A crowd "as BK as BK can get" grooves to an "eclectic, wide-ranging" lineup of live international music in the back room of this "offbeat" South Slope bar; it can get "cramped", but the "neighborhood feel" and "good prices" more than compensate.
The doors of Barbès open out onto the street, spilling jazz into the air like a French film.
If it was in the East Village or Lower East Side, Barbès would be a good, if unremarkable, pub and live music venue. But its unlikely location in family-friendly Park Slope makes it a true diamond in the rough. The Brooklyn differences are subtle at first: Bartenders are a bit friendlier than you're used to. There's elbow room. You can talk to your friend without shouting. Then you wander into...
Global music--often live--and a worldly neighborhood crowd.:
The Scene
Proving a French influence means something other than steak frites and a few Rue-De-Whatever signs, this modest bar and performance space brings European panache to the Slope's...