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Swanky and subterranean, this chic lounge is underneath Olives at the W Hotel in Union Square. A big attraction for the young and wealthy crowd are the upholstered private booths, which let VIPs be voyeurs in the trendy and food-less date destination. The bar is part of nightlife king Rande Gerber's evolving empire, Midnight Oil, which is best known for its snifters of Whiskey hotel bars around the world, from New York to Las Vegas to Madrid to Mexico City. Most of Mr. Cindy Crawford's sleek and spacious lounges ooze with the same unabashedly sexy sauce: hot young black-clad waitresses in thigh-high boots, London-NYC retro-modernity, semi-private dark banquette booths, dim lighting. It sets a corporate chic mood, and also obfuscates the martini bill, which is really nothing next to the Choos you just sprung for. Hip or overhyped, it's always happening.