Shenanigans Pub

Quiet little Irish bar down were i live… never been here before but meet with an old friend to catch up. I’ve heard some kool stories about this place but unfortunately i didn’t stay long to experience it. Bartender did make me a delicious Vodak Gimlet on the rocks just how i like it. There wasn’t a lot of people there but you can diffidently tell who are the regulars.
Well like to come back with some friends and Experience the fun nights that i heard so much about.

This place is awesome. It’s old school no frills greatness. I don’t even want to tell you about this gem. It’s really my favorite kind of place.

It may be a little dive bar in Brooklyn, but the bartender was very personable and charismatic, it wasn’t too crowded, and patrons have the option to choose their own music from the jukebox. The drinks were good too, they don’t skimp on the alcohol.

Great local Brooklyn bar. Bartender is cool, vibe is chill. Good for the game and hanging with your buddies.
Beer is cold…

The one and only time that I tried coming here (for my birthday at that), I was turned away almost instantaneously along with 8 of my friends. Not worth anybody’s time.

Not even worth one star. This place is absolutely terrible. I’ve been to a lot of bars throughout the country and abroad and this is absolutely the worst. The bartender is a miserable human being and makes your visit as miserable and uninviting as possible. Came here with a bunch of thirst soccer players and I guess he didn’t think we were drinking fast enough while a World Cup game was on. We probably brought in more business then they ever had on a Sunday afternoon and he still treated us like shit. Something is up with this place if they don’t care about our business.
I’ve also had a few friends show up here late one night when they were obviously open. For some reason, someone took a look at them and said they were closed. Sketchy business.

Was a Sunday night regular back in the day and liked the place. It was our post-​soccer go to spot and the bartenders were great. One, John, used to pour my girlfriend a Jameson and give her an ice pack for her knee the minute she walked through the door. Once spent a late night there dancing to Santana with a cop in a kilt who’d just been to a wake.
The people were always friendly. .. until about an hour ago.
Went in with a bunch of people after soccer and popped open a spring water bottle like I always do. The bartender asked me if I wanted a drink, I said in a minute, and he told me to leave because they didn’t permit outside food and drinks. I typically bring my own water to bars when I’ve just played because I don’t want to be bothering the bartender for endless fill-​ups. But I always buy drinks too. I told him that if it was a problem, to bring me a Jameson, but I came to my senses, left, and went down the street to the Highbury, where they’re friendly, have better beer, and don’t hold their slow nights against the customers who actually show up.
An extra negative is the angry old guy at the end of the bar who gave us attitude from the moment we walked in.
Our soccer group has 1966 members. And we’ve had BBQs and pizza parties at Shenanigans over the years. I won’t be back personally, and I’m recommending to our other 1965 members, and to the greater Unilocal community, that they avoid the place too.
If you’re desperate for a drink in the neighborhood there are plenty of better options on Courtelyou Rd. and in Windsor Terrace.
I grew up in working class bars, and I find the pretension at a lot of places in Brooklyn unbearable, so, in some regards, this place WAS refreshing once upon a time.
I’m not too big on gentrification, either, but I’m big on civility and friendliness. So the sooner this place is bulldozed the better.
Bad possibly racist/​homophobic vibes all around.

$ 4.50 for a pint on a Tuesday night? I’ve never been a huge fan of Shenanigans but because it’s the closest bar I’ll stop by occasionally when I want a cheap drink or don’t want to walk to Cortelyou. The most I’ve paid in the past was $ 3.50 on a weekend karaōke night so I was kind of shocked to find a pint of Killians is now $ 4.50 on a weekday. I think a pint of Lionshead is like $ 4 at Sycamore and it’s a much nicer place.

The guy playing the guitar was good. The beer was poured with a head… The head was half of the glass at FULL price… Hmmmm not happy!

This is an excellent neighborhood bar. The bartender is really nice. Super generous with pours and big on buy backs. I’m a fan of the backyard when the weather is nice. It’s hardly ever crowded. The crowd can be totally different from one night to the next, but it’s almost always a kind of weird mix of people.
When I’m not in the mood to deal with the crowds on Cortelyou or I want to meet up with a bunch of friends, this is the spot to go. I do avoid it on karaōke night, though.

Came here for pre St. Patty’s Day reverie for the first time ever– and I am so happy to have came. I am not from the area but I read that there was good Karaōke here and so that is exactly what I got! I sang like 4 songs and had my $ 5 cranberry vodkas and felt welcomed by many!

Survived Sandy’s Halloween in there… «When you come out of the Shenanigans, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this Shenanigan’s all about.“Good neighborhood dive bar, cheap drinks, nice bartenders… mixed crowd. awesome jukebox… cheers

I passed by Shenanigan’s Pub many times before finally entering this fantastic pub. I could see people calling it a dive bar, but I don’t think it’s quite that. It’s a no frills neighborhood bar. I was talking with the bartenders while here, and learned that the bar has been in the hands of just a few owners over the last 5 or 6 decades and I decided it is very much a neighborhood gem.
I’m hoping to move into this neighborhood, so I fully expect to spend many more days at this solid spot.
The one funny thing is the beers on tap. The options are Foster’s, Killian’s Irish Red, and Budweiser. They have a lot of other options in bottle, but just those three on tap. I liked it, though. Killian’s is always a good choice!

My girlfriend and I just recently moved down the block from Shenanigans, and being in our young twenties we of course looked for the nearest bar. We stumbled upon Shenanigans and we were welcomed into the neighborhood with open arms. We knew after our first time that we would be regulars. The drinks are strong, the prices are good, and everyone treats each other like family. Joe was the first bartender we met that night, and he remembered us the next day. Since then we have met all the bartenders and the owner and they all couldn’t be more friendly and welcoming. Hands down greatest dive bar in Brooklyn!!!
Thanks to Joe, Eric, Kathleen and Seth… YOU GUYS RULE \m/​
–Jena and Casey

When I walked up to Shenanigans, the first thing I noticed was a Rascal power scooter parked out front. A willingness to drain that precious battery power on a trip to the pub has to be indicative of a spot worth visiting.
The interior of Shenanigans is about what you’d expect from the outside. Wood paneling, dim lighting, a jukebox, and a couple of TVs. It’s basic but it’s perfect for this type of place. When new, hip joints in Williamsburg are starting to be referred to as «dive bars,» the term is probably a little over used so I’m not going to classify Shenanigans as a dive bar. Instead, I’ll say that this is a bar lover’s bar. Drinks are affordable, service is prompt, buybacks are sufficient to keep you returning, and the volume of clientele is not so overwhelming that you can’t easily get to the bar to grab a fresh beer (though maybe that does not hold true on karaōke nights).
As to others’ claims that they’ve had issues with racism, I’ve only been to Shenanigans once and didn’t see or experience anything of that sort. There were minorities that came in during the evening and seemed to have no issue at all. The bartender was also a minority. Not that this precludes his being racist but it would seem odd. In any event, perhaps it’s a specific bartender and, if that’s the case, it’s unfortunate because this is a solid spot based on single experience. The bartender that served my friends and I was solid and I never heard anything but the standard bartender/​barfly talk while I was there.
All-​in-​all, a great neighborhood pub and on par with my favorite Park Slope watering holes.

For a neighborhood dive, it’s open, bright, clean and modern enough to have HDTV.
The drinks are cheap, but it’s worth paying a bit more for brands because their well booze can strip paint.
After that, it all boils down to who shows up.

I honestly can’t say much about what Shenanigans is like Sunday through Friday, but having been there pretty much every Saturday night for the past two years, I say with confidence that the Saturday night karaōke is the warmest, most fun-​loving, environment I’ve ever seen in a bar.
The punks and queers and meatheads and hipsters and blue-​collars all get together and sing along with Eddie Mac. If this sounds too United Colors of Benetton or Breakfast Club to believe, then come on down sometime and see it for yourself.

met up with the one and only Claire F. here on Friday night as I was back in my old hood. we decided to convene the Windsor Terrorists. despite it being only us two Unilocalers, this was clearly a case of quality versus quantity.
small and quiet, this is your basic neighborhood local pub. crowd here was a mix of your Standard Old Bar Men, some locals, and a sprinkling of hipsters.
$ 3.50 pints on a Friday night is always great. so’s the lady not getting charged for her drink. America, fuck yeah.
go figure, I grew up about 10 minutes from here and this was only the second time I ever went. I would come back.

This place has the cheapest drinks all night ever; I was apparently not charged bc I have boobs (??) which is fine by me, but my buddy’s beer was only $ 3.
Ambiance is more local Cheers-​type pub than dive bar, but it’s definitely dive bar’s cousin.

For all you hipsters who think this is kind of a fun place to hang out that’s really authentic or whatever, I hope you know you’re supporting a place that employs bartenders that use racial slurs that I have never heard used as actual racist slurs before and are profoundly homophobic.
If you’re good with that, then you’ll be great here.