Night 16: Fiddlesticks, Greewhich Treehouse, Woogie's, Julius, Pisces
Cricket, Orbital, and I start the night just above 4th Street on 6th Ave deciding to explore the area above our last outing. We make our way up 6th Ave, looking for bars and finding nothing. Since this makes no sense, we continue on 14th and then back down 7th Ave. Unbelievably, we don't find a single bar anywhere in this area. I officially designate this entire section of the neighborhood as no longer part of the village. Almost giving up hope, we turn on to Greenwich. Finally, we are graced with Fiddlesticks, a wanna-be English bar. Cricket immediately pegs the place as a typical Boston bar: frat boys and sorority girls out to get drunk and hook up with one another. The typical frat party music mix only reinforces this perception. They were passing out free beer samples though, which is a very positive trait for a bar, even if they hadn't intended for me to have three. My $7 vodka tonic was good, but not very strong and it took way too long for me to actually get it. All in all, a good location to see bland Americans in a nice English setting.
Next, continuing down the street, we came to the Greewhich Treehouse. This nice bar had just recently opened and had not established a clientele yet, but we were very impressed by its promise. Their liquor license hadn't gone though yet so it was just beer and wine for now, but their beer selection was pretty good at $5 and our super friendly bartender provided good conversation and service. The decor was real homey with a giant glass window overlooking the street and a Jim Jarmusch movie playing on the wall. This is the perfect place to chill with a beer and a movie while watching the snowfall on the street outside.
Continuing on Greenwich, which had been treating us right, we came to Woogie's, a Philladelphia bar. I had not known that there were Philladelphia bars, but apparently serving cheesesteak and showing Eagles and Sixer's games makes one a Philladelphia bar. Anyway, Woogie's smells like old grease, there wasn't much of a crowd that night, and the music was lame classic rock. The bartender was moderately helpful, but not too chatty after providing our drinks, and my $6 vodka tonic was flat.
For our next stop we were joined by Diva and Anastasia, two lovely girls in the modeling business. Appropriately we therefore wandered into Julius, a bar for older gay men. That being the case, I was poured a stiff vodka tonic for a reasonable price from a not particularly friendly older gay bartender. The music was gay boy dance music and the decor was still Halloween even though it was two weeks after the holiday. Orbital made a new friend in the men's room and the ladies with us were the first to have entered the establishment in a very long time. Really a classic piece of west village culture.
Diva and Anastasia left us after this and we stumbled into our final bar of the night Pisces on the corner of Beck St. and Christopher St. Pisces is a twenty-something gay bar. The decor is pink. Besides Cricket, there was only one other female in the bar, but she was pretty hot. The music was good gay bar dance music and the young good looking gay crowd was dancing it up. My $8 vodka tonic was excellent and the bartenders were very friendly. A good place for getting drunk and dancing with the gay boys.
Next, continuing down the street, we came to the Greewhich Treehouse. This nice bar had just recently opened and had not established a clientele yet, but we were very impressed by its promise. Their liquor license hadn't gone though yet so it was just beer and wine for now, but their beer selection was pretty good at $5 and our super friendly bartender provided good conversation and service. The decor was real homey with a giant glass window overlooking the street and a Jim Jarmusch movie playing on the wall. This is the perfect place to chill with a beer and a movie while watching the snowfall on the street outside.
Continuing on Greenwich, which had been treating us right, we came to Woogie's, a Philladelphia bar. I had not known that there were Philladelphia bars, but apparently serving cheesesteak and showing Eagles and Sixer's games makes one a Philladelphia bar. Anyway, Woogie's smells like old grease, there wasn't much of a crowd that night, and the music was lame classic rock. The bartender was moderately helpful, but not too chatty after providing our drinks, and my $6 vodka tonic was flat.
For our next stop we were joined by Diva and Anastasia, two lovely girls in the modeling business. Appropriately we therefore wandered into Julius, a bar for older gay men. That being the case, I was poured a stiff vodka tonic for a reasonable price from a not particularly friendly older gay bartender. The music was gay boy dance music and the decor was still Halloween even though it was two weeks after the holiday. Orbital made a new friend in the men's room and the ladies with us were the first to have entered the establishment in a very long time. Really a classic piece of west village culture.
Diva and Anastasia left us after this and we stumbled into our final bar of the night Pisces on the corner of Beck St. and Christopher St. Pisces is a twenty-something gay bar. The decor is pink. Besides Cricket, there was only one other female in the bar, but she was pretty hot. The music was good gay bar dance music and the young good looking gay crowd was dancing it up. My $8 vodka tonic was excellent and the bartenders were very friendly. A good place for getting drunk and dancing with the gay boys.
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