Sophie's

Polny Restaurant Corporation can be found at E 5th St 507. The following is offered: Restaurants. The entry is present with us since Sep 8, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In New York there are 2307 other Restaurants. An overview can be found here.

Don’t bother with mixed drinks concocted with canned juices. Stick to the basics (i.e., beer).

The bar only accepts cash, but ATMs are plentiful in this ‘hood.

East Village bar that has survived many years of gentrification to remain a reliable dive. While the neighborhood around it slowly assume a feel of polished, modern urbanity, Sophie's stubbornly refuses to fit in, neither by changing its decor nor by hosting any working poets, although off-hours poets could be bar stool-adjacent to you at any given moment.

Where it's happy hour every hour. Sophie's has all the dive bar ingredients that make it one of those heralded-by-locals, let's-keep-it-a-secret-please spots. Well, secret's out. And really, why not? East Villagers deserve to guzzle $2.50 Guinnesses, dance to the standout jukebox playing punk, country, and oldies, and shoot some pool at one of the two overcrowded tables. Plus, the bathrooms...

It always feels like happy hour at this neighborhood dive, where a half-pint served in a glass beer mug costs just two bucks and a whole pint costs four. The original oak bar is still in place from...

The Scene
Once located around the corner on Sixth Street and Avenue A, this long-standing neighborhood favorite still has its original oak bar, now worn down past the polish to a fine...