MSG Area

    American Whiskey

    American Whiskey

    For years there were very few options near MSG and Penn Station that didn’t either feel like you...
    Five Guys - 7th Ave.

    Five Guys – 7th Ave.

    Five Guys never seem to be clean. Maybe it’s the white tile motif or the fact they don’t...
    Taco Bell Penn Plaza

    Taco Bell (Penn Station)

    [CLOSED] You’d have to be crazy or completely desperate to end up eating here. Combining boil-in-a-bag meat and...
    Flying Puck Bar

    The Flying Puck

    [CLOSED] What would otherwise be a perfectly serviceable midtown bar full of what could only be construed as...
    Brother Jimmy's Midtown

    Brother Jimmy’s BBQ — MSG

    [CLOSED] Closer to MSG you could not get. Obviously built to house pre-concert revelers and be-jerseyed Rangers fans,...
    Amici 36

    Amici 36

    [CLOSED] Another one of those gigantic, meandering midtown lunch joints with every imaginable kind of food under glass....
    Walter's Bar

    Walter’s Bar

    I’m not really sure what to say about this place other than I think my fraternity basement might...
    Deno's Bikini Bar U.S.A.

    Deno’s Bikini Bar U.S.A.

    [CLOSED] Um, uh. Ehem. Like… *Cough* So… Very very young girls in bikinis serving grown men beers in...
    Stout NYC

    Stout NYC

    One of the few Madison Square Garden area bars without Blarney in its name, Stout tries to class...
    Cipotle Penn Plaza

    Chipotle – Penn Plaza

    Yes, they have tacos. Sure, burritos are on the menu. I think there’s like one other thing they...
    Azuki

    Azuki

    For some reason the name of this place looks really cool written out. Look at it. There’s something...
    Hammerstein Ballroom

    Hammerstein Ballroom

    It took me quite a while to get to a show here. It turns out that my first...
    Chef Yu

    Chef Yu

    Discerning one Chinese restaurant from another is a tough. Especially, that is, if the place is nothing special...

    Gotham Hall

    There are all sorts of these venues in Manhattan that used to be something else and are now...