Frugal Feast #12

One step into the Copper Door (272 3^rd Ave and 22^nd St) and you already feel like you’re in a place where everybody knows your name. Advertised as a “happening after work sports bar”, we have found that Copper Door is the perfect place to kick it whenever we’re in Gramercy and need a burger.

Image from PubCrawls.com

I’m a girl who needs a 3pm pint as much as any New Yorker, but this isn’t why we’re spotlighting one of our favorite places to get drunk. Quite simply, the food is exceptionally better than anything you’d ever expect from a bar. Lunch specials are served daily from 1130a to 4p, and a $10 meal includes a Budweiser draft and some truly wonderful fries. Their waffle fries are the closest we’ve been to heaven in a very, very long time. Choose from bacon blue cheeseburgers, chicken avocado quesadillas, Texas brisket sandwiches (served with baked beans and pickles), beef sliders, chicken pot pie, fish and chips, and wraps of all types to take advantage of the lunch special. You’ll have to let me know how they are, since I have never wavered from the magnificent veggie burger. My starving artist college budget always made a sacrifice when it came to my Copper Door burger, and that is quite an accomplishment for any food establishment.

This is bar food like you’ve never tasted before.

Did we mention that the drinks and inexpensive and well made? Nothing ruins our day quite like a watery gin and tonic or a draft beer that’s 75% foam- and the weekly specials are good enough to program into your iCal. Happy hour runs from Monday to Friday, from 4p-8p ($5 cocktails, $3 Yeunglings, $2 off the craft beer of the week), Wednesdays offer a bottomless wine glass from 3p-10p, $10 pitchers are served every single day.

We’ve celebrated countless achievements here, from gallery openings to the end of exam season (and sometimes just a regular Wednesday afternoon), and I can whole-heartedly endorse this place as something more than your regular neighborhood bar. Highly recommend.

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