The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

may have been any one of those places, i am not good with, memory

luv the beer and food but these places always are full of the worst people - not really psyched to hav one open across the street - tho there hasnt been any work done on the location for months

Ya ya ya, it was the Loreley one. You'd think I'd remember the name, really.

dunno man are there really any bars in brooklyn that arent full of the worst people at this point, and by brooklyn i guess i mean, the whole world

not today, anyway

any bar im in is full of an amazing person

u must be pretty fat then, fattie

i am getting pretty fat but not yet 2XMO

ya i have started takin the cheese of my sandwiches

Yah maybe, Max, but I think it helps when yr friends are kind of scary, then other people come in and leave quickly. We may have been doing it rong all this time by making ourselves look really fun and hilarious, as it only encourages strangers to stick around.

i try to be as dour and silent as possible in bars to discourage crowding

I don't understand the expansion of the word biergarten. I mean ok, if it's not technically outdoors but still has that spacious feel like the one in Williamsburg, but Zum Schneider is just like a little German pub.

it has bier tho

what do u think of the word kindergarten

there are kids--where is the garden--i went to an indoor one--is it still a kindergarten--questions--the grey dark woods has answers

beer garden =/= another word for pub. It means beer garden. Not everything german that serves beer is a beer garden.

we're all pretty clear on that...

radegast ia a decent place, esp on weeknights when it doesn't ever seem to be full. Grab a pitcher & some sausages & you are prob gonna have a nice night.

I never go to these places (cept that one time at Radegast)! but I probly go to biergarten in Austin next week.

breakfast tacos, bill.

we'll see when I rise there.

its true, breakfast tacos

ok you can't actually legally bring your beer to a park

i was just wondering about this the other day - it occurred to me that i can't remember the law in new york concerning drinking in parks. in london, if the sun is out, bringing a couple of tallboys or a bottle of wine to the park is practically de rigeur. if a law were passed prohibiting this, park attendence would be cut in half overnight. maybe it's an NHS thing. ban alcohol from parks and british people would then actually never go out at all, leading to skyrocketing health care costs.

i seen people ticketed in the park 4 boozin

What about the brown paper bag that changes BYOB into MYOB?

UK law says technically they could name a particular park a 'dispersal area' whereby police could tell you to run along, just because THANK YOU RAVE LAWS.

In London: the authorities draw the line at portable BBQ aflame in the park.

cant bring a grill wtf - why cant either of these great world cities understand a citizen needs to be able to bring a grill AND a beers to the park

"What about the brown paper bag that changes BYOB into MYOB?"

in NYC this is a quaint memory from Before Giuliani.

ive drank from time to time in the park - just poor it in a cup and hang out away from the paths the cops drive down

lol one time i saw this couple having a romantic picnic in prospect park right next to the path and cops drove up and spied their wine and made the guy dump it out and wrote him a ticket all w/o leaving the vehicle :(

fuckin pigs

so sad

ok this was in dc not ny but one time we went to fourth of july and i brought a picnic for me and my friends and included wine but there was a COP CHECKPOINT at the entrance to the park -- wtf. i was like fuck this, i am not giving the cops my wine, they will just DRINK it and threw the bottle in a bush and you know what? hours later when we left the park i checked the bush for lolz and the wine was still actually there!!

honestly i lost a lot of respect for dc's vaunted hobos that day

omg i just read the capsule review of loreley max linked. it took TWO ppl to come up with a paragraph that ends with "you could do wurst!"?

hope for the brat, expect the wurst.

btw, suggest Brooklyn bars where I can watch the WBC final Monday night. If it is USA-Cuba I will wear my Industriales jersey and yell "YANQUI GO HOME." (I wonder if the gals at Cattyshack wd be down w/ that.)

there is a big tv at o'connors by my place. tho there is NO BACKYARD anymore >:[

oh yeah, where I infamously had my back to the NFL playoff game.

oh, morbspants

hell O'Connors will have this dull NCAA hoops on.

would go to o'connors for sports fap

I guess I might see part of Sat night WBC semifinal at Alligator Lounge, if it's on.

lol what happened to oconnors "beer garden"

oof, i was at alligator last night. don't know if i can do it twice in a week.

i don't know if i've been

it's a wburg free pizza bar. pool table, sports, bros.

i know, i pass by it bunches, but i don't think i've been

silly me

oconnors "beer garden"

wtf is this shit

i have no idea what happened to the backyard at o'connors but they've completely rebuilt the wall in the back and there's no yard access anymore.

a brooklyn tragedy

it is!

4th ave's backyard is much smaller and involves a staircase, plus 4th ave is 2x as expensive as o'connors :(

"backyard"??? i had no idea that o'connor's had a backyard