Are These the 10 Best Bars in Brooklyn?
The Voice’s Fork in the Road blog recently released a ranking of the 10 best bars in Brooklyn. Selections were based on “atmosphere, company, value, and the quality of the beverages,” and Williamsburg’s Spuyten Duyvil nabbed the top spot. The rest: 2. Montero’s Bar and Grill (Brooklyn Heights); 3. Brooklyn Social (Carroll Gardens); 4. Sunny’s…
The Voice’s Fork in the Road blog recently released a ranking of the 10 best bars in Brooklyn. Selections were based on “atmosphere, company, value, and the quality of the beverages,” and Williamsburg’s Spuyten Duyvil nabbed the top spot. The rest: 2. Montero’s Bar and Grill (Brooklyn Heights); 3. Brooklyn Social (Carroll Gardens); 4. Sunny’s Bar (Red Hook); 5. Tip Top Bar and Grill (Bed-Stuy); 6. The Brooklyn Inn (Boerum Hill); 7. Freddy’s (Prospect Heights); 8. Smolen Bar and Grill (Greenwood Heights); 9. KeBeer Bar and Grill (Brighton Beach); and 10. Palace Cafe (Greenpoint). It’s nice to see so many neighborhoods represented! What do you think of the list?
Our Ten Best: Brooklyn Bars [Fork in the Road]
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weather up, sepia, pacific standard, soda bar, and any bar that may open with an apothecary theme.
“It’s the service which is the problem. People are RUDE there.”
11217, I can’t speak to everyone who works there, but there’s one bartender/waitress, Frankie I think is her name, who is great. I’d only been to Clover Club 2-3 times, usually for a night cap, and hadn’t been in for at least a month. And I’m sitting at the bar trying to remember the drink I’d last had that I really liked, but the menu changed. And Frankie looks at me – I didn’t recognize her – and she says, “I waited on you when you and your friends sat at the table by the window. I broke a plate. And you really liked the ‘Clover Club'”. Couldn’t believe she remembered me. Where’s DeLepp?? DeLepp, was her name Frankie?? Anyways, she was great, and we ended up talking to her and having a few night caps until we closed the place.
Surprised “Duff’s” didn’t make the list – frequently wins Best of NYC dive bar/rocker bar honors.
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“but they do make you feel like you’re in a bar that aspires to be in Manhattan.”
What bar in Manhattan (besides Bowery Bar) has a ginormous outdoor area where you can sit, stand, gather a group of 30 people or just hang out all Sunday afternoon and smoke cigarettes and shoot the shit?
“Is there a nice fancy cocktail bar in brooklyn????”
There’s also that hidden place in Fort Greene. I think its called The Hideout. They make some great mixed drinks. I ordered a Moscow Mule once and they used homemade Ginger Beer. It was excellent.
Spuyten Duyvil is number one?!?
That place doesn’t even make the top 10 best bars in that neighborhood. Slow, pretentious bartenders and snobby german beer do not make the place great, but they do make you feel like you’re in a bar that aspires to be in Manhattan.
I love going in there and asking them for a Coors Light just to bum out the bartenders.
“Is there a nice fancy cocktail bar in brooklyn????”
Weather Up! (not sure if it’s necessarily fancy, but it’s very cool).
I really like Moe’s in Fort Greene also