According to a recent story at DNAinfo.com, Stout NYC will be opening a location in the Financial District.  This is very exciting because the only thing better than one location of Stout NYC is two locations of Stout NYC!  Full DNAinfo story here: http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130405/financial-district/midtown-pub-stout-nyc-on-tap-open-financial-district

In Manhattan, we’re looking forward to visiting the cocktail bar, Attaboy on the LES.  Attaboy’s location, 134 Eldridge Street, is the original location of Milk & Honey, the bar that started the speakeasy/artisnal cocktail craze back in the early aughts.  Attaboy apparently is also a cocktail spot, but no reservations required.  Over in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, we recently learned of Isle of Skye, which is a Scotch bar.  While we are not big scotch fans here at Pub Crawl NYC, the bar also has a large selection of Scottish beers, which we expect will keep us occupied for sometime.  Perhaps an addition to the Williamsburg craft-beer focused NYC bar crawl.  Lastly, in Astoria, Queens, we still need to visit the Singlecut Beersmith’s brewery for some tastings.  As always, we’ll keep you informed of our findings on these and other spots.

On April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act became law, allowing the manufacture and sale of beer that was up to 4% alcohol-by-volume.  It wasn’t until December 5, 1933 that the full repeal of Prohibition was complete.

How will you celebrate Scottish pride today?

April 1 has arrived and that means that the enjoyable, warmer NYC pub crawling weather is just around the corner! (Let’s hope so, anyway).

Here’s a photo of the great Irish Pub, Kinsale Tavern.  Located at 1672 Third Avenue (between 93rd and 94th Streets)

New bars keep opening and we need to get to them.  So, in that vein, here are a few spots on our radar.  In Manhattan, we still have to visit Hudson Common in the Hudson Hotel.  Over in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, we gather that a new beer bar, Torst, has opened recently.  The buzz has been high about Torst, so we can’t wait to see for ourselves.  Just slightly south and east from Torst in Williamsburg is Roebling Sporting Club.  And, in Long Island City, Queens, we look forward to visiting Opendoor.  As always, we’ll keep you posted on our findings.  Which recently-opened spots do you suggest we visit?

Over the past several days, we’ve had the opportunity to visit several spots, some of the recently-opened variety.  The wine bars include Hell’s Kitchen’s  Wine Escape and  Nolita’s Clos New York.  We also visited East Village’s Wise Men and LES’ Beverly’s and Up Stairs Bar.  We’ll provide more details in forthcoming posts.  In short, we liked Wine Escape, Wise Men and Beverly’s.  The other two were okay, but there are numerous other spots we need to hit before we return to those two.