Reif’s Tavern

Great neighborhood dive to grab a drink with no frills. Laid back but very attentive bartenders, a nice juke box with great bose speakers and a nice backyard.

This place is seriously a dive, but I’m a big fan solely because of the GRILLIN and CHILLIN area you can rent out in the back. Taking it over, filling it with your friends, trucking in your own meat and grill supplies: you can make Reif’s your own.
The grill itself is pretty big, and there are a bunch of chairs and umbrella covered tables around the patio area, which is located behind a door all the way at the back of the bar. The idea is that you buy a couple buckets of beer from the bar to drink while you’re grilling, though it’s pretty hard to get the bartender to give you anything more complicated than a liquor+soda type of drink. He will literally laugh in your face if you ask for a bloody mary.
Reif’s isn’t somewhere I’d come to hang out at the bar, but it’s great in the summer if you have a big group of people who want to hang out, and if you don’t have access to a grill of your own.

Stumbled upon this place tucked down the street on 92^nd. Old school and very comfortable. If you’re chubby you may have a problem fitting into perhaps the tiniest men’s room in the city. Pool table and a back yard. Nice place, I’ll stop in whenever I’m in the area and thirsty.

Great local dive bar with a unique personality — a huge outdoor space in the back! Great for draft beers, pool or darts and to watch a game. Always have a blast when I go there.

Our music festival was rained out and we stumbled upon this gem! Great crowd, excellent staff, friendly and welcoming atmosphere… And delicious potluck! Couldn’t have asked for a better port in a storm. Wish I had a neighborhood bar like this back home!

Nothing charming about Reif’s. The only redeeming feature is that drinks are cheap and they pour them in front of you.
I love old bars. I try to get to as many as I can before they disappear. I love ones with lots of old wood and old pictures of ye olde Ireland and old ballplayers lining the walls. An old bartender reading an old newspaper or polishing the wood when you walk in. Some regulars quietly nursing their wounds at the bar. Maybe a couple or two cozied up at a one of the few tables. A quiet hum about the place and some Sinatra (or similar) piped in from somewhere.
This place ain’t that brother. If you want to feel like you stumbled into a frat house you will be happy here.
It’s got that grimy, cheap paneling, we haven’t cleaned the place since the Nixon-​Administration, if you don’t like who we root for we’ll pound your head, «I didn’t make it past 8^th grade, did you?», we have Rolling Rock on tap, my mother is also my sister, basementy — feel to it. If that’s where you are at, head over to Reif’s Tavern posthaste. That means «very quickly» to you.

Let me preface this review by saying that I don’t live on the UES and am not a regular at this bar, which I’m sure has something to do with my rating. If I lived near here and frequented it often, I would probably have a different view. However, as someone who just happened to stop in one night with some friends, I did not have a pleasant experience. Yes, I realize it’s a dive bar, but this kind of went above and beyond (or should I say below) that definition. The general vibe was reminiscent of someone’s trashed basement after a house party. There were empty cups all over the place, and the lighting was weirdly bright and harsh. The floor was so sticky that my shoes were getting stuck to it. Some drunk dude stole our pitcher and started drinking directly out of it. Someone else called me a «gringa» on my way to the bathroom (accurate, but still not really necessary). The bathroom was completely trashed – even more so than most bar bathrooms…
Needless to say, I don’t think I’ll be making a return trip. I’ll leave it to the regulars to enjoy.

Reif’s is a chill neighborhood bar. They have a big pool table area and a great outdoor picnic area.
This bar does not have an NYC vibe. It’s a dive bar where everyone talks to each other. I like going for the cheap drinks and getting take out delivered to the bar.
I can see how other reviewers could think this place was creepy. I don’t think so, I’d call it friendly locals and the opposite of a douchey bar.

3.5 stars…
If it wasn’t for their dirty lines making all the tap beers taste gross, not fresh, and not even that cold, I would have given them a higher rating. Prices for most beers on tap are $ 6, a little much for such a divey place but well within reason for the city. Bud Light drafts are $ 4 and $ 3 during Yankee games. After three attempts at draft beers I switched to bottles of which the selection is fairly slim but at least it’s fresh and cold. There’s no food but I’m sure they don’t mind if you bring some in.
The positive sides of Reif’s is that it’s a real neighborhood pub, low key, and old school. What other pub have you ever seen put together a fishing trip and open it up to anyone in the neighborhood who wants to go? The music playing when I was there was amazing and the best two features is their pool table ($ 1.50), and a surprisingly clean and large back yard patio (which closes at 10pm). This might be the most underrated outdoor patio in the city and hopefully it stays that way.

Feels like a dive bar but you go to the back and there is a nice patio area. I like it… fees like a great place to go and feel at home!

Great neighbor hood bar. Friendly bartender with friendly regulars.

DO NOT GO HERE ! It’s a creepy bar. A sausage fest of old men and the owners daughter is equally as weird ! If someone harasses you there… Do not expect support from her ! Creeeeeeeepy. Bars of the Rails is around the corner and is much more fun ! Better crowd and the manager hugged me and bought me a drink after my bad experience at reifs ! This is the 3^rd time I gave them a chance. Doesn’t even deserve 1 star

Cool place– great patio out back where you can BYOF and rent a grill for around $ 50. They played great music he whole time we were there. Perfect place for a relaxed get together

A great, utterly unheralded dive behind a non-​descript doorfront on 92^nd tucked just inside the horror that is the Second Ave Subway construction.
When you want a legit, non-​douche dive this is the spot.
4 stars + 1 star for $ 10 buckets of six Budweiser nips. Who’da thunk it?

Such an odd bar. Without the backyard this place is probably a 3-​star kind if joint but that patio and grill is awesome. Beers are fairly priced for NYC and the vibe inside is warm in it’s own unique way (but kind of vanilla). All around a decent place to grab a drink — especially in the summer.

There is something so inherently awesome about this place. Beer is cheap ($ 5 whattttt!!!), the backyard is open and airy, and the people/​staff are super chill. It’s dive-​y in all of the right ways.
I used to live a few doors down from Dorrian’s. Luckily, that era has ended, and I am more than happy to deem Reif’s my local bar of choice.

I was at Reif’s for the July 4^th BBQ. There are two grills in the backyard.
The grill used to be first come first serve. But, now you have to call to reserve your spot. Come to Reif’s you’ll be drinking with senior citizens and I think this is one of the bars in New York City that is only locals to hangout.
To me there’s one thing special about this place, that is the history of this old bar.
I might l visit again if I am in the neighborhood.

I love Reif’s! I live right next door, and this place has a very neighborhoody feel. Everyone is very nice and welcoming, drinks are cheap, and there’s a patio outdoors where you can grill!

Still awesome after all these years.

Nice little divey kind of bar a few blocks from where I live. Place has been around since the 1940’s and still has that look and feel. Mostly locals seem to patronize this little watering hole. Pool table, big buck hunter game, darts, cheap drinks, decent jukebox, and an outdoor patio area with a grill that you can use to bbq your own meats (need a reservation with bartender).
They also have some annual events like a Crawfish boil and fishing trip. You can also bring in some pizza from Delizia next door. A small selection of beers on tap and enough flat screens to catch the game on an afternoon. Definitely a throwback to the past kind of pub.