Pete’s Tavern February 17, 2020Pete’s Tavern came into being when Abraham Lincoln was president. In the midst of The Civil War. I’m...
Beauty Bar – New York January 15, 2020This bar originally opened at almost exactly the time I moved to NYC in 1995. Back then you...
L’Express February 2, 2008I always thought this was some lame women’s store equivalent to 80s mall-staples, Structure or Chess King. Apparently...
Gramercy Park Hotel Bar June 10, 2004[CLOSED] Apparently this used to be the place to hang out late night for rock stars and drug...
Flûte Gramercy April 1, 2003[CLOSED] I’m not quite sure we had the full Flute experience, but from what I saw, we had...
Angelo & Maxie’s Steakhouse June 9, 2002[CLOSED] Are you a cigar-chomping carnivore? Do you like your women in skirts and your bars made of...
America June 9, 2002[CLOSED] Many have likened eating a meal in America to chowing down in an airplane hangar. This is...
Paddy Maguire’s Ale House August 4, 2001Welcome to the demented, drunken forest. It’s amazing that such an innocuous facade can lead into such a...
Taco & Tortilla King August 4, 2001[CLOSED] One of life’s great mysteries is the proliferation of Chinese Mexican joints around the city of Manhattan....
City Crab October 7, 2000[CLOSED at this location] City Crab looks like an expensive suit joint in that “whatever” neighborhood above Union...
Park Avalon February 26, 2000[CLOSED] Think of it as an airplane hangar with a good interior decorator. This remarkably down-to-earth, whatever-this-neigborhood-is-called, eatery...
Duke’s February 26, 2000[CLOSED] Honestly, if you’re drunk, in the Union Square area and craving BBQ that just might kill you,...
Old Town Bar February 26, 2000A name so apropos it hurts. Surrounded by some of the snobbiest establishments in the city, this bar...
