that it is packed 'every night and all day on weekends,' which leaves weekday daytime as the calm stretch. Happy hour (4-7pm Mon-Fri) and weekend nights are the busy end.
Whiskey. Time Out calls it 'stacked with whiskey,' with the drink menu split into House and Whiskey categories; the venue's site lists Scotch, Japanese, American, Irish, bourbon, rye, Canadian, and Korean pours. It is a bar first — The Infatuation recommends using it as a bar rather than a restaurant.