Julep

not a good place, not a bad place, just a place… with an air hockey table which garners 2 stars from me.

I’ve gone to Guero a couple of times for shows. Guero is the bar in Julep’s basement, and you have to pass through Julep to get to Guero.
Julep is gross. Sleazy, leering guys of the meathead roofie dropping ilk. The bathrooms are vile. And the staff are ccrrrrraaaaazzzzyyyyy. The last time I went here, Julep was slow so the bartender kept coming outside to try to lure people in. She was shitfaced drunk and dressed for a Girls Gone Wild video. (It was 15 degrees outside, tops.) She was also trying to balance a glass of beer on her head while hula hooping and yelling at people. The glass didn’t stay up for very long. And she was too drunk to hula hoop. So basically, she was hitting passersby with a slimy hula hoop and having a personal, sticky wet T-​shirt contest.
I can’t wait to see her on Rock Of Love 3!

One star for an air hockey table. That’s actually what drew us in, but once we were there for 10 minutes we realized the only people in the bar were a bunch of desperate dudes and an annoying bartender. I was with a group of 3 girls and we were the only females in the place, besides the bartender who was clueless about how creepy the guys were being to us even though it was happening right in front of her. Totally won’t go back to this place.

I went here on a Saturday night with a group of 5 other people. After we arrived, there were approximately 10 people in the whole place. Sadly, two of those people were at the pool table so we couldn’t play. They didn’t have anything on tap, but the prices were okay. The bartender came over and gave us a free shot which was nice. Since it was pretty empty, we had an easy time finding seats (which were very comfortable!)
I’d probably go back if someone I knew wanted to go, but it wasn’t all that exciting.

Julep is alright. Nothing outstanding about it, really, but the 2-​for-​1 happy hour is a good deal of course. Big Buck Hunter adds a little value, and there’s a cozy section in the back with a bunch of thrift store chairs, which is a good spot for groups. Watch out for the female bartender wearing the red sequined lucha libre mask.

I dunno, this place sucked when it was on the west side of ave. A and it still sucks on the east side of it. Or is it the other way around.
Its just this oddly spaced cramped dive bar that really has no value. There’s just nothing to it, its dead, its boring, and its dead, and well its dead because its boring.

this bar is strange. it’s like they designed it to have no appeal. except, as stated before, for the creepy wall of mirrors. my experience there was odd. I’ll set up the scene: I go up to bar, buy 4 drinks. Bartender asks for my ID and the 3 other IDs (okay, somewhat standard). I go back to table, get their IDs, bring them up to bar, get drinks. Next time, I go up to bar to buy 4 drinks. Same bartender asks for my ID and 3 others, again. I go back, give her all the IDs again. It happened I don’t know how many times (EVERY time!)…was quite unusual. The strangest part being that there were only two other people in the bar, and they were sitting right in front of her, at the bar. Ha. Did she forget my oh-​so-​memorable face? I decided that either a) it must not be so memorable, or b) she suffers from short-​term memory loss. Aside from the ST memory loss experience, just a blah, somewhat dingy little standard-​priced bar amongst other, much better, bars.

Cute used to be called The boys room a gay bar…
they kept the dancing poles on the bar though…
i was alittle too excited about that…
great drink specials .
cute bartenders…
go there

Julep used to be on the other side of Ave A, and now it has moved to the west side of the street. I thought maybe there would be more room. But there’s not. Maybe the rent is cheaper? Who knows? They still have a pool table. But they don’t appear to have food anymore. But what they DO have is an inexplicable hall of mirrors as you enter the place. It’s really like 20 feet long with probably 7 mirrors on each side. What is the point of this? It’s hard to tell. There’s also an unwieldy door to enter. Plus there doesn’t appear to be anything on tap yet. I guess the only thing I really liked was the seats by the window. Other than that, I miss the east side of Avenue A Julep. I say it’s worth it just to go through the hall of mirrors. But then leave.

Julep is your regular «alright» bar. There’s the 2−4−1 happy hour and round the clock drink deals, a pool table and food. I can’t badmouth a place with cheap liquor, but Julep needs to do something to stand out on bar-​filled Avenue A in order to make a real name for itself.