Kavasutra Opens, Putting the ‘Chill’ in Chilled Drinks
(Photo: Jaime Cone) After months of renovation, the East Village’s first kava bar is officially open and offering its kava teas, cold brew coffee and other novel drinks you may have never encountered...
View ArticleThe Wayland Opens a Natty Neighborhood Spot, Good Night Sonny, in the Old...
(Photo: Jaime Cone) With the launch of Good Night Sonny, Robert Ceraso and Jason Mendenhall, the chef/bartender team behind Alphabet City’s cocktail bar/live music venue The Wayland, are finally...
View ArticleFilm-Music Editor Nic Ratner Won’t Stand For Nickelback at His Bars
From Left: Nic Ratner and Geoff Popler Nic Ratner hates televisions in bars. So much so, in fact, he’s banned them from the three he runs along Second Avenue. “If there was a television in here right...
View ArticleBig Trouble in Little China Meets Coney Island at the New Tropical 128
Tropical 128 (Photo: Dario Alequin) It’s hard not to get misty-eyed, reminiscing over New York’s party days of yore. In some ways it’s the blessing and curse of this city, forever trapped in a glow of...
View ArticleWe’re Still Waiting For the ‘Last Special Nights’ of Lit Lounge
Outside Lit (Photo: Daniel Maurer) We waited with bated breath last week for what we expected to be an epic reopening of Lit Lounge. Last month the bar, which is nearing its end of days in the East...
View ArticlePuppies N’ Pints! Brooklyn Brewery Went to the Dogs Last Night
(Photo: Jaime Cone) No, not all of the 2,000-plus people who committed on Facebook to attending the first ever Puppies n’ Pints were able to go – sorry guys, Brooklyn Brewery’s just not that big. They...
View ArticleNeighbors Want to See Fat Baby to Lose Its Booze
(Photo by Gavin Thomas, NYMag.com) LES lounge Fat Baby is in danger of losing its liquor license after Community Board 3’s SLA Committee recommended against its renewal last night. Fat Baby, currently...
View ArticleHere’s Who Turned Up at 16 New Year’s Eve Parties in Brooklyn
Sure, we’re well into January, but we’re only just now recovering from our post-New Year’s Eve haze and putting together the pieces of the night. Personally, I put my faith in the You Are So Lucky...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Loses Another Venue, as Cubana Social Closes This Weekend
(Photo: Linnea Covington for Nymag) Just a few months after the closure of Black Bear Bar, its neighbor on North 6th Street, Cubana Social, is leaving Williamsburg after six years. No, it’s not the...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Share Stories of Union Pool, Williamsburg’s Notorious ‘Boyfriend...
(Photo: Andrew Karcie for NY Mag) In a story for The Cut that describes Union Pool as the “horny utopia of 2000s Williamsburg,” Allison P. Davis highlights what’s probably the main attraction of the...
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