New York Bars

companion thread to New York Restaurants

You FOOL, this will be at 3000 before nightfall.

question--i am looking for a bar where i can play settlers of catan. where is somewhere

a) in manhattan (somewhere between, lets say houston and, like, 42nd st--trying to meet up w/ people from the ues and morningside heights; i live in bk)
b) not really crowded or loud after work
c) pretty cheap
d) they wont care if we play a board game and have some beers (i imagine this is most bars but you never know)

You want Hell's Kitchen, then, probably? When I briefly dated someone over there, he drank almost exclusively at the Gaf and Conker Hill. I prefer the Gaf but it's a little short of tables, so prob Conker would be better cos it has a few booths. Plus, Max, it's on the West Side so it's good for you and the UWS people.

That's all I got at the mo....

ACTUALLY I take that back -- the Gaf has a whole basement full of tables, IF the construction/plumbing is done by now. Haven't been since December. You could call and ask if basement is open? That would make it perfect.

max i'm not sure if you have ppl to play w/already but monday nights there's a settlers night at a bar on the uws - cosi's.

maybe common ground i have no idea how inconvient thatll be tho

wtf @ there already being a settlers of cazan NIGHT at a bar

catan oops

also i would recommend mona's on 13th & b for this purpose, tho god knows why i'm telling board game players to go to one of my default manhattan bars.

i have ppl to play with + i sort of imagine settlers "night" would be a little intense for my group

also fuck if im going all the way up the west side

hey schef, board games fuckin rule, put that in your pipe and smoke it

~~~~~gaaaaaay~~~~~~

who is more gay - the man who plays the board games - or the man who insults the board game player - zen koan

both

11th st bar doesn't seem to get crowded until really late tho it isn't really cheap imo -- but it also has big tables in the backroom, like mona's.

xpost i'm a lady, not a man!

^^^ now whos gay

Max, don't you live on the A/C?

Oh man I like the 11th Bar, I just don't like walking over there -- too lazy. Even more so for Mona's.

hey schef, board games fuckin rule, put that in your pipe and smoke it

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, March 30, 2009 2:15 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

~~~~~gaaaaaay~~~~~~

― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Monday, March 30, 2009 2:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pretty sure i've heard this interaction verbatim between certain groups of my friends

yes i live on the a/c but im willing to transfer for a primo settlers spot

^^^ attitude bodes well for your success tonite imo sry i have nowhere else to rec i basically dont know where anything is

it's hardly even a walk to get to mona's or 11th st bar...? i mean it is like 2 blocks from the l train and just a few more over from union square.

i miss mona's. does richie still own it? i recall that he was trying to sell it a year or so ago.

yeah that didn't happen afaik

OK, you're right. You know I'm lazy.

i loved the attempt to spruce that place up - several years ago there was a what appeared to be an oriental rug, long and narrow like a runner, hung on the wall above the bar. awesome.

there are new board games? oh just what we need

settler's of catan has been around for at least 10yrs, bill.

that's NEW

so set in your ways.

btw, i went to motor city for the first time tonight and am 99% sure i know the bartender from the record store--she's in a band with my co-worker's ex, but i can't remember he name.

not true -- i went to a honkytonk in Texas tnite!

xp

first time for everything, but the point remains, you are unwilling to give "new" boardgames a chance and that is SAD.

still so disappointed that motor city changed its pinball machine

settlers is almost 15 years old

i would guess that the board game h8rs have never played it & u know what i would hate board games too if the only ones i knew were monopoly and risk which are fucking terrible but settlers is 100% fun times

but whatever i bet u guys h8 magic cards too which makes ur opinions worthless ime

blue and gold seems to be pretty board game friendly - i mean they have a hand painted monopoly board on one of their tables

so has anyone been to the new brooklyn public house on dekalb - it is supposed to be a gastro pub which is apparently some horrible britishes terminology - are they into dork games i dont know

brooklyn public house's food was very basic and kinda gross. nothing gastro pub about it.

i have played a whole helluva lot of board games including yr precious girlfriend "settlers of catan" and they are just not a fun way to spend time imho. i am only down if it is a game of uno.

i like boggle.

1) settlers of catan isnt my girlfriend, how could it be my girlfriend, when its a board game and not a person, not even a femal person

2) ur gay

3) i like boggle too

i love all game of the world - settlers of catan is obv hugely dorky - u just hav to accept that going in

yea i dont think i ever claimed 2 be anything but a dork, what with asking someone to recommend, a bar, to play a board game in, on, the internet

btw if ne1 wants 2 play we could prob use a 4th

i have never heard of this game before

its german

http://www.criticalgamers.com/archives/pictures/SettlersOfCatan.11.29.06.jpg

ive only played once but i could brush up - a friend of mine plays online all the time - maybe ill give it a shot

here are some of the cool bros what play settlers of catan:

http://lansingboardgamers.com/home/Logs/2005-09-17/Settlers%20of%20Catan%20Sinking.jpg

its pretty easy to pick up. people get way "into" it and im not @ that level yet mostly b/c im not very good.

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.

I was looking to see if Subway Soul Club is still around, but they host it in Gowanus now.

should i go here before it closes?

http://gothamist.com/2018/12/21/chelsea_half_king_closing.php

White Horse tavern sold

Villagers have heard that “exactly as it is” pledge before about such historic places as the Waverly Inn and the Minetta Tavern, which were then turned into playpens for the rich and the vacuous. However, since the buildings contain 17 market-rate apartments it appears this deal is not so much to acquire a historic pub, but more a real estate transaction....

Author and radio host Malachy McCourt told me that he was prepared to lead a wake at the White Horse. When I asked him if he was serious he emailed me, “Yes I am serious about the gig. Peter Carlaftes of Three Rooms Press asked me to do it. He lives in the Village and is appalled at the destruction of the artistic life. So the answer is of course Yes! So Thursday, 21st March at 4 pm and only the God-guy knows what will happen, but let’s go for it!”

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/white-horse-greenwich-dylan-thomas-sold

When workers removed the bar from the former Grassroots Tavern (1975-2017) on St. Mark's Place last week, they discovered these old murals. I have no idea how old they old. The landmarked building dates to 1832. [Photos by Derek Berg] pic.twitter.com/rEPN7Ej2Zc

— evgrieve (@evgrieve) May 21, 2019

i didn't even know that closed. haven't been in that neighborhood since forever