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Wow! Oh, how I love thee Grisly Pear!
This place is a New York City GEM! I have only been on Saturday nights, where at 10:00 they have karaoke in the back room. The back room is huge! Decor is cute and fun, candle lit tables are so adorable :) In the front of the bar they have the full bar along with tables AND music. So, if you aren't into karaoke you don't have to join in on the festivities. The staff is so amazing!! Everyone is so sweet and kind and fun. Never have I ever had a bad experience here, EVER and I have been quite a few times. They do have good drink specials for a Saturday night, like $15 pitchers of beer, $5 margaritas and $3 kamikazes.
I will definitely have to venture out here during the week to take in Trivia nights or something! All in all, Grisly Pear is the perfect Saturday night choice! Way more so than other Saturday night douchey establishments :)
This was our second stop on our 9 holes of bar golf. I believe we had the IPA here. It was pretty awesome. The beer was cheap, their choices on tap were awesome, and we were in and out pretty fast. We even got to play a round of buck hunter.
I love this place.
# 2: I go to the Grisly Pear alone to grab a $4 happy hour beer and ward off two burly Irishmen ogling me by pretending to read the Daily News. As if you can even read news that bad...
(Then Pri and Rae Rae show up... I knew somethin was stirring in the skies. They are always more than eager to poke at my naive innocence...like two naughty angels on my shoulder.)
# 3: One beer later and I'm walking down the street smoking a cig with them. I s-cough in the face of endangering my lung capacity!
***Stay tuned for the final installment***
As far as bars on MacDougal go, this place has my vote. The music is fun, not too loud, and good to get drunk to. The crowd is mellow, the bartenders are friendly, and this place, at around 11-12ish on a Friday night, wasn't overly-crowded.
Tuesday night trivia & 10 dollar pitchers... could you ask for more?
Well, yes, because my team came in 2nd place, so we won a $15 bar tab. (Obviously the people who beat us had IPhones. No one's actually read Finnegan's Wake, be honest.)
Beyond that, the food is decent bar-type-stuff. There's plenty of seating, the lighting's dim so no one can see the nachos stuck in your teeth, and the music didn't interfere with conversations.
This place is a great bar. Plain and simple. Nathan and Jengis , the bartenders are tops in my book. Mostly go there to drink but I have eaten a time or two and have never been disappointed.
There always seems to be something fun going on here...whether its happy hour, karaoke, a random folk jam session, or a Halloween spooktacular, the Grisly Pear boasts a fun time. They have decently priced drinks for Manhattan, so it's a purposeful pick.
I found this place when i visited NY in February of this year. I came here twice on my vacation. When I moved to NY in July I couldnt wait to come back here. It's so fun. They have karaoke after 10 PM, the karaoke DJ is SOOOO nice. The bartenders and waitresses are so fun and attentive. The drinks arent outrageously priced and we usually stick to the $15 pitchers with a few $3 kamikazes thrown in. Only downside is that they come in regualr sized shot glasses, not nice big shooters. The crowd is usually really cool too. You won't be dissappointed here. Always a good time. Don't forget to tip the Karaoke man!!
At first it didn't seem so promising. We walked in where friends had held a table-- next to a bunch of empties. As we were arranging them POW! A bunch of Aussies jumped in and pulled a couple away from us. But soon things calmed down and the place was rather nice. A medium size front bar, with a large back area with a stage.
Sara, our accommodating waitress, held a table in the back as soon as the official music ended. As we expanded, we just moved furniture. No one cared. The beer list was pretty good, I stuck with the draft Magic Hat #9. The food was the usual, wings, fried calamari, nachos, nothing special. The ambiance was pretty good. After the official performance in the back, the musicians stayed on and jammed all night. We'll be coming back.
--Drink Club NYC is a roving group of NYC drinkers
This is hands down my favorite place in Manhattan. I admire that it isn't some flashy gaudy place that attracts the tools wandering around the area., There are basically two types of customers: the regulars and the fortunate wanderers who glance inside by chance and immediately become regulars.
The best element by far is the music. I don't know if the bartenders have some secret pact to only play awesome stuff, but if they do, it is working. The variety is perfect and you always hear a song that you've forgotten about for some inexplicable reason.
The food and drinks are top notch.
The staff is amazing! Olive is the friendliest Irish ex-patriot you'll ever meet. Treat her nice and you'll leave with a free shot or two.
You got the theme nights that are all top notch. Even if you're unwilling to sing, hanging out in the back when karaoke is going down is a good choice.
Go, you'll thank yourself.
I've always thought it was smart, especially in this bar-soaked area of town, to put out a big sign so everyone knows you're a bar and capable of serving the sweet amber liquid that makes the cold New York fall nights so enjoyable.
It didn't occur to me that someone would follow these suggestions but, in the case of the Grisly Pear, they put the sign at the left edge of their street front ... when the entrance is on the right. This led to the almost-very-weird occurrence of me walking into a porn shop when it was beer I wanted. Of course, that really wouldn't have been a problem; I'm sure I could have found something to entertain myself.
The front area of this two-pronged bar is pretty standard for most New York-bar-type places. There's a long bar that wraps a bit to the left where there's one of those machines where you can figure out why the girl with the breast hanging out is slightly different than the other picture of the girl with the breast hanging out. I don't suggest sitting near this machine if you're not intending to play because a) you'll get swept into the madhouse of people who like girls with one breast hanging out and b) you'll be able to point out all the mistakes this large group of inebriated people are making and they'll just look at you exasperated.
The back area of the bar is much more expansive with plenty of seating. It's a great location to host a big group or, as happens every Tuesday night, play trivia.
Drinks aren't expensive ($3 for a pint of crappy American light but that might have been a happy hour special) and most of the wait staff have Irish accents. In fact, while I was hanging out at the bar waiting for the trivia to start, the owner sat down beside me and just started chatting about life, the universe and Liverpool football. And then some dude started talking to us in Gaelic.
It's that kind of place.
Yay a bar near NYU that isn't quiete as jammed packed with college kids as its neighboring bars...
Ok, so there seems to be 2 Grisly/Grizzly Pear's with the same address listed on here but this one had more reviews so I am going to assume this is the proper spelling...
Anyway, met a bunch of friends here on a Saturday night and we were able to get a nice big table near the bar. The music was a fun mix and they were even taking requests (the music was piped in from Itunes on a master computer). Our waitress was really nice and brought us a couple rounds of free shots and I think even hooked us u on our final bill. There were the mandatory obnoxious college chics and rowdy frat boys, but only a few so it was bearable. There was no karoke or live music while we were there but that sounds fun so I will have to come back!
Oh, only bad thing...sub-par bathrooms, dirty, with only 1 bathroom per sex...oh well...nothing is perfect I guess!
Not 5 starts just yet, because I only stayed for one drink, but I plan on going back. The waitress was really nice and had an Irish accent - big bonus points in my book! Although it was fairly empty, probably since it was only about 6pm, I bet this place gets a great bunch of people.
I'll be sure to update after my next visit!
i'm torn between giving this place 3 or 4 stars.
my bf left me in charge of planning his birthday gathering, and i picked this Pear based purely on yelp reviews, having never actually been there. what i was looking for, and what i believed i had found, was a laid-back place for us to hang out with friends and celebrate a birthday without it being too crowded.
what i actually did find was mostly good: my bf happens to love (i mean LOVE) karaoke, and i didn't think they'd have it on a friday night but they did and so he was a happy camper about that. the drinks were also not terribly expensive -- $6 for well drinks and nicer draft beers -- so that was good, too. BUT. the service was horrendous. first of all, there's a two drink minimum in the back room. huh? i've never heard of a minimum at a bar, and i realize that two drinks is not much if you are drinking but a few of our friends didn't plan on drinking and i was annoyed that the waitress was forcing them to, especially since everyone else was ordering plenty anyway. second, and more importantly, the waitress was just awful. she kept giving us the incorrect change, and when my friend paid by credit card she overcharged him and somehow added 10% in tax. just terrible.
soo, i think i'd go back, but i'd make sure to sit at the bar and order directly from the bartender.
Now I've been to this place a few times now, and I must say that every time I've been in here I've had the most awesome, random, almost surreal experience. First time was late night b'day party with a bunch from work, so after getting myself suitably sauced enough to deal with the work crowd in a social setting, and trying to find the right bar ( there are 3 bars on the block flying an Irish flag ) "and some blue flag" , turns out to be Scottish, in I plunged. The bar is pretty standard, not quite dirty enough to be a dive, not quite polished enough to be pretentious, decent enough selection of beers on tap and packed on a Saturday night. I squeezed past a mostly B&T (sigh)
crowd to get to the back room, where the magic known as Karaoke happens (sigh, grit teeth). Now I'm not the words biggest Karaoke fan, but given everyone was loose enough thanks to the $3 shots (and a round or two from our waitress), given the fact that the crowd was a real mish mash of peeps (like 2 different bars, weird) with varying degrees of musical ability, It was actually bearable. It was bearable enough that I joined 3 bestfriendforonenight strangers for a rendition of AC/DC's Highway to Hell. An act of reckless abandon that will probably never be repeated. End up, awesome night.
So to the randomness......... a couple of weeks later my sister in law invites the fam to come see her belly dance (?!!??!). Where??? That's right folks, the Karaoke room. Rolling my eyes from side to side with an "I know this place" feeling, the band took the stage where a few weeks ago I myself had stood. So Saturday night Karaoke, Sunday night, 6 guys with instruments I've never seen before backing up what looks to be a supermodel, a matronly grandmother, and my sister in law, in a blur of silk and bells. Once my SIL had done her bit there was an audience participation part. Now drunken AC/DC is one thing , but semi sober belly dancing??? Come on people. I retired to the bar. The bartender was a very cool (Irish?) guy, I fell into some good conversation with him and some peeps at the bar, hung with the fam a bit, ate some decent enough food and I rounded out the night with a nice buzz on that turned into a monster hangover Monday morning.
Now the surreal........ I had dropped by the Grisly Pear a couple of times, missed the trivia ( C'mon guys. Who starts ANYTHING at 7pm in New York?), experienced the menu in a sober state ( Actually very good), and was recognized by the bartender (which always leaves me warm and fuzzy), so while I'm not in the Village enough to be a regular , if I need a spot to meet thereabouts, it's the Grisly Pear. On one of these occasions ( late night ), my friend and I were talking music. Other people have commented on the awesomeness of the music played in this bar ( not at the weekends tho). We consider ourselves music snobs. Music in bars, to us, is some thing to be tolerated. There is no pretension in this, it's just that other peoples taste sucks. So the conversation turned to broad spectrums " No-one has Minor Threat and Aretha Franklin on the same playlist" (because no-one can POSSIBLY be as cool as us). Within 15 minutes we heard Aretha covering Eleanor Rigby. Ha Ha, Ha Ha, Ha Ha. Then Salad Days by Minor Threat. The most surreal experience in my life.
Until I saw the bartender cracking himself up at the computer. So, random "theme" nights, class music, and a bartender with the ears of a bat. I'll be back.
I wish I had the same experience that everyone else had here, but unfortunately I didn't. I came here because the original bar I wanted to go to was crazy packed and so I came in here instead to have a few drinks. First of all, the bartender was a complete biatch for no reason at all. She had a poor attitude and just looked like she hated life and seemed pissed that I asked for shelf liquor. Whatever. So anyway, when I told her to close out my bill it came out to about $40, which I thought was high for a crappy bar to charge for 4 drinks, so when I looked closely I noticed she charged me for five. When I told her she got even more pissed and was annoyed about how she was going to fix the transaction. I was so uncomfortable with her bitchiness I just wanted to take my credit card and leave and forget the extra charge, but unfortunately I couldn't do it, and it was just weird and not fun at all.
Maybe if I came a different time things would have been different, I don't know, it's promising factor gave it a two star instead of one.
When I was here last year it was the Village Ma and now it's the Grisley Pear. A friend of mine does the karaoke on the weekends, thus the reason why I go there when I'm in NYC. The beer selection is okay but not spectacular. The bathrooms kinda suck. They re-did the back room where the karaoke is and installed new bathrooms and yet they are not open. I always have an excellent time here though. There's a really good karaoke song selection and every time I've been there there's a been a good group of people and everyone having a good time. I prefer the Grisley Pear for karaoke as opposed to some other bars I've been to in the village. It just feels more laid back and easy going and an overall good place to spend the evening.
I was invited by some friends to The Grisly Pear in the Village. Easy to find on MacDougal St. Just look for the sign with a big green pear. Not knowing what to expect, I entered cautiously. Upon entering, I said, oh no, it's a bar :-( but, as I proceeded to the back I found a well lit area, with tables. People from all different parts of the world were there. The Margarita was deliciious, and so was the food. A band assembled, and they began to play Turkish Gypsy music, followed by belly dancers. All beautiful, and wearing exotic outfits. They danced to the amazement of all, with swords on head, et. al, and the hips swaying, and never mind what they dd with their stomachs! After a short while, we were invited to join them. What fun! I definitely want to go again, and will invite friends to join me.~ Of course, you are invited too!
Just an all around good place to get some tasty bar bites, and a beer. And if the owner is around, he might just convince you to have a whisky or two.
The live bluegrass music here on Wednesday nights is pretty awesome. People show up with instruments and huddle in groups to play family-style, very informal and impromptu. Unlike watching a concert, these players aren't performing for the audience. They're playing music for themselves and you simply get to enjoy the by-product. Great atmosphere, very laid-back with a good crowd.
sometimes it's hard to find a bar that isn't filled with kids working really hard to be 'awesome'. grisly pear has none of that and that is why i love it. great place to just relax and grab drinks with friends. very chill atmosphere, in nice weather the front tables open out into the sidewalk which is a bonus for people like me who hate being inside. i'm always pleased with the music selection and the variety of people who surround me at this bar. i try to hit it up whenever i'm in the neighborhood.
Go on a Sunday night. There is a live band and 3 belly dancers. Apparently I got up and danced with them (according the photos I saw the next day).
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