Good pubs in NYC! Swift Hibernian Lounge, McSorley’s, The Globe, Old Town Bar, The Dead Rabbit
Swift Hibernian- Lounge-ake a quick hop across Cooper Square from McSorley’s and you’ll come, positively, to 4th Street and the NoHo tavern that many think kickstarted a new era of Irish bars in the city: Swift Hibernian Lounge. Created in 1995 by 30-year-old, County Laois-raised entrepreneur Danny McDonald as an antidote to the traditional Irish bar, Swift is resolutely shamrock-, leprechaun- and even television-free. It celebrates the literary (it’s named after Irish writer Jonathan Swift), is timeless (Hibernian note, not Irish), and convivial (lounge, not pub), the sort of place that has seen, from its backroom pulpit – salvaged from the County Meath church where Swift served as a vicar – anything from readings by Frank McCourt to DJ sets. There is Guinness, Smithwick’s, and Irish whiskey cocktails, plus late-night Irish music sessions on Tuesdays – and even corned beef and cabbage … tacos.
McSorley’s Old Ale House- McSorley’s has long claimed to have opened in 1854 and to be the oldest pub in New York (both of which are debated). Really, though, it is not so much a bar as an East Village institution – and the one New York Irish pub most people have heard of. Its owners since 1977, the Maher family, are stubbornly proud of its history and authenticity, and the fact that the bar remains almost impervious to change. The busy interior, with its portraits, posters, paraphernalia, stovepipe and sawdust floor, is pretty much as it was a century ago; women were only allowed access to the “gentleman’s preserve” in 1970, and the only beer its jacketed waiters serve is McSorley’s own light and dark house ale – at $5.50 for two eight-ounce mugs. (The bar’s motto is: Be good or be gone.) Food is similarly unambiguous: sandwiches for $5,
Old Town Bar, – The Old Town Bar and Restaurant is a noted bar and restaurant located between Park Avenue and Broadway at 45 E. 18th Street in the Flatiron District, Manhattan in New York City, one block north of Union Square. Originally a German establishment called Viemeisters, the bar has been in continuous operation since 1892, making it one of the oldest bars in the New York City area.
The Globe -Old-school (since 1886) Irish pub with a fireplace featuring Guinness & other drafts, plus pub grub.and Place is nice good drinks and nice people but loud! Loud music and loud people. Not good for conversation but good for drinking. Had TV’s for games and food. Place is lively and filled with attractive millennials!
The Dead Rabbit-This “forward-thinking 21st-century Irish bar” in an 1828 building in the Financial District opened in 2013; just three years later it was awarded World’s Best Bar by Drinks International magazine. Created by two star bar-managers from Belfast, Jack McGarry and Sean Muldoon, the Dead Rabbit takes a time-honoured tradition of hospitality, a sense of history and young, dynamic staff and turns them into a modern Irish bar that is accessible, irresistible, even fiercely romantic. The long, narrow ground-floor Taproom can, with some justification, claim to serve “the best Guinness in New York”; it has the largest collection of Irish whiskey in the US, at more than 180 bottles; and it does proper, hearty daily specials such as lamb stew ($22) prime rib ($33) and, of course, braised rabbit ($21). An elegant upstairs Parlour offers 30 pre-prohibition-inspired cocktails ($16) with names such as Switchblade, Hush Money and Hunky Dory.
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