Jeremy's Ale House
- Nearest Transit:
Fulton St-Broadway-Nassau (2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, M, Z)
Chambers-Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall (4, 5, 6, J, M, Z)
- Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Street
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: Yes
- Good for Kids: No
- Takes Reservations: No
- Delivers: No
- Take-out: No
- Waiter Service: No
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: Yes
- Good for: Lunch, Late Night
- Music: Juke Box
- Best Nights: Thu, Fri, Sat
- Smoking: No
- Coat Check: No
27 Reviews for Jeremy's Ale House
So I'm reviewing this for what it is -- a dive bar with bras attached to the ceiling. At no time do you assume that you'll be served foie gras or get a wine list. Jeremy's aspires to be a bar that serves you cheap beer out of non-biodegradable containers and sometimes hosts semi-shady characters. And in this way, it succeeds fully.
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I'm sorry, but this place is horrible. Yes, its true, you can get a quart of bud light in a styrofoam cup for $6.00. But you will have to fight the massive crowd and aloof bartenders at the tiny bar, and your brew will taste a little funky from tap lines never being cleaned.
However, you can write on the tables and walls. You can wear sweatpants. You can spill your beer on the floor and not clean it up. And you can take off your bra and tack it to the wall. If you're into these things, come spend a sweaty night at Jeremy's.
Not air-conditioned. Plastic cups. Bad beer.
There is a time for Jeremy's, but it's not often. The one thing going for it is that the beer is cheap. Really cheap.
Okay, it has two things going for it, it's good for groups. The place gets crowded but it's open enough and the tables are big enough that you can gather all your work pals and drink cheaply after a hard day.
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This place is the ultimate Dive bar. But what exactly is a Dive bar? The term is tossed around so often we rarely think twice to identify. I submit that Jeremy's should be the bar for which other "Dive bars" must use as their measuring stick.
Exhibit A) you can buy 32oz beers in styrofoam cups! Yeah, that's right, styrofoam. Which is a refreshing thing given how obnoxiously "green" this world (and especially this city) have become.
Exhibit B) you can play "Quickdraw" for money here. Quickdraw for the uninitiated is a NY Lottery game similar to bingo played on a television screen. There are few things more fun than getting bombed with the proper company over cheap beer while simultaneously and legally gambling.
Exhibit C) Bras in the rafters. Why do bras have to hang from the ceiling at dive bars? I dont know either, but I'm okay with it. It's equal opportunity here too, because there are plenty of ties on the ceiling too.
Exhibit D) Cheap food. The homemade potatoe chips for $2.75 are perhaps one of the best bargans I've found since living in Manhattan, and the portion is large enough to feed a starving Ethiopian village. They serve seafood here too, but I've never been brave enough to order clams or squid from a place that looks like this.
Exhibit E) Wooden floors. If a bar doesnt have wooden floors, it shouldnt even bother attempting to enter the "Dive bar" arena. Jeremy's gets a demerit here though, as its' floors are never nasty and sticky, which I must admit they really should be for the "full Dive bar" ambiance. It's clear they clean them far too often.
All in all, Jeremy's is great if you happen to be WAY Downtown and are in one of those moods where you're sick of all the nice/frumpy lounges of Manhattan. Everyone should try it once. Just dont go if you or your girlfriend have that one girl in your group that's a bit snotty/snooty and a bit stuck up etc.... you KNOW who she is, and she wont enjoy it.
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jeremey's scratches my neighborhood dive bar itch like no other.
big cider (in foam) and a greasy cheese steak...
it's really all i need sometimes.
the guys behind the bar offer great entertainment as well...
if you are looking for class not trash, pass on by.
the real people will be inside having a hell of a good time.
Not bad... ended up here for the beginning of the Super Bowl. Very low key dive spot, but had a fun atmosphere almost reminiscent of some of the fun spots along the beach in Fort Lauderdale or Key West, even.
They had a complimentary buffet, order at the counter kind of bar, and seats which were much a la plastic lawn chairs. Perfect for a sports watching venue. Bras hanging from the ceiling and along the bar? Just icing on one classy cake!
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The good (which for some can also be the bad)
1. 32oz Styrofoam cups - lots of beer, takes longer to finish, but it's also staying cool because it's in a Styrofoam cup!
2. Bras on the wall
3. Who's in the toilet today - I always get a crack out of it
4. Cheap food (quality and price)
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I usually get roped into going here for lunch with some my office peeps (the rowdier ones). It's usually on a Friday and I usually order the chicken & cheese steak.
I don't eat beef or pork (yes, I'm used to the shudders) and having the beef-eater's tell me that the Chicken "Cheese steak" is better than a regular makes me feel all warm and greasy inside.
Knocking back a 32 oz. beer with some grub on a Friday lunch? I do it once a month.
I highly recommend it if you're in the mood for no-frills and cheap thrills.
Maybe a release from the Financial districts seriousness makes this spot sooooo alluring. Many a bra has made it to the wall, as the duality of starit laced 9-5ers have to release some how.
A classic brewery well worth stripping and donating for!
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Its moved a block from its original location, which was a huge hall with a beer garden, under the brooklyn bridge. The new spot is much smaller but the 32oz beers and greasy calamari is still here. A great place to have a few gallons of beer after work. I'm not sure why there are 'bras' on the walls, I guess to give it a frathouse feel. Its only a few blocks off Wall Street and the location is great.
If I lived downtown I'd be here everynight and be drunk enough to be considered an englishman.
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if you're near the seaport and are craving a smelly, dive-y, dingy bar with bras on the ceiling and beers served in 32 oz. cups, look no further!!! this place reminds me of turkeys nest in w'burg, but with WAYYYYY less hipsters, thank god. although turkeys nest is slightly cheaper, but then again, jeremy's IS a lot closer to wall street.....
go during warm weather to sit outside and heckle stroller-pushing passersby and tourists who have lost their way from the south street mall-er-seaport.
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Girls keep your bras on. Although I am a dive bar fan-this bar might push the envelope. I am all for the almost 32 oz. of beer for $5.75 in Styrofoam cup but I am not all for floors that look and feel like a sewer and nasty, dusty bras hanging from the ceiling. The bathrooms were also as dirty as the customers.
I will however give Jeremy's props for some awesome calamari! The seafood here is great and fresh (!?!) even though the Fish Market is no longer on Fulton Street.
If you are low on self-esteem and need some trashy bar-goers to make fun of to perk yourself up. This is your place.
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Jeremy's is one of very few places in NYC where I can show up in ratty clothes and yesterday's smeared mascara and no one gives two hoots.
Maybe it's because every time I go to Jeremy's, I'm with friends. Or that the styrofoam cups keep the beers cold for all 32 ounces. Or that their seafood is great, and their homemade potato chips are even better. Whatever it is, I always have a good time when I'm here.
Keep expectations to a minimum, bring $20 and settle in for a game. Just make sure you wash your hands. Often.
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Jeremy's is a really fun place to have a few drinks and really relax and have a good time. My wife and i went on a Friday night and we had a great time, the jukebox is good ( be prepared to pay a small extra fee to get your songs to the to top of the list), the service from the bartenders was excellent. Be warned, there is no pretense here, in fact the draft beers and mixed drinks come in plastic cups, but who cares! the bar has quick draw lottery and sports on the TVs in the background, but the main attraction is the relaxed and fun atmosphere and relatively cheap booze. we had the cheese fries from the pub menu and they seemed really great at the time after a few cocktails, again the service was prompt to go with the decent bar snacks. only downside is that this bar closed at midnight, but it is a great place to to take a date or a great joint to go with your boys as part of a drinking night in Manhattan. Go by and have a drink! ( maybe the 8 - 10 am bucket of coors for $1.75 )
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It's hard to give any dive bar 5 stars, but boy does this one come close. Bottom line is that YOU GET TO DRINK YOUR BEER OUT OF QUART-SIZED STYROFOAM CUPS. I cant say ive ever found that anywhere else, and that alone is worth the price of admission. Big bonus is the cups keep your beer nice and cold over the 20 minutes it takes you to drink them.
The bras stapled to the ceiling, walls and pretty much any other exposed surface add to the charm (if you can call it that). So do the concrete floors. Look, this is a dive bar with HUGE cheap beers and bitterly sarcastic bartenders. What more could you want from an anti-tourist place??
Known for 3 things-
1. Great big styrofoam cups of beer
2. Bras on the ceiling
3. Good fish sandwiches.
Definitely a post-fratboy or bluecollar dive bar. Good for the lowbrow in you, which I have plenty of. I like it for Friday lunch breaks.
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Jeremy's is fantastic. I got a group together for 8 am drinking (though I was 45 minutes late). We enjoyed styrofoam quarts of Yuengling for $4 and the sunny atmosphere of the table-by-the-window. Part of my leaving-New-York festivities will take place at this fine establishment, but this time I'll be on time to enjoy the full two Happy Hours.
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Greasy dive with a frat house/fishmonger feel. That's the best way I can describe Jeremy's Ale House. Bras on the walls and barrel/net/nautica decor and everything smells like fish.
The drinks are humongous and well-priced so this would be a pretty good place to get someone drunk, like if your buddy loses his job or his wife leaves him.
The best thing about Jeremy's is that they don't give a damn if you leave the bar to hang out outside (where it doesn't smell like fish). They have a teeny, tiny patio at the top of the stairs by the front door, but don't bother. It's much more fun to sit on the stoop with your jug of ale or whatever.
I still like Fresh Salt better, but Jeremy's can be a fun place to go when you're feeling low brow.
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Complete and utter dump but they have cheap, huge styrofoam cups of beer with good beers on tap and have FANTASTIC fried clams. I was pretty shocked about this last part but they claim they have the city's best on the menu and, to the surprise of my equally drunken friends, I ordered them up. By the time everyone tried one, they all wish they got it. (the friend who got raw clams was less happy)
There's no other compliments I can think for this place. Like I said, it's a dump. B/c of where it is, it empties out earlier than most bars.
Oh wait, I do remember a good jukebox. Or the beer and clams led me to hallucinate that last part...
So I'm giving it 5 stars b/c it kicks ass in two ways which is two more ways than most bars...
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Much can be said about the cement floor and hanging bra decor of Jeremy's. I'm sure in it's heyday it reeked of old fish and stale liquor and ended every night with a fist fight, but the perceived seediness of it's interior is just that now, perceived. Most of the patrons now are the after work Wall Street crowd. Even so, Jeremy's maintains a good amount of grit and doesn't feel like some pretentious stock broker after hour hangout.
The beers are big... reeeeeaaallly big, and they have a decent selection. Also, the calamari is some of the best I've had, and comes with a deliciously thick tomato sauce for dipping. It empties out relatively early, but it's a great space to throw a pretty rocking happy hour.
Didn't go here by choice, but if you are feeling nostalgic about your long lost college days, then stop by this dive bar after putting in your full day at work. The tiny deck in the front of the place has the best air quality...Big, cheap beers:)
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Since Jeremy's has moved to a new, MUCH smaller location just down the street, the atmosphere just isn't the same. However, you can still get styrofoam quarts of Coors for $5 or $6 (I can't remember), and the seafood is still top-notch. They have a projection screen for New York sports and a very small patio for outdoor drinking and dining. Overall, still a downtown staple.
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I wasn't impressed with the service. Ordered a burger and a coke during lunch recently and it took over 10 min... I noticed some of the orders that came in after mine were done before mine too.
I would rate their burger 3 out of 10. Absolutely nothing special. There is a seafood line but I haven't tried it.
The bras on the walls and ceilings are very tacky too. Honestly, who thinks that adds to the decor? Are they trying to hide the asbestos poking out of the walls?
If you're a bum off the streets and somehow has access to Yelp, then
1) good for you;
2) this place is right up your alley.
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Jeremy's is always a trip. It used to be a huge Yankees Bar for the bleacher creatures during away games. Now it has moved and is only a medium Yankees bar. Yeah the decor is "interesting," but it is supposed to be a rowdy place so thats cool. They do have a surprisingly diverse menu which includes a lot of seafood. I wouldn't be down with ordering fried clams at most NYC bars but for some reason the fact that it's near the fish market makes it ok... whats that? the fish market moved a year ago... Oh shit then
Always get the big styrofoam cups of beer, makes you feel like college or a baseball game.
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Ever wanted to be a fishmonger for an evening? Well lucky, lucky you. It's the new virtual fishmonger experience at Jeremy's ale house complete with:
- Drinks the size of your head - I look like a hobbit with this huge Styrofoam cup
- Smell of the wharf - And I don't mean Klingons
- Fresh seafood - Props where props are due, this place has incredible sea food
- Braziers on the ceiling - many customers misconstrue this as some vulgar display of machismo, but in actuality the bra's are remnants from the "Brazier Typhoon of 1812"
- Local fishermen - Ladies, if the locals start looking good, you've definitely had too much to drink
- Buck Hunter 2 - Part video-game, part life lesson. Kill some virtual 12 pointers
- Pier ambiance - The bathroom is peeing in a chum bucket... without the sophistication
- F-in' Gallexa - It's 80's shoot em' up goodness
- Did I mention beers the size of your head?!
If this sounds good to you, head down to Jeremy's ale house for a debaucherous night. If it sounds horrific stay away. Jeremy's is not a place for the faint of heart, but it's a mighty fine place to harpoon a drink.
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Jeremy's Ale House may be a dive, but you have to take a dive for great seafood sometimes. Quite the fisherman's atmosphere: bras handing from the ceiling, ordering at a counter, eating off styrofoam plates, what more could you want? Food maybe? The fried seafood makes you forget about everything else (well, maybe not the bras). I had the calamari and clam combo. It was superb.
Pretty good divish bar. Big open space, and an outdoor portion practically under the brooklyn bridge. They filmed part of The French Connection right outside in case you recognize it. Gets the more laid back part of the Wall St happy hour crowd. Excellent mexican across the street at Radio Mexico.
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