"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?
For all that dislike quench. Learn before u speak the guys who hang out there are not wannabees. They are actually nothing but gentleman, they just refuse to let some outsider take advantage in their neighborhood. Get to know them and u will realize that they don’t make men like that anymore. So stop hangin with the DIRTY liberal guy who picked his clothes out of the bottom of the hamper and makes his girl pay for the drinks. Just remember your not from here your their guests. Don’t overstay your welcome!
Anybody know why Vegas is closing – seemed to have a decent crowd most of the time.
So, the locals are good enough to rent you apartments in their family homes, to build and run businesses like Caputo’s or Brooklyn Bread which are so “quaint” and give the neighborhood all that “character” your real estate broker sold you on, and that’s not good enough? You want them to act like they’re fucking happy to see your rent-driving-up, small business-closing, whitebread yuppie ass walk into one of the few places left not full of shaggy-haired emo fucks from Omaha? Please. Yuppie entitlement at its finest!
Anyone who needs to debate the cred of a neighborhood on some sissy blog is an asshole. BK has been ruined by idiots who think they know better than the next transplant fuck. And anyone who sits at a bar without any cash in his pocket, especially when out with the ladies deserves a good beating. By the way, to the OP: First the owners thought you weren’t going to pay, THEN the drinks sucked?? Get the fck out of here!
1:23, i see your point, I personally dont go to Quench, i know a couple heavy hitters that do, and i am sure alot of those guys are just “ambience”..the other people on here denying theres a mob presence wether its in Quench or not, just dont know. .as far as drinking in the neighborhood, nothing is really worth it before midnite…thats all i got to say on this…
Brooklyn social sucks. It is filled with douche bag hipsters (and no I am not saying that all hipsters are douches). This neighborhood has changed so much and it won’t be long before all these newbie young heads decide to move some place else and take over.
lifer, like I said what was and what now is are two different things.
a bunch of guys that use nair and have pokemon haircuts do not the mafia make.
Drink at home.
M.Poggi – “its name comes from Charles Carroll, a Revolutionary War veteran who was also the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. The area now known as Carroll Gardens was originally settled by Irish Americans in the early 19th century. In 1846, Richard Butts created the spacious front yards in the oldest section of the neighborhood that have become the symbol of the area.” NOT made up by a realtor…maybe you’re thinking of BOCCOCA? I know of 3 bars on Court st in my lifetime that were repeatedly closed for numbers running, I know that my brother worked for one of the first gourmet food stores on Court in the early 80’s, that got a death threat for starting to sell flowers across the street from an “older florist”… I know that when I wrote graffitti in the 80’s I was told by my italian peers which buidings it would be my best interest not to write on…I know what I experienced…