30 to Midnight

Stone Street Tavern, Lower Manhattan

Thursday, 7:15pm

Stone Street Tavern
52 Stone St., Manhattan

This bar could really be appealing if it wasn't in the middle of all these other bars. We get how that's appealing too, for some (read: AI), but we're just not feeling the 'quad' thing anymore. Gosh we're downers. Well, stay tuned, things are about to turn up.

Vintry Wine & Whiskey, Stone Street

Thursday, 6:30pm

Vintry Wine & Whiskey
57 Stone Street, Manhattan

You know what this picture means: Sara breaking her no liquor rule. Well, it was worth it. We had a Whiskey Sour and a Grapefruit Bellini and seats at the window seat. 

Inside this Stone Street bar the crowd is Age Appropriate and lively. We enjoyed observing the near-chaos of outside, but would have preferred bar seating; more social. As you would hope, this Wine & Whiskey venue has numerous wines by the glass, numerous whiskeys, plus small plates of beautiful-looking food. We did not eat. We have plans to go back. Waitress tells us weekends are as lively as happy hour. We'll have to see about that. She also says Stone Street becomes unwalkable as the weather warms. Eek. Stay inside if you're AA. 

Stone Street, Vintry Wine & Whiskey, Across From Ulysses'

These guys (above) were drinking and smoking when we sat at our window seats. This couple (below) replaced them. All Age Appropriate, as you can see, some local, some tourist. The table where they're seated is part of Vintry Wine & Whiskey (57 Stone Street, Manhattan). You can reserve them (212-480-9800). We have more to say about the bar itself, which we very much liked (AA). Stone Street itself is a bit overwhelming (AI and AI-tendencies). Is it a weekday thing? We need to do a weekend trip to compare.

As you likely already know, Ulysses' (58 Stone Street and/or 95 Pearl Street, Manhattan) attracts AI's with its beer buckets.

Blue Bar, One Hanover Square at Stone Street, To Open This Week

An elegant new meeting place for fine cocktails and conversation, in the Harry's building.

Adrienne's Pizza Bar, Stone Street

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.

The Dubliner, Stone Street

Thursday, 5:30pm

The Dubliner
45 Stone Street (facing that little plaza behind 85 Broad), Manhattan

It's been a long time since Sara worked in the Financial District. When she worked in this part of the world (and we mean that geographically and figuratively) Stone Street was not the party street it is today. Harry's, of course, was there, and Fraunces Tavern, but not much else. Going out for happy hour generally meant going up to the Village. But that's ancient history, isn't it?

So we decided to do a Stone Street Happy Hour Bar Crawl, which becomes more Push than Crawl as the weather gets warmer, because Stone Street gets packed, something the Age Appropriate among us dislike.  Speaking of, the people were Age-mixed at this end of Stone Street, skewing InAppropriate.