A review of Fawkner in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens
Located at 191 Smith Street in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens, Fawkner is a new neighborhood bar for this Brooklyn nabe (in the old Ceol space). From the same owners as the Bell House about a mile to the southeast in Gowanus, Fawkner...
A review of Mr. Purple on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Located at 180 Orchard Street on the 15th floor of the Hotel Indigo on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Mr. Purple is a rooftop bar. The main liquid draw here is the cocktails. One other remarkable fact of Mr. Purple is its...
A review of Paddy’s of Park Slope in Brooklyn
Located at 273 13th Street in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, Paddy’s is a recently-opened neighborhood bar in the southern edge of this residential part of Brooklyn. Space is fairly small (this is the old Lucky’s spot)...
A review of Whiskey Burger in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Located at 1025 Manhattan Ave in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Whiskey Burger is a new beer/ whiskey bar in the former Mark Bar space. Twelve quality draft beers and dozens of whiskeys are the main liquid draw here. As its name suggests,...
A review of Bierocracy in Long Island City, Queens
Located at 12-23 Jackson Ave in Long Island City, Queens, Bierocracy is a recently opened beer bar / beer hall for LIC. Twelve beer taps are mainly focused on Central European imports, along with a few American craft selections...
Breweries across the five boroughs of NYC
Continuing our thoughts on NYC breweries this week, we came across a recent piece from the Brew York blog containing information about all breweries currently in operation across the five boroughs of NYC. We’ve visited some of...
Strong Rope Brewery in Brooklyn
One of the first new NYC bars we hope to visit in the New Year is Strong Rope Brewery, located at 574A President Street on the Gowanus/Park Slope border in Brooklyn. According to its website, Strong Rope Brewery’s tap room is...
Happy New Year 2016!
Our Best Wishes for the new year. Our New Year’s resolution: More pub crawls in 2016!
Our favorite new NYC bar openings of 2015
Before 2015 comes to an end, we’d like to recognize our favorite new bar openings, one each for Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens (sorry, Staten Island and Bronx, we didn’t spend nearly enough time in those two boroughs in 2015)....
December 29 marks the 170th anniversary of Texas statehood
Our NYC bar/restaurant of the day: Hill Country, located at 30 West 26th Street in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.