Filed under: Drink | Tags: air hockey, Alphabet City, bubble hockey, cheap, East Village, happy hour, Manitoba
Not just Sunday. Happy hour from 2 to 8 daily: $2 domestic bottles, $3 imported bottles and well drinks, $3 drafts.
Air hockey and bubble hockey tables downstairs. Hardcore cider on tap.
It’s Yelp Drinks Week! April 4th through 10th, participating bars are offering select alcoholic beverages at half price. And you don’t have to leave work early to try and guzzle 2 happy hour drinks by 7 pm. It’s all week long at these participating bars.
I’ll be checking out some combination of The Immigrant, Idle Hands, Raines Law Room, Dorian Gray, Ward III, and Hotel Chantelle.
MANHATTAN:
The Immigrant – http://www.yelp.com/bi…
- Sancerre $7 (reg $14)
- Malbec $5 (reg $10)
- Cava $5 (reg $10)
Raines Law Room – http://www.yelp.com/bi…
- Airmail $6.50 (reg $13)
- Gold Rush $6.50 (reg $13)
- American Trilogy $6.50 (reg $13)
Idle Hands – http://www.yelp.com/bi…
- Any Draft Beer $3.50 (reg $7)
- Any Well Drink $3.50 (reg $7)
- Dram of Maker’s Mark $4 (reg $8)
Ward III – http://www.yelp.com/bi…
- Ward III: $6 (reg $12)
- Hell Bent For Leather: $6 (reg $12)
- NY Sour: $6 (reg $12)
Hotel Chantelle – http://www.yelp.com/bi…
- Bramble $6.50 (reg $13)
- Oscar Mike $6.50 (reg $13)
- Toussaint Rouge $6.50 (reg $13)
Filed under: Drink, Go, Listen | Tags: ANR, cheap, free, happy hour, LES, Lightwaves, live music, Savoir Adore, Tammany Hall, Thursday, Walk the Moon
On the first Thursday of every month, LES nightlife newcomer Tammany Hall hosts three floors of rotating musical guests, dancing, and general debauchery with its monthly Popshop party. Next Thursday, April 7th, Walk the Moon, Savoir Adore, and ANR will be playing live with Lightwaves rocking the DJ booth all night. Free after midnight.
THURSDAY, APRIL 7TH
Entire Venue
Popshop is back at Tammany Hall. This month, SXSW darlings Walk the Moon headline with help from Brooklyn indie poppers Savoir Adore and Miami psych kids ANR playing live. Lightwaves is back and will be spinning all night long. Like every past Popshop, this event is expected to sell out, so get your tickets NOW!
Doors are at 8pm. Advance Tickets are available here
If you show up early, you might even catch happy hour. $3 beers, $4 cocktails, $5 wines.
Drink-Dance-Listen: Tammany Hall (LES) 152 Orchard Street between Stanton and Rivington. (212) 982-7767. Follow Tammany Hall and Popshop on Twitter.
Filed under: Go | Tags: all-you-can-bowl, bowling, Bowlmor, cheapish, happy hour, live music, Monday, Night Strike, Union Square, unlimited
On Monday nights from 9 pm to 1 am, the Union Square Bowlmor runs a $24 all-you-can-bowl special (including shoe rental) called Night Strike. Given that each game would otherwise set you back $12 or $13 per game at any other time on any other night plus an additional $6.50 for shoe rental, and assuming you plan to play more than two games, you’re getting some serious bang for your buck (I mean, for NYC – this ain’t 99 cent midnight bowling like Seattle, but it’s the best we got here in this fine city of ours with its sky-high rents).
Go: Bowlmor Lanes (Union Square) 110 University Place between 12th & 13th Streets, New York, NY 10003. (212) 255-8188.
Filed under: Drink, Eat | Tags: beer, BLT Fish, cheap, clams, happy hour, oysters
Per Eater’s DEALFEED, more $1 oysters! This time at BLT Fish Shack in Flatiron. BLT Fish Shack has a pretty well-rounded raw bar and also serves classic New England fish shack fare like chowders, steamed lobster, fried clams, etc. I love $1 seafood!
When: Mon – Fri, 5 – 7 PM; 212-691-8888.
21 West 17th St., New York, NY
Filed under: Drink, Eat | Tags: beer, charcuterie, cheap, deals, happy hour, Jadis, LES, Monday, Sancerre, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday, wine, wine bar
Jadis is a lovely LES wine bar with a rustic but refined French sensibility. Not only does it offer a wonderful and reasonably priced selection of wines from around the world (about 30 available by the glass), it also offers phenomenal small plates that go perfectly with a glass of your wine of choice. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 5-7 pm, however, it gets better: all glasses of wine are half price and bottled beers are $4. (Mondays aren’t bad, either, as all bottles of wine over $40 are half price.) This means that during happy hour, you can have a glass of Riesling or Cotes du Rhone red for $3, an Argentinian Malbec or Italian Pinot Grigio for $3.50, a prosecco or Charles de Fere brut for $4, or a Sancerre (my personal favorite) for just $5.50!
The food is nothing to sniff at, either. Between two of us, we ordered the country pate ($7), the duck rillette ($8), and the bacon-wrapped scallops ($8) and we were stuffed. The charcuterie portions are quite generous, and the servers provided us with an extra bread basket to finish off our remaining pate and rillette. So dinner for two plus two glasses of wine apiece came out to $50 including tax and tip. Not bad at all!
The country pate was rich, slightly chunky, and had just the right amount of pepper. There were 5 large triangular slices served with mesclun greens and sliced bread.
Filed under: Drink, Eat, Go | Tags: all you can eat, beer, deals, happy hour, Marc Forgione, suckling pig, Tuesday
Who: 2010 Michelin Guide one star chef Marc Forgione, me, you, pig lovers.
What: Suckling Pig Happy Hour – all you can eat suckling pig sliders for $16 and 2 for 1 beer special. I went on 3/2/10 and was told they were not doing a 2-for-1 beer special, only a $14 all you can drink Brooklyn Lager special. This made the deal significantly less exciting for me, as I had no desire to fill myself up with 3 beers to get my money’s worth (they’re normally $6) while trying to stuff face with pig sliders. The pig sliders were good: the resto roasts the suckling pig with natural jus, garlic confit, herbs, and whole grain mustard. Then they set up a serving table where you can build your own sliders with warm, buttery rolls and toppings of grainy mustard, house-made pickles, and a hot sauce that tastes a whole lot like sriracha. I was quite disappointed in myself as I could only muscle down three sliders before I hit the declining marginal utility limit, but the bartender told me that there have been guys who managed to eat 6 or 7 of those suckers.
When: Tuesdays 6:00-9:00 pm
Where: The bar area only at Marc Forgione / Forge (Tribeca) 134 Reade Street at Hudson St., New York City, 10013. (212)941-9401.
Filed under: Drink, Eat | Tags: beer, burger, burger and beer combo, Clinton St., Clinton St. Baking Co., crab cake sandwich, deals, happy hour, Jo's, LES, Nolita, oysters, pancakes, Sachiko's, SoHo, spicy tuna, sushi
Yesterday’s eatventure with Sara consisted of three stops (unplanned) and a self-made three-course meal.
First stop: Jo’s (SoHo/Nolita)
Ate: 1/2 dozen $1 HH Miyagi oysters – these were normal sized, not on steroids – still buttery and meaty
Drank: HH draft of Ommegang Witte $4 for me, glass of Vouvray for S $10
Note: Angus the Aussie bartender has fabulous hair – he works Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Pardon the crappy camera but can you see how deep this Miyagi shell is? Not at all like the European flat oyster.
Second stop: Sachiko’s (LES)
Ate: Spicy Crunchy Rice (Spicy tuna on crispy rice) 6 pieces $8 – I am addicted.
Drank: HH sake for me, a very full champagne flute for $4; HH sake Cosmo for S $6
Note: We only ended up at Sachiko’s because when we arrived at CSBC (below) at 7pm, there was a 40+ minute wait for a table and we knew Sachiko’s has happy hour till 7:30 on weekdays.
The Spicy Crunchy Rice is good every time. Your choice of tuna or salmon. Also very good for HH is the tonkatsu ($10 – normally $14 if not HH). Sapporo drafts just $2.50 but I was afraid I’d be too full for Stop 3.
Third stop: Clinton St. Baking Company (LES) – February is Pancake Month!
Ate: BBQ Sugar Bacon Cheeseburger (BBQ sauce on the side) $16 & Fresh Blackberry Pancakes with Pecan Streusel and Warm Maple Butter
Drank: Water. We were already tipsy from HH boozing.
Note: 1/2 price bottles of wine on Mondays and Tuesdays. Also, they’ve just introduced a $16 Crab Cake Sandwich & Amstel Light combo deal on Mondays & Tuesdays. By the time we finished dinner at 9pm, there was an hour+ wait! Get there early, put your name on the list, and grab a drink elsewhere until your turn is up.
Filed under: Eat, Go | Tags: beer, Colin Kruzic, group dinner, happy hour, Jo's, Nolita, oysters, SoHo, Sunday
I booked it to Jo’s with Sara N. after work on a Monday night around 7:50 and by 8:00 was already on my second $4 Ommegang Witte (fresh keg – have never tasted beer head quite so delicious – citrusy and wheaty with some darker sweeter spices). We ordered the $1 happy hour oysters (5-8 pm weekdays) and, by god, were they big. Normally, I prefer smaller oysters because they taste more delicate, but maybe it was the beer (perfect pairing!) but these big oysters also had big, briny flavor. I’ve been to Jo’s once before and the oysters were good, but not as good as that night. I’m drooling a little thinking about it.
I went back to Jo’s the very next day because it’s close to work and because I could not get the Jerk and a Slap (three types of house-cured jerky and a Pork Slap beer for $9) and Meat in a Cup (slow cooked meat served in a cup) out of my head. Sadly, they were out of Meat in a Cup but they did have some jerky and Pork Slap around. I was disappointed with the jerky, as I found it to be too salty, too tough, and too small. On the upside, I loved the Porkslap Pale Ale. It’s hard to find beer in a can that actually tastes good, and I think this is it. Not overly hoppy and just the right amount of carbonation with very slight citrus notes. I’ll be having that again. The gruyere gougeres were not what I expected, but man, those warm little cheesy bread balls are dee-frickin-licious with some sriracha sauce! (more…)
