Sweet & Vicious and Black & White (The Bar Card)

Sweet & Vicious
Last night we headed down for some drinks at a Sweet & Vicious (Spring & Bowery). It was a new place for me but everyone I was with had been before. I really dug this place. It was perfect for what I wanted last night. It wasn't overly crowded or crazy. There weren't a lot of bridge and tunnel types, however there was a good number of "cohorts" as I like to call them. Cohorts are the guys who go to bars wearing their work clothes with their work buddies and they are always the loudest drunkest bastards in the bar. The music was predictable hip hop but the crowd but it wasn't the Midtown type of crowd either, nor was it one of those snobby types that looks down even at its own patrons. Not to mention they knew how to pour a pint of Guinness.

The space was an opened single room with a long bar on one side. They kept the stools there which is always a nice change from some of the more crowded places. The floors were wood and there were these huge circular light fixtures on the ceiling keeping the place nice and dark.

Location.
The location was great quick trip there from my apt and of course and I love the Bowery. The space itself looked like it belonged in the Bowery.

Music.
Predictable hip hop. Thank god it wasn't dirty south stuff.

Crowd.
The crowd was fine. Not overly hip but didn't really care. The weird thing was the bar emptied at 1:30.

I would definitely go back.

Black & White
When we first got to Black & White I loved it. The crowd was a little more Village Hip than the people at S&V. The music was great. The space was just as plane as the name would suggest. A bar and some tables. There was no sign out front (at least I didn't see it) and it was hard to tell that there was a bar there. Again, they knew how to pour a pint of Guinness.

Location.
Love the east village and they did a great job making it seem like a hip little secret.

Music.
One of the best rock DJs I have ever heard in the city. The music included The Stooges, Blur (but not Song #2), Stone Roses, MC5 and the list goes on. It was awesome.

The Crowd.
The crowd was fine. There weren't that many people there when we go there. But it was mostly the types that would dig the music that I mentioned. A few posuers too.

Now, I dug this bar too but I can't support it. My friend payed for a round of drinks and didn't pick his money up fast enough and one of the bartenders put it in the tip jar. When my friend told the bartender of the mistake, he refused to give it back. Then another bartender gave it too him. When we stepped outside, that same jerkoff bartender told the bouncer never to let us in again. He also told us he was the owner. We then got into a yelling match and the bouncer (who was very nice) said we could come back another time. Fact of the matter is, there was no way that fat bartender was the owner... it was very strange.

Thanks to the bartender, I don't plan on going back.