Needed: bar in 212
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on April 6, 2007 – 11:22 AM8 Comments
We’d like to go out and watch the game tonight but we can’t settle on a place. Desired specs:
1. Below 23rd Street; west side of Manhattan preferred
2. Not a super-crowded hipster joint — more of an old-man bar (anonymous Irish pub is okay)
3. Plenty of TVs/decent sightlines/won’t insist on the Mets game
Gay bar is fine, sports bar is fine, as long as we can hope to get seats. Hook a sister up, could you?
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I know you said west side, but when we lived downtown we always used to go to MJ Armstrongs on 19th and 1st Ave. Lots of TVs, and they have a really good menu, if you wanted to eat. Lots of choice. (go Orioles!)
I’ve watched a fair number of twilight playoff games at the White Horse. It may get a bit frat party later in the evening but should be good for the first pitch.
There is a very old-man-Irish bar ON 23rd, between 5th and 6th (closer to 6th) on the north side of the street. I can’t think of the name of it, but it’s just west of the wine store. I have been in there many times and it’s NEVER been crowded, certainly it’s no kind of hipster hangout.
You can always get a seat, and a beer, and also a burger if you want.
And they’ll have the game on.
It’s not glamorous, though. It SMELLS like an old-Irish-guy pub.
Two come to mind.
McManus at 19th and 7th (Irish pub) and Flight 151, on 8th between 17th and 18th. Plenty of TV’s at 151, and half of them devoted to each team. McManus, is more like a pub that happens to have televisions in it.
I believe the old man’s bar on 23rd between 5th and 6th is called Limerick’s. They have several televisions in there if I recall correctly.
Fiddlesticks is a great place. Greenwich and 7th Ave. It really only gets crowded on weekend nights, and they’ve got one HUGE screen tv, but also 4 smaller ones, so you can almost always get whatever game you want to see. Plus some days Keifer hangs out there. KEIFER!
I want to second McManus’. It’s super laid-back with an interesting clientele and reasonable prices.
I hate to confess this publicly, but the Outback Steakhouse on 23rd btw 5th & 6th houses an ideal bar. I used to work in the Flatiron, and the Outback gave us everything we needed in an after work watering hole:
1. cheap GIANT beers
2. music, but not over-loud, so you can converse without shouting
3. many, many TVs in the bar, and they’ll change the channel for you
4. any number of fried appetizers available for you should you overindulge on cheap GIANT beers
5. nice, out of work actor type waiters that respond well to healthy tips – i.e., give you free food, drinks
6. located near many subways
7. not full of hipster dicksmacks
8. should your party exceed 4-6 ppl, you can sit in the restaurant & they won’t bug you about having only drinks & apps