Salty Dog Bar and Restaurant
“Love going to watch the games there and occasionally stay for dancing afterwards.”
“It's in an old firehouse, and there's a firetruck there; I love the feel.”
“Theres an old school fire engine just sitting in the middle of the bar.”
Salty Dog Bar and Restaurant
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Good For Dancing: Yes
Happy Hour: Yes
Coat Check: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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This local bar in Bay Ridge is always packed. Beware of parking in Bay Ridge though! I would suggest taking the bus or subway there. Sports are always on TV so it would be a good place to watch the game and have a few drinks.
I took off one star because when we first arrived, we sat down at a table and were immediately notified that the tables would be taken away at 11pm. It was only 10pm and they were practically telling us we couldn't sit down.
I went with a few girlfriends and it was a great time. Their drinks are somewhat reasonably priced and not overloaded with ice.
I wish I could write about a recent experience, however, when trying to come here on Halloween, a friend I was with was turned down entry because he had "sweat pants" on which happened to be a part of his costume.
Sadly, this left a bad taste in my mouth because immediately after we were turned down, we saw another white patron entering with no problem. And guess what? That patron was wearing sweat pants.
Can you guess what race my friend was? Not white.
I came with my friend on a Friday night around 9 or so. There weren't many other women in the bar, maybe two others. The crowd was mainly 30+ working class men. We did end up making friends with some people our age, and the crowd did get younger as the night went on. By 10:30 a changing of the guard had definitely taken place.
The music was top 40 stuff, I remember hearing Lady Gaga (this even when the crowd was mainly older men). The bartenders were nice. No hassle from the bouncers. The place is nice and spacious. Started to see a few of the Ed Hardy/meathead crowd by the time we left around midnight but it wasn't as bad as some other reviewers had experienced.
I also did come with my black friend, and based on some of the other reviews I was a little worried about having to deal with any nonsense. But we didn't have to worry about that. I don't know if the fact that she's a beautiful woman has anything to do with it, but we felt very welcomed.
This is a great place to bring a group of all different ages — it's more of a neighborhood family pub than a bar. The truck inside the restaurant was a hit with my nephew, and the nachos were a hit with me. Service can be a bit slow, but it's very friendly. Stick with bar food (wings, nachos, etc) and you can't really go wrong. TVs everywhere if you're a sports type of person.
Once again I must update my review. As seen in my previous post I frequented Salty Dog often until an unfortunate incident happened between a very good friend of mine and a bouncer that WAS employed at Salty Dog. After the owners and management heard about this incident they were kind enough to hear us out and terminate the bouncer. Im comforted to know that the owners and staff at Salty Dog are NOT racist and have zero tolerance for their employees to behave in any such manor. The owner invited us back to Salty Dog for drinks and dinner on them. We had a lovely dinner with John the owners brother and Kelly the manager. I will now vouch for Salty Dog again as a go to spot and I commend the staff at Salty Dog for taking immediate action. Thank you!
Good chicken salad sandwich.
Seems like a cool place to watch a sports game. Like the fact that it has an open concept and a lot of fresh air.
Service was good as well. I will be back to watch a sporting event.
John one of the owners went out of his way to correct the situation which I appreciate. I was invited back to have dinner and drinks with my family and like the many other times I've been there the food was very good as well as the drinks. It was unfortunate what happened and extremely upsetting but the bouncer that was so blatantly racist was fired immediately. I had a sour taste in my mouth for a while because I had never experienced anything like that but forgiveness is one of the most powerful acts one can choose. It may have took me a while but all is forgiven. I have never been treated poorly by the bartenders inside. Matter of fact there's one gentlemen who bartends with glasses who always took care of me wish I remembered his name. I've had great times in this bar with friends and would have no problem going back now. Cheers.
I used to come here years ago and it was fine I guess..but now I live down the block . Their clientele are the douchiest, broiest, most awful people. Every weekend they overserve these people and do not regulate their group of smokers, so all I hear are screaming, fighting, monsters keeping me up until 4 am.
No matter how many noise complaints, or times I've screamed at these people, it will never stop. I hate this place, the management, and jerks who go here.