My First Love....T-Bar

I have been reviewing my articles and I'm a little embarrassed that I've barely mentioned my true first local bar in New York, T-Bar, where every Eastern European bartender knows your name. With all my attention on Lavo recently, it would seem like T-Bar is having a "middle-child" syndrome episode. And for this I want to apologize. T-Bar, located about six stumbling blocks from my apartment, is the ideal hangout. The beer taste better there, the air smells fresher there and I feel like Prince William there. With its nice white marble bar off the the left and dining room to the right of the hostess table, its a great place to drink and grab some apps at the bar and enjoy yourself. I especially love T-Bar because its definitely a local Upper East Side hangout. You see the same people over and over again. I love that. You know the dumb hipster saying, "I don't hang out above 14th street"?, well at T-Bar, "I don't hang out below 59th street" is more their speed.

Also, I've seen some crazy shit happen at T-Bar. Umm lemme think, there was one night when these two middle aged women were fighting over the last bar stool. (To paint the picture, remember in Mean Girls when the Lindsay Lohan character fantasizes how they would handle a girl fight in Africa by attacking one another and pouncing on them?; lets just say T-Bar was definitely Africa that night). I also designated T-Bar a no camera zone. I'll tell a few of those stories when you're a little older. There was also one night I call, Random Drunk Rich Guy, who decided it would be funny to buy everyone at the bar a round on him. YES PLEASE! I'm getting teary eyed just reminiscing about the good ole days of T-Bar before damn Lavo hit the scene.

And its funny because at BLT Steak a few weeks ago and again tonight at The National (they have the best drink called the NTL Mule, a riff on the Moscow Mule, amazing), I heard two different groups at the bar talking about how much they love T-Bar pizza (its great) and how fun it is there. Got me itching to go back. Also as a regular you sometimes get to squeeze out a free drink here and there, and I'll take whatever I can get because "Hey, I'm retired at 28!"