The Tippler March 13, 2020It seems I’d been to The Tippler once before. The basement space, decorated like a Baz Luhrmann film,...
Fedora August 17, 2019[CLOSED] There was a time in the early nineties when every white guy on earth thought he could...
The Up & Up July 3, 2019It’s an ironic name (kind of like the mustache on that dude hanging in the doorway), but also...
Amor y Amargo April 4, 2019Being a bar in NYC must be tough. First, there are like a million of them. Second, even...
The Smith – Midtown January 14, 2019The Smith certainly didn’t try too hard in the naming category. Especially considering there are four locations in...
Drexler’s November 11, 2018Fancy doesn’t usually fly in the East Village. Or maybe that’s my 1995 brain talking. But, as it...
The Summit Bar October 5, 2018There was a time when Avenue C was a place where you’d be more likely to score crack...
Holiday Cocktail Lounge August 22, 2018I’ve probably walked by this Hobbit-lookin’ dump a thousand times in my wanderings over the past twenty years....
The Dutch March 22, 2016The Dutch is a joint that doesn’t try to be anything other than what it is. How’s that...
The Happiest Hour July 6, 2015It’s not enough that I walk into work every day and feel goddamn ancient. Then I have to...
The Rusty Knot February 18, 2013[CLOSED] My buddy suggested we go to the Rusty Knot, a bar in the West Village called “The...
Kión Dining Lounge June 20, 2008[CLOSED] No, but seriously, what the fuck is going on here? A small group of us stopped in...
Stone Rose Lounge April 14, 2008[CLOSED] I’m not usually a huge fan of Rande Gerber bars. I mean Whiskey Blue, the only other...
Cafeteria June 24, 2007Here, once again, is a restaurant at which I didn’t eat a thing. I just kind of sat...
Gin Lane March 7, 2007[CLOSED] Never in the history of bardom has a space morphed so dramatically. Walking to dinner in the...
Schiller’s Liquor Bar March 7, 2007[CLOSED] Yes, I know it’s a formula, but for me it never gets old. Of course sticking the...
Askew November 15, 2006[CLOSED] This place is more confused than Jamie Lee Curtis’ first gynecologist. Is it a restaurant or a...
Fashion Forty June 20, 2006[CLOSED] It sounds like the name of some bad 80s movie. Oh, I’m totally projecting and thinking of...
