MJ Armstrong’s

«San Di-ego…Super-Chargers.»
If you come here on a Sunday, be prepared for great drink deals, a charged (pun intended) atmosphere, and the most repetitive fight song ever conceived by man. I wasn’t a Chargers fan, so that essentially made me the only one not appreciating the line at the bar. Pitchers were dirt cheap though and domestic beers (including Captain Lawrence!) were something like 3 or 4 dollars. Non-​chargers fans can head downstairs to avoid the chaos.
Food is OK. Nothing special about any of the traditional bar food except the lobster mac n’ cheese. Relatively inexpensive and a good addition to the 4:15 games.
They do trivia on Tuesdays. The attendees are pros and the same two or three teams. have been showing up for years and destroying everyone. A lot of fun and the drink deals are fair. Again… Captain Lawrence LIQUID GOLD on draft. Tough to find — especially for a neighborhood bar.
Worth checking out if you’re in the area, but be aware that it’s a debacle on Sunday.

Just your average post college crowd.
Pros:
–experience your college bar experience all over again
–medium price– $ 6 drafts, $ 6 rails (but small)
–beer pong tournament
–music
–you can dance if you want to… I guess
Cons:
–experience your college bar experience all over again
–everyone piled out by 12:45 on a Friday night. Where did they go?

Came here for a birthday party, and so we got pretty good deals. They were able to reserve a beer pong table and space for us very last minute (since we decided to change bars), and drinks were super cheap. The birthday boy was able to drink for free all night (though was apparently yelled at for not tipping, lame), and guests got half off drinks with a wrist band.
The bar itself is not very air-​conditioned, which was very uncomfortable. The crowd was also very weird – lots of rather average people, including random groups of unattractive girls who would dance among themselves to BSB, etc. It was crowded when we got there around 11pm/​12am, but cleared out a lot by 2.
What really irked me about this place was the fact that they lost my boyfriend’s credit card. They ended up comping his drinks and gave him 2 free shots, so he was drunk and happy about it, but I was pretty annoyed. He also called back the next day, and the manager told them they found it and angrily told my bf to pick it up right away. Are they serious?! For the hassle, it really should be my bf who would be angry about it, not them.
The bartenders were very nice when we picked up the card, but the manager really shouldn’t have been such a dick about it. 3 stars for being an average bar with good party specials, but minus a star for having to deal with such crappy attitude.

MJ’s is one of those places that everyone complains about, but keeps coming back to. They give out happy hours like candy so my friends and I keep ending up there because someone always wins one. It’s a fun place and if your friend has a happy hour deal, you get $ 3 well drinks & $ 4 beers until midnight (or, if you’re the one who actually won it, you get free drinks).
The atmosphere is very sports bar/​pub: think tshirts, TVs, & cheap liquor. But then there’s also a strange club vibe when everyone starts getting hammered and rocking out to the ‘90s playlist that the DJ plays EVERY NIGHT.
This is a place you come to pregame, or to just get hammered with your friends. This is not a place you come to a) meet people, b) spend a lot of time, c) drink anything that tastes good.

The bathroom looks and smells worse than the bathroom at the Port Authority. I wouldn’t normally base my entire review on a bathroom, but if you are a bar and you serve beverages and people plan on having several of them, you can bet they will need to visit your bathroom.
I was here on Saturday afternoon and it looked like it hadn’t been cleaned from the night before yet. Umm gross.

When I was in college I spent a lot of time drinking at Bennigan’s, which for those of you who might not be familiar, was a irish-​pub theme chain restaurant that featured a deep fried sandwich on the menu which was something like 2,500 calories. Why did we go there? $ 2 Miller Light drafts and… I guess you could generally get a table? and there was sometimes trivia?
MJ Armstrong’s calls to mind these moments. I walked in here last Sunday to watch the Patriots get mercilessly beaten by the Jets (I mean, that wasn’t my intent going in, but it’s definitely what happened). My sports-​friendly compatriots were aiming for Massachusetts-​loving Professor Thom’s, but it was too packed so MJ Armstrong’s it was.
Pros: 50 cent wings were delicious and super spicy
lots of TVs, if that’s what you’re here for, you’ll be happy
able to get a table and get waited on
Truly excellent mac and cheese
No wait for the ladies room (insert girls-don’t-like-sports joke here)
Cons: This is a loud sports bar, so, you know, buyer beware? Maybe that’s what you’re in to?
Too clean and modern feeling to be a «pub» to me, hence the Bennigan’s comparison
Overall a solid place to watch a sporting event and eat some comfort food, if you like that sort of thing. Sometimes I do.

Saturday night and I’m feelin’ alright. Link arms with Dave K. and flow into MJ’s ready for the party.
It was a party alright. People everywhere. I was there for a holiday party that had rented the place out so everyone seemed to know each other. I poured myself into my drinking and made small talk with a few peeps. I will give the space this: friendly bartenders, cleanliness and proper bathrooms in not one but TWO locations for the ladies and one for the fellaz. That’s how it should be, in case you were wondering.
The location is a drag, however. If you live right there, of course you love this place, because it’s a hop, skip and a jump from your Stuy Town abode when nothing else is… but if you are heading out of your way to hang here… don’t.
Decent place to have a par-​tay, if you don’t mind asking your guests to head that far east.

Love this place. Started doing coors light promotions here and wound up hanging out afterwards for awesome food and drinks. Love the manager Dennis! Bartenders are cool and I highly recommend this place if you’re a charger fan. Also recommending the goat cheese quesadillas. UMM… YUMMMM!!! coors light beer towers 20 bucks!

Oh MJ’s. I want to like you, but you don’t have to be Einstein to figure out that you water down your drinks. It hurts. Last night I got three bud lights and they literally looked like cups of apple juice. And, they tasted horrible too. I’m no beer connoisseur and I’m not the kind of person who likes sending food or drinks back but I felt like I had just thrown my money down the toilet so I told the bartender I thought something was wrong with our beers and he gave us three Coors Lights instead. And they were watered down too. Later I got a Blue Moon and that was watered down too.
Disappointing. But I will probably go back anyway.

My husband is a die hard Chargers fan. As soon as he moved to the city, he was online looking for a Chargers bar in town. After some extensive search on Twitter and Meetup, he found MJ Armstrong’s.
After a couple of weeks, we finally got a chance to go check it out. Went there for the Chargers vs. Seahawks game. The game could have been better (Chargers lost), but the bar was awesome.
Ridiculous drink specials: $ 10 pitchers
Awesome music: The DJ got all the Chargers songs (e.g. San Diego Super Chargers, We got more bounce in California).
Awesome crowd: This place was PACKED with die hard Chargers fans.
The cheap drinks, awesome music selections and super energetic crowd definitely reminded me of Chargers game at the Q.
One quick tip: The bar gets SUPER crowded during Chargers games. If you want a table, make sure to make reservations by Friday at the latest.

I read the reviews on Unilocal before I went so I did not have high expectations.
I came here for «Saved by the Booze» party, hosted by Mr. Belding from Saved by the Bell. The website said to wear 90s fashion and get free shots, it also advertised $ 10 for an hour of all you can drink beer. So my girlfriends and I got dressed up and went. Not many people dressed up but that has nothing to do with the rating.
Once we paid and got our «beer hour» bracelets we went to the bar to order. After 10 minutes of ignoring us the bartender finally came over and told us we could only have domestic beer: Coors Light, Budweiser and Budlight. It would have been nice if they told us that but okay fine so we drank some Budlight. I saw numerous people get the cold shoulder from the bartender while some were getting instant service. I stayed for a few hours and no shots were given out for wearing 90s clothes. The bartender said they would announce when the shots were coming but by then I wanted to leave.
The music was choppy with some good 90s songs and then random Justin Timberlake.
Ultimately it was an underwhelming experience. I’ve had much more fun elsewhere.

I won a free happy hour at MJ Armstrongs!!!
I was sooo happy!
Then I realized it was just well drinks.
Then I realized they barely put one shot in each drink…
Then I realized that 6 – 10 people there had won free happy hours…
Then I got a stomach ache from having too much sprite and barely any vodka…
MJ armstrongs is terrible, they have to give away free happy hours because no one would come otherwise, but each happy hour winner brings like 30 friends who get half off drinks. The music was soo loud at 8 o clock that it hurt my ears. I would never go back, they never stop letting people in and it takes like 15 minutes to get a drink, I wish MJ’s would take 15 minutes and get a clue…

I came here during a football game and was thrilled to see so many of «my people» — and by that, I mean Chargers fans, of course! San Diego Chargers! (Gah — I miss SD!) It was super crowded upstairs, so we ended up in the semi-​super-​crowded downstairs. (5 stars)
Any place that has a Chargers special called the Thick cut B-«LT» is all right in my book. (Check my photo for the rest of the specials.) I stuck to beer during the game, so I can’t really comment on the food. They ran out of pitchers during the first quarter. Sadness! My friend got their $ 0.50 wing special and they looked and smelled great though. (4.5 stars)
Now here’s what really lowers their rating. The girls bathroom stunk of bleach — were they trying to get us high off the fumes? «Okay» you say, «that means it’s clean.» Keep reading! Three stalls total: (1) The ceiling dripped on you and the walls were covered in condensation, resulting in a puddle on the floor. (2) Ceiling was still leaking — but being caught in a bucket that you had to skirt by sideways. Still dripped on you. Door did not fully close or lock. Halfway through the game — ran out of TP. (3) Only non-​drippy stall. Ran out of TP a quarter through the game. (0 stars)

Lame… just lame…
No really, the people here were pretty lame, the staff was pretty lame, and the fact that they put tables directly next to a side exit that is allowed to be used on a snow flurrie day is just weird. Why would you want your customers to freeze? Let alone, why would you have a door that doesn’t shut all the way on its own when it leads out to the cold cold world of New York City during winter? Why? You must make some type of profit that could afford fixing that door! I don’t even know how many times I got up to shut it all the way…
And the food is not good either, and it turns out the cooks can’t count, because my friend Victoria (don’t ask me why she counted, but she did) discovered that the kitchen jipped her a couple wings! How is that even fair? They did bring her some extra ones for free to make up for it, but still. Kind of strange…
I came here to watch the Cal Bears game because this is the Cal bar in NYC, and I don’t think, even though my love for Cal football is pretty darn strong, that I would want to come to this bar again… It is just lame inside, as stated before. The lighting is weird, the set up just isn’t very open for people to meet others, and some of the TVs had some color issues too… For a sports bar, doesn’t quite fit the bill. Plus, I just expected better for NYC, don’t you???

Friend
Drank free
And again
A friend drinks free
Until free drinks are no longer enough.

After a night of having an arm cut off, well actually, just a wasted vomiting bro to take care of. That’s what happens when you offer people an open bar of Depaz Rum and Magic Hat, no, that’s not at MJs. I wish.
I bought him a few bottles of water, but he refused food, saying he would not be able to hold it down. I try to convince my boy, but he would not agree. As for me, no slice of $ 1 will go undemolished by my drunken jowels.
The only thing my bro could do was sit outside, drink some water, get it out of his system, and let time take care of him. I decided to go in to attempt to redeem the «raffle» that I had won for an open bar. It was from 10 – 12:00, yet after wading around a huge crowd, they told me that even with 40 minutes left on the clock. Destiny was not to be, this boy was not to drunk for freezies. Fuck that shit bro!
I definitely could’ve used a few drinks after running around the East Village looking for my vomiting lost bro and instead, I would be relegated to the Blue Ribbon brand, PBR. For shame.
The place seems like a mediocre sports bar or whatnot. The downstairs was actually really crowded, which surprised me. Then again, this could be a plus or minus depending on the person. Depends if you’re fine with waiting 10 minutes for a drink and want more of the college town loaded to the brim atmosphere.

Looking for a place to watch some football on Sunday? MJ Armstrong’s is the place to be! ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A SAN DIEGO CHARGERS FAN! This is the new home for San Diego Chargers fans and it can be pretty packed on Sunday with Jets, Giants and Patriots in attendance!
Great beer specials for Chargers fans and good crowd to enjoy an afternoon of football and fun!

MJ Armstrong’s is the bar of choice/​convenience for many Stuy Town residents. It is one of the biggest proponents of the $ 25-​$ 45, 2 – 5 hour open bar deals, and they get the exact crowd you would imagine running specials like that. You know what I’m talking about. And as long as you know what you’re getting into, it doesn’t have to be so bad.
I had the good fortune to attend one of these parties the night before Easter Sunday. The place was essentially empty; for the first time in recorded history, I was able to sit at a table the entire time with all of my friends AND get to the bar whenever I wanted. If it was always like this, MJ Armstrong’s wouldn’t make any money, I might come in more, and they would get more than three stars.
I have a couple questions for my pal MJ though:
Why is there a bathroom attendant? This place is a tiny, tiny step above a dive bar. Paying another man $ 1 to hand you a paper towel is awkward enough, but how many times do you think this man has had to stand there and listen to former fratguys puke?
Where/​how/​why did you put together this early 90s wedding soundtrack?
I’m talking Celebration, the Macarena, Cottoneye Joe, and Who Let the Dogs Out? Yeesh. Most of these songs are only acceptable at ballgames, if then.
***Kids, this is where you stop reading. 21+ beyond this point***
At some point during the night, the Easter Bunny stumbled in. Just as I was marveling at the fact that bunnies drink beer too, it PULLED IT’S HEAD OFF! This is NOT A BUNNY, PEOPLE. It was just some girl, shitfaced, dressed up in a bunny suit. I was devastated.
And life just got a little less magical.

«Cal Game» Review.
Met up with a friend here on a Saturday night.
Apparently this is where all the Cal alumn (or family/​friends of Cal Grads) go to watch Cal games… I forget who Cal was playing, only that they (for some odd reason) were killing the opponent, thus making the game rather uninteresting to me.
They DO have good specials (at least during Cal games). I think it was either 25cent or 50cent wings, and pitcher (and mini-​keg) specials for several beers on tap (e.g. Bud Light, Heineken).
I… not being a Cal fan… cannot give this place more than 3 stars. However, for all you crazy Cal fans that have been rightfully exported out of Cali… you can find all your fellow NYC transplants here.

have been coming here alot lately for the NFL playoffs with a group of friends. $ 45 huge beer taps. OMG great deal. and the wings are good. i’ve had better. but they are not bad at all. crowd is good. and the overall atmosphere and service — pretty good.