The bar where tomorrow morning is the point.

It’s called Soft Bar + Café, and everyone calls it Carl Radke’s bar. (Yes, that Carl, from Summer House.) He’d rather you didn’t. “This isn’t Carl’s Soft Bar,” he told the Brooklyn Paper before it opened last September. “It’s just Soft Bar.” Fair enough.

The room

It used to be an auto body garage, and you can tell from the ceilings, which go up and up. Now there’s a long bar with velvet stools, marble bistro tables, a few half-booths and deep couches you can close off with curtains. There’s even a little booth for phone calls. The music sits low enough that you can hear the person across from you, which puts it ahead of most bars in the borough.

“We don’t make mocktails here, we make soft cocktails.”

Carl Radke, to the Brooklyn Paper

What’s in the glass

The drinks are run by Richard Millwater, who came from Eleven Madison Park, and the menu reads like someone took the job seriously. Expect to pay about $12 to $16 a drink. That’s cocktail money for a drink without alcohol, and we think that’s the point: you’re paying for the craft and the room, same as anywhere else.

In the daytime it’s a café. Coffee comes from Touchy, a roaster in Troy, New York, and pastries come from local bakeries including Sixteen Mill, The Good Batch and The Native Bread Co.

Who it’s for

Anyone, honestly. Radke has called it a “third space” for the whole neighborhood. Sober, sober-curious, training for something, or just tired of feeling rough on Saturdays: there’s a seat for all of it. They’ve talked about hosting run clubs and author nights, and there’s a podcast studio upstairs.

Sources: Brooklyn Paper, Resy, The Infatuation.