The Village Tavern

Great place to grab a beer and and watch some games. great selections of draft beer. Try the simtra ipa if you want a real hopping beer

This is the epitome of a west village dive bar. Great for casual sports watching. The crowd is a mix of young and old and it could get crowded but it gives a great vibe of just chilling and slowly getting wasted from watching your team win or lose. The music is fun and the bartenders are nice, trying to get everyone drinks as soon as they can. They also have a good wide selection of beers. Fun times.

Been coming here for years. Normally a great place, but tonight we ran into one angry bartender. She was quite possibly the rudest person I’ve met in my 14 years in the city, which is saying a lot. She was as nasty as they come. Fire her, and back to 4 – 5 stars.

Groups of colleagues like to go there, but it leaves me cold. They dont serve food, the interior is dull, and one bartendress there is severe and unfriendly. Go across the street to DaddyOs or Daddys or whatever — they have tater tots.

Stopped by here with my volleyball team on Monday around 9pm for drinks to celebrate one of the girls’ birthdays! Bartender was a bit cold, but friendly enough and served us prompty. It wasn’t too packed, but we ordered a pie from Bleecker Pizza and brought it in which is clutch.
They allow you to bring your own food since they don’t serve their own, which is great!

This place is a dive where draft beers are $ 8. Not the worst place, but why bother will all the options in the neighborhood.

Village Tavern reminds me of my college bar. It’s a very bro-​y crowd, especially on Thursdays. It’s always very very crowded here, whether it’s a Thursday or Saturday. (Which wouldn’t be such a terrible thing if it weren’t also so hot in here… on my most recent visit I found myself hanging out by the door in an attempt to catch a breeze.)
Music is decent, although the throwbacks tend to be geared for those a few years older than me (I’m 22). Well drinks are decently-​made and cost $ 7.50.
Advice: come early with a group and nab one of the few tables.

I have been coming to the Village Tavern for about 10 years mainly to enjoy a game of basketball or football. I have always found the staff to be super friendly, especially Ken at the door and Karen the bartender.
I was shocked today to be declined service. I requested a beer and in being told it was not available asked to sample an equivalent. The bartender poured a full glass and I mentioned that I had only wanted a sample. Not only did she refuse me service but asked her fellow blonde bartender to do the same. She then proceeded to really loudly and rudely inform me that I was no longer welcome here. I was perturbed that I was the only person of color at the bar when she mentioned this.
Ken made amends and bought me a beer but I remain shocked, offended and sadly will not returning and would not recommend Village Tavern to anyone.

Average bar with TV’s where people don’t bother you when you sit down by yourself can be oddly hard to find in NYC, especially the West Village. I don’t want a 5 minute mixed drink that costs $ 15. I don’t want the craft beer made in a wine barrel that costs $ 10. I want a beer, preferably a $ 4 draft Yuengling and no one to talk to me while I sit at the bar staring mindlessly at whatever game is on. The Village Tavern does this great 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time, it gets ridiculously packed with a happy hour crowd until 4am. If you’re trying to get some solo time, don’t go Thursday through Saturday. Otherwise, it’s perfect.

Really good beer choices and enthusiastic ambience. Much better than Dennehy’s. I will return to the Tabern.

Do not go here — unless you want credit card fraud. Went here during a rangers game last week, opened a tab and then closed it end of night. Three days later my bank calls me saying I have fraudulent charge on my card for over 2,000 dollars. Mind you, I had just received that card 3 days prior … When I asked my bank where and how — he said it was hard to tell where purchase actually happened because the charge was MANUALLY imputed. AKA Village Tavern bartenders (or someone who works there) took down my credit card info. Normally I would not put blame right away on a bar but my friend who came with me that night and opened up her own tab got fraud on her card THE NEXT DAY… same exact deal. Thanks for taking advantage of locals who come by for a rangers game. Great NYC pride here.

Divey looking sports bar in the West Village. Lots of young professionals here drinking on a Saturday afternoon. Bartender was super nice and friendly. It was empty towards the back where we sat and was a nice break from all the pre-mother’s day crowd outside.
Probably a lot of fun on Sundays during football season (or any other sports season). Will probably head back there if I’m in the neighborhood and looking for a quick drink.

It doesn’t get much more bro than this bar. Seriously, I’ve come twice, once to watch college football and once during the first weekend of March Madness. This place is the clash of the frat house and a JCrew ad. It’s like Ivy league bro post grad hollowed ground or something. With the occasional hot shitty mess girl woohooing it up, drunk stumbling, and spilling drinks on your expensive handbag. Skank! Oh, all on a Saturday afternoon. That said, if you can grab a seat at the bar, it’s a solid spot to catch a game.

I’ve been to village tavern a number of times. For my money it’s the best divey sports bar in the west village. Not divey in the sense that it’s dirty but in the sense that its not trying too hard. Beers are cheap and the playlist is on point.
The downside is that the bar is not very big so on the weekends it can sometimes get unbearably packed. When it isn’t at that level it’s always a good time. The crowd is young and looking to get drunk. Even when it’s empty they have huge tvs and you can play golden tee and buck hunter. Definitely a great place to watch a game. I’ve never had the food, or seen anyone eating the food for that matter, so I can’t speak to how that is. Regardless it’s still worth coming.

I wish this place didn’t exist, but it does. Imagine a typical crappy West Village college bro bar, and make it big. That’s basically what this place is. Shitty top 40 music and crowded. Drinks are decently cheap though ($ 8 each for a JD or Maker’s drink).

Old school bar, good selection of draft beers, back bar looked to have a good selection of spirits. No food. Stopped in mid-​week about 7:00. Place was quiet.
Maybe too old fashioned for the younger set. I was not all that impressed either.
More of a dive bar than a sports bar. Four flatscreens behind the bar tuned to different sports channels. Some game consoles on the opposite wall. Beep Beep.

We came here for one drink during Loodle-​palooza (our friend’s bachelorette party). It was SUPER packed and no one shifted over when we just tried to place a quick drink order at the bar. As a group of 7 girls, we were immediately bombarded by dudes… one even went so far as to turn to his buddy and tell him «shes mine» in front of me… about me. Erm, huh?
The girls all took shots of Fireball and I sipped some atrociously bad whiskey on the rocks… we changed into our 80’s clothes and got the efff outta there.
PS: the bathroom stalls were the size of a closet in a studio in Chinatown. And filthy. Lucky for us, the bouncer in the back let us change in the private back room instead of forcing us to do it in those stalls. Plus one star for those bouncers!

Possibly the worst bar experiences I’ve ever had:
— rude wait staff
— monumentally slow service (30 minutes to get menus, 20 minutes to take orders, 30 minutes for food to arrive, 30 minutes for check)
— cold, hard fries
— warm, flat beer (in $ 26 pitchers)
I’ve never reviewed anywhere before, but this experience compelled me to action.

Pretty generic sports bar… plenty of tvs, ok beer list, no food.
We had a good time drinking our face off there this past Saturday and they put on whatever games we requested. For that I will like the VT. Got more crowded as the evening got later and I suspect that if we stayed all night it would have been really crowded (can’t say what the crowd was like, seemed fine (–ish)).

Now there is Buck Hunter in HD? And I can pay credit?! Look at this fancy, modern world we are living in.
Other than that, this is a fairly generic, mediocre bar where I wouldn’t order anything out of the ordinary (if I were you). The location is the sole reason they pull any business, but it will get surprisingly crowded by the wee hours of a weekend morning.
I suppose they try and set themselves apart by allowing their bouncer to continuously smoke a cigar, ensuring they are the one bar in NYC that you can leave smelling like an ashtray.