Dive Bar Travel: Boozing with Bourdain in NYC
Global economic collapse only means one important thing to alcohol fiends: Lose the martini lounges; bring back the dive bars.
That's why the New York media world is still mourning the lose of Siberia Bar, the absolutely-no-frills Midtown watering hole where in the old New York, you could sit down for shots with New York Times editors, transvestites and 90-year-old barflies on any given weeknight.
Celeb-chef Anthony Bourdain waxed poetic about Siberia Bar in his poor-chef-in-seedy-Manhattan memoir Kitchen Confidential. Now that the Travel Channel star is back in NYC for the upcoming New York City Wine & Food Festival, the New York Post asked him where he's drinking away his riches these days.
Since Siberia closed, I've been living a bleak, friendless and flatlined existence, slowly slipping into senility and death."
But, lest we all slip into senility, Bourdain thankfully has a couple of recommendations for present-day dive bar drinking: The Holland Bar (532 Ninth Ave.) and Wakamba Lounge (543 Eighth Ave.). Check 'em out and let us know if they're dive-y enough to stave off death and senility.
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