Midtown Happy Hour: Black Finn
If you like to eat, chances are you like to drink (read: a lot of you are freakin’ lushes), so I thought maybe it was time to introduce a happy hour column to the site. Every week, our Happy Hour Correspondent “Mamacita” will post about a different bar in Midtown that fits the Midtown Lunch mentality: unhealthy food, not lame (unless it’s lame in a cool way), and most importantly… cheap. This past week, Mamacita was out of town, so she had a friend check in with this quick report from a visit to Black Finn.
I just got back from Chapel Hill, NC where I stuffed myself with pulled pork, pork ribs, hushpuppies, southern fried breakfasts and sweet tea. I plan on spreading my swine flu to all you midtowners! Due to my absence I was AWOL for any happy hours in NY with my friends. But like they say, when the cats away the mice will play. My favorite lush Scarlett took up the baton for this week’s happy hour and here is her lubricated take on BlackFinn, a bar where I guess all the midtown white boys rock out. -Mamacita
“That place was hysterical. My friend Kim told me there was a DJ but I kind of can’t believe it. I think the guy must have had Top 40 hit CDs– he would play ACDC and then Kelly Clarkson then an R&B hit, then Earth Wind and Fire, then Michael Jackson………. so funny. We got there at like 6 and by 7 it was elbow to elbow crowded with the WHITEST people I have ever seen in my life. Other than a few token asian girls, my gf was the only person who looked like they had any flavor in the joint.
For $4 you can get a decent marg, decent but small cosmo, pint of beer including Stella and Blue Moon, decent red wine and chicken fingers, wings, nachos, pretzels etc. After Port 41, this place was gorgeous and nice. Our bartender, Mike, seemed to know a lot of patrons. There are a ton of TVs above the bar and in a few little booths at the front there are little tvs too. Too bad the Skankees were on. I am pretty sure the bathroom would have passed even Shannon’s inspection. But by 9pm, after some drunk frat boy spilled his drink all over my friend’s seat, and me we bailed. There’s also a lovely two-level porn shop on that street — the second level used to be an apartment an old friend lived in, ha!”
Black Finn, 218 E 53rd St (btw. 2+3rd), 212-355-6607
Posted by Zach Brooks at 3:00 pm, May 1st, 2009 under Midtown Happy Hour.
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Zach…..change the script….we have lawyers being Fred for fucks sake.
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@Rudy & Fred – Don’t worry… that problem will be solved in a few weeks when I force you jokers to all set up accounts and login to comment
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@ Ignorant But Happy: Let’s meet up for the Yankee game tonight at McCormacks. I should be there by 7 or 7:30. We can chat about the merits of NY sports….
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this post makes midtown jesus cry.
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ahhh zacharhia….death of a site.
’twas going so well too.
“Force”
Wanker
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Rudy, don’t make me spank you with some Yorkshire sausage. Wait, maybe that’s the other way around.
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Zach, you just blew the lid off your own secret.
And since it’s out, my view is that it’s a mistake. But I wish you and the site the best, as always. -
I noticed the prepopulating as well. I thought someone here haxed me..
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next time be sure to try ACME for brunch, bacon infused vodka bloody mary and bacon infused bourbon, also barbecue joint is worth a trip in itself but allen and sons is good too. Also under the most extreme late night circumstances Time Out is worth a visit.
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def. agree with dan. Milltown is great for beer but the service and food is way lacking. Gotta do ACME, Weaver St. or Weathervane for brunch in Chapel Hill
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Done Acme, had the freaking best jalapeno, cheddar grits topped with eggs in a chipotle hollandaise. It was amazing. I think I had their bloody mary too.
Now on to Miltown, I’ve had attentive service, and been there quite a bit too. Food always seemed above par and waitress and bartender were always quick. All the times I went the food was so cheap and good. They have a bloody mary with a garnish of a grilled serrano stuffed with stilton cheese. They also do a southern poutine. Bare with me. It’s home made fries with cheddar curds and their homemade southern gravy. I know I’ll get heat for this, but it was soo damn good!!
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Let’s go Mets!!!!!!!!
Beer at Skankees stadium = $9
Beer at debits field/Citifield = $5.25
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the small beer at citifield is $5.25. The small beer at yankee stadium is $6. you have to compare equal sized products.
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You have not seen the whitest people in the United States until you attend a reunion of my extended family. We trace our lineage back to the Mayflower, should that interest you.
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No
It doesn’t, never has, and never will
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I love token Asian Girls! Let’s bump donuts :)
DDR: a number of folks, myself included, have noted that the “Name:” field in the “Write a comment” block now get prepopulated with the name of some other commenter, usually the last one shown above the “Write a comment” block. Not always, but often. This just started happening to me in the past couple of days, but Mamacita says she has seen it happen to her on and off for a year now. Until Zach addresses it, I guess we’ll need to be extra-diligent when posting comments to make sure our name appears in the “Name:” field before hitting the submit button. And now….back to my Walgreen’s bulkie