Rusty Knot

The Knot's cool-kid lineage, combined with the petite space and lack of reservations, mean weekend wait-times can sometimes stretch into the hours. Come early or don't come at all.

Penny-pinching drinkers should focus their miserly ways on the 99-cent "old man": A teensy glass of Busch beer.

Opened by Ken Friedman (one of the movers behind The Spotted Pig and The Breslin Bar & Dining Room, among other New York restaurants), this West Village nautical-themed bar and eatery doesn’t miss a cliché: captains' wheels and hokey paintings of ships in the night are tacked on the walls, a fish tank competes for visual attention, and a wall board with plastic letters acts as the menu. There’s...

A "low-profile" hipster hangout anchored on the West Side Highway, this Way West Village bar brings a "campy" maritime theme to a "casual" setting channeling a seadog's rec room, complete with an aquarium and a "pool table for the sharks"; between the "merry" mood and nicely priced grog, it's worth the schlep to its "off-the-beaten-path" address.

Avast, ye landlubbers craving seafaring festivities, look no farther than this nautical hangout across the street from the Hudson River. The Rusty Knot--which features a fish tank, scuffed wooden booths, a pool table and oodles of oceanic…

This West Village bar’s wood-paneled romper room with a studied fishing theme brings patrons back to the 1970s. The love child of the Spotted Pig’s Ken Friedman and Freemans’ Taavo Somer, it’s a great spot for sunset-into-moonlight action.