South Slope/Windsor Terrace bars

If: one lives near the Key Food on Prospect Ave and 11th Ave.;
And: one desires drinking alcoholic beverages at a bar proximal to one's home;
And: one does not want to drink at either Farrell's or Rhythm & Booze;

Then: to which bar should one hasten?

Take thee to Quarter, on 20th st. You won't even notice the walk back!!

Speaking of bars over there, does anyone remember Windsor Pub on the corner of 10th Ave & Windsor Place?

The Chipster wrote: Take thee to Quarter, on 20th st. You won't even notice the walk back!!

i second that. small but respectable selection on draft, good jukebox, cozy little backyard. fun mixed crowd. gotta make my way back to there soon as the weather's getting nicer and i'm more up for venturing beyond a 15 minute ride on the bus.

The Chipster wrote: Take thee to Quarter, on 20th st. You won't even notice the walk back!!

well it's a few steps farther than buttermilk, but I shall check it out.

check out sidecar while you're over there too.


I have the same predicament you do. I have lived here 10 1/2 years and still haven't stepped into Farrells. I don't think I'm missing anything

Subject: Thank God for Civil Servants

If it weren't for Firemen, Police and Sanitation workers drinking there, they would probably be out of business.

Don't worry guys, I am going to buy out Farrell's and Rhythm & Booze and rename them "Dandelion" and "Leiderhosen" respectively, that should solve the problem and make it OK for you to go drinking there.

Flexichick I am with you on this one. I want to keep Farrells as a name of a bar I read in a Pete Hammil book that is part of some antique mythology. It is a place I have gone by hundreds of times and have no feeling to walk in to. Yeah.. it is there (has been there a million years) but is no part of my universe.

Now tell be about some place thatopened last week (and might be out of business next Friday) and I am likely to try it once.

Flexichick wrote: check out sidecar while you're over there too.


I have the same predicament you do. I have lived here 10 1/2 years and still haven't stepped into Farrells. I don't think I'm missing anything

You should go to Farrell's; it's something everyone should do once. Like skydiving.

vidro3 wrote: [quote=Flexichick]check out sidecar while you're over there too.


I have the same predicament you do. I have lived here 10 1/2 years and still haven't stepped into Farrells. I don't think I'm missing anything

You should go to Farrell's; it's something everyone should do once. Like skydiving.

:roll: People please!
I heard a lot about Farrell's and how it was a dive/frequented by old drunks/all guys and grease-under-the-nails workers.. blah blah blah...

Papi and I went there after a long walk around the park and guess what?
It was a really nice place! Big space, clean bathrooms, nice old feel to it just like Brooklyn Inn (but sans the stained glass). Beer was cheap, bartender was nice. At one point the bartender ordered meat patties for all the people drinking at the bar (For Free!). Everyone was really happy and I went home wondering why anyone would call it a dive :?

Anyways, I'll stop before I incriminate myself further as a lush :oops:

GREAT NEWS:

As previously discussed Circles/Windsor chophouse has closed.

Why is this great news you may ask....

I was walking by there the other day and I asked one of the workers for the 411. Turns out they are planning to open a neighborhood-style sports bar in the space. I expect this will become a preferred watering hole for many in the immediate area.

slopestar wrote: GREAT NEWS:

As previously discussed Circles/Windsor chophouse has closed.

Why is this great news you may ask....

I was walking by there the other day and I asked one of the workers for the 411. Turns out they are planning to open a neighborhood-style sports bar in the space. I expect this will become a preferred watering hole for many in the immediate area.

Although I wish them the best, I can't imagine a plain old neighborhood sports bar doing huge business around here anymore, as evidenced by the Carriage House, Rhythm and Booze, and a few others.

They're going to have to put some sort of trendy 'spin' on it to bring this neighborhood's residents out. Maybe Flexichick can give them some advice on how to make it 'cool.'

Me? I'm definitely not the one to advise on cool

i know i've said this before (and am beginning to sound like a broken record -- sorry folks), but if we could have a bona fide PUB instead of another bleepin' sports bar, i for one would be thrilled. another poster pointed out to me that Sheep Station is pretty darn close to a pub, and that person was absolutely correct. too bad it's so far away for those of us who live in SoSlope. if we could have another Sheep Station type place, it would be wonderful, and i'd finally have a nearby drinking establishment i'd enjoy.

oh, and as an aside to Mama: sweetie, the reasons why you found the bathrooms at Farrell's to be clean are as follows:

1) you are probably the first girl to go into the ladies room since 1979.
2) the guys just take their go cups outside to smoke and pee in the street.

Obamanut wrote: [quote=slopestar]GREAT NEWS:

As previously discussed Circles/Windsor chophouse has closed.

Why is this great news you may ask....

I was walking by there the other day and I asked one of the workers for the 411. Turns out they are planning to open a neighborhood-style sports bar in the space. I expect this will become a preferred watering hole for many in the immediate area.

Although I wish them the best, I can't imagine a plain old neighborhood sports bar doing huge business around here anymore, as evidenced by the Carriage House, Rhythm and Booze, and a few others.

They're going to have to put some sort of trendy 'spin' on it to bring this neighborhood's residents out. Maybe Flexichick can give them some advice on how to make it 'cool.'

Are you kidding? I would think that this place would be screaming for a good sports bar. There are still plenty of people living in this neighborhood who are not trendy or cool, plus the numerous football (soccer) fans looking for a good place to catch their teams.

Subject: Farells and beyond

Going back to Farrells - I am a big-time wine connoisseur but love Farrells ice-cold beer special for $1. The place is clean, friendly and non-pretentious, but not your typical bar scene.
What we are missing, is a nice wine bar. I've been living off the circle for whooping 10 months and haven't found any wine bars yet. Am I just blind?

Subject: Re: Farells and beyond

katbka wrote:
What we are missing, is a nice wine bar. I've been living off the circle for whooping 10 months and haven't found any wine bars yet. Am I just blind?

Vin Rouge on 5th Ave b/w 17th & 18th is nice. Awesome backyard patio for when the warm weather returns too. Give it a go.

i agree completely about Vin Rouge. i really like that back space!

Obamanut wrote:

Although I wish them the best, I can't imagine a plain old neighborhood sports bar doing huge business around here anymore, as evidenced by the Carriage House, Rhythm and Booze, and a few others.

Are you referring to Carriage House on 7th ave and 8th street? If so, I've been there a couple of times and it was pretty crowded. Annoyingly so in fact. Yes, quite a few loud folks that look like they've been drinking there for 50 years but also some younger, bar hopping types. Their Rockola juke is well fortified.

i don't understand why Farrell's has to be so unfriendly. Maybe it is hit or miss, judging from the posts here.

I went in there with police officer boyfriend a couple of years ago and even HE didn't feel welcome in there.

The Yankees lost that night. Maybe that's why everyone was so grumpy.

Subject: Rhythm & Booze and Farrell's

Let me ask you all this. How many of you are actually from Brookyn and how many of you are pretentious yuppies that moved here and think you know everything about everything? Farrell's and R&B are NEIGHBORHOOD BARS meaning they are warm friendly places where you can sit with your friends, make new ones, and have a nice time. Both places are clean and are focused on customer service, not taking your money like some other places are. R&B especially is lovely on the inside with it's floors, brick walls, and French Doors and windows painted with care for every season. Maybe you should take the sticks out of your a$$es and learn something new.

Whoa. There's some rage in that post.

It's just frustrating for someone who has lived in Brooklyn my entire life to see people move here and start trashing it and trying to change it and being all snooty. More and more I feel like every time I turn around there is some yuppy whining about something.

Subject: Re: Rhythm & Booze and Farrell's

Laurac wrote: Let me ask you all this. How many of you are actually from Brookyn and how many of you are pretentious yuppies that moved here and think you know everything about everything? Farrell's and R&B are NEIGHBORHOOD BARS meaning they are warm friendly places where you can sit with your friends, make new ones, and have a nice time. Both places are clean and are focused on customer service, not taking your money like some other places are. R&B especially is lovely on the inside with it's floors, brick walls, and French Doors and windows painted with care for every season. Maybe you should take the sticks out of your a$$es and learn something new.

I was born and raised in Brooklyn, raised by my Irish mom as a matter of fact, and you couldn't get me into Farrell's with a cattle prod.

And yet, that doesn't make me a yuppie nor does it imply that I have anything lodged in my ass. I don't like the vibe, I don't drink Bud, case closed.

I've lived and worked all over Brooklyn: Midwood, Flatbush, East New York, Sheepshead Bay, Bay Ridge, Cobble Hill, Bushwick, and the unifying factor is that cultural/social stereotypes break down withing 10 minutes of entering any of those neighborhoods.

But please, keep labeling people based on something as trivial as where they like to drink. Your ignorance and hysteria are highly amusing.

I don't like the vibe there either, and I don't drink Bud.

I know some guys who go there, and as individuals, they're all nice people. However, I don't like walking by a window full of guys when I'm on the way to the park and being looked at like they haven't eaten in a month and I have a pork chop on my neck.

Very nice analogy.

I don't agree with Laurac for the most part but I think I know where the frustration comes from. I do think that it has something to do some establishments trying to be so unique and hip that they create this perception that the people who just want a Budweiser, a jukebox and a couple of tvs with sports is almost offensive, sadly common, outdated and should be avoided at all costs. Snobbery can be very offensive. The acts of a sad few elitists can ruin it all. I can go just about anywhere and have a good time and drink and eat whatever is available but some people are so judgmental and concerned with image that it forces others to put people in stereotypes and neatly ordered categories. I just like options and don't want to make judgments.

I don't drink bud and I think I have been in Farrell's twice, but I wouldn't trash the place simply because it is what it is because it's not that bad. And if you saw the amount of ingnorace I had to deal with from... yes they are... yuppies who seem to assume that anyone who works in a bar or restaurant must me partially retarded and that anyone from Brooklyn is obviously a lowlife... you might just get as angry as I do. What they would like to do is change everything we have left into something that they prefer and it's sickening. They also think its ok to walk into a bar take up a table and split a beer among four people and nag the bartender for water all night. Yet this is coming from people who can't even find the time to take a shower. Then they try to sound all smart "what type of beer is Brooklyn Lager"... hmm let me get back to you on that one

Subject: Bars

I do not drink Bud and I think I have been in Farrell's twice in my life. It's not about where people drink, it's the attitude they bear towards places they have never set foot in. So who is ignorant? And if they do come into a neighborhood bar they act as if anyone who serves food or drinks must be partially retarded and anyone who was born and raised in Brooklyn must be trash, this coming from people who haven't mastered showering yet.

Subject: Flexichick

That is true, a number of my friends work there and hang out there, but it is true if a woman walks by in the afternoon it kind of feels like feeding time at the zoo, but that is pretty much what happens when you put a bunch of testosterone together and give it alcohol.

And here we go...

Laurac wrote: I don't drink bud and I think I have been in Farrell's twice, but I wouldn't trash the place simply because it is what it is because it's not that bad.

So, what would be a good reason to trash a place then? If what it is sucks in someone's opinion isn't that reason enough to say "hey, I hate that place"?

And if you saw the amount of ingnorace I had to deal with from... yes they are... yuppies who seem to assume that anyone who works in a bar or restaurant must me partially retarded and that anyone from Brooklyn is obviously a lowlife... you might just get as angry as I do.

Hey, no reason to trash them for just being what they are...

I have seen the ignorance and bad attitudes of which you speak. I've seen them from both sides of the counter. I've also seen them as an educator, an administrator...I've seen these awful attitudes spill out of all types of people. Both native and non-native. If you want to focus on just the Yuppies, well, then that's your issue. But ignorance and entitlement do not belong solely to the yuppies. If they did, life would be a lot more cur and dry.

What they would like to do is change everything we have left into something that they prefer and it's sickening.

Are you talking about things like new restaurants and bars and such? Again, speaking as someone who grew up here, I kind of like being able to walk to several great places to eat and get a drink. Personally, I'd rather spend my money here than in Manhattan. Sure, there are places with attitude or a vibe I don't care for, so then I just walk over to the next avenue.

They also think its ok to walk into a bar take up a table and split a beer among four people and nag the bartender for water all night.

Doesn't sound like yuppies to me, sounds like your garden variety a-holes. Again, sadly, not specific to non-natives.

Yet this is coming from people who can't even find the time to take a shower.

So these would be....homeless yuppies? My god, the economy is doing worse than I thought!