Brooklyn

So tonight I visited the last the last real borough I hadnt been to yet (I am not counting Staten Island unless someone gives me good reason to). If I had a bucket list, I could check off going to Brooklyn. I passed through Brooklyn once on the way to Coney Island but I wouldn't consider it as if I'd been to Brooklyn.

Tonight I met up with friends at a bar/bowling alley aptly called Brooklyn Bowl. This place is across the street from the Brooklyn Brewery. It's a really cool spot to check out if you don't mind packed, loud places. I know that is to be expected at a bar but this place was much cooler than a bar. Where you come in - straight ahead is a small (maybe 20 tables) restaurant area. Making a left and heading down the hall you reach the main bar. If you turn around you are facing a stage. This isn't you typical small bar, small band stage. This is a pretty legit sized stage. And next to that is a 20-30 lane bowling alley where the seats are not that uncomfortable plastic in a horseshoe shape but leather couches. Here you can order from the restaurant menu, as I saw people drinking coffee and eating dessert. I know some bowling alleys have food but it's generally not anything special.

This is why this place is cool, it is a restaurant, bar, concert venue, and bowling alley all in one but not all combined as each exists apart from the other. I definitely want to go back at a time where there is not a band playing so people can actually talk, and when it is not so crowded so that we could actually get to bowl.

Also, you know you are in Brooklyn when the music playing is Interpol and Jeff Buckley and the 10 projector screens around the place are all showing Planet Earth. I wish this was the type of bar people around here went to instead of the choices we have locally.

Had an interesting conversation with a guy from Brazil studying abroad here while waiting for my train home, but that story is for another post.

Goodnight.