One Manhattan man has decided to go to 365 bars in a year, and of course he is going to blog about it, and get a book deal, then a movie which your dad will want to see with you one Christmas! We love this country, and so does Marty Wombacher, author of 99 Beers Off the Wall, who's heading to his 60th bar today. As usual he will be reviewing every drink on his blog A Guy Walks In To 365 Bars. Fascinating! So what can we learn from a man trying to frequent about 18% of Manhattan's bars (NewYorkOnTap estimates about 2,000 in the borough)?
According to him, the best bar in New York is Winnie's on Bayard Street in Chinatown, because they let him eat a fried pork chop off the employee's menu. We agree that they have a great karaoke selection, but it seems pretty biased. The "Worst Bar in the World" title goes to The House of Brews, and his nasty review caught the attention of owner Tony Quinn. Wombacher was upset that the bar didn't have a $100 bottle of beer listed on the online menu, and summed up his experience there by saying "I go there ready to spend lots of dough and give them free publicity and they treat me like seven pounds of dog shit and more or less throw me out because I’m going to give them free publicity."
Quinn later told the Daily News "Why did he have a psychotic meltdown because we didn't have a beer?...He goes into bars and tears them apart. He doesn't understand the business." Not only that, but are we really going to take our bar advice from a guy willingly drinking a tall-boy of Budweiser?
