The Whiskey Rebel

Heart this bar! Amazing bartenders! Nellie is fab! Patrons are fun and Fish is very welcoming as a patron

Great bartenders! The drinks are reasonably priced and enjoyable. Great atmosphere and the popcorn was a hit. Make sure to look up for the dollar bills!

This is perhaps one of the most epic dive bars on planet Earth. From the amazing bartenders, cheap shots, awesome music and great popcorn no shit bar is better!

Great dark dive bar. Not crowded on Saturday night which is cool. The bartenders both female had really large breast shown off in low cut lace tops, but they were only friendly as they needed to be, hardly a smile out of either

No hip-​hop on their Juke Box as if they don’t invite culture… Then they hire DJs that come in and play Hip-​Hop. Popcorn is free, but who goes to a bar to eat popcorn. This bar is for cheap Bud Light Bros… Plenty of better bars in the area…

Solid dive bar.
Plusses!
Free popcorn. Fuck yes! I love popcorn and I like snacks when I drink whiskey. Easy on the salt there though ladies, not trying to OD on sodium. Seriously tho, this makes me happy.
Decent place to watch sports.
$ 5 pickleback shots too (altho the jame-​o tasted a tad watered down when I had em…)
They have ginger beer! I love moscow mules, so this makes me pretty happy too.
Music is pretty decent as well.
My only real gripe is:
Whiskey is in your name and your whiskey prices kinda stink. The low end ones don’t have low end prices.
Anyways, I’ve been here a couple times, I’ll be back a couple more.

Nice spot for after-​work happy hour and even on the weekend. Just make sure you either eat before or go somewhere else for post-​drink meals… they don’t really serve food except for free popcorn. But overall, it’s a great casual spot.

Let’s preface this review by saying I am old and staid these days. Got that? Good.
ANYWAY…I have a girlfriend who is enamored with this bar and a few others in this area. So when we were too lazy to look for a place for drinks, we fell back on her favorite dive, Whisky Rebel. We came here on a Tuesday. In my opinion, you avoid the crowds and a-​holes in general when you do things on a random weekday in NYC. Meaning Mondays and Tuesdays only. People are still recovering from the weekend and the start of the work week on Mondays and Tuesdays but they are ready to start it all over again come Wednesday.
We mainly came out to have a few drinks and catch up. The same thing we talked about 6 months ago was the same thing we talked about that same night. Nevertheless, it was still good to get together and Whiskey Rebel on a Tuesday evening was the perfect place. Drinks were reasonable by NY standards, the place was not quite empty, but it was far from crowded. We were able to talk without shouting and most importantly, I did not have to take drastic measures to get a damn drink. All I had to do was approach the bar, find an opening, get my drink, and pay. Took me about 2 minutes.
As a bonus… the music was good. I mean, who doesn’t like hearing the Top 20 and other mainstream music while drinking reasonably priced alcohol and catching up with girlfriends? Well if you don’t then i have no words for you buddy. No. Words.
Aslo as others said, there is free popcorn. Is it delicious? I have no clue. There are some things I just won’t do. Like nuts and popcorn at a bar.
To sum it up, this place was perfect for what we had in mind. I will be back. maybe (on a random weekday, of course).

Are you interested in a bar that is rank and dank and dimly lit? Very little space, themost disgusting bathrooms ever in life and very little air conditioning? Yes, this place has it all. But I don’t mind it.
There are a couple redeeming factors in play here that are important to note.
The free popcorn is tasty! And FREE! So all you cheapos out there, rejoice. The bartenders are super nice and super speedy. They are great at handling throngs of people pushing up to the bar and being cool, nice and swift to hand you your beverage. They do buy backs! Actual, honest to god, buy backs. We were there about three hours one night, a group of about 10 of us, ordering beers, vodka and shots. They bought us a round of beers. Awesome touch. The final thing that I like about this place is the music. It’t great! It’s all 90’s hitlist and 2000’s hit list. I got to sing to Britney, Spice Girls, Eminem, ect. This of course made us dance around, stay longer than we should have and order more drinks.
I’m not usually in the mood for this sort of vibe, but when I am, this dive delivers.

If you’re having the post-​college blues, this is your spot. The drinks are cheap. The people are sloppy. They play loud electronic music. They give you free popcorn. There is a fog machine for no reason.

If you want to be ignored by a bartender then this is your place! If you get the bartender’s attention first give yourself a self high five then be prepared to not have any verbal communication and just to get awkward stares like you have 6 heads. Actually I just want to order a drink. Also «well» liquor a are a foreign concept to the bartenders here.

So I walked into the whiskey rebel the other day and found out Priscilla no longer works there what a sad day

I think the overall vibe of whiskey rebel is pretty cool. I’ve been hit on by some creeps here moreso than other bars, but there are creeps at every bar.

Continues to be one of my favorite places to go for drinks in the city. I made a special stop when I was in town for my bachelorette party and was not disappointed. Wish I could bring it to FL!

Came here for happy hour with friends and snagged the best seat in the house — a big booth by the window. Drinks are reasonably priced and for being a crowded bar they made a very satisfactory version of my favorite go to drink: a mojito. They don’t sell food, but do provide bowls of delicious popcorn AND allow you to order outside food to eat there. Kind of an interesting scheme which ordinarily I would have found very clever, but if you show up hungry like we did it’s disappointing to not be able to order any apps right away.
Bottom line: nice causal ambience, great stop for some happy hour drinks but don’t show up hungry!

Dive bar, nice Eastern European staff.

Free popcorn. Need i say more?
The drinks are moderately priced, although I’d recommend downloading Price Per Pint to check to see what specials they have every night. The table in my back is my favorite for playing beer pong, flip cup, and more. The bartenders aren’t thrilled when you ask for plastic cups to play games, (because it’s a little bit of extra work for them to get the solo cups I guess…) but it’s part of the Whiskey Rebel experience and definitely worth it.
$ 5 picklebacks are a must have!

Daria is awesome! Popcorn is good. Beer is awesome (of course). Sports and everything legit!

Raucous, down-​to-​earth watering hole. Where else does the entire place spontaneously erupt into a fist-​pounding rendition of Somebody to Love at 2am?
Nowhere else.

They have a fog machine. I know some people think that’s very junior prom, but I love them so much that I own one and I don’t care who knows it. You feel twice a drunk when you’re stumbling around in fog, points for that.
The crowd was awesome, very friendly people. Easy to make friends, no creeps. Cheap beer, decent bathrooms.
They might have the BEST bouncer in the whole city. I know I got his name but it’s lost now, however he’s a really friendly, funny guy who could definitely have a side job bar tending if the mood strikes him.
My only peeve was that the bartender kept turning off the jukebox when she didn’t like the songs we pit on. It was after midnight on a Saturday, at which point the DJ or whoever packs it up and the people pick the music, but she wasn’t digging rock. She was still sweet, and she wanted to get people dancing, but I think it’s nice to have a balance in a sports bar anyway.
Great time overall, will be back.