{"id":1631,"date":"2013-04-15T10:29:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2013-03-27T02:31:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T02:31:46","slug":"a-review-of-draught-55-in-manhattans-midtown-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/a-review-of-draught-55-in-manhattans-midtown-east\/","title":{"rendered":"A review of Draught 55 in Manhattan&#8217;s Midtown East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Located at 245 E. 55<sup>th<\/sup> Street in Midtown East (or is it Sutton Place?), Draught 55 picks up in the location formerly known at Blackstone\u2019s (and, before that, Jimmy Walker\u2019s).\u00a0 Layout is practically identical to its previous incarnations: spacious bar area on the right side of the spot, a slightly elevated dining area takes up the rest of the place (this was where the pool tables were for Jimmy Walker\u2019s).\u00a0 A separate bar area in the very back of the space, beyond the bathrooms and kitchen.\u00a0 The draught beer offerings number around two dozen, nearly all quality craft-beer. The bottled beer selection is solid too.\u00a0 The food is somewhat standard bar\/pub fare.\u00a0 Midtown East\/ Sutton Place needs more craft-beer focused spot like this and maybe one day, the nabe will have its very own craft-beer focused NYC bar crawl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Draught-55-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1633\" title=\"Draught 55 b\" src=\"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Draught-55-b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Draught-55-b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Draught-55-b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Draught-55-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1632\" title=\"Draught 55 a\" src=\"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Draught-55-a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Draught-55-a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Draught-55-a.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located at 245 E. 55th Street in Midtown East (or is it Sutton Place?), Draught 55 picks up in the location formerly known at Blackstone\u2019s (and, before that, Jimmy Walker\u2019s).\u00a0 Layout is practically identical to its previous incarnations: spacious bar area on the right side of the spot, a slightly elevated dining area takes up the rest of the place (this was where the pool tables were for Jimmy Walker\u2019s).\u00a0 A separate bar area in the very back of the space, beyond the bathrooms and kitchen.\u00a0 The draught beer offerings number around two dozen, nearly all quality craft-beer. The bottled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pub-crawl-nyc-reviews","post-style-no-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}