Parkside Lounge

01/24/10

Hidden Gem, Felt like a regular

by ahcurtis

No doubt I'll return to this spot. The bartenders & staff were very laid back, but quick & friendly.

The selection of beers, booze, and wine was just right. They offered reasonable prices especially on pitchers.

A few TV's made is a fine place to watch the jets-colts game without being a full-on sports bar.

While they dont offer food, they didnt mind that I brought a sub in. They also randomly cooked burgers on a foreman grill. Not a regular event, but the kind of thing that might happen every now and then at a good bar.

Apparently they have live music & comedy in the back, but I only used the TV's this time. The pool table was in great shape and the video games worked.

I'd recommend Parkside Lounge.

• Pros: Beer Selection, Staff,Arcades & Pool
• Cons: No food

10/06/09

Best in the East

by DMilfort

I love the live band every fridays..........I was also amazed on how cheap the drinks are..........This is a must go.................

• Pros: Cheapest drinks in town
• Cons: none

07/08/09

Not too many like these left...

by Grinch83

My girlfriend and I found this bar when she first moved to NYC a few years ago. I still lived outside of town, but every time I came to visit her we ended up at Parkside for drinks or music, or both.

While there's no grill (even though the sign atop the building says otherwise), there's plenty of booze at unheard of prices for Manhattan, and at night, a little hidden room in the back plays hosts to live music.

We've seen everything from bluegrass to punk rock to Latin music in that back room and most of it was free and actually pretty good. We almost always found a seat, except for the time when it was absolutely packed for some live karaoke band.

The front is more of your typical LES dive bar, but we had many late nights playing pool or chatting up some locals. Just make sure you bring your A-game for the pool table, some of the players are really good.

• Pros: Cheap drinks, live music
• Cons: Bit of a walk, bartender with dreads isn't there anymore

07/02/09

One of the last great music venues

by Thedudeabides

Wow! What a gem of a bar. It's like going back in time when you walk in. This place has been around for over 50 years and it has kept some of the original fixtures. I've been told that it is the most filmed bar in New York City and i can see why. It's a movie directors dream bar. The service is always friendly and the drinks are always cheap. They have a pool table and a fooseball table and a great jukebox. But i haven't mentioned the best part: They have great live music there every night and it's mostly always free! You have to come down here and experience a taste of what New York City has to offer.

• Pros: cheap drinks, friendly service

06/18/09

Bartender smoking (not hot, actually smoking)

by Barronesssss

This place is a pathetic excuse for a dive bar, with TERRIBLE service and SMOKING inside! I used to make this a regular stop on Wednesday nights and Saturday afternoons, but haven't seen my favorite bartender since March and figured I'd hang out anyway. I loved the cool girl with the tattoos and dreds, I figured her coworkers had to be equally as awesome. I never expected her fellow bartenders to be the complete and total opposite - incompetent, slow, rude. I also did not expect to be in the middle of a smoky bar since smoking was made illegal inside bars in NYC. So you can imagine that I was upset to find out my favorite bartender was gone, that this guy (new to me, said hes been there for years) couldn't even come close to her level of service, and that I had to deal with drunk people waving cigarettes around me & the bartender blowing it in my face while I waited tooooo long for a flat pint & never got the fresh one promised. Although he did disappear downstairs for a very long time. I seemed to be the only person in the bar not high as a kite, bartender included. I see why I liked it so much when my fave was there, and why I never stepped foot in there when she wasn't.

• Pros: has a fire exit
• Cons: drunk rude slow bartenders