On this first day of Major League Baseball’s regular season, our NYC Bar of the Day: Standings Bar, located at 43 East 7th Street in Manhattan’s East Village.
Monthly Archives: March 2018
A review of The Highwater in Astoria, Queens
Located at 34-20 Broadway in Astoria, Queens, The Highwater is a bar/restaurant that calls itself, “Astoria’s Best Tropical inspired restaurant”. During our visit, we found The Highwater more bar than restaurant. The craft cocktail selection offers numerous creative drinks, usually costing $11/drink (take that, expensive Manhattan cocktail spots!). The dozen or so craft beer offerings are all bottled/canned and span numerous breweries across the U.S. In addition to Saturday/Sunday brunch, the main food menu primarily offers appetizers. With its corner location (at the southwest corner of Broadway and 35th Street), the Highwater is filled with lots of natural light. We look forward to returning here on our next Astoria NYC bar crawl.
If you’re looking for a NYC bar crawl today
pubcrawls.com is sponsoring a St. Patrick’s pub crawl in Bayside, Queens. Further information here.
If you want one more chance at a St. Patrick’s NYC pub crawl,
the folks at pubcrawls.com are sponsoring one on Saturday, March 24 in Bayside, Queens. More details here.
Happy First Day of Spring 2018!
On this Vernal Equinox, our NYC Bar of the Day: Spring Lounge, located at 48 Spring Street in Manhattan’s Little Italy.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2018!
Our NYC Bar of the Day: Slainte Bar, located at 304 Bowery in Manhattan’s East Village.
If you’re looking for a St. Patrick’s Day bar crawl in NYC, we have two suggestions:
Upcoming St. Patrick’s NYC bar crawls for this weekend
If you’re looking for a St. Patrick’s NYC pub crawl this weekend, the folks at pubcrawls.com are sponsoring two Manhattan pub crawls; one for Saturday, March 17 and one for Sunday, March 18. In Brooklyn, Williamsburg’s Grand Street BID is promoting their NYC pub crawl to occur on Saturday, March 17. More info on that one here.
St. Patrick’s Day 2018 is almost here!
Check back here later this week and we’ll have some information on NYC pub crawls for the weekend.
Bar crawling through Astoria, Queens
We recently had the opportunity to pub crawl through Astoria. We always enjoy our visits to Astoria and wish we could do so more often. Among other spots, we stopped in at new spots The Highwater and Madam Marie’s. We will have brief thoughts on both bars in the days ahead. Stay tuned.
The closure of Paulaner’s brewpub in Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Bowery Boogie recently reported the closure of Paulaner’s Lower East Side brewpub location.
Our thoughts:
During its four years in business, we’ve visited Paulaner on several NYC pub crawls. We enjoyed our time at Paulaner and are sad to see it go. The beer was great, the staff was friendly and the food was solid. We echo Bowery Boogie’s sentiments that perhaps Paulaner’s physical location on the Bowery may have not been the best. We realize it’s difficult to find the exact right location for a bar/brewery of its size anywhere in Manhattan. The LES location on Bowery was likely more affordable rent-wise than a spot further uptown. Perhaps Paulaner can find another spot in Manhattan or elsewhere in the five boroughs. Paulaner will be missed.