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"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nRadegast Hall Biergarten  \n\nIn Brooklyn the buyback is alive and well, there's no VIP room upstairs, and \"bottle service\" means a prompt refill of your empty whiskey glass. This is egalitarian boozing.\n\nRadegast Hall Biergarten\n\nWilliamsburg \n\nTake a seat at one of the seemingly mile-long tables and in short order you'll be served a football-sized mug of German brew by a barmaid. By the third round, you'll be downing the in-house kraut-topped bratwurst and marveling at how sexy a dirndl can look.\n\nThe Commodore\n\nWilliamsburg\n\nStop in around 7 p.m. and you'll find locals quietly tucking into crisp fried chicken and spicy fish sandwiches in the booths that face the bar. Hours later, they'll be dancing on the tables.\n\nMaracujabar\n\nWilliamsburg \n\nSure, they serve Brazilian-style empanadas, and you can get Michter's single-barrel rye in your Manhattan. But we'll be the crew on the pool table, downing pints and getting loud.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nSaint Vitus  \n\nSaint Vitus Bar\n\nGreenpoint \n\nSaint Vitus is bringing back the New York metal bar, along with cheap beer, reclaimed-everything decor, and pulled pork. At the stage in back, you can catch the next Motrhead without catching a pool cue to the face.\n\nHot Bird\n\nClinton Hill \n\nWhat sounds like a British strip club is actually a bar built into an old gas station. Here laid-back cool kids drink beers on the picnic-table-strewn patio (when it's warm out) or inside the cozy glazed-brick walls (when it's not).\n\nSunny's Bar\n\n Red Hook\n\nPilgrims and locals gather here in homage to Sunny, whose great-grandfather established the place in 1890. Stop by on Saturday nights for the open bluegrass jam, where every other person is playing an instrument.\n\nDaddy's\n\nWilliamsburg \n\nThis is a dangerous little vortex populated by Brooklyn musicians and the girls who love them. You walk in for a Margaveza\u2014a beer in a pint glass topped with a frozen margarita\u2014and suddenly it's 4 a.m.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nGoing balls-out at Brooklyn Bowl  \n\nThis isn't your teenage niece's cosmic bowling. The Gutter showed up on a dingy block of Greenpoint in 2007 with a pre-worn barroom that looks like it's thirty years old and eight bowling lanes that actually are thirty years old, having been imported wholesale from an alley in Iowa. This is where dudes in plaid shirts and thick-framed glasses honor their suburban forebears by hoisting a draft beer in one hand and an eleven-pound orb in the other. Just three blocks away sits the massive Brooklyn Bowl, less an outright alley and more a pleasure dome: To one side of the lanes sits a Blue Ribbon run eatery with pitch-perfect comfort food, while in back is a stage that's hosted everyone from M.I.A. to Surfer Blood. It's the bowling alley for people who don't really bowl.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nThe Criterium at Fort Defiance is a sharp, citrusy smack to the face.  \n\nBrooklyn is the epicenter of the classic-cocktail movement that has spread quickly across this great and thirsty land. Not because it's helmed by guys with wad mustaches and suspenders (stop calling them \"braces,\" buddy) but because these retro bros push the limits of mixology. Going to a cocktail joint in Brooklyn holds the same thrill as going to your favorite restaurant: You trust the place enough to try something unexpected, knowing it will blow your mind\u2014starting with these four drinks.\n\nThe Carondelet at Maison Premiere\n\nWilliamsburg\n\nSip this alloy of gin, honey, sea salt, and lime while you down a dozen oysters at the gorgeous white marble bar.  \n\nThe San Francisco Handshake at Hotel Delmano\n\nWilliamsburg\n\nWho said you can't be all things to all people? This concoction is savory (thyme-infused gin, a dash of Fernet-Branca), sweet (St. Germain), and sour (fresh lemon juice) in perfect proportion.\n\nThe Criterium at Fort Defiance\n\nRed Hook\n\nA bracing rhubarb-and-grapefruit riff on the highball, named for a local bike race, from a bar-slash-restaurant with a locavore ethos.\n\nThe Keep Calm and Carry On at Weather Up\n\nProspect Heights\n\nNot so much a specific drink as it is therapy. Give the bartender in this candlelit grotto a baseline\u2014you want a rum drink? something that'll help you relax?\u2014and he'll mix up what you need.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nThe dress code at Glasslands Gallery: urban-party whatever.  \n\nIt's not that the music venues in Brooklyn are better than anywhere else in the city\u2014though they are, if only for the lack of fist-pumping tools. It's more that this borough is the place so many great acts\u2014TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens\u2014sleep when they're not on tour and you get to see them on their home turf. This is where shows stretch on an extra hour, and when the lead singer says he's glad to be here, he genuinely means it.\n\nThe Bell House\n\nGowanus\n\nThe cavernous halls, chandeliers, and buffalo portraiture evoke the finest steak house in Denver circa 1920; the lineup ranges from indie acts like Beach House and Jonathan Richman to taxidermy contests and steak dinners for 250. If you need a break from the action, retreat to the Frontier Room for a music-themed cocktail like the Teaches of Peaches, an appropriately sweet-and-rough infused-vodka concoction.\n\nGlasslands Gallery\n\nWilliamsburg\n\nAt this renovated warehouse and art-meets-life mecca\u2014don't call it a \"club\"\u2014you'd be forgiven for mistaking some of the audience members for the headliners. And since it's CBGB's for the Williamsburg set, there isn't much difference. From up on the balcony you're as likely to spot the next Yeasayer or Vampire Weekend head-nodding as rocking out onstage.\n\nMusic Hall of Williamsburg\n\nThere's a reason LCD Soundsystem played the first concert of their final tour here: The space is cavernous but still feels conspiratorial, like you're getting in on a show that you'll brag about to your grandkids decades from now. Doesn't hurt that you can find a bar on all three floors\u2014including a basement-level one where you can sit out the opener\u2014and that there's not a bad sight line in the house.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n\"Generally I'll go to any bar anywhere that doesn't have dogs or babies. That's a challenge every time in Brooklyn, but the Pencil Factory in Greenpoint is my tried-and-true spot for drinking. The Hold Steady has certainly spent some time there\u2014 we rehearse across the street.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nThe Box House Hotel  \n\n Although you're right across the river from a world-class hotel collection, Brooklyn isn't known for its accommodations. But while its hotels don't advertise in neon like in that other borough, some of them beg you to spend your days inside.\n\nNU Hotel\n\nSleek, serious about service, and smack in the heart of four neighborhoods\u2014Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Downtown.\n\nHotel Williamsburg\n\nA rooftop cocktail lounge, a rustic farm-to-table restaurant, and in-room record players (there's a library of vinyl in the lobby) nail every Brooklyn stereotype\u2014and yet the hotel still comes off as cool, not kitschy.\n\nThe Box House Hotel\n\nIts furnished loft apartments make you feel like you're house-sitting for a friend with good taste and cash to burn. The secluded Greenpoint location is at a nice remove from the action.\n\n How to get around: Car service is king here. For Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick, call Northside (718-387-2222). For all points south, including Carroll Gardens and Fort Greene, let Arecibo Car Service (718-783-6465) be your chariot. Now put those numbers in your phone.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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