This place is one of the few cool bars left from the good ol' days in the East Village. Come here with your sweetie or invite your closest large group of friends. It's perfect for both. Plus, they have a mean juke box and two pool tables.
Ace Bar looks suspiciously like a library, except all of the books have been replaced by vintage lunchboxes, and the librarians are actually serving alcohol!
EV three-part bar's main draw is the Skee-Ball—something about beating a high score, getting a free drink. Two drawbacks: (1) it's a buck per game, (2) the crowds this place packs in can be, uh, intrusive (to be kind). A recently renovated front-end can't derail rep of extreme young'uns, but there're good times to be had nonetheless. Cheap-ish beers, decent happy hour, the otherwise bare-bones...
Looking for a no-frills hangout with a stellar jukebox and Skee-Ball on site? Ace is the place.:
The glass brick exterior is a remnant of '80s bad taste, but happier memories of the era abound inside, where a custom-made bookcase displays over 100 vintage lunchboxes with nostalgic TV heroes...