This is everything a neighborhood bar should be! Perfect. I can’t belive you all are still there! Has the bar changed hands at all since the late 90s? Josie’s was our goto for a little pool, some companionship and ice cold mug beers for cheap. And you all had one of the last working pay phones in all of NYC. Took me a long while to figure out that this was you all as I moved away back in 2001. Now we are back in the area. If you have N.A. beers, I’ll come in for old times sake. God bless. 🤝
quarius trini
Cool spot, nice pool table, chill and chat
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Etelle Stephan
Came in with 10 people we were getting settled and bar tender was nasty about us needing to order. Deeply unfriendly vibe. We left instead of giving them business.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Sydney Ginsberg
Bad vibes and rude bartender
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Phillip Ross
Bartender very rude
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Aagat Sapkota
The bartender kept asking for more tips like 100% more. Very unprofessional. Try to avoid the Irish barber if you can.
Clover Singsen
Arrived here after a lovely stroll through the historic east village. Upon arrival, was greeted warmly by the bartender (woman) kindly asking for identification. She poured our drinks with a smile and we were able to sit at one of the many open tables. Unfortunately, almost immediately, the juke box queue ended and the bar was left silent… for about 30 minutes. Not a sound 🙉 came out of that machine until we were forced to pay. Holding us against our will in a chamber of silence unless we coughed up our hard earned dimes 😕. They didn’t even have the B52s. A redeeming quality, however, was the co-ed wrestling on the big screen above the bar. Points for that! 🙌🏆 I’ll be back Josie, don’t worry.
Atmosphere: 3
Service: 5
Ash N. Smith
Long time east village dive bar. This was Anthony bourdain’s favorite bar for a midweek beer I believe. Anyway come by. Order a beer. Chill. And just mingle with the locals. Rock on!
Lama Lama Lama
Saturday night an intimidating black male was blocking the entrance and demanded to see my ID before I could enter. I left right away after using the ladies room
Sarah Burris
This place is terrible, I’d give it no stars if I could. God forbid anyone asks for a water even after buying drinks, you’ll get shouted out by the bartender. Really wanted to like it here because I’ve enjoyed it other times, but this was so odd, no one did anything to deserve this behavior. Wishing them the worst
This is a good no frills bar. The bartender acknowledged me quickly and took my order, we got exactly what was wanted, two beers and two shots. We took a seat around the pool table and watched some games while we chatted. It has a laid back casual vibe and everyone seemed to be having a good time. I would have liked to play a game, but the list was long. Maybe next time.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Shreyash K
Fun people to play pool with. Great priced drinks.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Ryan McGraw
had the absolute work experience at this bar ever and after reading all of the other reviews, it is clear our experience was not a unique one. we came in on a saturday afternoon and got a table and a couple of rounds of drinks. we were there for a couple hours speaking amongst ourselves at our table, when we asked for some waters, at which point the bartender told us it was time for us to leave. we were floored and pushed back, asking why we couldn’t have water as we were paying customers (who had tipped quite well might I add). we proceeded to get heckled by her and her posse of regulars at the bar until we left.
the bartender was a white, late 30s female, with long brown hair, and a horrible attitude. it was comforting to at least see the plethora of similar reviews online that proved we did nothing to deserve that, but it amazes me a dump like this can continue to stay open when there are 1,000,000 better bars with kind humans running them within a 5 block radius. avoid this place like the plague.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Ana
Old man pouring drinks stared at my boyfriend and I then began to curse us out , tell us we had nice fake IDS after serving us “proper” , and recommended we finish our drinks fast as he seems to enjoy telling customers to get out. There was nothing we had done wrong and if you are easily traumatized, don’t go here. Man had zero business acting so distasteful at his “proper pub” , nauseating experience. Also if you don’t leave a generous tip for bad service , expect a temper tantrum.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Irene Sultana Milli
Awful place. Rye is very sad that he is washed up and his wife hates him and doesn’t want his kids involved with him (he was caught cheating). And he just takes things out on guests he doesn’t like. He tries to stay relevant. But it’s a bit annoying. And they record people if they are too drunk, or if they do not like them. It’s very bizarre. I personally don’t want to be recorded when I am drinking.
This is everything a neighborhood bar should be! Perfect.
I can’t belive you all are still there!
Has the bar changed hands at all since the late 90s? Josie’s was our goto for a little pool, some companionship and ice cold mug beers for cheap.
And you all had one of the last working pay phones in all of NYC.
Took me a long while to figure out that this was you all as I moved away back in 2001. Now we are back in the area.
If you have N.A. beers, I’ll come in for old times sake. God bless. 🤝
Cool spot, nice pool table, chill and chat
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Came in with 10 people we were getting settled and bar tender was nasty about us needing to order. Deeply unfriendly vibe. We left instead of giving them business.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Bad vibes and rude bartender
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Bartender very rude
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
The bartender kept asking for more tips like 100% more. Very unprofessional. Try to avoid the Irish barber if you can.
Arrived here after a lovely stroll through the historic east village. Upon arrival, was greeted warmly by the bartender (woman) kindly asking for identification. She poured our drinks with a smile and we were able to sit at one of the many open tables. Unfortunately, almost immediately, the juke box queue ended and the bar was left silent… for about 30 minutes. Not a sound 🙉 came out of that machine until we were forced to pay. Holding us against our will in a chamber of silence unless we coughed up our hard earned dimes 😕. They didn’t even have the B52s. A redeeming quality, however, was the co-ed wrestling on the big screen above the bar. Points for that! 🙌🏆 I’ll be back Josie, don’t worry.
Atmosphere: 3
Service: 5
Long time east village dive bar. This was Anthony bourdain’s favorite bar for a midweek beer I believe. Anyway come by. Order a beer. Chill. And just mingle with the locals. Rock on!
Saturday night an intimidating black male was blocking the entrance and demanded to see my ID before I could enter. I left right away after using the ladies room
This place is terrible, I’d give it no stars if I could. God forbid anyone asks for a water even after buying drinks, you’ll get shouted out by the bartender. Really wanted to like it here because I’ve enjoyed it other times, but this was so odd, no one did anything to deserve this behavior. Wishing them the worst
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Restaurantji Recommends
This is a good no frills bar. The bartender acknowledged me quickly and took my order, we got exactly what was wanted, two beers and two shots. We took a seat around the pool table and watched some games while we chatted. It has a laid back casual vibe and everyone seemed to be having a good time. I would have liked to play a game, but the list was long. Maybe next time.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Fun people to play pool with. Great priced drinks.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
had the absolute work experience at this bar ever and after reading all of the other reviews, it is clear our experience was not a unique one. we came in on a saturday afternoon and got a table and a couple of rounds of drinks. we were there for a couple hours speaking amongst ourselves at our table, when we asked for some waters, at which point the bartender told us it was time for us to leave. we were floored and pushed back, asking why we couldn’t have water as we were paying customers (who had tipped quite well might I add). we proceeded to get heckled by her and her posse of regulars at the bar until we left.
the bartender was a white, late 30s female, with long brown hair, and a horrible attitude. it was comforting to at least see the plethora of similar reviews online that proved we did nothing to deserve that, but it amazes me a dump like this can continue to stay open when there are 1,000,000 better bars with kind humans running them within a 5 block radius. avoid this place like the plague.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Old man pouring drinks stared at my boyfriend and I then began to curse us out , tell us we had nice fake IDS after serving us “proper” , and recommended we finish our drinks fast as he seems to enjoy telling customers to get out. There was nothing we had done wrong and if you are easily traumatized, don’t go here. Man had zero business acting so distasteful at his “proper pub” , nauseating experience. Also if you don’t leave a generous tip for bad service , expect a temper tantrum.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Awful place. Rye is very sad that he is washed up and his wife hates him and doesn’t want his kids involved with him (he was caught cheating). And he just takes things out on guests he doesn’t like. He tries to stay relevant. But it’s a bit annoying. And they record people if they are too drunk, or if they do not like them. It’s very bizarre. I personally don’t want to be recorded when I am drinking.
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