Monthly Archives: November 2012

The status of some South Street Seaport bars two weeks after Sandy

Pub Crawl NYC Announcements, Pub Crawl NYC Random Thoughts

We took a short walk through the area recently.  In short, many of the bars remain closed.  Only Jeremy’s Ale House and Meade’s were open for business at the time of our brief tour.  Everything else we passed by was not open, including Heartland Brewery, Fresh Salt, Stella, Keg 229, Bin 220, Nelson Blue and the Paris Cafe.  If you know a more detailed status of any of these bars, please drop us a comment or email.  We hope every single establishment can re-open.  We’ve enjoyed all of them on several occasions.  Below are a few photos from our tour.

Fresh Salt was undergoing some work inside
Heartland Brewery's entrance was partially boarded up

 

Jeremy's was open for business. . .
. . . as was Meade's

 

In a window of Stella

 

The Paris Cafe, completely boarded up.

Where to pub crawl this weekend?

Pub Crawl NYC Random Thoughts

After being out of town one weekend and enduring impact of Hurricane Sandy the next, we are eager to get back to bar hopping around the five boroughs!  Where to pub crawl this weekend?  We still have several new establishments to check out, especially some Lower Manhattan spots, such as Cocktail Bodega in LES and Pouring Ribbons in the East Village.  We hope these spots were not adversely impacted by Sandy.  It’s also about time to visit Greenpoint/Williamsburg again.

The Union Square Beer Bar Crawl in Manhattan

Pub Crawl NYC Reviews

Note: The following post describes a crawl we did just prior to Hurricane Sandy.

A few good craft beer spots in and very close to Union Square.  On a recent Saturday, we visited three of them.

Heartland Brewery (35 Union Square West).  Say what you want about this now five-location-chain Manhattan spot.  Their beer is still top-notch.  We enjoyed the Red Rooster Ale on this occasion.  Typically, Heartland serves five year-round beers and another two or three seasonals.

Lillie’s (13 E. 17th Street).  The Victorian-themed spot offers nearly 20 tap beers and, on this visit, Lillie’s had a live band playing Irish music.

Wildwood BBQ (225 Park Avenue South).  More restaurant than bar, this BBQ spot offers 12 tap beers and another 30 or so bottled ones.  The bar appetizers were solid as well (try the Jumbalaya!).  Unfortunately, no photos here as our camera had run out of power.

We badly wanted to go to Little Town NYC (118 East 15th Street), but it was too crowded, so we had to end our crawl early.