If you ever wanted to know about our co-publisher and associate editor’s drinking habits, well this is your lucky week. The Jersey City Bar Guide caught up with Shane Smith for its latest “What Are They Drinking?” column; here’s a taste (*pun intended*):
The way some people (‘foodies’) enjoy learning about and experiencing food, I like [...]
“We could have come up with a trendier name,” says Jeff Favia of the Powerhouse Lounge’s straightforward nomenclature. “But we are committed to supporting and representing the Powerhouse Arts District.” The restaurant and bar will be in the Marin Boulevard building that was once home to the Rascals on the Hudson comedy club.
Remember that episode of Sex and the City when the ladies go to a Yankees game and they magically slip into the locker room and then just like that — Carrie has a date with the “New Yankee?” Ridiculous, right?
Well, maybe not … because maybe something kinda similar happened to me.
You see, a few [...]
That loud friend in a group of friends is animatedly rehashing the A-Rod/Dallas Braden controversy in O’Hara’s Downtown — this despite the 10 or so wide-screen HD televisions showing the final match of the World Cup, despite the mostly filled bar of Spanish and Dutch loyalists, even if just for the time being.
Unlike its namesake, there was a distinct lack of explosiveness in the deflation of Zeppelin Hall’s U.S. soccer fans Saturday afternoon. The de-massing of the German-style beer hall– in single-file, or in small clumps of friends, silent or angry or still in denial– took the air out of the room and the national team’s fans with them.
In the last game of the group stages for the United States, the U.S. side could finally be said to resemble some of the European powerhouses of the 2010 World Cup — which is to say, skilled play on the ball, (mostly) smart passes and opportunities to score in abundance — but equally similar to many of those teams this year, they performed in a dominant manner that lead nowhere — almost.
Rumors have been swirling for a few months about an outpost of the popular Williamsburg watering hole Barcade opening in Jersey City, and now the plans are entering the planning pipeline.
The bar, which at its Brooklyn location features 25 craft beers on tap and vintage arcade games, has submitted a minor site plan that is [...]
If the World Cup is, as those incessant Bono-voiced commercials suggest, outside of the text of serious world politics — some brief respite from global concerns petty or epidemic — it doesn’t mean an end to the speculation of what is actually going on in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, at least among the employees at Lucky 7’s. A mostly quiet Tuesday afternoon game between Brazil (the highest ranked team in the world) and DPR Korea (at FIFA-ranked 105, the lowest ranked in the tournament) becomes a forum for foreign policy.
An ongoing series on how Jersey City soccer fans — and those who aren’t — watch the games.
White Star Bar’s chef, Roberto Benitez, pours sample-sized bottles of cheap wine into a pitcher, his eyes finding one of the four television screens on the wall above the bar more often than the in-progress container of sangria. [...]
Back in April, we reported that White Star Bar on Brunswick Street had applied to the city Zoning Board of Adjustment for permission to offer outdoor seating to its customers.
JCI received word yesterday from White Star owner Matt Kopec that the application was approved; the Downtown watering hole and restaurant “expect[s] to have tables [...]
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