Thirstbaràvin – Wine Bar on Classon Ave

i wonder how this place is doing. horrible location.

Excellent photos - what wines did you try and how are prices?

As someone who lives within a couple of blocks I initially thought it was a bad idea too, but Outpost does really well (sometimes too well and I can't get a seat) just a couple of blocks away. Also it is not too far from the Franklin C stop. This area also lacks date spots- Outpost is hit and miss and doesn't have that kind of food selection. I think the biggest thing will be letting people know they exist.

I thought she meant Habana Outpost http://www.yelp.com/biz/habana-outpost-brooklyn

But that's not exactly the location... probably Outpost Cafe (Lounge) http://www.outpostlounge.com/pages/map.html

They list the same "nexus": "Outpost is located at the nexus of four amazing Brooklyn neighborhoods. Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights."

Interestingly, as we note in the article, there is actually an Italian restaurant slated to open next door. The owner owns an Italian restaurant in the Lower East Side ... unfortunately, I can't remember the name. A few visionary restaurateurs could really make "warehouse row" as we call it, a happening place!

hope so. new eating options always welcome.

I don't know if 'transformation' and 'clean-up' necessitates it being 'better'. It all depends upon whose interests are being met. Were I a john looking for a 'working girl' (or 'boy' for that matter) then the price of said service has now gone up. I mean, the meat-packing district has become a ghetto for boutique bullshit and the self-consciously scrubbed; stainless steel, glass and chrome are now prerequisites. I dunno, that kind of stuff is disgusting in a 'progressive' sort of way....

What's wrong with a wine shop beside a scrapyard and a chicken slaughterhouse? Note my use of 'shop' instead of bar. It's conscious. Why must we dress up everything? That's not a rhetorical question. There is something self serving and narcissist when 'folks need to sit in mood lighting just to drink alcohol. A bottle of wine that retails for 8 bucks is taken into a 'wine bar' where one buys a glass of wine for 8 bucks... Crazy hipsters....

'fern bar'? It's an unwarranted elitist perspective; self-congratulatory.

(In a Schwarzennegger-type voice:) Look at us, we are so sensitive and progressive drinking fancy wine in a wine bar! We are all SO cool, and hip, and FANCY, drinking our overpriced wine! Oh, if we could get rid of the scrapyard and the chicken slaughterhouse - then we wouldn't have to be reminded of those un-cool, un-hip people! Then it would be 'better'!

That presumes that rats like to eat metal and tires, and that the slaughterhouse isn't circumspect about the remains that they throw away -- another unwarranted elitist presumption Booklaw....

I don't know if 'transformation' and 'clean-up' necessitates it being 'better'.

like clockwork

rats = getting kinda offtopic, guys.

Hardly, on a bed of mesclun no less.

What's wrong with rat salad? It's sure better than rat-shit salad, which I am sure we have all eaten whether we would like to think so or not....

"i wonder how this place is doing. horrible location. "

It's an excellent location, actually. I bet the rent is crazy cheap and people who like good wine are going out of their way to get there.

I thought a wine shop is where one goes to buy a bottle of wine for off premise consumption, whereas a wine bar is primarily a bar that focuses on the on premise consumption of wine. I'm not sure how that is dressing it up in as much as quantifying what it is. Did I miss something?

it's a bar.

So, has anyone (besides SnowboardQueen) eaten here yet?

SnowboardQueen, no offense but I am looking of a non-vegetarian point of view before I check this place out.

Note my use of 'shop' instead of bar. It's conscious. Why must we dress up everything? That's not a rhetorical question. There is something self serving and narcissist when 'folks need to sit in mood lighting just to drink alcohol. A bottle of wine that retails for 8 bucks is taken into a 'wine bar' where one buys a glass of wine for 8 bucks... Crazy hipsters...

This is a joke, right?

right?

Cowboys are hipsters? A saloon is a bar. A bar is like a restaurant for drinks -- or do you not see why people would go out to eat either? I mean, you can eat at home for cheaper too.

People drink at bars for reasons other than wanting to feel hip or whatever. Some people want the experience of leaving their house (for whatever reason -- I like to because if I'm at home I feel compelled to watch TV or to do work or to clean or whatever) or they want to hear music while drinking or they want to dance while drinking or they don't want so-and-so in their house while drinking or they want to meet new people while drinking or they want to try new wines/beers/cocktails or they want to have something that someone else picked out for them so that they don't have to decide and can have something delicious.