"Your Kind of People" Aren't Welcome Here
This past Friday night, a group of Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill residents headed out for some drinks, but their usual favorite watering holes (the bar called “Bar” at 280 Smith and Zombie Hut at 273 Smith) weren’t an option: “Barbar smelled funny, and Z-hut was too crowded,” reported the reader. Instead, the group decided to check…
This past Friday night, a group of Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill residents headed out for some drinks, but their usual favorite watering holes (the bar called “Bar” at 280 Smith and Zombie Hut at 273 Smith) weren’t an option: “Barbar smelled funny, and Z-hut was too crowded,” reported the reader. Instead, the group decided to check out Quench, the lounge on the corner of Sackett and Smith. They ordered cocktails, but then learned that the bar is cash-only. One member of the party left the bar to grab some money from a nearby ATM. That’s when the trouble began…
“The owner and the bouncer got all huffy thinking that we weren’t going to pay. Then, it turned out that the drinks were terrible/un-drinkable, but they wouldn’t give a refund or remake the drinks and told us they didn’t want our kind of people there anyway! Now, they could have meant ‘the kind of people who would say something about a disgusting drink,’ but looking around, the other patrons were 100% guys who shave their arms and girls with fake tans, so we left the paid-for drinks on the bar and went home.”
Damn, girl! We hate to besmirch a bar that has bestowed us many a cheap happy hour—we’ve never been given any flak while sipping their refreshing $5 mojitos. (Granted, we have been hit on by men who were old enough to be our dads while we were ordering said cocktails, but that’s a small price to pay for such potent $5 drinks!) That said, this anonymous tip doesn’t seem to be an isolated occurrence—we found a couple more haters with similar complaints on Citysearch. Has anyone else had problems at Quench?
Hey uncle junior, if its your neighborhood, why don’t YOU say hello? Are you really shocked that your new “yuppie liberal” neighbors are walking past you with their heads down when you are so clearly hostile against them?
Nobody is bashing the neighborhood here. We are all here because we LOVE the nieghborhood. What we don’t love is people like you treating us like assholes just because we haven’t lived here for 50 fucking years.
Neighborhoods change. People move away and others move in. It’s a fact of modern urban life.. and you can either be a dick about it and “piss on there doorknobs” or try to get along..
maybe you should all just stay home and drink in your fucking kitchens
You “found people going through your bags?” What type of crack were you on?
I’ve lived in the hood for years & just wandered in to Quench a few weeks ago. What a MISTAKE! This place is seriously a hell hole.After a few beers my friend & I found people going thru our bags. I have never left a ‘hood bar with such a bad taste in my mouth. This place deserves all the dissin’ it’s gettin’.
Sitting in bklyn social with a couple of members just got wind of bk record and checked it out don’t appreciate these yuppie liberals bashing the neighborhood u guys make me sick u ruined my neighborhood. U made all the people from here move way and know I don’t even know my neighbors they put their heads down and don’t say hello it makes me sick it makes me wanna piss on there doorknobs
actually i was the poster underneath, i am not sure that the lease is up, i just know they are out at the end of the month and lucky jeans is moving in.I dont think the’ve been there 5 years…I dont know much more than that
7:59 Vegas’ lease is up? What did they sign a 5 year lease?
I don’t dislike Quench but I do think that all of the transplant bashing is horseshit. Not every person who moves into the neighborhood is some Yuppie/Emo fuck who wants to make the neighborhood their own. Just like not every “real” Carroll Gardens resident is a mobbed up greaseball ready to beat down gays and blacks at the drop of a dime. Most of us are just people who moved to NYC for a job, or a girl, and thought that this is a great place to live.
11:36 -Vegas’s lease is up, it appears Lucky Jeans offered them more money, thats what i heard is going in its place..