"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 with jimmy legs on this one. walking around with no cash and trying to charge everything is for girls or expense accounts only. i don’t know where these new kids picked up that sissy habit. but if the card is stolen… i’ll let that slide, you’ve got some balls
Me, I like a nice Sam Adams from the TGI Fridays in downtown Brooklyn, where that old restaurant used to be… what was it called Cage and Something or other? That’s drinking.
You’re right all those bars mentioned on Smith St are lousy, mediocre, smelly and bad, please don’t stop by. Except Quench, it’s really getting a bad rap, give it a shot, really.
To “MadeInBrooklyn”….you actually from Brooklyn? I can see where you get off calling the Quench crowd “wannabe gangsters”. However, I’d like to see you say that to them in person. As a resident of Sackett St for 22 years, and someone who grew up with those Italian neighborhood guys, they’re not wannabes. They grew up in real gangster families, with gangster friends, and lived in a neighborhood (Carroll Gardens) that at one point was in fact – a gangster neighborhood. Granted, the neighborhood ain’t what it used to be, but I wouldn’t blame those guys for trying to keep things old school. I’d like to see you venture into parts of Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead and talk down to the locals at their respective bars. Douche.
We always thought it was kind of a cougar bar. To be avoided.
gowanus yacht club opens tomorrow.
theres a rumor it is now non smoking?!
When they first opened, my husband and I were at the bar having drinks. A photographer was there for a picture for Time Out. We were asked to move so a younger, better looking couple could sit at the bar. (We are in our 40s but not unattractive)
Love Sample and Brooklyn Inn
Boat, between Wyckoff and Warren. Reminds me of the now-gone Roxy bar, which I loved. Good drinks, great jukebox. No arm shaving as far as I can tell. Camp seems to be growing in popularity as well, though I haven’t been. As much as I like Zombie Hut’s drinks, the crowd is a little, well, something. And frankly I’ve never liked the look of Quench enough to even be moderately interested in going in.
see you all at the BK Inn in about two hours . . .