Paupers Pub - Friday Night

Let's see if this lets me post this time... Tomorrow (February 11) Blogger Pub Night at Paupers (in honour of it being two-days-after-my-birthday-Day) 7 PM and later Paupers is on Bloor street, just east of Bathurst

Just Opened: Bar Sasa

[This post marks the debut of a new Curbed feature, Just Opened. The idea: photographer Noah Kalina visits a just-opened (or about-to-open) restaurant in New York City and returns with proof. Besides serving as Curbed's new photographic restaurant correspondent, Noah...

Libation Sparks LES Hipster War

Recall Libation, the new Ludlow Street superclub bringing a touch of uptown to the gritty Lower East Side (with the help of Lizzie Grubman)? Tale of Two Cities reports that the velvet roper has neighborhood tensions on the rise:On a 3 a.m. stroll early Sunday morning from...

Gaseteria Gone on Lower Avenue B

More development indicators along the East Village/Lower East Side DMZ. A Curbed reader writes: "Gaseteria, New York's first and only all baked-beans restaurant...oops, no. However, Gaseteria, the gas station at the corner of Houston and Ave. B has closed. Rumor among...

Alibi Room

If you are ever in Vancouver and enjoy a tipple, you should checkout the Alibi Room. For me the appeal was not so much the interior (modern, laid back), but the location. Way downtown, in the old railway district ... close to run down Hastings but so full of atmosphere. ...

Smoking ban liked by smokers, non-smokers and bar owners in New York

In New York City, where smoking is banned in bars and resaurants, the very people who thought the ban would be bad for their business (restaurant and bar owners) are now admitting that not only have they not lost business, but the ban is actually good for them and their...

Rooftop 'Basilica Bar' Opens at St. Peter's

Reuters reports that the roof of Christendom's largest church is now a watering hole.  The bar just opened.  Just in time for the holidays.  Cin Cin!