I went there recently. It's Irishy. Also there's liable to be music a lot of nights, since that place is "the home of Irish music in NYC." Which is a draw for me, but not for all.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
like what streets in Midtown East? I'm at 44th around Grand Central and most everything around here blows. generic Irish bars with $8 pints. best one is probably O'Neill's at 45th and 3rd, decent happy hour. Perfect Pint around the corner on 45th is ok, multi-level with an open air roof bar, always mobbed though. those are my usual picks if I go out after work around here but like I said the prices are ridic. I'm hoping someone has a good answer for you actually.
there's also a relatively new german beer garden upstairs on 3rd Ave but I haven't tried it yet. Hofbrau Bierhaus.
― dmr, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
Hurting, 3rd Ave is chock-a-block with Irish bars?? Molly's is a good one.
xp dmr otm
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I don't mind Irish bars, it's the Midtown prices that blow
― dmr, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I guess Irish bars are ok. I'm near that Hofbrau Bierhaus, want to try.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
ari works around grand central and theres nothing that weve ever been able to find
― max, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
just embrace your inner bro
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just saying, Molly's makes what is arguably the best cheeseburger in NY and it comes with a side of mashed potatoes.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
molly's is also like 25 blocks from hurting's office tho.but yeah it's great. they have good wings too.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
hey guys guess who left his credit card at commonwealth and only remembered when he stepped out of the g at court sq
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
NNNOOOOOOOOO oh Iatee. You should have closed out your tab with me!
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
I very much agree with that statement
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
blauggghhhh
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
:( whatta drag. at least you got it back asap and didnt' forget for like, two days or something.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
i like that Hot Bird now has a bbq restaurant attached to it. that is v convenient, even if their fries are kinda wack.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
do they make hot chicken?
― mizzell, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
no :(but the pulled pork & brisket & sausages are all good.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
they have BBQ chicken, i dont know if it qualifies as "hot"? its certainly warm
― max, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― max, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
i see hanging out in our future.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
real talk
― max, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
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
― max, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
not a bar (but byob restaurant) but i love this place in y'alls neighborhood: http://www.uminom.com/
― bene_gesserit, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
nice. never been but on their website they call it a sister restaurant to Kuma Inn in the LES, I'm a fan.
― dmr, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
― max, Monday, April 23, 2012 1:20 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hot Chicken is Nashville-style spicy fried chicken.
― mizzell, Monday, 23 April 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
iirc peaches in bed stuy has hot chicken?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mizzell, Monday, 23 April 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
commodore in williamsburg does it, too.xp
huh, well the bbq place next to hot bird is owned by the peaches folks
― max, Monday, 23 April 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mizzell, Monday, 23 April 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
i think its better than smoke joint but i havent eaten at smoke joint in a while. definitely cheaper.
― max, Monday, 23 April 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
anyone been to the revamped Holiday Lounge?
http://gothamist.com/2015/03/10/holiday_cocktail_lounge.php#photo-1
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 12:04 (nine years ago) link
Excited to drop a lot of $$$ in NYC bars this weekend.
― jaymc, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:13 (nine years ago) link
tearing up a little at the mentions of the alibi, frank's and moe's
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:27 (nine years ago) link
well i forgot to hit the Grassroots one last time
https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-grassroots-tavern.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
rotten apple still got #barsraise up
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
Never went to grasslands but the Blue and Gold Bar was my steady many years ago
― calstars, Thursday, 4 January 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
I love how max started this thread looking for places to play board games
― k3vin k., Thursday, 4 January 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
bar matchless is closing :(
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 January 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
Shout out to the recent closing of Hi-Fi/Brownies.
― Yerac, Friday, 5 January 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
The old joke rings true about these places that are closing becoming either a Duane reade, a nail salon, or a bank
― calstars, Friday, 5 January 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link
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), Friday, 5 January 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
― 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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 5 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
NiceI also spotted it in the HBO show “the deuce”
― calstars, Friday, 5 January 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
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), Friday, 5 January 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
i don't think i visited a bar on my own volition in 2017
― 龜, Friday, 5 January 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
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?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 5 January 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
I think he means they either want $13 cocktails or to be drinking with grandpas.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link