The Bar Room
“Looking to impress your girlfriend or girl friends with a secret calm, beautiful brunch venue?”
“The bar area has an old school vibe, and the dining area is classy, spacious, and has mirrors all over the walls.”
“By all means, sit in the back room, with its skylight, mirrors, and fanciful murals.”
The Bar Room
Takes Reservations: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Happy Hour: Yes
Coat Check: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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I'm giving the bar room 4stars based off of 3 occasions. My first visit for lunch I ordered a salad and meat board which were both very good. Second time i had the crab cake blt which was over priced considering it came out extremely crispy. I won't get that again. My last most recent time I went for drinks. No great happy hour specials, but the vibe and decor are great. 2 dollar oysters though! Service was great each time that I went.
Review based exclusively on stopping by for a beer. This place has a very beautiful bar, and although their beer choices were good, but nothing very special. You'll find the same draft beers at many other places. I asked the bartender whether they had any beers on the cask, and he didn't know what I was talking about. That about sums it up. UES pricing as well.
My wife and I dropped by for our Tuesday evening date and we left very satisfied. The cocktails are excellent here and the wings were some of the best I've ever had. The burger was cooked up to a perfect medium rare served with caramelized onions and a boasted brioche bun. We couldn't resist ordering the Mac and cheese also which was perfectly executed.
We enjoyed their takes on traditional cocktails like their modified Moscow mule and pisco sour. Service was great. GET THE WINGS!
Came here on a Saturday with a reservation for 6pm. At first we didn't understand why reservations were strongly encouraged, but by 630/7pm the room was full! Started off with some drinks, wine for me and beer for the boys. Decent selection of IPAs both on tap and bottled. Waiter was fantastic and offered my dad tastings as he was in between three beers.
Overall food here was good. I stayed on the safe side and stuck with the chopped salad adding some grilled salmon on top. Salmon was cooked well and had great flavor so overall, a success. Brother ordered the Free range chicken and appeared to have liked it! Dad ordered a couple different app's instead of one entree: Spicy Salomon Sashimi, Wings, and (I think) the Gazpacho. Tried the sashimi and it was quite tasty. Skipped on dessert, nothing was particularly calling out my name as desserts tend to do…
Good Food, good atmosphere, great service.
Reviewing only the bar here.
Stopped by a weekend afternoon. Not packed, not empty. Had a cider – 8 dollar drafts ehhh not super happy about that but it's the area so OK.
Then I ordered a penicillin – the recipe of which was on the mirror as a 'featured drink'.
Bartender clearly didn't know how to make it, asked another bartender. Ended up being pretty bad, one of the worst I've ever had. And it was on the mirror!
Now this was just one drink, but with the prices I'm not going to keep trying. I've got no problem paying for a well executed drink, but not about teaching the bartenders their own drinks for this price.
Our waiter was warm and friendly, and I liked how old-timey and romantic the back room was, but the city is too big to come back to a place that charges $13 for a small plate of beet salad and $14 for truffle oil french fries. And I couldn't hear my roommate over the Thursday night din, even though we were sitting two inches apart. Another red flag is the $12 guacamole. Plus, the fact that people were actually ordering it (sorry, I shouldn't judge, you want what you want sometimes).
I think the thing that soured the whole experience for me was the $10 dessert drink, A Little Pony, that came in a flute that was the size of a shot glass. A shot glass that could fit inside a toddler's hand. I'm not a big drinker of anything, but I downed that tiny thing in two gulps. Five-year-old girls could play a round of teacup princesses with that glass.
Also, a $20 chopped salad with chicken? What the heck? Craziness. The two dollar signs for this place is a total lie.
The Bar Room is a dependable watering hole for midtown folks on the fancier side of Bloomingdales, but if you're looking for a more low-key setting and for some actually affordable grub, I highly recommend the Jeffrey, which is only a few avenues down.
This is a great quiet brunch place to actually catch up with friends! We weren't rushed and there was no wait. The food was good- what more do you need?
I've visited The Bar Room twice.
First visit, I met someone for an early weekday lunch. There aren't many sit downs in the immediate vicinity, and the location is convenient. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop when we arrived and filled up as time went on. I had the burger. Food and drinks were okay, but overpriced for quality, in my opinion. I would've given it a two or three star with a chance of return visit at the time.
Second visit, I had some out-of-town guests in and they wanted to have dinner at The Bar Room. A few little things: First, I made an advance reservation on Open Table specifically so I wouldn't have to deal with phone calls or confirmations, but received two phone calls the afternoon of the reservation asking for a call back confirmation. Second, we asked for our check to be split multiple times and it was finally split the third time, after my guests were handed the group check. Again, the food was just okay. I had mac and cheese & mussels from the prix fixe menu – wasn't impressed with either, really. It was okay. I did try someone's scotch egg and that was pretty good. I don't recall being offered a refill on non-alcoholic drinks – not sure if this is policy or what. It WAS busy.
During dinner service, a server dropped a plate of guacamole that splattered pretty spectacularly on the floor, our table, my jacket, and my pants. A few people came by to apologize, but there was no comp, nothing beyond the apology. Ordinarily, I wouldn't mind, but I had to have someone in my party wipe me down because of how the dish had splattered on my side and back, I had to leave with soggy pants, and I will definitely have dry cleaning for the jacket, which is a treasured vintage moto jacket I picked up while traveling. I wasn't about to haggle for a discount, but it would have been gracious considering.
I won't be back.