New NYC bar alert!
With its first day of business on Monday, April 21, 2014, Stout NYC has opened its second location in Manhattan. Located at 90 John Street in Manhattan’s Financial District, Stout NYC is smaller in size than its 133 West 33rd...
A brief review of Sweetwater Social in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village
Sweetwater Social is an intimate subterranean lounge, located at 643 Broadway. This spot was the former Vault at Pfaff’s (which we visited about two years ago). Layout and space feel similar. It’s a great space and we wonder...
A brief review of Botanic Lab on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Located at 86 Orchard Street (at Broome St.), below Casa Mezcal, Botanic Lab is small-ish cocktail lounge with a performing arts stage. It’s worth dropping in the next time you’re hanging in the LES. We visited Botanic Lab...
Now THAT is a German-style soft pretzel!
If you go to Bavaria Bier Haus at 19 South William Street (also an entrance on Stone Street) in Manhattan’s Financial District, be sure to order the soft pretzel. We had the pleasure of sampling one on a recent Stone...
Manhattan bars we look forward to visiting
Five bars in Manhattan that we hope to pub crawl to sooner rather than later: On the Upper East Side: Bondurants and The Gilroy. In Midtown, two new rooftop spots for the Midtown NYC rooftop NYC bar crawl: The Roof and Bar 54....
RIP, Downtown Bar & Grill, you will be missed!
On a recent Cobble Hill NYC bar crawl, we were dismayed to learn that Downtown Bar & Grill at 160 Court Street in Brooklyn had closed for business. We’ve pub crawled to Downtown numerous times and wrote about the spot in...
Happy Tartan Day!
For a Scottish NYC bar crawl, we suggest the following spots in Manhattan: Caledonia, at 1609 Second Avenue; St. Andrew’s, at 140 W. 46th Street; Shoolbred’s, at 197 Second Avenue. In Brooklyn, be sure to visit Isle of Skye and...
Either you love beer or…
Seen recently on a NYC bar crawl along Stone Street in Manhattan’s Financial District:
Brooklyn Bars we look forward to visiting
A few spots in Brooklyn have caught our attention recently and we look forward to pub crawling to. In Williamsburg, replacing Satellite Bar at 143 Havermeyer St is JackBar. We gather that this spot has some old-school arcade...
A review of The Roost in Manhattan’s Alphabet City
On a recent NYC pub crawl, we visited The Roost, a beer bar in the back of a coffee shop at 222 Avenue B! Great spot with skylights. Has a bit of a Williamsburg or Carroll Gardens feel to it. We look forward to a return visit...