by Lilly F Fancy bars and restaurants with all sorts of sexy food and drink (Tørst, Beloved, Nights and Weekends) are all over Greenpoint these days, but let’s face it – sometimes you just want get hammered on a budget, pay homage to the neighborhood’s longtime establishments, or just check out something different and new (or old). Greenpoint definitely has no shortage of dive bars, but where to begin?
This weekend I hung out in some of these dives…
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Both Connie O’s and Palace are incredibly homophobic bars. There are plenty other bars where I’d rather spend my money. Kudos to them for being “local” bars but I’m a native Brooklynite and won’t spend my money to support homophobic fools
Thanks for letting us know you are a native Brooklynite. That is boss.
huh. I’m a gay metalhead and the Palace has been my favorite dive since I moved here years ago… did you find the clientele or the owners to be homophobic? The brothers who own the place have never batted an eye when me and my gay friends have hung out there…
the fat brother Palace bartender called my friend a “paki” once and refused to serve him. my buddy is obviously latino. it was weird. fuck those dudes.
The Palace is amazing ,but sometimes you have to remind them to charge you for your drinks. The jukebox is the best in the neighborhood and the crew there is great. I used to live next door and they were the first friendly faces I saw every morning out walking their dogs and they welcomed me home at night as well. Great people.
Irene’s and Capri Social Club are excellent as well. Nice folks.
In response to Eric’s comment up there…
Connie O’s is FAR FAR from being homophobic! and That’s a FACT!
Most of these bars are beyond horrible and I wouldn’t recommend going to unless you want to be in a bar with a bunch of mainly drunk old locals. The only good one on the list is Keg, yeah it may be more expensive than the other ones but the atmosphere is far superior and that alone is worth the extra $$.
I’d much rather head somewhere that opened yesterday, looks like it was designed by Jon Taffer, and be surrounded by holier-than-thou wankers discussing the merits of Billie Eilish’s newest Instagram story.