"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?
This is hilarious. Bar does smell a little off but now that the summer is here, the doors and windows are usually open and it’s noticably fresher.
Zombie Hut has a cool back yard/deck now, not sure if that’s new, but I just noticed.
No cool bars in the hood- come on! Brooklyn Socials alright still, and then there’s Sample and Abeline, those are my top two.
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Actually, I think they WAX their arms.
I agree that Brooklyn Inn, Social and Abeline are great bars (being a sports junkie I have to give a props to Angry Wade’s as well). But I also dig Bar for it’s bare-bones approach and Zombie for the $2 PBR.
I went to the dentist today so I am a little punchy, I guess . . ..
Wait, so it’s a gay bar?
BTW – just because I said Smith Street and Bar are “mediocre” I didn’t say anything about you “jj” or the people at any of them…
quench started out as “that kind of bar” – it was one of the first bars in the post-patios boom in late 90s, but always seemed off, as though the proprieters were from old-school brooklyn and were clumsily trying to catch up to the young people with a “classy” joint. but still an interesting place – occasionally a fire truck would pull up and a crew would pop in for beverages. also a very nice place to visit in the evening of the blackout a few years ago. then again, so was every smith street bar that night.
What kind of douchebags go to a bar without cash?
brooklyn inn is becoming a bistro, maybe the ATM guy will find kinship there.
quench used to be “our bar” for about six months in 2002/2003. they had a ladies’ night that my wife loved, and we got to know the bartender, who let us play ipod dj a couple times. the flavor then was mostly locals with a lesbian undercurrent.
strange thing was, the more we got to know the bartender, the weaker the drinks got… strange. so we stopped going. and obviously, the place has gone to hell since.