To make a reservation for Sunday, Monday, Wednesday or Thursday, please send us an email at drink@backbarunion.com (We do not accept reservations for Friday and Saturday. For those days it’s first come first serve. We are busiest between 8pm and 10pm so consider coming earlier or later in the evening)
In your email please, leave your name, number in your party and a phone number at which we can reach you. We do not guarantee accepting email reservations made after 6pm the day of. Please look at our reservation policy below.
We recommend making a reservation if you’d like to be assured of seats. When making a reservation please let us know if you’d like a custom punch bowl for your party, or if you have a preference of specific seating options, or if you have any other requests you’d like met. Also available by reservation only is our new Omakase menu. It is a chef’s tasting menu, backbar style: 3 drinks and 3 plates of food paired together. $85 per person.
We happily accept walk-in guests as well, but may have to turn you away if we are over capacity when you arrive.
Please understand our need for an enforced reservation system; we are operating in a small space, and we want to be able to accommodate as many patrons as possible. We are, however, a bar, and as we all know, there’s something very relaxing about hanging at a good bar with good friends having good drinks. That being said our guest stay for variable amounts of time, we may need to ask for a little flexibility on your part.
We always prefer for you to arrive for your reservation on time, but we allow a 15 minute grace period in case you are running a bit late, and on some nights we may need to ask for a 15 minute grace period of our own to ensure that your table is ready for you. We will always try to reach you via telephone if you are running late for your reservation, but if we do not reach you, we will give your table away after 15 minutes. We ask that when you reserve a table to meet friends for a drink, that you and your friends all arrive at the reserved time. We prefer to only seat complete parties, especially parties 6 or larger. In the same vein, we ask that you know precisely how many people you will be coming with ahead of time, and that you let us know. As is customary for parties of 6 or more, we add a 20% gratuity to the check.
If you need to make any changes to your reservation, by all means, feel free to email us until 6pm the day of or call and leave us a message, that way we can work out the reservation with you ahead of time. Thank you so much for understanding and we’ll see you soon.
