Now that the infamous Lower East Side Hookah Bar is closed, underage kiddies are looking for new spots that will serve them. Guest of a Guest comes to the rescue with a list of bars that aren’t too particular about scrutinizing identification. Uh – sure – you left your drivers license at home and your “international student ID” shows that you’re 22 – step right in. The fact that the ID shows an Asian brunette and you’re a blonde white kid from Jersey? Clearly the clerk at the DMV had issues that day.
The spots on the list are not so surprising. LES bar Happy Endings would admit a 9 year old if they had the right hipster haircut and skinny jeans. Motor City is one of our favorite downtown dives, and it wouldn’t be the same without all the young’uns trying to grunge it up.
What the list fails to mention is that most NYC bars are pretty lax when it comes to proper ID. As long as what you hand over is passable (i.e. bears a trace resemblance and is not from the state of “that bodega on Bleecker”), you’re likely to get through. There has been some worry that the GofaG list will lead to stricter enforcement at the haunts that are listed, but no bother. The city’s youth will just move onto the next place. They have to justify spending $50,000 a year to go to NYU somehow.
We like to think of ourselves as one big happy family.*
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