Off The Wagon
Written by Steve Mendelsohn Sunday, 17 January 2010 00:00
Name: Off the Wagon
Location: 109 Macdougal St (near Bleeker)
Date visited: January 16th, 2010
Bar number: 10
Price of Guinness: $6
Rating: 2/5
Like The Stumble Inn, Off the Wagon is owned by the Greatest Bar Company, and is set up in a similar, “aw shucks we're not a fancy club, but cheap dive bar style”. The thing is, only the Stumble Inn manages to pull it off successfully. Off the Wagon is in a true sense a “college bar”. It is located steps from NYU and is teaming with the college crowd. Except this college crowd is douche-y. There are the true hipsters and the hipsters who are only hipsters because its trendy and want to be “cool”. This second group are the ones that inhabit Off the Wagon. Coupled with its lackluster specials, shitty music (see: Fall Out Boy) and over-crowding, this isn't a bar I would be willing come back to.
I had plans to meet my friends Wario and Alex here, but within 15 minutes of arriving it was clear that this place was a BAG (Beer and Go). Wario, being the expert of the St. Marks scene, decided that we should head over in that direction for the remainder of the night.
Bars left to Visit: 190
