(212) 209-1573

233 E 14th St (2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003 40.732978 -73.986433

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Neighborhoods: East Village, Downtown

blindpigbar.com

Hours:

Daily 11am-4am

Last updated 10.17.11

Category:

Restaurants, Sports Bars, Neighborhood Bars, Singles Bars, Bars & Pubs

Payment Methods:

Gift Certificate, American Express, Visa, Discover, Diners Club, MasterCard

Bar & Pub Special Features:

Happy Hour, Bar Menu

Restaurant Special Features:

Brunch, Lunch Spot

Cuisine:

Traditional American

Bar & Club Special Features:

Outdoor Seating, 21 & Over, After Work

Minimum Age:

21

What People Are Saying About Blind Pig

Featured Review

Contributor

Contributor

In Short – With its floors, tables, benches and bar all made of wood, this unassuming Union Square watering hole is dressed like an old-school hideaway. But despite those trappings, it still offers modern-day amenities like flatscreen TVs for game-watching and music videos coordinated with whatever's playing through the loudspeakers. A mixed bag of laid-back drinkers passes through in waves, encouraged to return by the fun-loving bartenders. – – Hits: It's a nice alternative to the neighborhood's more collegiate bars. – – Misses: Wander in on a Friday night when…

Editor's Tips

Food Served:
A lengthy menu of pub grub (including chicken fingers, sliders, and mac and cheese) is served until 2am.
Fun Fact:
"Blind pig" was a slang term meaning "speakeasy" during Prohibition.
Happy Hour:
Swing by before 8pm any day of the week for discounts on well drinks and domestic drafts.
ambiance
100.0% positive
  1. They take great Food, great decor, and great employees and MAKE IT HAPPEN.
  2. Really cool decor- perfect mix between old and new.
  3. Great decor, friendly staff, and seats greeted my friends.
  4. awesome food comfortable atmosphere friendly staff
  5. Not a dive bar and not fast food, but a comfortable, welcoming place to have a drink or a drink with a great meal.
  6. It is wonderful to find a bar in NYC that does not rip you off with $12 glasses of wine and yet provides an atmosphere of great people.
  7. Great atmosphere.
  8. The music is fun and they even show the videos on the exposed brick wall late night which is quite entertaining.
  9. the atmosphere is great.
  10. This bar has great ambiance!
  11. The staff was great, had a fun time.
  12. have taken so many different friends here and all enjoy the great music and fun atmosphere.
  13. Its awesome to able to go to a bar for Sunday Football and get great wings and a loud rowdy fun crowd and come back next week for a (hungover) saturday afternoon and be able to sit around for hours in a booth and get a satisfying brunch (french toast!)
  14. The music and atmosphere are perfect and the place is crawling with hot women.
drinks
92.5% positive
  1. Best post college bar!
  2. This bar has great ambiance!
  3. Overall a great bar and a great NYC watering hole!
  4. Fantastic staff, great food and drink, and a very cool look.
  5. New favorite bar
  6. Great bar!
  7. The menu is creative and certainly raises the bar in NYC in regards to restaurants of it's ilk.
  8. Not a dive bar and not fast food, but a comfortable, welcoming place to have a drink or a drink with a great meal.
  9. The bartenders are very friendly and with no line at the door and waitress service at all the tables it is never hard to get a drink.
  10. Best new bar in the city!
  11. The bar gets a good crowd, but hasn't been overwhelming any time I was there.
  12. It is a just the perfect spot for a drink or two on the way home from work OR a big night out on a weekend with friends.
  13. Good beer selection, good service, and good pub grub.
  14. One more thing, the wines are terrific!
  15. Manager was very rude for some reason when we asked him about the bar.
  16. will never return, and I dont suggest this bar to anyone
  17. Blind Pig is a great neighborhood bar.
  18. Stopped in for lunch and met Lorraine, the cute little bartender and discovered the best wine by the glass list, and wraps and salads to good to be expected in a bar.
  19. It is wonderful to find a bar in NYC that does not rip you off with $12 glasses of wine and yet provides an atmosphere of great people.
  20. new local bar/restaurant, Blind Pig (love the name) has a friendly, upbeat staff.
  21. Were we rudly awakened to a monster "bar owner/manager" screaming at us about how he can do whatever the hell he wants (not to mention other ridiculous language, considering we are the customers!)
  22. The bottom line is, this is a great bar for beer and sports (check out the great TV setup) or for a couple of glasses of wine with a girlfriend.
  23. The bar was crowded, and the music on the jukebox was great!
  24. would recommend this bar to everyone I know except people I don't like because then I would have to see them hanging out in my new favorite bar, and unfortunately for me they would come back again and again.
  25. Great after work bar as well and the drink specials worked with my wallet.
  26. Great drinks, food and service.
  27. Go hear for some great drinks and watch a game on the flatscreens.
  28. Blind Pig was a cool neighborhood bar.
  29. worst bar in NYC.
  30. There is always a good crowd with a nice mix of ladies coming for a drink after work and guys settling in for the game.
  31. The staff was courteous, gave generous/quality food portions, and the unique drink selections will keep me coming back.
  32. Beautiful bar with great food and beer selection
  33. Its awesome to able to go to a bar for Sunday Football and get great wings and a loud rowdy fun crowd and come back next week for a (hungover) saturday afternoon and be able to sit around for hours in a booth and get a satisfying brunch (french toast!)
  34. Best bar staff in the city.
  35. They had some good beers on draft and some tasty finger foods.
  36. The Pig is a wonderful new restaurant / bar.
  37. At the start of the evening, things moved smoothly, average bar food, nice pints of beer and a friendly waitress.
  38. Weeknight and you wanna grab a drink and get some grub - Blind Pig is the place to do it - food is great.
  39. Last night I was invited out by some friends to enjoy the Olympics at what was supposed to be a nice bar pub in the Village.
  40. In a nutshell, Blind Pig is the perfect neighborhood bar.
food quality
100.0% positive
  1. Fantastic staff, great food and drink, and a very cool look.
  2. Great drinks, food and service.
  3. They also serve tasty finger foods and the service is excellent.
  4. The food and service was good but the crowd was even better!
  5. The food is awesome, bartenders are great, and the women are beautiful.
  6. The food is great with the specials always changing you never get bored with the menu.
  7. To be honest, I thought the best part about this place is it's surprisingly good food.
  8. They had some good beers on draft and some tasty finger foods.
  9. The food was EXCELLENT, I would go here just for dinner.
  10. Beautiful bar with great food and beer selection
  11. The food was really good.
  12. My boyfriend and I shared a few appetizers for dinner and the food was great.
  13. At the start of the evening, things moved smoothly, average bar food, nice pints of beer and a friendly waitress.
  14. Its awesome to able to go to a bar for Sunday Football and get great wings and a loud rowdy fun crowd and come back next week for a (hungover) saturday afternoon and be able to sit around for hours in a booth and get a satisfying brunch (french toast!)
  15. Weeknight and you wanna grab a drink and get some grub - Blind Pig is the place to do it - food is great.
  16. Not a dive bar and not fast food, but a comfortable, welcoming place to have a drink or a drink with a great meal.
  17. awesome food comfortable atmosphere friendly staff
  18. The staff was courteous, gave generous/quality food portions, and the unique drink selections will keep me coming back.
  19. just love going there and the food is fantastic too!
menu variety
100.0% positive
  1. Awsome new restaurant on 14th st, has the best lunch menu in the neighborhood.
  2. The menu shows some pretty standard fare, but it tastes better than most pub grub.
  3. Beautiful bar with great food and beer selection
  4. The food is great with the specials always changing you never get bored with the menu.
  5. The menu is creative and certainly raises the bar in NYC in regards to restaurants of it's ilk.
  6. The staff was courteous, gave generous/quality food portions, and the unique drink selections will keep me coming back.
  7. Good beer selection, good service, and good pub grub.
overall
83.33000183105469% positive
  1. It's a great place to unwind after work or to meet up with friends to watch a game, they have tv's on every wall.
  2. It's a wonderful place to hang out with old friends, and a great place to meet new ones.
  3. Not a good place to hang-out at.
  4. Then again, it's also a good place to hang after the show.
  5. It was nice to be in a place whith a nice mix of age groups of neighborhood folk, afterwork crews and visitors like me.
  6. To be honest, I thought the best part about this place is it's surprisingly good food.
return potential
50.0% positive
  1. Its awesome to able to go to a bar for Sunday Football and get great wings and a loud rowdy fun crowd and come back next week for a (hungover) saturday afternoon and be able to sit around for hours in a booth and get a satisfying brunch (french toast!)
  2. will never return, and I dont suggest this bar to anyone
  3. Too bad I will never go back, and the poor waitress that has to deal with that pig of an manager.
  4. would recommend this bar to everyone I know except people I don't like because then I would have to see them hanging out in my new favorite bar, and unfortunately for me they would come back again and again.
service
85.0% positive
  1. The staff is always very friendly The waitresses remember who we are and always a big hello.
  2. Just like the staff.
  3. They take great Food, great decor, and great employees and MAKE IT HAPPEN.
  4. The Guinness was excellent and the service attentive and welcoming.
  5. The manager was rude and the service was only okay.
  6. new local bar/restaurant, Blind Pig (love the name) has a friendly, upbeat staff.
  7. At the start of the evening, things moved smoothly, average bar food, nice pints of beer and a friendly waitress.
  8. Too bad I will never go back, and the poor waitress that has to deal with that pig of an manager.
  9. Our waitress was attentive and we were sorry she had to work for such an ogre.
  10. Were we rudly awakened to a monster "bar owner/manager" screaming at us about how he can do whatever the hell he wants (not to mention other ridiculous language, considering we are the customers!)
  11. Manager was very rude for some reason when we asked him about the bar.
  12. The bartenders are very attentive as well as the waitstaff.
  13. Food was above average with attentive servers.
  14. It is wonderful to find a bar in NYC that does not rip you off with $12 glasses of wine and yet provides an atmosphere of great people.
  15. Great decor, friendly staff, and seats greeted my friends.
  16. The staff was courteous, gave generous/quality food portions, and the unique drink selections will keep me coming back.
  17. Great crowd, friendly management and staff.
  18. And the waitresses and managers were some of the most unpleasant people I have ever encountered in the service industry.
  19. Quick bartenders and great nachos.
  20. have been alone, as well as in big parties and have always been treated with respect, as well as receiving great service.
  21. The bartender was very rude, took a good 15 minutes to stand there and curse out a patron while there were like a million people waiting to be served.
  22. The bartenders are very friendly and with no line at the door and waitress service at all the tables it is never hard to get a drink.
  23. The food is awesome, bartenders are great, and the women are beautiful.
  24. The waitresses were really nice tho.
  25. would recommend this bar to everyone I know except people I don't like because then I would have to see them hanging out in my new favorite bar, and unfortunately for me they would come back again and again.
  26. Great drinks, food and service.
  27. The bartenders are exceptionally friendly and generous (something that is hard to come by in decent bars in the city).
  28. Stopped in for lunch and met Lorraine, the cute little bartender and discovered the best wine by the glass list, and wraps and salads to good to be expected in a bar.
  29. The staff was great, had a fun time.
  30. excellent service
  31. They also serve tasty finger foods and the service is excellent.
  32. Best bar staff in the city.
  33. Good staff
  34. Staff is very friendly.
  35. Worst decision ever, I was there recently and the manager was so rude.
  36. The bartenders were really friendly as were the many people I met just hanging there.
  37. Good beer selection, good service, and good pub grub.
  38. awesome food comfortable atmosphere friendly staff
  39. Fantastic staff, great food and drink, and a very cool look.
  40. The food and service was good but the crowd was even better!
value
100.0% positive
  1. The bartenders are exceptionally friendly and generous (something that is hard to come by in decent bars in the city).
  2. did like the huge TVs everywhere bc you could ignore the ugly guy that's trying to talk to you and watch sports instead.
  3. The staff was courteous, gave generous/quality food portions, and the unique drink selections will keep me coming back.
wait time
0.0% positive
  1. The bartender was very rude, took a good 15 minutes to stand there and curse out a patron while there were like a million people waiting to be served.
5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

05/18/12

You will shoot your eye out!!!

by mona me

Great bar food and pleasant bar staff. The drinks were fantastic also.

2 Star Rating: Below Average

01/09/12

terrible service

by marshalcoolio

blind pig... it should be called loud obnoxious pig! horrible rude bartending, waitresses are cumbersome and slow, horrible experience.

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

10/24/11

If You like Live Music and Entertaining Show

by Vanessanicole

Grab an after work drink or 4 at Blind Pig and head over to The Griffin to Michael Fredo's Wednesday night party. They have a great show and an open bar from 8-9:30. Free admission too. Michael Fredo with The Benny Reid Ensemble is a great Jazz/ Ratpack show. 50 Gansevoort @ Greenwich

4 Star Rating: Recommended

08/08/10

Cool Neighborhood Sports Bar

by Athena Chang , Citysearch Contributor

Don't let the pig blind you. It is full of flowing alcohol, great music, and quite amazing bar food.

Bind Pig is a great neighborhood sports bar that offers sports games, good drinks & food and fun crowd. I remember coming here at 1AM and people are dancing, drinking and chatting up.

My friends and I ordered some of their appetizers and they were great! Waffle fries, sliders and french fries! Hmm thinking about it makes me hungry now!

The DJ here spins some great hip hop and rap music that you can easily dance to.

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

06/29/09

Awesome place!!!

by partyduck

I don't know what some of the other reviewers are talking about. Maybe they were at another bar! The staff was great, had a fun time. At one point it was crowded and it got very loud in there. I couldn't hear my friends too well but other than that it was awesome!!!

  • Pros: great bar, great staff
  • Cons: loud, crowded

The Details on Blind Pig

Place Categories:

  • great the food
  • great new bar
  • friendly bar staff
  • great service
  • exceptionally friendly bartenders
  • great welcoming place
  • great music
  • great fun atmosphere
  • great new spot
  • good loud rowdy fun crowd
  • great decor
  • great drinks
  • sorry waitress
  • rude manager
  • cool neighborhood bar
  • tasty finger foods
  • terrific wine
  • creative lunch menu
  • great people
  • worst bar
  • great nachos
  • recommend pig
  • great ambiance
  • great nyc watering
  • best post college
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