January 20, 2012
Absolutely enormous sports bar near Penn Station. I used it as a spot to waste about an hour before my train out of the city. An hour was plenty of time. For a place called STOUT there was a glaring lack of quality stouts on tap. Absolutely nothing available that you couldn’t find at nearly every other bar in the city. Seems like the kind of place that gets rowdy during happy hour. Once was enough for me.

December 29, 2011
Stopped in here once with my Dad and Uncle. "Typical sports bar." Done.

September 3, 2011
Typical sports bar atmosphere and filled with suits. Embarrassingly bad beer selection, terribly chosen glassware, and a lemon wedge in every wheat beer. Don’t come here, ever.

July 28, 2011
22 taps. 2 casks. Big hall. No surprises on taps. Lots of common European beers. Some summer specials. Quite popular the night I visited. OK service.

January 2, 2011
Decent bar located near MSG. Certainly not the best the city has to offer but there are a few decent beers with a good percentage of them being stouts. Food was standard pub fare. Overall, not bad, but not the reason you go to NYC.

September 22, 2010
Another place that probably doesn’t really deserve to be in the places section of the site, however by having it on here and having it get some terrible reviews, maybe people will avoid the place. Stopped in here on a weekday afternoon right around noon. Spent about three minutes looking over the tap and bottle list, got up and left. There is nothing here for the craft beer drinker. Guinness was about the best thing they had on tap out of more than a dozen taps. When I sat down at the bar and noticed the row of businessmen in suits eating their lunches with half full bottles of Bud next to them, I realized my stay here was likely going to be a short one. I’m sure that for the crowd they attract, this place is great. It likely (I say likely, because after perusing their beer list, there was no way I was staying here for a meal) has a vapid menu of bar food skewed heavily to the greasy and red meat end of the spectrum. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Places like this exist for a reason. I just like to think their reason is to keep the crowds down a little at the good beer places so I can get good beer and food with some nice service. Not recommended and not worth the time.

June 21, 2010
Humongous bar located right near penn station, which makes it a mecca as an afterwork/tourist/overcrowded mess. Impossible to get a drink on a weekend, you can’t hear anything, the only reason you go here is because you’re a scared out of towner who doesn’t want to venture out and goes to the first bar he sees.

June 11, 2010
A good bar with a lot of selection, but the crowed from after work or an event at the garden can make this place a nightmare between 5-8 on a week day.

December 15, 2009
The best bar near MSG, which isn’t saying much. Not an awful bar. HUMONGOUS in size, a bit too corporate perhaps. Can get noisy. Sometimes good stuff on draft though. And let’s face it, before or after a Rangers/Knicks game there are few options.

December 1, 2009
I’ve only been here once and didn’t leave with a good impression. I hear they don’t rotate their taps, I can’t confirm if that’s true, but with what was offered the night I was there they should, as the micros they have can be found in many other places. Staff was also quite uninviting that night, so we left for Rattle N Hum instead, which is only about a block and a half away.