new bar opening soon in park slope...

belzjm

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2009/05/streetlevel_bla.php

MOD

Subject: Black Horse Pub

From Mule in the comments:

The Black Horse pub should open around May 30th as full disclosure I am an investor.

It will be an English Pub including English breakfast on the weekends a Snday Roast ,along with Football matches shown in the mornings on the weekends as well. We actually are an official World Cup Soccer bar although I honestly have to say I don't know who gave us the official designation. Pub food will be available during other times.

The bar itself will be 33 feet long inside and has 16 taps. What exactly we have on the menu I am not entirely sure of.

lastly the internet link is blackhorsebrooklyn.com although the website is not fully built there are photos of it being built in progress althoghh they were taken about 2 weeks back.

Hope to see you soon.

longtimesloper

Bars are becoming like realtors and cell phones stores around here, we just keep getting more and more of them. Is there nothing else that this neighborhood can support?

meredithb

we need more banks.

MOD

more bars in more places!

longtimesloper

MeredithB wrote: we need more banks.

belzjm

i actually noticed yesterday that the old lighthouse tavern space on 5th avenue has now been renamed high five, i believe it was. they've taken the paper off the windows and look to be opening any day now. looks like a cool space.

lts - in times of economic distress, anything involving alcohol does a great business...people will cut back on eating out, but will drink more.

personally, i'm all in favor of all the new bars. park slope really doesn't NEED much of anything at this point...it has practically everything already so a couple fresh new bars is a great addition, in my opinion.

scarlett

I like the idea of a bar with food in South Slope. Now that Kitchen Bar is closed the options are slim.

carmen

High Five is actually open (or it was on Sunday at least.) Didn't stop by but it looks decent inside

belzjm

oh cool. thanks carmen. i must have walked by early in the day when it wasn't yet open. i'll have to check it out....

longtimesloper

belzjm wrote: i actually noticed yesterday that the old lighthouse tavern space on 5th avenue has now been renamed high five, i believe it was. they've taken the paper off the windows and look to be opening any day now. looks like a cool space.

lts - in times of economic distress, anything involving alcohol does a great business...people will cut back on eating out, but will drink more.

personally, i'm all in favor of all the new bars. park slope really doesn't NEED much of anything at this point...it has practically everything already so a couple fresh new bars is a great addition, in my opinion.

just seems outrageous to me that bar after bar opens around here when there are so many already.

I mean, you can drink beer at hoem. And, yes, I know you can eat at home, but some people don't know how to cook or can't cook certain foods, everyone can open a beer.

I guess I don't get the appeal of bars anymore, when I was younger they were just places to meet people. So, to me, if you aren't looking to meet someone, why go to a bar? And, again, there are tons everywhere, I am sure there are other things we need in PS

scarlett

LTS, I think some people go to bars precisely to get out of the house, or get some A/C, play trivia, hear a band, socialize with a group of friends, socialize with strangers, because they don't leep alcohol in the house because they are alcoholics and think that as long as they drink in public they don't have a problem, or for me, because their TV at home is miniscule and it's a lot more fun to watch the Mets on a BIG screen!

carmen

scarlett wrote: LTS, I think some people go to bars precisely to get out of the house, or get some A/C, play trivia, hear a band, socialize with a group of friends, socialize with strangers, because they don't leep alcohol in the house because they are alcoholics and think that as long as they drink in public they don't have a problem, or for me, because their TV at home is miniscule and it's a lot more fun to watch the Mets on a BIG screen!

Exactly. I can drink beer (or in my case, cheap wine) at home, but I like going out and meeting my friends OUTSIDE of my home. I spend 8-10 hours a day working in my house (plus all the "normal time" an often a bar or restaurant is the easiest way to sneak out and get some human interaction. I rarely eat out because I can cook and I eating out is expensive, but I think nothing of (and actually cherish) calling a friend and meeting for a $5 drink last-minute on a monday evening.

mougar

High Dive is definitely open. They're happy hour is from 2P-8P and has $2 high lifes, $1 off everything else. I don't know how much jim beam costs though, so hi-beams may or may not be possible.

MOD

Yeah, bars are all about socializing for me. Preferably bars with good food, so i can make a dinner out of it, not just drink. It draws people out of their homes and gives you a reason to meet up.

But I totally understand about the beer at home being cheaper and easier. So sometimes dinner parties are needed. But my place is always a mess, so I don't want my friends to see my junk all over the place. Therefore, we meet at a bar and grill instead.

drunken revival

Bars are not like real estate agents or phone stores. As Jane Jacobs writes, “Bars keep the street reasonably populated until three in the morning and . . . always a safe street to come home to”.

Bars are places to meet a friend or a stranger… they bring spice to a neighborhood. In city life we have so few places where the community can come together without schedule or reason to simply communicate. Neither the street nor the market nor the park offer the same sort of freedom of interaction that a bar does. To enter a bar one only need be not too drunk, not too rough around the edges, and not unseemly to the point where even the least common denominator can’t deal with you.

I’ll take a bar on a corner over just about anything. Let’s take the whole drinking and costs out of it… believe it or not many people go into a bar and have only a drink or none at all. I know that my local bar can, for myself and many others, act as an escape… not from reality or sobriety - but from the grind, the café, the office, or wife. I know that if I had a problem… if my apartment burnt down, if bikers were after me, if I was hiding from the cops, or if just need to escape, that my local bar can give me that. It can give me a change of clothes, advise, a drink, some quick cash, and a backdoor exit.

carmen

Drunken Revival wrote: Bars are not like real estate agents or phone stores. As Jane Jacobs writes, “Bars keep the street reasonably populated until three in the morning and . . . always a safe street to come home to”.

Bars are places to meet a friend or a stranger… they bring spice to a neighborhood. In city life we have so few places where the community can come together without schedule or reason to simply communicate. Neither the street nor the market nor the park offer the same sort of freedom of interaction that a bar does. To enter a bar one only need be not too drunk, not too rough around the edges, and not unseemly to the point where even the least common denominator can’t deal with you.

I’ll take a bar on a corner over just about anything. Let’s take the whole drinking and costs out of it… believe it or not many people go into a bar and have only a drink or none at all. I know that my local bar can, for myself and many others, act as an escape… not from reality or sobriety - but from the grind, the café, the office, or wife. I know that if I had a problem… if my apartment burnt down, if bikers were after me, if I was hiding from the cops, or if just need to escape, that my local bar can give me that. It can give me a change of clothes, advise, a drink, some quick cash, and a backdoor exit.

you really like to drink, don't you?

MOD

I heart Drunken Rival :drunken:

mougar

So anyone else want to try High Dive tonight?

belzjm

bars thrive because the markup on alcohol is huge and because most human beings crave interaction with others.

i can't for the life of me figure out why this would be considered "outrageous" to you lts.

personally, i wish a few more of these children's boutiques would close up and become bars. at least they stay open past 6pm and add some life to the street.

drunken revival

"you really like to drink, don't you?" - Carmen

Do I dare snide and utterly crude reply risking the credence and beauty of my original post - oh, you no I do.

Yeah, Carmen, I like to drink. Do you have anything intelligent to add to this conversation or should I just dig through the archives for more bold upchucks of the obvious from you?

meganlibrarian

I go to bars to drink beers that I cannot buy in bottles (hello, Sixpoint!), so I'm all for good bars with excellently-curated beer selections. Bring 'em on!

longtimesloper

belzjm wrote: bars thrive because the markup on alcohol is huge and because most human beings crave interaction with others.

i can't for the life of me figure out why this would be considered "outrageous" to you lts.

personally, i wish a few more of these children's boutiques would close up and become bars. at least they stay open past 6pm and add some life to the street.

Now, now, no need to get hostile, no one brought children into it, nor, do i want more overpriced children's boutiques around (though, there aren't that many, are there?).

i just don't get the appeal, i truly don't. i like to drink and I do drink, i just don't see the need to have tons of bars one right on top of another or why people get excited about them.

Some people on here made some very good points that I hadn't thought of, like I said, when i was younger, i went to bars a lot, have very little interest in them now. maybe I am just too old for them now (early 40s)

carmen

Drunken Revival wrote: "you really like to drink, don't you?" - Carmen

Do I dare snide and utterly crude reply risking the credence and beauty of my original post - oh, you no I do.

Yeah, Carmen, I like to drink. Do you have anything intelligent to add to this conversation or should I just dig through the archives for more bold upchucks of the obvious from you?

thats pretty hostile for someone who brazenly asked me to physically identify myself so that I may be stalked by a certain poster (*cough* you *cough*) at a local watering hole. So much for that love connection. Lighten up, dude and feel free to dig through said archives. I love reliving my brooklynian-based past.


cheers. Too bad I dont drink highlife...

belzjm

didn't mean to be hostile, lts, but if you don't like bars or have any use for them, why exactly have you posted 4 comments already on a thread about a new bar?

drunken revival

WTF are you talking about? Stalking? Love connection? Are you delusional or trying to tarnish my persona? I've got news for you - it's way to late for you to do a damn thing to tarnish me.... I'm blacker than a really black black person, or a pot, or a kettle... or a black crayon. I'm sure you'll dig up something out of context - so I can't wait to see it..

As for me being brazen - yeah, deal with it.

longtimesloper

belzjm wrote: didn't mean to be hostile, lts, but if you don't like bars or have any use for them, why exactly have you posted 4 comments already on a thread about a new bar?

I never said that I didn't like bars, I just don't see the need to have tons of them around. it's not like I have a moral objection to them or anything.

As for why I have posted on this thread 4 times? Umm, because I hang out at this board and had something to say about it? LOL

Are we only allowed to post about subjects that we love and adore? Or, only allowed to comment on new storefronts opening that we will actually use? i guess I didn't read the new rules

whynot_31

Indeed, what will any of us post under the supposed new rules....

MOD

Let's stick to the topic at hand: WILL BLACK HORSE PUB OFFER ME ENGLISH SAUSAGE AND BEER!?!?!?

Not that there is anything wrong with american sausage, but you know, they have more money and know how to butter up their biscuits before they hit it....

belzjm

you can post about whatever you like, i just don't think it's really all that helpful to come onto a thread where people are excited about a new bar opening, and you are the only person here who seems to want to sh*t on it.

you might reconsider a stop into your local watering hole to see what it is people do in bars to make them enjoyable. definitely more fun it would seem than talking smack on the computer about a new business you are never going to patronize.

park slope has far from "tons" of bars. most people i know in the neighborhood say we need more, and i happen to agree.

it's interesting that the places you like (a certain less than mediocre italian restaurant which looked like it belonged in the magic kingdom in disneyworld) which went out of business while getfresh is thriving and new bars are opening. perhaps your finger is not on the pulse of what businesses seem to be doing well in modern day ps.

comment away though. i like your posts.

sir_eccles

Do you actually know what goes in English sausages? I'm British and know enough to need to be quite drunk before eating one :-)