W XYZ Bar

Everything is very expensive but so delicious. The kale salad is my favorite… it’s so fresh and crisp!

Note that drinks are very expensive, more than I paid at resorts in Hawaii. Good TVs for watching sports. Did not try the food but the bar snacks were tasty. Again, prepare to pay $ 14 for a simple drink like 7 & 7 or Bacardi Coke.

If you come here you HAVE to ask for Anna and a Cucumber Jalepeno Margarita! Seriously it’s Amazing! Not spicy not sweet! It’s perfect!

Arrived to the aloft hotel late me and my wife wanted to go out for a night drink we decided to just hang out at the bar. met these really cool bartenders who helped us plan our trip for the next day we didn’t drink any cocktails we just had a few beer can’t go wrong I had the primavera pasta wich was Ok… my wife and I shared the bruchetta came with burrata cheese it was good and she had a turkey club with sweet potato fries wich was also good. over all great experience great people we spent 99 $ on 6 beers 1 app and 2 main dishes.

Its a bar in a hotel… a hotel that caters to the local offices. its a good place for an after work drink with coworkers

Its basically a bar in a Lobby of a hotel. Its okay. I went around 7pm on a Wednesday night and it wasn’t very busy. I didn’t hate it but maybe my expectations were too high. Service was solid and prices were okay,

Miguel is the coolest bartender ever. Great bartender, cool and fast under pressure, nice, and funny. The rest of the crew is just as nice. The décor is nice, but not comfortable or inviting at all. They went all modern at the expense of comfort and closeness. But certainly clean.
Bigger pours! Come on guys, that’s what brings in the regulars.
All in all very nice.

Decent little bar, but Happy Hour can be a bit chaotic, only the bartender is there and the line can get long — specials are decent for the beverages.

Perfect quiet place to have a drink. This bar is inside Aloft Silicon Valley Hotel and completely off the grid. They have very nice modern décor and just absolutely love their chimney. Their mixed drinks are that great, I ordered a Long Island Ice Tea and it wasn’t all that great. On the next round I asked for a Jameson on the Rocks with an Orange twist and that was just what I was hoping for. I am not sure if it gets busy ever, since this is my second time visiting this bar and neither of those times did I see a crowd in here. Like I said at the beginning, perfect place for a date night or even a night with el «Sancho» lol

Pretty good, their happy hour offers a lot of choice. Food is food, and drinks are creative, too

Wife and I wanted to grab a quick drink, but to sit and talk since we had a baby sitter for an hour. This is the closest bar to our house so we thought we’d give it a shot. Usually, this hotel doesn’t have full occupancy, but to our surprise, we probably came on the busiest night ever! They were hosting Newark Memorial’s Class of 1994 20 year reunion, so the DJ, which I may add was playing some killer songs, was thumping at the pool but could be heard through the lobby and from the parking lot, and people were everywhere!
Why was there only one bartender though? She was non-​stop moving from one person to another and on to another. The problem with this is that she was not washing her hands between making drinks and handling money/​credit cards. Ordered an Old Fashion with Makers Mark and wife ordered Saphire Tonic. Old fashion wasn’t made correctly (she used an orange slice instead of the peel, bar syrup instead of sugar, and I didn’t see her put bitters in it). In the end, we paid $ 13 for my drink and $ 15 for my wife’s drink. Pretty expensive or technically «average» SF bar prices, but we’re not in SF, we’re in NEWARK!
Not sure if I would come back to hang out at the bar. The floor plan in the lobby/​bar look pretty similar when it was the W hotel, but everything looks a little more modern with the furniture and lighting. Decent selections at the bar, but wasn’t impressed.

W XYZ Bar has just been remodeled and is super swanky — Delicious drinks and great wine selection, lots of yummy bar snacks and light cuisine. Revamping this bar is perfect for out-​of-​towners being courted by dotcoms, trying to impress and hire new brains for Silicon Valley.
It’s across the bridge from the techie action, but really a nice addition to Newark.