Booze & Grub

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

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
Ess-a-Bagel

Ess-a-Bagel

Sometimes you just want a bagel. Sometimes you just want a sandwich on a bagel. And, yes, I know it's a controversial take to call anything on a bagel a "sandwi...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Aldo Sohm Wine Bar

Aldo Sohm Wine Bar

I feel like this is at least the second wine bar I've reviewed in the past couple months. And that, in any real world, would be two too many. Because that's jus...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Naya Mezze & Grill

Naya Mezze & Grill

This place is so unassuming on the outside, you'd never know the front doors would reveal some sort of space-aged Star Trek weirdness on the inside. Seriously, ...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Keens Steakhouse

Keens Steakhouse

Shouldn't it be Keen's Steakhouse, like with a possessive 's'? And who is this Keen dude? And why is he so obsessed with oldie timey churchwarden pipes? Like ob...
Booze & GrubNew York City
The Smith - Midtown

The Smith – Midtown

The Smith certainly didn't try too hard in the naming category. Especially considering there are four locations in NYC, including the East Village location whic...
Booze & GrubNew York City
La Cava

La Cava

Oh the wine bar. Ever so refined and genteel. Almost a rejection of everything that is masculine and Bud Light-ish. But, honestly, thank god these bastions of r...
Booze & GrubNew York City
Hudson Station Bar & Grill

Hudson Station

You know that place you duck into when it's raining really hard ands there's absolutely nothing else open and/or safe-looking in the immediate vicinity? Yeah, t...
Booze & GrubNew York City