The Long Island Bar
Cocktail bar · Cobble Hill ·
Retro diner bar with iconic cocktails, burgers & cheese curds
Retro diner bar with iconic cocktails, burgers & cheese curds
"In what is already an ideal restaurant—vintage-style neon sign out front, wooden bench booths, strong martinis, and a Midwestern-feeling menu of deviled eggs and fried cheese curds—the burger at Long Island Bar is always the ideal order. Think a smashed dry-age patty (two if you're feeling wild), pickles, cheese, and what they call "fancy sauce" (which tells you a lot about this spot's personality). Go in a smallish group, belly up to the bar to put your name in, then order a strong drink if there's a wait; by the time you reach your table, you'll be ready to roll up your sleeves and dig in, and it's not monstrously big." - Charlie Hobbs
"The Long Island Bar & Restaurant has been around the block. For more than 50 years. While the original owners have passed the baton to Joel Tompkins and Toby Cecchini, Long Island Bar remains a fixture in a neighborhood that loves having it around. It’s the place you go to hang out, to blow off steam, or sometimes watch live TV on a big screen in the back. Don’t sleep on the food either because holy smokes, it’s fantastic." - This Also
"A Brooklyn bar will host a weekend cocktail pop-up on Sunday, June 8 from 9 p.m. to midnight where co‑founders Izzy Tulloch and Danielle De Block will serve drinks (and pancakes); the event is a kickoff for the international drinks trade show Bar Convent Brooklyn, which runs June 10–11." - Nadia Chaudhury
"“This Brooklyn bar feels like the quintessential best friends meeting up after work spot, so much so that I am dismayed to realize now I didn’t include it in my book. The two friends collapse into their booth—one immediately recounting a strange date, the other narrating a 'whole thing' at work they desperately need to vent about; they tell the waiter twice they need another minute (even though they always end up ordering the same thing—the burger). And they remain for the quickest three-and-a-half hours of their weeks. Every time I’ve left Long Island Bar, I think, 'I love my friends!'”" - brennan carley
"The answer to most eating and drinking predicaments is Long Island Bar. This diner-like spot on Atlantic Avenue works for cocktails at the counter, a casual evening of cheese curds with friends, or a low-key celebration dinner, when you can finally justify adding that bottle of champagne to your order. (No really, the menu says “Add Bottle Of Champagne” for $100.) But even if you’re just here for a perfectly mixed White Negroni, consider the burger. Neither two inches thick and priced like a steak, nor smashed into crispy oblivion, it’s just a soft, manageable burger with one or two patties, a blanket of cheese, and a small toothpick with an American flag on it." - willa moore, molly fitzpatrick, bryan kim, neha talreja, will hartman
