I’m in NYC on a business trip and though I worked an 11 hour day yesterday, have spent all my free time wandering SoHo.
I could definitely live here, though it is hipster central. The picture is hundreds of them crowding the opening of Shepard Fairey’s opening last night.
We got lunch yesterday at this little Italian sandwich shop called Alidoro and it was awesome. Highly recommended and apparently little-known.
Last night I went to this bar called “The Room” because they specialize in beer. I talked to the bar tender (Rob) a little and he gave me some recommendations for other places that have good beer lists. So after I finished a couple of beers there (I’d had almost their entire draft and bottle menu) I went to one of them.
Blind Tiger (7th & Bleeker) was awesome. They’d just had an event with Bear Republic from CA and their menu was almost all BR and lots I’d never had or seen before. Including an imperial IPA on cask. I told the bartender Rob had sent me and he hooked me up.
The others he recommended:
DBA (1st? 4th? Near there.)
Union Pool (hipster alert)
Trophy (on Broadway, tell ‘em Rob sent you)
Hot Bird (Clinton & Atlantic, Rob’s other job)
This is mostly for my future reference since I’ll likely be back here soon, but thought anyone reading this might like to know where to get beers in NYC.
