Dutch Kills bar brings the classic cocktail to Long Island City

I do hope they have indoor parking for my penny farthing.

No flat screen televisions? What’s a bar without TV’s?

#3 just stick to lucky mojos. #4, this is the first bar in LIC that actually has a chance of having a good singles scene.

Ugh, what is this Europe will all the trash sitting around talking politics! This is American, put some damn TVs in the place and offer pub food at a decent price.

And if this place ever gets a cover charge it’ll be emptier than a LIC open house.

Ugh #7 how boring. Do you have no imagination? We have a zillion of those “American” bars where you watch TV while you scarf greasy fried food. Yuck.

LIQCity trumped by Gothamist in her own ‘hood. Wow.

“Ugh, what is this Europe will all the trash sitting around talking politics! This is American, put some damn TVs in the place and offer pub food at a decent price”

Go to the Shannon Pot.

It’s not Dutch Kills at all. It’s near Dutch Kills St and that’s it, but this is bonafide Hunters Point. The bar looks great and all, I will definitely go check it out, but I don’t like that they called it Dutch Kills. There is a neighborhood already called that, and it’s confusing. They didn’t come up with the name. And it’s not even in DK. However, I like that it’s not another generic pub and that there’s a lot of thought put into the concept….even if I disagree with some of it.

The funny thing is that this bar is opening in the worst time in LIC in a long time and it will totally succeed…. wish I could say the same about some of the junk on Vernon Blvd.

They named it b/c the street is around the corner.

Better than Dominies Hoek, which is about 12 blocks from where Dominies Hoek was, which was the little slice of land near the mouth of Newtown Creek.

Instead of complaining, just don’t patronize it. Let the rest of us enjoy our cocktails.

We haven’t had a cool person in New York City since the early 1980s.

What does #15 mean by “junk on Vernon”? I count Domaine, Dominie’s, Lounge 47 and LIC Bar as some of the most pleasant watering holes in the ‘hood.

Weren’t Dominie’s and LIC Bar once trying to get dirty hipsters to come there by having that filthy Michigan guy try and book bands there that no one cared about?

# 25, yes. When the LIC Bar first opened it was a really great place to go, have drinks and actually have a conversation with your friends. Then a new owner took over and it has changed, not necessarily for the better. In the summer there used to be great local bands that played on sunday afternoons along with a BBQ and the place was usually pretty packed. Then the person who did it moved out of town. She was supposed to do it last summer and had lined up bands but the owner screwed her and decided to hire someone else to do it, I believe the “filthy Michigan guy” and all the good bands that had played there in the past refused to play there. Since I did not attend any of the bands this past summer I don’t know how that went but what I heard about it wasn’t good. The great thing about the bar was that here was no TV but now there is one. Unfortunately the owner wants it to be the next IT bar instead of a local bar that locals want to go to, especially thise of us who are older, have money but don’t want to be bothered by the stupid kids are just want to get drunk.

i agree. this guy’s comments are annoying and hateful. makes reading this blog much less enjoyable.

Hey jerk-store, that’s my roomy! My room’s way messier. Maybe cuz I’m from northern MI?

Heh.

Any truth to the rumor that some cop is going to reopen a newly renovated McReilly’s?

As the month ends, any word on whether they are serving drinks yet?