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Schiller's Liquor Bar


Brad Trent

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If the bar scene alone can keep a restaurant in the chips, then this place will be STUPID successful for a long, long time! I'm tellin' you now folks...the Lower East Side is the NEW Soho! After dinner at 'inoteca tonight, we headed a few blocks East to McNally's newest reason to stay up late, Schiller's Liquor Bar, at Norfolk & Rivington, for a nightcap. I checked the place out a few nights ago before they "officially" opened, and it was icey-cool, but not anything like tonight! The place is off-the-hook-hip-as-HELL!!! Belly up to the bar folks...this is gonna be THE place to be seen for a while I think! We didn't try any food (but we did make sure the bartenders know how to mix drinks, and they're just fiiiiiine!), but from what I could tell if you order correctly (read: anything with fries as a side dish!), I think you'll prolly be happy. The place is cramped to say the least...it's decor is reminiscent of Pastis...the same Bull-Nose white tiled columns, tin ceiling, distressed mirrors, etc, but don't get me wrong, it works 100%...even the wait staff hits a home run with their generic grey t-shirts with "schillers" on the front and the Heimlich Manouver graphic on the back! Damned nice design all around!!!

Allow me to say SCREW THE FOOD on a foodie board, but I'll go back to Schiller's just for the scene...Dammit...I live in New York...we NEEDsize> a place like this every once and a while!!!

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  • 3 years later...

Well, we're here probably weekly as Schiller's has become our neighborhood diner; understand, it's nearby, we can pretty much always get a table, we like the scene, and the food is just right for the price.

Garlic shrimp with Balthazar bread to soak up the oil; a good pair of pork chops, tasty burgers, a nice Cubano, some lighter fare (think salads, grilled trout, etc.), a nightly speical or two and those great fries.

Stanton Social, to me, has a much different vibe, some good food though. Great for sharing different tastes.

There are other choices right in that nabe however; can't dismiss 'inoteca (though it's west of Essex), now there's Bondi Road, and we really liked on our first meal an Argentinian place (think meat) with a value packed wine list called Azul - it's on Stanton St. as well, at Norfolk.

Good eating!

Mitch Weinstein aka "weinoo"

Tasty Travails - My Blog

My eGullet FoodBog - A Tale of Two Boroughs

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had brunch there on sunday.....not bad not bad.

pol roger was 16 a glass, in the smallest glass possible, and losing its bubble. the bloody mary was great.

pickled herring in cream sauce - delish.

eggs norweigian - delish.

all in all a good brunch spot.... great lower east side neighborhood, you can go explore delancey and rivington and all of that.

stained mirrors, black and white tile floor... small table and wobbly chair. it was very new york lower east side. i loved it. it is what it is.

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For all my visits, I'd only been to brunch at Schiller's once before, but finally got there this past Sunday for a second time.

In additiion to the beautiful weather (when Schillers is totally open to the street, its a damn nice space), the food was really good too. However, three of us had the burgers (they were calling) with serendipitous fries, and the fourth had welsh rarebit, so I can't report on any egg dishes, but the french toast at the next table looked amazing.

As chefboy24 says, quintessential lower east, and now, right in the thick of things.

Mitch Weinstein aka "weinoo"

Tasty Travails - My Blog

My eGullet FoodBog - A Tale of Two Boroughs

Was it you baby...or just a Brilliant Disguise?

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