Best Spotify playlists for bars

Some chefs have excellent taste in tunes as well as food, and you can hear the carefully curated playlists of the coolest whenever you like.

Amass, a restaurant in Copenhagen, is widely considered among the top spots in the food-centric city. Its the edgiest fine-dining restaurant we can think of, with dining room walls sporting graffiti murals that change seasonally and hip-hop playing at an audible but unobtrusive volume throughout service.

The restaurants music is cited in just about every writeup its received. And it really is great. Amass takes its food, and its service, seriouslyeven the water glasses are by Zaltobut retains a welcome degree of lightheartedness in both attitude and cooking, rare in the fine-dining sphere. Its music echoes that approach: carefully curated, obviously, yet playful.

On various visits to Amass, its tunes have ranged from heavily deep-cut old-schoolthink People Under the Stairs and The Pharcyde and even Souls of Mischiefto a playlist of about 90% A Tribe Called Quest, both old and new. During our most recent visit, our server let a secret drop: All of the restaurants playlists are available on Spotify.

Its the ideal souvenir, and better than any doggy bag: I can now listen at any time to the brilliance that someone, presumably chef Matt Orlando himself, has assembled and so can you.

We did some digging on Spotify and came up with some other epic restaurant playlists youll also love. Perennial cool-kid chef David Chang has commented for Gourmet Traveller, After eight years of making playlists, Ive never wavered from one simple rule: I play the music I want to hear if Im eating in a restaurant, not what I think the customer wants to hear. We have a fondness at Momofuku for unconventional food and design, and the music ties it all together, he says. One of the key benefits of the only-playing-music-I-want-to-hear-in-restaurants rule is that it narrows down the entire musical universe to a master list of about 4000 songs. This might seem like a really small number, but in a bizarre totalitarian restaurant-music situation, it works. That master list? Its here. NYCs Meatball Shop is known for its tunes; its playlists are public as well.

You dont even have to have visited these restaurants to love these tunesthough they might inspire you to make a reservation, for sure. Theyll also help you get through your commute, inspire you during the workday, or pump up your own dinner party.

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