Booze & Grub

Reviews of New York City’s most popular (and least popular) bars and restaurants.

Billy's Sports Bar

Billy’s Sports Bar

This is a terrible place. Like, seriously, it's a bar out of the worst Twilight Zone episode or poorly produced television show about low-rent drug culture in t...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Fedora

Fedora

There was a time in the early nineties when every white guy on earth thought he could get away with wearing dress headwear. I went out in 1990 and bought myself...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Dingbatz

Dingbatz

What's a little white supremacy music between friends? Well, if you listen to most people, a little nazi music is a little too much nazi music. But the bookers ...
Booze & GrubNew Jersey

Fool’s Gold

I can't help but feel a little insulted by the name of this place. Not so much insulted, I guess, but definitely confused why you would name your bar "Fool's Go...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Lotus Oriental Cuisine

Lotus Oriental Cuisine

First there was Chinatown East. And then there was some place called Seasons. That was followed by two local Chinese joints named Sesame and then Chengdu 1, bot...
Booze & GrubNew Jersey

Rutt’s Hut

This place is not only an institution, it kinda looks like one. If that institution was a bizarro 1970's time capsule built of linoleum, wood paneling and schma...
Booze & GrubNew Jersey
The Up & Up

The Up & Up

It's an ironic name (kind of like the mustache on that dude hanging in the doorway), but also a pun. Get it? It's a subterranean bar (the first "up) and "up" is...
Booze & GrubNew York City
The Halal Guys

The Halal Guys

Sorry, I know this cart (which is now an army of carts) is popular and supposedly one of the best, but to me it's straight garbage. Mass produced and inconsiste...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Boulton & Watt

Boulton & Watt

The last time I was in this space it was an awful mish-mash sports dive bar called Nice Guy Eddie’s. We spent an embarrassing number of hours in that joint way ...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Hunan Slurp

Hunan Slurp

Generally you like your restaurants to have appetizing names. You know, names that evoke velvety richness, or hominess. Something nourishing or refreshing. Or e...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Amor y Amargo

Amor y Amargo

Being a bar in NYC must be tough. First, there are like a million of them. Second, even when you think you have some sort of unique take on a bar, there are pro...
Booze & GrubNew York City
The Penny Farthing

The Penny Farthing

There are bars out there that you only end up in late at night and can't seem to recall with any type of sharp clarity. These are generally those pubs that are ...
Booze & GrubNew York City