Hell’s Kitchen/Midtown West Atlas Social Club Josh Wood, Benjamin Maisani, Pablo Raimondi, and Asi Mazar hit a home run with the starry opening of the Hells Kitchen hotspot. Because both the Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea neighborhoods have seen such continued explosions of nightspots that are gay-owned or designed to serve the LGBTQ community, a large swath of Manhattan’s West Side is sometimes collectively referred to as “Hellsea.” We’ve covered the Chelsea gay bars in another article. We’ve highlighted below what we think are the best gay bars in Hell’s Kitchen & Midtown West. Hell’s Kitchen, sometimes known as Clinton (But not by New Yorkers, unless they happen to own real estate there), is a NYC neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side and hotspot for LGBTQ nightlife.