Drop Off Service
211 Avenue A (13th St.), Manhattan
Adjacent to InAppropriately named Destination Bar, this former laundromat is actually a place someone over-30 would want to go, before Midnight (unless school's out).
At the bar we met Mario, a 31 who recently returned from Iraq (eight years total in the army) to the neighborhood where he grew up: the east village. Pouring us each a sip of his Three Philosophers ale (Belgian dark brew plus cherry lambic; quite nice), Mario told us about Drop Off Service's great bartenders (knowledgeable, friendly), great beer selection ("number one rule: don't order a bud light"), and great happy hour (3-8pm weekdays, 1-8pm weekends, $3 beers). Kings Head Tavern (222 E. 14th) and Blind Pig (233 E. 14th) are his second favorite bars, but he agrees that weekends are tricky in these parts.
Drop Off Service was AA when we entered, but that doesn't last on a Saturday night, and the blasting music makes it even easier to exit. Weeknights, however, linger longer in AA, and you don't have to scream your conversation.
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