NYC Day 4 (Part II)- A Saturday Night In the Meatpacking District

With Garret leaving in a few days, we hoped to have a good night out on the town. We primed ourselves by drinking beers at our pad on 14^th Street while watching the NHL playoffs. After feeling it, we headed just down the street to the Meatpacking District.

Our first venue was the Gaslight, the place was pumping and the beer went down fast. They had bottles of our favourite American beer, Brooklyn Brewery Lager. We took turns buying rounds, mingled with some of the locals to the backbeat of safe club hits of the last 5 years. We all agreed that this should have been a place we hit at the end of our night. Reluctantly, we decided to move on, we tried to meet some friends of Garret’s that were visiting but couldn’t find their club, Kiss & Fly.

After walking around a bit we decided on a quick sake stop the Japanese Restaurant and Bar, Tanuki Tavern. Garret couldn’t stomach the warm sake shots and Matthew could barely stomach the over-the-top Japanese décor.

We headed into Greenwich village in search of one of NYC best beer pubs, Blind Tiger, but was sidetracked by Bleecker Street Pizza, Jimmy Kimmel's favorite, on the way. The pizza was thin crusted with zesty sauce and a classic pizza feel. We chowed down then headed down the block to Blind Tiger. They had only microbrews on tap but, shit, there was a lot of choices- lots of good beer.

We then went for a long walk that went nowhere so we decided to make a B-line to Cafeteria, the lively and vibrantly gay restaurant and bar we ate at for dinner last night. The gouda and bacon mac & cheese that Rick ordered yesterday was the perfect late night remedy. When we got there they had just started a line and it began to rain. We jammed out and finally met up with Garrets friends, attempted to go to the best burger place in NY, Corner Bistro but the kitchen was closed when we got there and the run down pub just announced last call.