Angel’s Share, Crocodile Lounge, KeyBar, and Café Wha!

Sorry about the long MIA… I’m usually on top of this blog, but I’ve been pretty busy with dance classes, volunteer work, actual work, and hanging out with a new crowd.

Chris took me to a number of new places that are pretty close to the top of my list of awesome bars/venues… Angel’s Share on Stuyvesant, KeyBar on E. 13th, and Café Wha! on MacDougal.

Angel’s Share is actually “behind” a japanese resturant… you wouldn’t think there was a bar behind an unsuspecting door until you’ve stepped in and realized that you’re practically in an entirely different place. These bartenders are real mixologists… the fact that I couldn’t taste the alcohol in my drink was both good and bad (in my case, it was more so bad) – I tried the Ascension and the Frozen Lychee – PERFECT. Not too sweet… and it went down smoothly. We’d have stayed longer, but this place isn’t light on the wallet. It’s not expensive… but if you keep dishing out $13/$14 per drink… it adds up after about two hours.. (Steve had his usual cranberry juice with soda water *smiles*)

Afterwards… we headed to Crocodile Lounge with Rob (who decided to show up after two or three hours of phone calls back and forth) and had a bottle of beer all around with two 12″ pizzas… mmmmmmmm …. free pizza with beer….. mmmmmmm – if the waitress hadn’t automatically assumed that she was being given a $7 tip, it would have been perfect, but damn… she just pocketed that thing and substituted a glass of beer for it… ridiculous. Oh whatever – maybe she was having a tough day.

We headed to KeyBar after that, at which time I was a little more than “moderately tipsy” (I believe that was the phrase I used on Steve – haha) – I tried to down a Jack and Coke, but that didn’t work too well… I think I slept most of the time that we were in the place. Rob spent some quality time talking to Chris, because I was officially….. drunk.

We left sometime around 4 and rob took a cab back up to 78th and brdway where he parked his car… don’t ask. I’m not even sure what happened with his conference thing the next day since I didn’t hear back from him – hopefully, he made it back to long island alright.

Wow… saturday was just sooo freakin’ amazing – me and Chris hung out at Coney Island before all the bars too… crazy. Then Sunday… I cooked dinner for him and Steve at his place and we ventured to Café Wha! for some live music to seal the deal on another fabulous evening. Oh my god… go visit Café Wha! on a Sunday night – you will NOT be disappointed!! (Just get there a little before 9 or a little after to get a good seat)

Now then, having said all that – I’d like to close this entry by saying that the weekend was too eventful for my own good – I feel like crap. I’ll go and catch up on some sleep now