Venue Review: The Rusty Knot - Bar (NYC - New York City)
Now that The Rusty Knot has been open for a couple of weeks in the far-West Village, we'll weigh in on the nautical themed 'dive bar' from restaurateurs Ken Friedman (Spotted Pig) and Taavo Somer (Freemans). So the question that everyone has been asking is, "Is the Rusty Knot a real dive bar." The answer is yes, and no. Plastic baskets of fried food and super cheap beer aside, the Rusty Knot is only a dive in a thematic sense:
The Rusty Knot is the Manhattan interpretation of [a dive bar] - like Disney World Pittsburgh - with more of a nautical them and appealing to the upwardly mobile. (ACL)
Eater has some details on the mural:
Commissioned for the bar and painted by biker/artist Robert Garey, it features two babes, a battleship, a harbor, and some ominous clouds—just the scene you want to gaze upon while ordering a Dark and Stormy or a can of Dale's.
Down By The Hipster has the scoop on the food:
The Knot isn't only a place to drink and stare at Jersey City. They also got some kick ass bar food. Oysters, peel and eat shrimp, classic shepard's pie, razor clams, giant pigs in a blanket. Bar food to the extreme. The best we had? How about a Chicken Liver, Bacon and Avocado sandwich that scream luxury even as you are sucking down a smooth drinking tap Busch. Aww yeah.
And what's this we hear of frozen drinks?
The new nautical-themed Rusty Knot (I know, how many editors can blog about it in a week?) is supposedly serving frozen mint daiquiris.
The Rusty Knot
425 West St. (at 11th St.)
New York, NY 10014
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