"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?
I’m so glad I live in Clinton Hill.
lifer – thanks, you know what’s up.
and to Anonymous 4:50….I love the Sopranos. Who doesn’t? But the Gotti boy haircut you speak of…no. I have short brown Jew hair. Haven’t used gel since the 8th grade.
But you’re a phony from god knows where, so get out of my neighborhood, take your know-it-all, condescending ass back to williamsburg or the midwest, portland, san francisco, wherever you’re from, and get a life.
QUENCH IS A JOKE….most other bars on Smith Street are too. Go to Atlantic.
Monteros is the place, all you haters stand back…
I lived down the street from there for three years and this surprises me, mostly because it was always empty and looked like they needed the business.
Well, as someone who has lived here on and off for over 30 years, I second the fact that the guys down there are not wannabees , they are the real deal. Brooklyn Social is the Disneyland ride of Quench- Social tries to look like the way it used to be, without the risk of a fight or attitude. These guys were going to and are probably still members of REAL social clubs, and are probably as angry as the hispanics that ruled Smith street in the 60’s and 70’s, who have been boxed out for French and Thai restaurants. They probably made the drinks bad on purpose to get rid of these people, and they are cash only, because they’re probably a front for something, if not just cheating their taxes. I have nothing against them, and i am friends with many of the people as i grew up here. I am more than happy to give them their space. never liked Quench to begin with, its more of a old neighborhood place than it used to be, live and let live. They’d probably still be going to “the Pub” or “Courtside” if they still existed. I also agree with the “travelling in groups with no cash” is a horrible way to be, at least have tip money for bartenders. the Zombie Hut is fine after 1am, Boat is great late nite too, I will be sad to see Vegas gone, and the Roxy has been missed for awhile.There are no other worthy bars on Smith as far as i’m concerned, but then again, i’m a little old school myself. oh, and 4:50, you obvipously havent lived in the neighborhood long enough to understand Sackett street’s words, any Mob history book will most deinately label Carroll Gardens as an essential part of mob history- oh, and i’m an Irish Jew with long hair, no crew cut here, Fanouk
walk over to atlantic ave and check out floyd, magnetic field and last exit. i like zombie hut (especially with the outdoor summer area) and camp too. and for beer, its true brazen head is it.
If you want a decent cocktail head to Brooklyn Social Club, if you want great beer head to the Brazen Head on Atlantic, if you want a fun neighborhood bar head over to Columbia Street and enjoy Moonshine with bands next door at Jalopy.
Brooklyn Bum
gimme an fing break 3:48. Watching too much sopranos? lemme guess you got a haircut like one of those gotti kids.