Located at 12 Jefferson Street (just north of Broadway) in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Bizarre Bushwick is a spacious cocktail bar. A decent beer selection of eight taps and 12 bottles is also available. At one end of the space is a small stage for live music. The food menu consists of mainly bistro fare.
Located at 180 Ludlow Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, this is the lobby bar for the Ludlow Hotel. It’s located toward the back of the lobby of the hotel. There’s a small outdoor area beyond the main bar. Cocktails cost $16 a piece and there’s a wide selection of French wines. This spot is definitely worth a visit the next time you’re pub crawling in the Lower East Side.
We had the pleasure of visiting Crimson & Rye in Midtown East, the Ludlow Hotel Lobby Bar in the Lower East Side and The Jolly Monk in Hell’s Kitchen recently. The first two are cocktail bars and the third is a Belgian Beer Bar. We’ll have reviews of these spots in forthcoming posts.
Starting close to the Kosciuszko J-train stop and working west, we suggest Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway), Gallery Bar Brooklyn (1056 Broadway), Bizarre Bushwick (12 Jefferson St), Skytown (921 Broadway, fka Beauty Bar Brooklyn) and Divine Bar & Grill (896 Broadway) . We’ll have detailed reviews on some of these spots in the coming weeks.
Thrillist recently published suggestions on spots to hit on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg for each block between South 5th and North 12th Streets. It’s a great piece by Thrillist. Although it wasn’t specifically a bar crawl Thrillist describes in their piece, they do recommend several bars. For the block between N.10 and N.11th, Thrillist recommends The Bedford. This is the one block recommendation with which we disagree. We would have picked Mugs Ale House for this block. With a great beer selection, Mugs Ale House has been around for nearly 20 years and was the first bar we ever visited in Williamsburg. And Mugs is a bar we try to include on any NYC pub crawl through Williamsburg.
Located at 55 Irving Place in Manhattan, Dear Irving is another gem of an artisanal cocktail bar/lounge from the same owners as Chelsea’s Raines Law Room. It’s recommended that you make a reservation via their website. A friendly staff and delicious cocktails make this a good spot for any NYC cocktail bar crawl.
Located at 297 Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, Owl Farm is a craftbeer bar from the same owners as Bar Great Harry in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens. The friendly and knowledgeable staff makes this a solid spot for any Park Slope NYC craft-beer bar crawl.
Located at 93 Bowery (at Hester), the City View Lounge is a rooftop spot atop the Wyndham hotel. The spot is bi-level with the indoor section located on the 18th floor and a seasonal outdoor space one story above. The view is north to Midtown and it offers an unobstructed view of Midtown. There are not too many bars in that immediate section of NYC, so City View Lounge fills a bit of a void. We look forward to a return visit here on our next pub crawl through the area.
Located at 45 West 38th Street, this is yet another rooftop bar in Midtown South with an up close view of the Empire State Building. The relatively space is split between indoor and outdoor area. It probably gets crowded pretty quickly here.
