Traffic Bar & Restaurant (CLOSED)

Sports fans can can add this 3,500-square-foot bar—an offshoot of a same-named midtown saloon—to their game-day rotation. There are 100 seats, 17 TVs broadcasting the action and traffic lights suspended from the ceiling that turn green when the daily special ($2 beers, $5 cocktails) is available. The refined menu of French-inflected plates is a counterpoint to the raucous environs: steak au poivre, roasted half chicken with herbs de Provence, and garlic-parsley baby lamb chops with fingerling potatoes.