Time out New York
by Rachel Tucker
Gather your drinking buddies and hit seven bars in the East Village, with a stop for pork along the way.
New York Times
by Alan Feuer
(…) New York’s drinking zeitgeist has passed, in succession, from the Belle Epoque-ish wine bar to the pre-crash Jazz Age cocktail lounge, to the Weimar-flavored biergarten, with its whiffs of hyperinflation and the Munich Beer Hall Putsch. Of course, it is also true that people like beer and will tend to drink it in large amounts, while sitting outside at long, communal tables in the sun.