Drink Up: Gothamist Visits Living Room Lounge

We're not going to lie - we thought this bar was a typo. Not the Living Room, formerly of Allen Street, now on Ludlow, not another Tea Lounge in Park Slope, the newest bar within spitting distance of the cemetery is actually called the Living Room Lounge.

A newly refurbished sweatshop still rough around the edges has a loft-like feel, especially with mismatched couches crowding the center of the room and chandeliers of varied origins dotting the ceiling. The bar has a healthy happy hour, 5 to 9pm, with well drinks, bottled beer and, when we visited, Pilsner 2-for-1. Tuesdays are karaoke, Wednesdays bands will take the stage (check back for listings) and art installations will rotate monthly - this month is Middlefinger Art.

The large space accomodates all the variations of living room - the pool table was getting broken in on a recent weeknight, there was canoodling on a sofa. With the sort of square footage New Yorkers rarely see outside of a Hollywood representations of New York or, say, abandoned swimming pools, bartenders are encouraging birthday parties and big events. The birthday present is a drink that looks like a Hawaiian tiki bowl but tastes more like a Long Island iced tea. It fills the better part of an actual fishbowl and would make someone happy no matter how many friends they brought to the bar. No word if you can bring the fishbowl onto to patio and make the Brooklyn backyard your living room bar, too.

Living Room Lounge
245 23rd Street, near Fifth Avenue
(718)499-1505

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By Martha Burzynski in Food on September 23, 2005 1:41 PM

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Mr.diamond 4 real

yo the place rocks fucking awsome the Burlesque show was fucking hotter then hell its self. the only bad thing i can say and its not even bad is wheres the pix and the web site its m.i.a. yo LL needs a web page with pix of the bands the djs and the Burlesque show ya > yo its a awsome place rock it out youll love it awsome peps awsome music every things just awsome so come on down and have some drinks ya

sam

Checked it out last night -- it's an interesting space that would be great for birthday parties, though I'd never get any of my friends to make the trek. In fact my one bone to pick is the AWFUL jukebox. I sure don't need another indie-rock Great Lakes or Buttermilk type selection, but this one was strictly Best of Shania Twain/Best of Donna Summer/NOW That's what I call Music!/Best of Don Henley/Anne Murray Greatest Hits So Far. These are the ones that came to mind and made me and my friends yelp and press the coin return, but they were all soft-rock and "NOW" compilations.

Chris

This places SUCKS!

The bartender/co-owner has no class and is rude! I hope it goes out of business soon!

Annie

Great bar! Thinking of throwing my B-day party there Burlesque every second friday of the month is hot! Open Mike and Karaoke nights too. Really comfy,and intimate. very cool space. jukebox is definitely retro but they do have DJ's on weekends, a reason to stay local. I will visit alot especially because every other bar is so saturated! Right off the beaten path, the next area yet to be discovered, hopefully not too soon.

Annie

Great bar! Thinking of throwing my B-day party there Burlesque every second friday of the month is hot! Open Mike and Karaoke nights too. Really comfy,and intimate. very cool space. jukebox is definitely retro but they do have DJ's on weekends, a reason to stay local. I will visit alot especially because every other bar is so saturated! Right off the beaten path, the next area yet to be discovered, hopefully not too soon.

Stephanie

This has been my fav area bar for months. Went there Saturday night and the sign on the door said "to to the unforeseen closure of the Living Room..." Anyone got any details?

christina Piluso

went there last night... great setup, very comfortable, but TOTALLY empty. i wonder if it'll survive, it's in the middle of nowhere. I hope so... everyone who was there was really nice, including the artist from Middlefinger art who had cool stuff up there.

oh - no jukebox though... they had a dj last night.