Skinny Dennis

The bourbon sweet tea is delicious and dangerous. Good live music, and fun crowd. Can be a bit much, and deff not spacious, but overall a good, rowdy time.

Great bar with a western vibe. Came here on the suggestion of friend when I mentioned I like a good michelada. It's true - they have a good michelada. Though it's not your usual. Lime, Cholula, Lone Star upsidedown and a salt rim.

I'll be back.

This place is the closest thing you can get to a real honky tonk in NYC. There are other places that try to recreate it, but Skinny Dennis succeeds in its low key atmosphere where others just look like cartoons. Vintage beer signs, hot peanuts, warm pretzels, Texas and local beers. Amazing house cocktails that are super reasonable. Recommendations: Willy's Frozen Coffee (spiked with bourbon!), Bourbon Mint Sweet Tea, The Lucinda.

Outside of the atmosphere, the real reason to haunt this bar is the music. Real country music, we're talking about the kind of stuff they still play in Austin, not that Nashville pop trash. If you like Hank (Williams, Snow, Penny, or Locklin) , Merle, Webb Pierce, Johnny (Cash, or Horton), Willie, Waylon and the boys... This is where you'll find it. From Western Swing to Outlaw, from local kids to Austin powerhouses like Dale Watson and Teri Joyce.

There's plenty of buckle-polishing two-step music to be heard, but the only complaint I have... nobody in New York knows how to two step, which is a shame.

Awesome Brooklyn-typical bar. Usually they have really cool bands playing. I went when there was a blue grass band. The vibe was awesome.

Great honky tonk dive bar in Williamsburg. They even have live bands at times, but never charge a cover. The bartenders are very friendly. They serve 24 oz Coors Lite drafts for only $4 in mason jars. The ladies all seem to love the frozen coffee drinks spiked with alcohol. They even serve you free peanuts if you ask nicely, but leave the shells on the floor. Old school jukebox plays many classic country tunes when the band isn't playing. I have no complaints about this place other than it getting too crowded at times on the weekend.