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- Dan Peterson
Bowery Wine Company
13 E. 1st St, between Bowery and 2nd Ave
East Village
New York, NY 10003
212-614-0800
www.bowerywineco.com
So Bruce Willis started a soulless, sterile wine bar near the Bowery that reminds me of an airport and smells like a rental car. But just because there aren’t words written in feces on the bathroom wall like they are at lord-of-the-dives Mars Bar around the corner (the only true measure of a bar’s warmth and quirkiness), and because it lacks any recognizable character whatsoever, doesn’t mean that Bowery Wine Company isn’t run by a kind and generous staff, or that its wines aren’t excellent. It is, and they are. Bowery Wine Company is certainly strange and probably won’t win over many East Village nostalgics, but there are worse places to have an $8 glass of sauvignon blanc while basking in a boxy corporate shadow. If nothing else, your glass will be wonderfully hygienic.-Edith Zimmerman
Bar Details
Specials:
• $3 Budweiser and Bud Light, $5 house red wine, sangria, well drinks, and chips & salsa
Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri, 5pm-8pm
