| Booze & Grub | Movies | Music | Books | Diary | Randomness |
| Booze & Grub Alphabetical: # | A | B | C | D | E| F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | ALL |
| Brother Jimmy's BBQ -- Murray Hill | ||
| Address:
181 Lexington Ave. Phone: 212/779-7427 |
Neighborhood:
Murray Hill Website: brotherjimmys.com |
Cuisine: Barbecue Bar/Club Type: Redneck Bar |
  |
It seems there is one
of these Bro Jimmy's joints opening every other week. I used to live
a couple hundred feet from The
Bait Shack back in the day and the smoky waves of barbeque smoke
would waft into my open window on warm summer nights and tempt me
with ribs I don't even eat. Flash forward twelve or thirteen years
and I find myself standing in one of the now seven locations amongst
mere babes in an underground den of undergraduate beer swillers trying
to watch my alma mater try to sink a bucket against some stupid Midwestern
university full of mouth breathers and hayseeds. I don't recall if
they won, but I do remember having a really annoying conversation
with some kid from said alma mater who thought he was the new white
Jay-Z and was gonna take the dorm circuit by storm. I made the mistake
of telling him where I worked (despite it being totally useless for
him to be talking to me) and he pulled out some homemade card and
threatened to send me the mixtape of the rapper he produced in an
off-campus apartment. Awkward social interaction aside, this place
is kind of built like a redneck's dream of what a set of what a respectable
redneck bar would look like. A little too clean to be authentic, this
particular outpost boasts the half-finished look of your step-mother's
Southern basement, complete with exposed studs and beams, piled moonshine
barrels and requisite Christmas lights. We spent the majority of our
time in about ten square feet of space being squeezed by packs of
children and a kids a little bit older than children, but the cavernous
space seems to go on and on and, like the dream of a Southern EPCOT,
features different themed rooms ranging from beat up license plates
to NASCAR shit. I had forgotten how young this neighborhood is, and
it seemed as if every kid in the 'hood was out in force. Budweiser
and babies; just what everyone needs. [MF] Other Locations: Brother Jimmy's BBQ -- The Bait Shack Brother Jimmy's BBQ -- Midtown Brother Jimmy's BBQ -- The Original Brother Jimmy's BBQ -- The West Side |
| More on Mr. Hipster |
 Hipster Movie ReviewsEnjoy the rantings as Mr. Hipster proves he slept through his film criticism courses in college. |
 Hipster Book ReviewsThis much ignorance about literature can only lead to hurt feelings and a whole lot of nonsense. |
 MusicCheck out the albums that have left Mr. H with permanent hearing loss in his left ear, but a song in his heart |
| Find some more joints using the menus below | ||
| Neighborhood |
Cuisine |
Bar/Club Type |
| Booze & Grub | Movies | Music | Books | Diary | Randomness |