"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?
Just a polite correction: us Bridge & Tunnelers still have a Manhattan bias. New Jersey folks and Long Islanders hang out at MisShapes parties at Don Hills or Webster Hall or the Upper East Side. We leave Brooklyn to the ex-Manhattanites who gentrified Alphabet City before deeming old Downtown Brooklyn the place to be, and the old-timers who remember the days when Carnarsie still had Native American tribes living alongside the Pier.
P.S. I know the Ex-Manhattanite neighborhood trailblazers are getting antsy and moving to the likes of Astoria. Please stay on the North Shore & let Far Rockaway be.
if you never jumped in the johhny pump on court and 4th place in front of hanleys with a container and bbq’d at 3 am on the corner with beach chairs youll never understand carroll gardens … kiss my ass and move back to arkansas ! yuppie fuck
Fuck me! Fuck you! Any old-timer knows “The Grid” was actually “Carlitos Way”! Also that it was a shitt fucking bar. Also shitty – the fucking social club at smith and douglass that always woke me up at 5am.
Aren’t you all supposed to wait for Jonathan Lethem to tell you where to drink in the “neighborhood?” I thought so. Eileen Dugan would be spinning in her grave. So would Joey Gallo.
what are you doing looking at some guy’s armpit?? yuck?
most people at quench do not live in this hood. most drive in from… somewhere: bay ridge? strong island? jerz?
just cause you growed up here dont make you mob, or “gangsta.” any walk down sackett toward the bqe and you see only thing “gangsta” about the neighborhood now is the motorola beeps, the hairspray and the hoodrats.
real mob would never put up with such low-rent slag.
anon 4:50 here. ive been around for quite a while thanks. what was and what is are two different things. if it gets your carrots off thinking that your hood is still mobbed up don’t know what to tell ya.
4:19 – It was Gage and Tollner’s. What a shame, what a shame.
ONE dude here actually got it right– all of these corporate ipod asswipe ersatz hipsters who get way vibed out by Quench…
guess what? it used to be a cell phone yapping (in glory days before they were ubiquitous) & “dot.com” fake Manhattan “glamour” joint, easily dismissed as the Fuck Q.
that it’s morphed into a local place is one of very few good de-evolutions but I still say bring back The Grid.
Retards who think “Boat” is “really cool” or pay ANY $$$ for the swill & douchebag parade at the loathesome “Gomanus Scrote Club” say what?
The Grid, fucktard, The Grid.
gracias,
M. Poggi
p/s: I will say most “mob history” books DO NOT talk about “Carroll Gardens” because that’s a bullshit real estate name. 30 years– you KNOW that, don’t fall into their trap even if everyone else does. “Carroll Gardens” my guinea ass.