Bar/pub/drink only recommendations

[russbeer]

Hi again everyone,

Now i've had lots of restaurant recommendations, the wife and I are going to need a few drinks on an evening. The last time we came to the big apple the only bars we found were in hotels. We stayed at the Radisson Lexington last year, and really didn't find anything at all, we were reduced to drinking in the overpriced hotel bar. This time round we're hoping for somewhere to grab a reasonably priced cocktail, a few beers and nothing too noisy, although we might be considering a club one night as well (we're there sunday to thursday, are clubs open then?)

Thanks for any help. I know its a bit off topic :o)

Russ

[chompchomp]

The Ace Hotel and Breslin are tres cool these days...

[Bob Martinez]

It depends on what you like. From the Pink Pig:

"Enter the Ace on any busy evening, and you will find what the hotel calls "people who make cities interesting" in their teeming hordes. These people turn that enviable trick by sprawling on couches in a dimly lit lobby large enough for a hotel in Minnesota, clutching beer bottles by the neck, while fiddling with their iGadgets, adjusting their pork-pie hats, and shamelessly sporting facial hair stylings which would not have disgraced a nineteenth century glee club. Fascinating folk they are, and it may be as well to have them all gathered in one spot, but of course they do tend to stray into the crowded bar of the restaurant, just off the lobby, where they rub narrow shoulders - at this time of year - with desperately drunk women dressed as elves and the steel-haired European playboys buying them cocktails."

I've heard that same type of thing from other people I trust.

http://www.pinkpignyc.com/at_the_sign...

[pcdarnell]

For just one drink, stop in at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis Hotel. It's on 55th St. at 5th Ave. It is a very cool place with dark paneling and a beautiful mural by Maxfield Parrish.

[gutsofsteel]

I bet they don't serve Bud or Coors though. :-)

[iFat]

Aright, here's your Friday Night in the East Village...

Stop #1: Beers @ Zum Schneider, Beer Garden on Ave C bet 7th & 8th
Stop #2 Drinks @ The Summit, Cocktail Lounge on Ave C bet 8th & 9th
Stop #3 Wine @ Desnuda, Wine & Ceviche Bar on 7th St. bet. 1st & Ave A.
Thank me later....

www.immaculateinfatuation.com

[Hey19]

Whiskey park is right there at CPS, theres a place Tao right there, Bills Gay 90s isnt far, over on like 54/park. not a bad resto bar at Nobu. There is faces and names right around there also, normal bar. Pazza notte usually has martini deals. Cool bars at the Hudson hotel. There is like Johnny Utah's a few blocks down, Im not suggesting it, but its there. There was a cool wine joint in Roc center, Edwards? I think the name changed, dont know much about the new joint, on the south side of Roc Ctr. Ill stop now, beginning to scrape, I work around there, there are some better options than the Raddison hotel bar, or whatever.

[russbeer]

great stuff thanks.

[thew]

here is a list of some of my fave cocktail bars:
http://www.yelp.com/list/mixology-nyc...

for beer i recommend david copperfields on the upper east side

[Rmis32]

Lower East Side - Stanton Public, 17 Stanton St, Phone: [phone]
17 Drafts, 25+ Bottles & Cask Ale Imbibes You Into This True L.E.S. Bar
Best Vanguard LES DJs & Music
Beer Garden (Tented & Heated)

[russbeer]

Which bars are closest to 57th street in midtown please? For a few relaxed beers, maybe a bit of a music bar, and a cocktail bar please. We don't want to have to travel too far at night.

[Spiritchaser]

There is a very nice bar in the MOMA - The Modern Bar Room (with a street entrance) depending on night and time it my be too busy for you but it's very nice with great drinks, a very nice, polished vibe. There is the Oak Bar in the Plaza (don't think hotel bar, it;s far beyond that), classy and old school, Bar 48, failrly new, chic vibe. If you like Scotch there is always St Andrews with a huge selection (maybe the biggest in NYC).

[windycity]

I'll ditto the Modern Bar Room - some fantastic mixed drinks and very friendly bartenders. The cocktails are in the right price range for you.

[ssf36]

Thalia on 50th & 8th Ave. is fairly lively with good cocktails, several brews and snacks.

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828 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019

[KTinNYC]

How old are you and what do you consider reasonably priced?

[gutsofsteel]

And what types of beer do you like to drink? Do you want to dress up?

[russbeer]

I'm 33 and the wife is 31, reasonable prices for cocktails i would say is about $15-17 and I like any type of "lager" as we British call it (Budweiser, Coors etc) although I do prefer foreign beers that I wouldn't find elsewhere.

As for dressing up, we will be in smart casual attire most evenings so we'd be ok for anywhere really.

[gutsofsteel]

All I can do is beg you with all my heart and soul not to drink Budweiser and Coors - the worst beer ever produced on this earth.

Go to The Gingerman and try many American beers (and others) and see what you like.

http://www.gingerman-ny.com/content/v...

[Bob Martinez]

"All I can do is beg you with all my heart and soul not to drink Budweiser and Coors - the worst beer ever produced on this earth."

There are much, *much* worse beers, at least there were in the past.

Knickerbocker had a particularly thin and nasty taste. If you want to recapture that horror drink a Schmidt's. It's just as awful. And there was something called Canadian Ace that was beyond awful. It came in giant 2 liter clear plastic containers that were the exact shape and size of Coke bottles.

Remember Tequiza? Now *that* was a bad beer. Schlitz, which used to quite good in the 60s and 70s, is crap now.

Have I mentioned PBR, the Swill of the Hipster? What about Corona Light? Every one of these is miles worse than Budweiser.

[KTinNYC]

Outside of the most expensive hotel bars you won't spend more then $17 on a cocktail and you can get lager anywhere. You're age won't preclude any bar I can think of so at this point you just have to tell us what neighborhoods you will be in and what kind of "scene" you prefer, neighborhood bar, haute cocktails, bar to see and be seen, etc. Also the night of the week you will be out makes a difference as well.

[russbeer]

We're staying two blocks south of Central Park in midtown, some not too far away would be best as we don't want to be walking too far after a few beverages!! cocktail bars, pubs, dance bars, anything is fine by us, and we'll be in town from the sunday to the thursday and will be oout at least 2-3 of the nights.

A posh bar that the celebs drink in would be nice :o)
Thanks.

[pablomartin]

#! Suggest you try Keen's Steakhouse on W.36 right off 5th ave. Great bar and bartenders.
#2 If you really want upscale, try Bemelmans in the Hotel Carlisle. Fantastic.
#3: Campbell Apartment in Grand Central Station is unbelievable; no running shoes or jeans. Great drinks, atmosphere and service.
PaBLo

[gutsofsteel]

Bemelman's is about as far from "reasonably priced cocktails and a few beers" as you can get.