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| Hi-Life Restaurant & Lounge [CLOSED] | ||
| Address:
1340 1st Ave. Phone: 212/249-3600 |
Neighborhood:
Lennox Hill Website: hi-life.com |
Cuisine: Asian
Fusion Bar/ClubType: Retro Lounge/Bar |
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On a boringness scale
from one to ten (one being the most boring), this place rates a...
huh, sorry, I dozed off. This place cannot make up its mind about
what it's all about. It's part '30s lounge, part Thai palace. DJs
play Sinatra and bad Latin dance music. It wants to be downtown and
uptown at the same time. Joints like this end up attracting bitter
late-twenty-something women who like martini olives and fried calamari
and fantasize about coming home to Ricky Martin after a hard day of
shopping for Prada purses. The guys are your general UES fashion victims,
complete with the overly dressy casual shoes and 1998 relief pitcher
haircuts. The smoother dudes pull stools up to the nice padded bar
and drop dough on women who are hoping to be Mrs. dude by night's
end. The whole place smells of desperation and Smirnoff. We once ate
at the UWS location and remember the food actually being pretty good--despite
the fact we were confused about the whole Thai thing. Hey, the place
is more fun than playing with a box of live termites, but the high
life? We don't think so. [MF] Other Locations: Hi-Life Bar & Grill |
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