Village Pourhouse

Went there on a Friday during happy hour on. Waitress told me that the manager had ordered her not to follow the happy hour deals, which was the reason me and my friends had come to the bar in the first place. Drinks were decent, but when we asked to add another table onto ours since more friends were coming, they made us feel very weird for asking. I think the manager should stop worrying About how «sexy» his waitresses and bartenders look, and start following the promotions posted online.

How I miss you so much! The place and main longtime staffers.
Shoutout to Meredith.
Many good times, drinks and great bar and non bar-​food.

Bad service and a staff that doesn’t know any of their beer selection. Also add it’s «Pour» atmosphere it is a major loss.

High school to present, ive walked by this place more times than I can count, and now I wish that every time I had stepped inside (after 21 of course). Looking for a quick drink before going elsewhere, we sat down and discovered a menu a bit better than your typical bar spread.
We went with your typical sliders, but also ordered a full burger and fries and a Cobb salad. Everything, the burger was juicy, flavorful, great meat to bun ratio, sliders on point– It was the Cobb salad that stole the show tho. Lettuce was crisp every bite, bacon was smoky and it’s packed with nice pieces of chicken dressed in ranch.
They could work on the alcohol here, or hell, just make it a restaurant. The drink was a bit watered down, the beer was ok.
I was very surprised by this and next time it’ll be a plan when I walk in.

Dirty, soulless, corporate bar. Only reason we went was it’s featured on Scoutmob for 50% off. Beer was foamy. Food wasn’t hot. Water tasted weird. Furniture was falling apart and there was a moldy smell in the air.
When we went to pay, the manager refused to honor the Scoutmob deal in full. He said they’ve been trying to get off the app for two years, which sounds pretty incompetent.
The bar runs a happy hour deal that parties of five drink for 50% off. The vibe was a little desperate. The patrons all around us were large parties with huge orders. Clearly, many tickets were processed at half off and honoring the discount for two drinks and two plates wouldn’t have been a burden, and we would have left satisfied.
We’ll never go back. Without a 50% off discount, I’m not sure why anyone would come here, especially with so many better options in the area.

I had a concert to go to at Webster Hall and found this place online. I was meeting a friend before the show for some drinks/​food and decided this would be a good place. It is literally across the street from Webster Hall. This place was laid back and the bartenders were pleasant, refilled our drinks right away and the food was pretty good. Nothing extraordinary, but decent bar good. I was starving and I really enjoyed the pretzel crusted chicken and loaded waffle fries. If I ever have a concert to go to at Webster Hall, I will definite go back here for a quick drink and bite to eat before the show.

The food was really good. I am only giving it 3 stars because the sign outside the bar states that there are drink deals here on Saturday and we were told told by the bartender that that doesn’t apply to March Madness… last I checked it was April, and every tv is showing soccer, not basketball. I am very disappointed.

A pretty big sports bar. It’s relaxed and I liked the music but the crowd became increasingly more annoying as the night went on. Beers are okay. I would come back to watch a game but probably not to eat or drink.

Victoria was amazing! She was the best waitress and so accommodating to everything we threw at her (and we were a handful). But she was awesome and the drinks were awesome. definitely recommend trivia night or not. Awesome spot

Came here for a film festival. Could swear I’d been here before but I don’t remember. Know that the ladies room is VERY tiny but they do have a nice event space for a film festival. The space itself is intimate & cozy without being pretentious. No complaints here though I’m not a drinker and didn’t deal with anyone except the guy at the front door who checked my ID and told me where the festival was.

There’s not much to talk about when it comes to the bar itself. It’s your average sports bar with TVs and some seating and a relatively decent beer selection. The service from one particular server, however, left something to be desired. My friends and I came here during happy hour on ¹⁄₂₈. We sat at a table and then a few of us went to the bar to get drinks. A female server immediately yelled at us (literally yelled at us) and told us we had to order from her at the table. We apologized; we didn’t know, and sat back down. She took our order, we received our drinks and then she proceeded to never come back the entire evening. No exaggeration, she never came back. This was shortly after the huge storm in NYC so the bar was pretty empty. There were maybe 5 other people in the bar, most of which were sitting at the bar and not tables. There was a bartender, our server and an additional server. When the additional server brought out or food about 15 – 20 mins later, we ordered more drinks. For the rest of the evening, we ordered drinks from him because the female server would not come to our table. It was bizarre. If you’re going to be rude about us only ordering from you, then you have to actually proceed to take our order…

Village Pour House
NY Manhattan East Village
10:30pm 30^th January 2016
Four Stars
It was a pretty happening place for a Saturday night. I found a seat at the bar to enjoy my Whiskey Passport. I had a Jameson on the rocks. Then I Texted 44 622 and filled out a survey for a free bud-​light. The place is loud with plenty of TVs playing mainly basketball and the Winter X Games. The female staff were all wearing Zip hoodie and daisy dukes. They were very friendly and efficient. They served my beer in a Plastic cup (probably for the Friday night crew). Overall it was a fun bar.

All in all, I liked this place. It had a very sports bar kinda feel with various TVs showing various sports games.
Their beer and alcohol selection was also pretty great and they had one of the Ciders on tap that I really like and it’s hard to find. (Stella Artois’ Cidre).
My friend ordered the chicken fingers which were great and I ordered the salad. I regret ordering their house salad. It did not seem fresh at all and I couldn’t really stomach it. In retrospect, perhaps ordering salad at a bar was not my finest moment, but I was craving leafy greens.
The service was super nice and the place had a good atmosphere. It was a bit loud, which I don’t mind, and most of the surfaces were sticky. So bar. I would go back, just not for the salad.

Stopped by here with a friend while bar hopping in the area and it’s a place I’ll definitely come back to. It has a great selection of beers and other drinks, two different areas of tables to sit, and a bunch of tvs to watch sports. It definitely has a younger crowd too and is a fun place to go.

I received an email about customer appreciation day with a complimentary open bar for me and 4 guests. Pumped, I quickly RSVP’d, and received a confirmation email. So yesterday when I showed up to the bar and was told that it’s next week, I was a bit disappointed. I showed the bartender and whoever the guy with the red hat is my phone with said emails. Instead of just giving me and my 3 friends a free drink and apologizing for the mix up, he continuously tried to prove to me how wrong I was despite my email proof. HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE! Someone teach this guy about customer appreciation. My friends and I will never be back to this place.

Just what you would expect for a sports bar — a decent selection of beer, extensive food menu, and plenty of TVs showing sports games.
I use to go to the UWS location before they closed. Thankfully, place is still around. I appreciated the large room filled with ton of seating, so you’ll almost always get a table (unless a big game is on. Then its packed). Other than that, it’s just your typical bar. Nothing too special besides the decent deals on food and drink.
I would say, this is an ideal place to grab happy hour or watch your sports team play.

This is a fairly typical sports bar which means you know what to expect when you walk in; multiple TVs, a decent beer selection, and an acceptable bar food menu. In addition, plentiful bar tables for groups, and good natural lighting with large windows that open onto the street which helps keep it from feeling like your hanging out in someone’s basement. All in all a good place to meet for a drink before heading off to other fun, or a good place to catch a game. Not the place to go if you’re hoping for a quiet conversation or a stunning meal. It’s bar food but the Nachos were particularly good and enough to share with the whole gang. Good simple stuff for the right occasion here.

This place is what it is. They are a bro sports bar and its amazing. You will not get Gourmet cuisine, you will not get michelin rated service, you will not get good lighting as pretty much the only lighting is TV’s. You will get an awesome time with people who don’t care about being too hip and get to not feel weird doing car bombs.
YOU JUST BE YOU, VILLAGE POURHOUSE.

This bar, formally known as the «Georgia bar» since it’s a gathering place for U of GA alum, is huge. There are plenty of tables, bar stools, and standing rooms. The giant TVs and projectors play a variety of sporting games including, of course, GA games. The food is standard bar food and the service is great.
Down-​side, single stall women’s bathroom that was messy and had no toilet paper the one time I used it; not sure if this is typical.

Sometimes flagging down a bartender can be an effort. This may occur at a busy Saturday night, but I came here on an empty Monday night with literally no one else in the restaurant and getting the bartender’s attention should have been effortless. Instead, the bartender felt he had the need to not recognize a paying customer has arrived in his presence. He was too busy chatting up a female coworker and it wasn’t until she pointed me out to him (most likely to get away from his conversation) was I served. Other than myself, there were maybe two other patrons in this place within eyesight.
I got my beer, still tipped the guy, finished it, and walked out most likely to not return by my own choice.

3.5 stars. Great sports bar-​they have so many TV’s! In terms of going out at night here: The drinks here are decent and reasonably priced. There’s also lots of seating. Back room in the back has an additional bar. Overall a more chill place than lots of other bars in East Village. They also have delicious nachos!

Average local bar in the daytime. A few taps but a good selection — I had Mermaid. A Bloody Mary was a little too spicy but I think there was vodka in there somewhere.
I saw what looked like a LOT of electronic equipment which indicated to me that they have a lot going on with live music.

Village Pourhouse is a huge place. In a perfect world, it’s a great place for a large group or somewhere with high energy.
HOWEVER…
I understand it’s busy and packed sometimes, but that doesn’t mean you serve drinks with an attitude or roll your eyes when I request a new drink, even when I tip for every drink I order. I’m not expecting to be treated like a princess, but have some respect. There are a million other bars like this around NYC with better service. I won’t be back.

*** 6÷10÷15 Update — a couple of months ago they made two big changes that my team disliked — the drink vouchers were no longer usable on trivia nights, and they «streamlined» the menu cutting out some of our favorite food options such as the sweet potato fries. Village Pourhouse is still a good place to play trivia, but is no longer our go-​to place as we now are on a search for a better bar. ***
For my friends and me, this has been a solid place in Manhattan to play trivia. We don’t say this lightly — we’ve tried roughly a dozen locations in the city and this is the best combination of trivia provider and trivia location. Provider-​wise, NYC Trivia League (which is offered here) and Trivia NYC are the best; the former has the advantage of free season-​long competition across a network of bars. Both follow the ~50-​question-​format that includes themed rounds, one of them being audio-​centered. They also feature a fair amount of difficulty with the questions and healthy competition from the opposing teams. NYC Trivia League has a visual round, while Trivia NYC has a Name Three and This Day in History. So once we found out that we liked those trivia providers above the rest (Stump, local providers, etc.) we just had to find a go-​to location.
For Village Pourhouse’s trivia nights (Wednesdays from 8:30pm until a bit after 10pm) the bar fills up but is never too full; we’re always able to get a table, especially since we’re able to make reservations (you have to e-​mail them in by the mid-​afternoon). The prizes (drink vouchers that can be used for well drinks or Bud Lights) were once upon a time usable whenever, but they changed so unfortunately they can only be used on non-​trivia nights. The quizmaster Ryan does a good job (and is a nice guy who makes an effort to interact with the teams at the start/​end of the night) but since he works solo it often takes a while to score the questions in between rounds.
The food is solid — I’ve enjoyed all of the burgers/​sandwiches I’ve gotten (beef, turkey, chicken, veggie; the turkey burger is currently my favorite). Unfortunately they changed the menu a couple of months ago, and knocked out of some of my team’s favorite items, namely the sweet potato fries. The drink selection is standard, and only the most basic of drinks qualify for the vouchers. If you’re looking for discounted drinks beyond the basics, Wednesdays also feature half-​price points. But even outside of the discounts everything is reasonably priced.
Service varies — it’s great if you’re in the front section (tables), but if you’re in the back section (more of a lounge-​like area) it’s not as attentive, likely because the waitress has to alternate between the two separated halves of the back (the lounge vs. the middle section and the party area).
Village Pourhouse is a good bar with good trivia — it’s worth checking out, especially if you’re in the area.

**Menu Changed May 2015 (and for the worse)**
I’ve been to the Village Pourhouse several times over the years while bar hopping along 2^nd and 3^rd ave. Solid random spot if you don’t have any plans/couldn’t get into a sold out show at Webster Hall (across the street)/about to go to a show at Webster Hall/​desperate to leave the house and someone said they’d ended up there. It’s also a decent bar for happy hour to watch whichever sport is in season.
I went here in April with a livingsocial deal that cost $ 10 for $ 20 worth of food and beverage. I wasn’t expecting much — a decent burger and a beer is all. I was pleasantly surprised! The Pourhouse Burger was beefy and well seasoned, with many toppings, and the bun was buttered and had a soft bakery fresh taste. Great fries, too. I ended up taking half of my food home. Despite the place being busy the bartender was extra friendly and very attentive.
A week later I returned and noticed that the menu looked different. I asked the waitress who said that, indeed, the menu had been pared down. She said that the burgers weren’t much different from before but that wasn’t true. No more Pourhouse Burger! instead there’s just regular ol skinny patty and regular ol bun. Standard bar fare, which I guess makes sense for the owners as a cost saving measure given that most of the clientele probably don’t go there for the food. I also asked for a salad and got fries, and my soda was flat.
Sigh, another good thing bites the dust.

Some friends and I stopped in for a quick drink at the end of the night and it was fine.
Décor: It’s a standard bar with a bunch of tables, a decent-​sized bar, and plenty of TVs to catch whatever game happens to be on at the time. On nice days I have to think they open all their window-​walls and that would be nice.
Staff: Our waitress was fine but seemed pretty new. She did a decent job and, I’m sure after some practice, will easily hold her own in the future.
Drinks: We just had beers (they have a few craft ones on tap). Unfortunately, my Bud Light was completely flat — it happens though.
Value: The prices are average, right where you’d expect them. Our waitress did a good job of offering us the «special» but, after working out the math in our heads, we weren’t sure what was so «special» about them. They didn’t seem to be a «deal» at all (e.g. a bucket of 6 Bud Lights for $ 30???)
We were just looking for a place to grab a beer and this place fit the bill. I won’t be seeking this place out in the future, but it was fine.

I came here for a work event and we booked the back room.
Even though we had open bar, there was only one bartender and 90% of the time she would be serving other customers and not our group. We had so many people and she would only serve one of us every 5 minutes. Ridiculous!
Wings: Disgusting. They were tough and had no flavor.
Sliders: Also flavorless.
Mozzerella triangles: They were OK. Basic frozen mozzarella stick flavor.

It’s a pretty average sports bar. My friends and I came here after a long day exploring the city and found refuge at Village Pourhouse. It was somewhat empty when we arrived so we found seating right away. There was a huge group of students that took over the big tables so we sat at the smaller high tops.
We were lucky enough to not get swarmed with college kids or Webster Hall-​ites, since we were there on a Sunday. I can only imagine what that’s like. Inside, there’s a good amount of TV’s so we had a clear view which was nice. When we decided to order beers and food, that’s where things kinda went downhill. Our waitress didn’t pay much attention to us and took quite a long time with our order. We wanted some apps to split among the bunch and had to ask for additional utensils/​plates which took additional time to get. It seemed like forever. (She didn’t really seem to care.) So naturally, we ended up going to the bar for our beers to speed things up a bit. And on top of that, when our meals finally arrived, the food was just meh. Average.
Yeah the group of kids near us were a bit obnoxious. Yeah we had two drunk college boys knock on the window, yell and stumble into bar making a scene. But hey, the place can’t really filter who is coming in/​out of the bar too much. It’s just not the crowd we were expecting.