The New York Sun explores the refined palettes of hedge fund managers who are trying too hard to get wasted, while DealBook muses on whether an alcohol downgrade is necessary in these troubled times.
Hedge fund managers may love their $4,800 cognac, but we’re thinking hedglings still prefer the best kept alcoholic secret in Manhattan - the Silk Road on 81st and Amsterdam. We’re talking free unlimited generic box wine (no primo Franzia here) and cheap Chinese food. You can even drink for free (from a plastic glass) while you wait for a bunch of Columbia students with fake IDs to free up a table. Be warned – the Silk Road is a dangerous road, and one of our former banker colleagues has never traversed it without getting a police citation in the ensuing evening.
We all know about the places that try to peddle $800 shots to finance suckers, but what are the best places to realistically throw back a few in the city? Criteria could include, quality, atmosphere and price, almost like a Zagats for taking the edge off those banking hours.
Put in your suggestions below.
When Hedgies Drink Box Wine, That’s News [DealBook]
Taste for Booze Is Fine Among Hedge Funders [New York Sun]
Posted by easy money , Aug 02, 2007 11:56AM
119 on 15th off union square $4 yuengling, blue moon, etc pints, zero pretense (or door policy)
Posted by b , Aug 02, 2007 12:06PM
Chibi's Bar in Nolita - interesting beers and a nice place to sit outside.
Posted by , Aug 02, 2007 12:06PM
Brandy Library in Tribeca...best mixed drinks in the city and a sick selection of booze.
Posted by , Aug 02, 2007 12:09PM
Snafu on 47th and Lexington...dive bar where everyone from JPM, BS and UBS go either afterwork or during...
Posted by Mike MIlken , Aug 02, 2007 12:09PM
Corner of Rector and Broadway. Sit down on a bench in the cematary with a bottle of Thunderbird, Cisco or Nigthtrain (in a paper bag of course) and let the good times roll.
Posted by , Aug 02, 2007 12:10PM
wherever bess levin drinks after work
Posted by Commuter , Aug 02, 2007 12:15PM
Metro North bar car to CT- $2 16 oz bud lights and yummy mummies all around
Posted by downtown baby , Aug 02, 2007 12:25PM
Trinity Place, good beer selection (mmm Chimay blue) surprisingly hot crowd, very cool being in an old bank vault
Posted by jojoNYC , Aug 02, 2007 12:33PM
3rd & Long : 3rd Ave & 35th
Monday/Tuesday
$1.00 mugs of Bud and Bud Light all night.
Snafu sucks - never got a buy back - but the chicks r hot & european
Posted by Dot Head Banker , Aug 02, 2007 12:52PM
Second the Bess Levin comment
Posted by , Aug 02, 2007 12:55PM
Whos got a pic of Bess?
Posted by harvey , Aug 02, 2007 1:12PM
wednesday night at Mad River (84th and 3rd) 7-10 pm all you can drink beer for $10. you will get hammered.
followed by ladies night at brother jimmy's (77th and 2nd) where ladies drink $1 drafts and $1 maragritas all night.
Posted by jt , Aug 02, 2007 1:17PM
soho house roof, hot scantily clad euro and entertainment type broads everywhere
Posted by Blunt Smoke , Aug 02, 2007 1:17PM
Are your blogs naturally boring or do you plagiarize them from the verbal section of SAT's? How many run on sentences about the bottle of water you left on your car after playing basketball in the hot sun a long time ago before the blog do we have to read? Don't quit your day job.
Are there really hot mom's in the bar car? I may have to rethink my locale.
Posted by Anono , Aug 02, 2007 1:26PM
The best dive bar in town is Yogi's on 76th and b-way. The drinks a cheap and the jukebox blasts country songs all night long.
The crowd is either hit or miss.
Posted by columbia , Aug 02, 2007 1:28PM
don't expose our secrets. yogi's and silk road belong to columbia
Posted by cc02 alum , Aug 02, 2007 2:03PM
"yogi's and silk road belong to columbia" laughable, as if columbia's influence extends south of dive bar, even even then just because columbia students for the most part are the only people in the neighborhood who are not on welfare
Posted by the real columbia , Aug 02, 2007 2:05PM
what are you guys talking about? columbians hardly venture so far south as 81st. for our mediocre chinese food with cheap boxed wine we walk two blocks to cottage...its on amsterdam and 113th and could kick the silk road's ass. i swear if restaurants could fight it would.
Posted by Patrick Bateman , Aug 02, 2007 2:36PM
I prefer Harry's. The crowd is decent, sometimes you can really slay the ladies.
Posted by 'Nuff Said , Aug 02, 2007 3:39PM
bourbon st. on thursdays $0.50 beers all night
Posted by , Aug 02, 2007 5:01PM
nothin like slaaaaaaaaaying some ho-s
Posted by cc02 alum , Aug 02, 2007 5:06PM
oh cottage, that really brings me back. free box wine and fried little sticky buns $1.99
Posted by To Old For Enron at 30 , Aug 02, 2007 5:32PM
What was the name of the bar Jeff Skilling got hammered at and then went around yanking up women's shirts looking for federal "wires" according to him?
HBS and then McKinsey before Enron, wasn't it? Ah....those were the days.
Posted by Frogger Master , Aug 03, 2007 12:06AM
Barcade in Williamsburg.
Sure, you'll stick out like a sore thumb, but if you can beat the high score on Pac-man, the Hipsterettes will be all over your joystick.