Friday, 9:15pm
Mr. Dennehey's
63 Carmine St. (7th Ave. South), Manhattan
Borderline...Feels like I'm going to lose my age advantage...
You just keep on pushing your median age over the borderline.
As you know, we are pretty big fans of Mr. Dennehy's but these days there's the issue of ever-skewing age. Not that this is a kiddie spot, but it does mean it's best to skedaddle by midnight. That is all.
Saturday, 7pm
City Swiggers
320 East 86th St. (1st Ave.), Manhattan
Part beer store, part beer bar, part sit in the back and chill, City Swiggers is the most exciting, Age Appropriate addition to East 86th Street since Fairway arrived in July. AABM because it closes before Midnight, but putting in AA too so it doesn't get overlooked. This is a fun, extensive collection. Breckenridge, Ithaca, Petaluma, Philadelphia...you can travel the country off the shelves here. Other parts of the world too, proving once and for all that not even microbrews are micro anymore. When I was your age, we had to walk a mile in the snow, uphill, to the actual brewery to get this kind of beer.
Saturday, 11pm
Holsteins Shakes and Buns
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
While Age InAppropriates in all forms of dress were being corralled in front of Marquee, we joined other Age Appropriates in balancing alcohol consumption by consuming the world's highest production dairy cow
Saturday, 9pm
Rhumbar
The Mirage, Las Vegas
We debated going AA or AABM here (bartenders were unsure how to guide). We let the presence of a hookah be the deciding factor (since everyone partaking was AI, or the I side of AA).
Saturday, 6pm
Kibo
111 E 18th St. (Park Ave. South), Manhattan
Kibo is very large, like Nobu 57 dining room large but somehow larger (maybe it was the perspective from the footstools in the lounge area, behind the bar in the photo). Scantily-clad cocktail waitress tells us it's too soon to put a number on average age of customer, but, not to worry, it's been fun. That says Age Appropriate Before Midnight to us, if you like sitting low, or at a large, non NYC-like bar (not our NYC, we should say). Know differently? Do tell.
Saturday, 4pm
Otto
One Fifth Ave. (8th St.), Manhattan
Holy Batali fest here at 30toMidnight. After seeing that new TV show recently while in the dentist's chair (the episode in which the not-Top-Chef-loser girl says she's never heard of bratwurst and never had a hot dog), we were not sure we were still fans, but nearly every recent outing has had Mario's hand in it. What does that mean? Consistency. We like it. Or, we like the expectation of. Did we have good waiter service in the Otto bar? Nope. Did we have good wine? Yup. Was the crowd Age Appropriate? Mostly. Does that change as day becomes night? Totally. Is it a complete write-off? Of course not, unless you don't like standing, which we do.
Sunday, 6pm
Klimat
77 East 7th St. (First Ave.), Manhattan
Bungalow Restaurant & Bar
327 Beach 92nd St., Far Rockaway, Queens
First night (for us) of the season (summer, we mean) at Bungalow Bar so we're reposting for 2010. A bit windy for the loverly deck, and the enclosed outdoor area was a bit smokey, but the main bar was hopping, and baseball was on the tv's. If that's not summer we don't know what is. We can't wait to get back to the beach.
From 2009 but still true: Sundays are the night to hit Bungalow, another Jamaica Bay-side restaurant and bar (think: music, drinking, sunned AA's). But if you're looking for a post-beach beverage, or want to watch a sunset, any afternoon-evening here will do, and you'll be among peers, wondering how to get yourself a bungalow in this New York City beach 'hood. Bungalow Bar, btw, is not just a summer location. In the winter, Sunday Funday (their name) is all about football. And $2 drafts. And music.
More about the Rockaways.
Friday, 12am
Whiskey Rebel
129 Lexington Ave. (29th St.), Manhattan
Somebunny turned even more Age Appropriate while stuffing herself with delicious bar popcorn and swilling some light beer at Whiskey Rebel, a perfectly reasonable AI bar.
Thursday, 5:50pm
Adrienne's Pizza Bar
54 Stone Street, Manhattan
Open toMidnight, Adrienne's had one of the oldest crowds on Stone Street, which we attribute to the presence of food. Inside, at the bar, there were people actually born in the 60's. Ha. It's funny when we make it sound like that's old. There were some 50's-born too. Well, maybe two.
