Monday, August 17, 2009
Food & Drink The best bar in New York: Lucky Dog
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Anyway, there I was dragging my sorry ass through Saturday's deathly heat, beloved wife at my side, when we saw the following written in chalk just outside the bar: "Dogs welcome." As People of the Dog, we're always on the lookout for canine-friendly places (you know, "No dogs, No Irish..."), so my suggestion of "a quick beer" was met with enthusiastic approval (it also didn't hurt that we could hear a Mountain Goats song wafting out into the street).
As we sat down at the classic, unfussy wooden bar a Waylon Jennings song came on (two for two!). I went down to check out the 20 beers on tap and was happy to see nothing but small American and good German, all for $5 a pint. They also do pitchers, which is amazing, and buckets of PBR, along with absolute vats of Genny Cream Ale for little-to-no money, so if you just wanna get shitfucked on cheap cold beer, that's available to you. But for me, having the choice of 20 thoughtfully curated drafts without any of the pretension of the "Brooklyn beer bar" (I'm looking at you Spuyten Duyvil) is fantastic.
So we ordered (me, a Lagunitas Pilsner, she, a Kolsch) and a Fall song came on (seriously, the house playlist is brilliant, as is the jukebox), and we began to take a look around: Oh hey, what's that in the corner? A stand-up shuffleboard table! And look, at the back... A huge garden lit with gorgeous lanterns, where you can smoke if you want to... SERIOUSLY, THIS BAR IS PERFECT.
It's so perfect that we stayed for three hours longer than we'd intended to — but every time we tried to leave, either one of our favorite songs came on or the bartender got us a buyback round, so what are you supposed to do when that happens!? RIGHT!?
I LOVE YOU LUCKY DOG
P.S. They also have a cheese/meat plate, but we made do with Fritos and Utz.
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Allagash White AND Franziskaner, that is awesome. My goal will be to drink every single beer on that list in the shortest possible time.
If I lived this close to the best bar in New York, I would probably not go telling the entire internet about it.
This is, arguably, quite altruistic of you.
thanks for this. as you may know, Iona no longer allows dogs or good music.
sadly, iona never allowed good music- the people are great, the music hard to take...
note to lucky dog owners: jukebox rules, not so much the music the thrasher-loving bartender plays...tough flipping back and forth between ryan adams/george jones and erm, that kinda stuff. though it may make you a fortune when people try to keep the jukebox going to beat back the house selections. and she's a really good bartender: i'm not trying to cast aspersions on her bartending abilities...
three hours longer than intended = ... the month of August?
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