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, 2018[CLOSED] Fancy doesn’t usually fly in the East Village. Or maybe that’s my 1995 brain talking. But, as...
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...
