New York Bars

ari works around grand central and theres nothing that weve ever been able to find

I'm in the low 50s on third. Every work happy hour I've ever gone to in this area has been in a miserable place.

just embrace your inner bro

I'm just saying, Molly's makes what is arguably the best cheeseburger in NY and it comes with a side of mashed potatoes.

molly's is also like 25 blocks from hurting's office tho.
but yeah it's great. they have good wings too.

hey guys guess who left his credit card at commonwealth and only remembered when he stepped out of the g at court sq

NNNOOOOOOOOO oh Iatee. You should have closed out your tab with me!

I very much agree with that statement

blauggghhhh

so yeah I went back, it ended up only being an hour of my life cause I got lucky w/ trains but the moment of realization was pretty horrible

:( whatta drag. at least you got it back asap and didnt' forget for like, two days or something.

i like that Hot Bird now has a bbq restaurant attached to it. that is v convenient, even if their fries are kinda wack.

do they make hot chicken?

no :(
but the pulled pork & brisket & sausages are all good.

they have BBQ chicken, i dont know if it qualifies as "hot"? its certainly warm

but yeah its decent BBQ and not too pricey and theyll take it over to you at hot bird if u tell em where youre seating

tbh now that they have food i dont know why id go to any other bar this summer

i see hanging out in our future.

real talk

wish hot bird opened earlier than 4, would like to just post up there every afternoon for 7-8 hrs and let ppl call on me

not a bar (but byob restaurant) but i love this place in y'alls neighborhood: http://www.uminom.com/

nice. never been but on their website they call it a sister restaurant to Kuma Inn in the LES, I'm a fan.

they have BBQ chicken, i dont know if it qualifies as "hot"? its certainly warm

― max, Monday, April 23, 2012 1:20 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hot Chicken is Nashville-style spicy fried chicken.

iirc peaches in bed stuy has hot chicken?

which i guess isn't what the sign that gives hot bird its name is talking about since it says no frying. i just want a place called hot bird to have it.

commodore in williamsburg does it, too.
xp

huh, well the bbq place next to hot bird is owned by the peaches folks

so it's basically smoke joint? still a little mad at those guys for closing little piggy which was the best place to eat in the neighborhood for a while, but smoke joint is always packed so i guess they know what they're doing.

i think its better than smoke joint but i havent eaten at smoke joint in a while. definitely cheaper.

anyone been to the revamped Holiday Lounge?

http://gothamist.com/2015/03/10/holiday_cocktail_lounge.php#photo-1

Excited to drop a lot of $$$ in NYC bars this weekend.

tearing up a little at the mentions of the alibi, frank's and moe's

well i forgot to hit the Grassroots one last time

https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-grassroots-tavern.html

rotten apple still got #bars
raise up

Never went to grasslands but the Blue and Gold Bar was my steady many years ago

I love how max started this thread looking for places to play board games

bar matchless is closing :(

Shout out to the recent closing of Hi-Fi/Brownies.

The old joke rings true about these places that are closing becoming either a Duane reade, a nail salon, or a bank

Recommend me a bar that has good low-key dance nights (as opposed to a club) and where you could conceivably start dancing earlier than midnight with a decent crowd there.

Never went to grasslands but the Blue and Gold Bar was my steady many years ago

― calstars, Thursday, January 4, 2018 2:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my measurement of whether new york is over or not is based on blue & gold staying open. think they own the building though

Nice
I also spotted it in the HBO show “the deuce”

A scene in the Mrs Maisel show shows them walking into a bar with a giant sign on the window reading "Kettle of Fish" and I was never a regular at the Kettle but I don't think that was the Kettle.

i don't think i visited a bar on my own volition in 2017

I (sorta) regret to inform you that my bar HiFi will be closing at the end of this calendar month, ending my 23 year tenure at 169 Avenue A. All parties booked before the end of the month will happen as planned. The story? Quite simply, the renovations we undertook a few years ago to reinvigorate the business were not successful in putting us back on a good financial footing.The generation of people who inhabit this neighborhood on weekends remain mostly indifferent to the place. HiFi seems to occupy a place square in the middle between “dive bar” and “mixologist paradise” — and while I hoped that would help us have a broad appeal to the newbies, it turns out that it translated as utilitarian (aka boring) to their tastes.

Can someone familiar with the current state of NYC bardom explain to me what he's talking about? What kind of bar do the people who live in the Brownies/HiFi neighborhood (or "inhabit it on weekends" -- are those different people?) now want? What does it mean for a bar to be "utilitarian" and why is that bad?

I think he means they either want $13 cocktails or to be drinking with grandpas.

$30 cocktails

I went to hi fi once in the past two years or so and despite the renovations(?) it still had the vibe of an old neighborhood place (which it was) and not really the kind of joint where 20 somethings would hang out given the multitude of options on Ave A, where there are more bars per block than almost anywhere else in manhattan.

It did have a really cool, intimate space for music in the back.

Recommend me a bar that has good low-key dance nights (as opposed to a club) and where you could conceivably start dancing earlier than midnight with a decent crowd there.

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive)

If you don't mind going to the Upper East Side, Ethyl's Alcohol is the bomb. Excellent retro-oriented dj's plus go go dancers. Actually has quite an old East Village vibe.

A scene in the Mrs Maisel show shows them walking into a bar with a giant sign on the window reading "Kettle of Fish" and I was never a regular at the Kettle but I don't think that was the Kettle.

― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit)

They were trying to portray the original location on MacDougal St. Now it's on Christopher St.

for awhile, the Kettle of Fish was the old (second) Folk City.