Vol de Nuit

06/08/09

Decent place, bad beer

by amangla007 at Citysearch

I was here this past Saturday night with a friend. After having an excellent Hoegaarden at another bar, we thought we'd go to a proper Belgian beer place. However, much to our disappointment, the Hoegaarden we were served tasted horrible. We left our drinks there, more than half full, and moved on to a different place. This is really pathetic. I have enjoyed going to this bar for years now, but this last experience makes me wonder if the owner is trying to cut corners during the economic downturn by serving old beer.

06/18/08

place is crawling with c0ckroaches

by Carmen81 at Citysearch

I have been coming to this bar for about six months. I really like the selection of beer and the place is right down the street from me. However, I agree with the past posts about the owner being a nut. Worse, the place is crawling with c0ckroaches! A HUGE c0ckroach fell into my boyfriend's beer! Quite unsavory. I haven't been back since.

• Pros: great beer and fries
• Cons: nutty owner, c0ckroach problem

05/26/08

good beer, terrible owner/bartender

by natalie4485 at Citysearch

just got back from vol de nuit where i was treated like a kindergartener by the bartender/owner, Sham.

it's a shame, because the beer at the bar is pretty good, though whenever this guy is working, the bar is mysteriously out of palm speciale (the bartenders have to go outside to the other bar for it, and i suspect he just doesn't feel like it).

today, he asked me for my ID (which is fine, i happen to look very young for my age), but then instead of actually checking out my ID, he asked me if it was my "true ID" with about as much attitude as an 8th grade girl, and then started asking me questions like "do you know how many fake IDs we get here? 80% of IDs are fake!" and then muttered that i "must not be from new york". funny thing is, if he'd spent as much time reading my ID as he did grilling me about it (since when do bartenders do anything but check your ID then serve you?) he would have seen that it was from NY state with my downtown address on it, and everything would have sailed along fine, just like every other time i'm there and served by any of the other bartenders.

then, when my fiance asked me what the problem was (sham probably didn't realize that he was with me since he was in the bathroom at the beginning of all this), sham shot back "who are you?" then threw my ID at him and told us to get the "f" out.

as we were leaving, he started slamming all the windows shut.

and that is the kind of experience you can expect any time sham is working, even though he's the owner.

just wonderful!

• Pros: good beer, good fries
• Cons: terrible service from owner, sham, he will actually curse at you if annoyed at all