Man on Mission to Hit 365 Bars in 365 Days

Marty Wombacher from A Guy Walks In To 365 Bars

One Manhattan man has decided to go to 365 bars in a year, and of course he is going to blog about it, and get a book deal, then a movie which your dad will want to see with you one Christmas! We love this country, and so does Marty Wombacher, author of 99 Beers Off the Wall, who's heading to his 60th bar today. As usual he will be reviewing every drink on his blog A Guy Walks In To 365 Bars. Fascinating! So what can we learn from a man trying to frequent about 18% of Manhattan's bars (NewYorkOnTap estimates about 2,000 in the borough)?

According to him, the best bar in New York is Winnie's on Bayard Street in Chinatown, because they let him eat a fried pork chop off the employee's menu. We agree that they have a great karaoke selection, but it seems pretty biased. The "Worst Bar in the World" title goes to The House of Brews, and his nasty review caught the attention of owner Tony Quinn. Wombacher was upset that the bar didn't have a $100 bottle of beer listed on the online menu, and summed up his experience there by saying "I go there ready to spend lots of dough and give them free publicity and they treat me like seven pounds of dog shit and more or less throw me out because I’m going to give them free publicity."

Quinn later told the Daily News "Why did he have a psychotic meltdown because we didn't have a beer?...He goes into bars and tears them apart. He doesn't understand the business." Not only that, but are we really going to take our bar advice from a guy willingly drinking a tall-boy of Budweiser?

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By Jaya Saxena in Food on March 10, 2010 1:10 PM

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wow 14th street

Look while yer in da bars go into the piss hole

that says mens room ,an report on dat condition also

afta all itz the other end of your beer mouth dat

goes to the pissoir.

I just drank a 1 dollar a bottel

of Yarpivro Extra beer from Russia .Yes alcohol content

is 7.70% by volume.....hic,hic hiccup.

LB

Somebody needs a woman . Must have been hell on his shoe game !

MEDICNYC

So he's basically going to drink every day for a year? Is there anything shocking about this? Has this never been done before? Are there not people who have been drinking every day for five or ten years? Oh wait, I forgot: he got a book deal.

Snoopy

I can't wait till this a'hole shows up at my local watering hole "the Ear Inn". His ass will be sitting in the middle of Spring street before he is half finished with his Bud.

whirlybird

i cannot wait to read the book and see the movie of this

riotturtle

for real! the gripping schadenfreude of watching this outstandingly miserable man have a miserable time and alienate people in a different location each day! it's gonna be bigger than "Saw."

WorksInDUMBO

geez, you guys are mean!

moral_fibers

I accomplish this task easily. Didn't know I was on "a mission."

Next!

NannyState

"I go there ready to spend lots of dough and give them free publicity and they treat me like seven pounds of dog shit and more or less throw me out because I’m going to give them free publicity."

More like 200 lbs of dogshit. And didn't he know that the only place that serves $100 beer is the Douchebag Hall Of Fame in Columbus Ohio?

Kevin Walsh

Amateur. This guy hit 1000 NYC bars in one year. He's in his 60s, though, and therefore Uncool.

http://thousandbars.blogspot.com/

www.forgotten-ny.com

Jenter124

Marty's blog is truely inspiring... that I and many others have more writing talent and could do a helluvah better job at this "quest" than he.

Snoopy

Wombacher Brewery, "The beer that made it a cold drink." Try it, it's cold."

wobbleSmith

marty wombacher = GOT SERVED

Snoopy

Someone who visits a bar once a day and drinks a Budweiser tall boy is hardly an alcoholic.

This individual is trying way too hard to be some one.

havemeyer

marty i am sorry.... my prev comment was written in haste ... i had not even seen your blog yet ..... i am pleased to say i have now been to your bog err blog and read the review of the coffeshop bar etc and read the delightful encounter with the lady who did not want to have her photo taken. Ah alas she said NO. do you really have to wonder???

After giving this some serious thought i really feel bad for you.

you are a sad lonley angry person who needs help. on top of that your still a douche bag prick with a chip on your shoulder and you dont have a life. so double sorry for you

no means no - i am sure you have heard that line used by many a male and female and not just when trying to take photos

havemeyer

hi marty glad you could join us

i think you are a total douche / barf bag putz

thanks for visiting suprise you had any time knowing how busy you are

elpollodiablo

Marty, you appear to be kind of a giant prick

Alex

Seems to be more of a pathetic rather than giant one.

Marty Wombacher

"Delete your blog, Mr. Wombacher."

Uhh...how about you just don't look at it, juliec? Last I heard you weren't in charge of what I do.