The Ainsworth Sports Bar – NYC
122 West 26th (betw 6th & 7th )
New York , NY
(212) 741-0646
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VdV Rating: 4
Food: Ca/american
Ambiance: Sports
PRO: Huge space, good layout, 45 HDTVs, good menu
CON: Bad for crowd-phobic people, not enough single women (yet)
Just what this gay part of NY needed, a raging sports bar! No, I’m dead serious. And these dudes brought it strong. The Ainsworth is about 6,000 square feet, seats 375, has about four dozen big fat HD flat screen TVs and rocks. Nothing like it down this way and the guys behind it (oops) will, by our prediction make zillions. Way to go!
Anyway, I’m eating so much lately I’m blowin’ up like an Iraqi Supermarket. Feel me?! God I hope so.
So do you now how many d-bags it takes to fill a new sports bar in Chelsea? Well, we wondered as well so went in to research. Prognosis: Although it could, and certainly may at some point, have a high d-bag quotient at times, the wall-to-wall crowd that was there this past Sunday was pretty fun-loving and tame for the most part. How utterly boring!
So The Ainsworth officially opens tonight, but has been in soft-open mode for the past several days. Smart. Work out the kinki-ness.
Here’s the hi and lo-lights bitches:
- Low: They could use an additional bar somewhere. They only have one…for 375 potential d-bags?! And numerous other nice, just basically thirsty people? Say what?
- High: Good lookin’ girls and dudes (I wasn’t lookin’ really) behind the bar. Cool, handling the crowds, accommodating, friendly, and attentive. What, am I talking about a house pet? JHC. Just leave it at: Hot and They Get You Drinks. Word. Freak.
- High: Awesome menu, bitches! Not your run o’ the mill sports bar shit. Sure they have Mozzy sticks ($10) and Cheese Fries ($9). WTF wouldn’t? But they also have some killa stuff like Chicken & Waffles ($16), Smoked Pulled Pork Sando ($16), Lobster Bisque ($9) WTF, Lobster F’ing Bisque?! Love it! And Lobster Po’Boy Sliders ($18). The food here has finesse, nicely spiced, and is made for a more high falootin’ (remember that word your daddy used to use?!) crowd than most sports bars. Nice work.
– High: The sounds from the gazillion TVs is high but not so stupid ya can’t talk with your buds. How the hell they do that I do not know. Brilliant!
- Low: I hear they have a hella following from Alabama. Bummer ‘Bama. They take the place over (Like Ohio State takes over Pete’s in SF) and turn the place into a Shit Show that is no fun for anyone, including them if they were sober enough to realize it). Go back to your redneck trailer trash homes and have sex with your siblings, you f’ing bastards!
The VdV Bottom Line: Go, the place so far is cool, not a bad seat in the house and the food and crowd is shockingly good!
VdV Rating: 4
Hours:
Sun-Wed 11a-1a
Thu-Sat 11a-4a
The Ainsworth
122 West 26th (betw 6th & 7th )
New York, NY
(212) 741-0646
