Best Bar in Park Slope

anonymous · September 2006

Hey everybody. I just want to ask what everybodies favorite bar in Park Slope is and why.

I just moved to the neighborhood and I want to check a few places out.

Thanks

quijibo · September 2006

you gotta give us more to go on
how old are you. background.
should the bar be divey. or snooty.
casual or high fallootin'
food. mixed drinks. wine. sports. music. etc...? :shock:

raw · September 2006

Subject: THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

The aliens have landed and are going to pulverize us!

http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5336

steve · September 2006

uhhh....

vanilla · September 2006

i like great lakes b/c my friends go there. that probably doesn't help.

cabaki · September 2006

Alot of people seem to like Buttermilk, on 15th street and 5th avenue. Cool atmosphere, people and bartenders, board games, free pizza wednesday nites at 10pm. And I hear people travel from Manhattan just to to go there!

I personally like Bar 4, Loki Lounge and Commonwealth (cool atmosphere, comfy loungy areas at the first two, and good drinks at all.)

meandÃ‚ÂºÃ‚Âºd · September 2006

Great Lakes
284 Fifth Avenue (corner of 1st Street)
(718) 499-3710
Anyone familiar with the Midwestern pre-grunge Indie music surge of the eighties and nineties (think the Replacements) or who misses the feel of their weekend party trips to Austin or Seattle can appreciate the tone of this bar. Reminiscent of a poetry majorÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s college dorm room, the dÃƒÂ©cor features multi-colored Christmas lights and wood-beamed ceilings. The long, dark space is filled with songs from the postmodern past like Yo La Tengo, the Velvet Underground, the Buzzcocks and the Smiths, while the slight scent of nachos permeates the air, making the illusion of being at a 1989 grad studentÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s party complete. Here's where I alwayz gay. if this daint sell you, nothin' will.

lo'z

erikka · September 2006

I second Buttermilk, but I'm biased because I'm lazy and it's close. They have lots of board games including Scrabble (but 1/3 of the tiles might be missing).

alafairnadia · September 2006

in PS, I like total, great lakes, the gate and the royale.

anonymous · September 2006

Subject: Park Slope bars

Ok.. I'm a bit of a drunk so I feel I can comment accurately on this topic..

First of all,

Buttermilk - I find it hard to believe that people come from Manhattan to go there... the place has board games.. WOW. Anything else going for it? There is nothing unique there... it attracts a distinctly homogenous, dull, passive, and uninteresting clientle... the same goes double for Great Lakes.. just without the board games.. (although Jim I think you're great)

Bar 4 -- good place to get coke.. (same goes for Carriage House... same goes for Park Slope Ale House).

12th Street -- love the food.. good crowd on the weekends.

Loki -- best pool table and pool game in Park Slope.. clientele can be quite mixed... go in Friday around 8:30 and you'll find about 15-20 drunk ass teachers... midnight on Saturday you might find a bunch from Bayridge, a stray hipster gang, 3 Russians, a goat, and the usuals...
I like the place.. a lot of my friends don't..

Puppet Jazz -- good for Jazz

Lighthouse -- kind of a dork bar

Living Room -- 20th street or so... and 5th.. I like this place.. pool table, cheap drinks.. diverse crowd. The place is new and hasn't found it's calling just yet.. or perhaps that is the calling ... permanently redeveloping itself.

Commonwealth -- typical.. so typical

Catty Shack -- don't get me started on that man hating, cocaine and testostorne fueled mass of immature ladies (would be a stretch).. drinks are outrageous.. the people are even moreso

Just and FYI -- Maria's mexican resturant now has a bar...

Blue Ribbon -- mixed on this place... good margarita... good staff.. actually a decent crowd.. it tries hard and actually get's the job done.. nothing special -- just a nice place that is just a touch too cheesy to truly be called upscale...

Barbes -- that owner there is a jackass french guy.. hey, I like the french.. just not jackasses... it is a good place to get wasted on a Wed so long as the right band is in the back.

The Gate -- my lord people -- what is so damn appealing about sitting in a 40 x40 plot of concrete on the corner of 3rd st and 5th ave drinking beer with elbow to elbow with a stranger?? If you go inside it's dark, it smells,... I will say the bartenders are knowledgeable if not very attentive.. selection is good..

BBQ -- 6th ave and like 20th.. holy shit.. go here.. 30 bourbons available.. most around 6 buck.. wings, pork, beans... not exactly a bar.. but I'm sure they don't mind drunks.

Union Hall -- interesting, very interesting... it's the kind of place where everyone is looking to get laid but nobody does because they are all idiots..

What have I forgotten..

anonymous · September 2006

flexi?

frony · September 2006

Flexi what? Are you asking if that was me above? Um, nope. I haven't even been to some of those places. Or are you asking me to weigh in on the bars? or what you have forgotten?

I seem to remember somebody else talking about the scotch at BBQ, but I'm not a scotch drinker, and I've never been to BBQ, so I can't weigh in on it......

edit: substitute "bourbon" for "scotch" above

shishkab · September 2006

yep: many, many bourbons to choose from at BBQ. so lovely. so tasty. mmmm.

smitty · October 2006

Subject: South Slope

If you are in the South Slope, Living Room Lounge isn't so bad. They are on 23rd St near 5th and they have board games, karaoke some nights, pool table, and decent beers on tap (Blue Moon, yum). Plus its huge if you have a big group.

joanjettofarc · October 2006

LOVE BBQ!

steve · October 2006

Buttermilk is by far my favorite PS bar. Why people like the gate is a mystery to me.

joanjettofarc · October 2006

bar reis is pretty nice when it's not crowded.

beekman · October 2006

JoanJettofArc wrote: bar reis is pretty nice when it's not crowded.

I've been going there lately because a group I belong to meets there once a month....

For a while there was a really rough looking crowd going there. I'm not sure if that changed, but it was all guys hanging outside with their baggy pants down low and their underwear hanging out, etc.

drano · October 2006

I'll second the good word for Bar Reis.

idlewild · October 2006

No one is in to Moonies anymore I'm guessing?

caaahyoko · October 2006

Flexichick wrote:

For a while there was a really rough looking crowd going there. I'm not sure if that changed, but it was all guys hanging outside with their baggy pants down low and their underwear hanging out, etc.

Yeah, what's with that? When it first opened--when the bar was downstairs--it was cool. Then, last time I went I was going from the bar back out to the patio and this skeevy guy tried to actually block my path and hit on me at the same time. :-&

We mostly go to Buttermilk now. The bartenders know us and are very cool, and its easy to run into friends there. Plus, they put in Centipede.

arlyn9391 · October 2006

I don't know when or how that happened at Bar Reis. When I go now, our whole group is downstairs very early so we don't really see the "regular crowd"...but for a while there the crowd was pretty scary.

Buttermilk is ok, but I miss the photo booth and some of the bartenders left (including a chick who last I saw her was working at Beast in PH.....and one of the partner/owners who worked behind the bar).

erikka · October 2006

Flexichick wrote:

Buttermilk is ok, but I miss the photo booth and some of the bartenders left (including a chick who last I saw her was working at Beast in PH.....and one of the partner/owners who worked behind the bar).

I like the space but the current bartender lets people smoke in there after midnight on weeknights and the place stinks up really fast. I smoke, but I forgot how gross things were before the ban.

young snitch · October 2006

park slope's bar scene is brutal. let's be honest, the neighborhood's population of stroller-yuppies and lesbians doesn't exactly make for a guinness 'n' red bull bashment. the people who don't fit into those categories are usually nice but dorky -- i mean, why else would they be in park slope?

oh yeah, drunk guest spoke real words on this post.

caaahyoko · October 2006

Flexichick wrote:
Buttermilk is ok, but I miss the photo booth and some of the bartenders left (including a chick who last I saw her was working at Beast in PH.....and one of the partner/owners who worked behind the bar).

They had a photo booth?? I missed that. Darn.

steve · October 2006

No, Bar Reis has mellowed again. I'm not sure why it went through that really young phase.

caaahyoko · October 2006

young snitch wrote: park slope's bar scene is brutal. let's be honest, the neighborhood's population of stroller-yuppies and lesbians doesn't exactly make for a guinness 'n' red bull bashment. the people who don't fit into those categories are usually nice but dorky -- i mean, why else would they be in park slope?

oh yeah, drunk guest spoke real words on this post.

Are you old enough to get into a bar? :P

Sorry, I just had to.

caaahyoko · October 2006

steve wrote: No, Bar Reis has mellowed again. I'm not sure why it went through that really young phase.

Alright--but if I go and you're wrong you will face a slow and painful death. :twisted:

anonymous · October 2006

Try Lucky 13 on 13th b/w 5th and 6th...

che · October 2006

Subject: Re: Park Slope bars

Anonymous wrote: the same goes double for Great Lakes.. just without the board games.. (although Jim I think you're great)

Jim's gone.

steve · October 2006

caaahyoko wrote: [quote=steve]No, Bar Reis has mellowed again. I'm not sure why it went through that really young phase.

Alright--but if I go and you're wrong you will face a slow and painful death. :twisted:

Shit, again?

Best Bar in Park Slope

Comments

Howdy, Stranger!

Categories