Blue Haven — Restaurant in New York

This place used to be great, but the bouncer is so awful and mean to customers that there have been numerous complaints against him and the management has done nothing despite being aware of it. I was victim to this myself when I went to Blue Haven for lunch a few months back on a Sunday. I was too slow to show the bouncer my ID on the way back from the bathroom (I was sitting outside), so he kicked me out of the bar very aggressively actually getting in my face when I was surprised and confused.. we hadn’t even paid for our food and I did actually show him my ID (I’m in my late 20s). Confused, the server asked what was going on, and when I told her she said that the bouncer has a short a temper and can “be like that” with customers. The server got the manager, who came over and apologized to me and said my party could stay if we wanted to. Manager also offered to comp our food. We declined and canceled our orders and left. I suggested to the manager that she look into training the bouncer better or hiring one who does not try to instigate problems with customers. Later, some friends of mine told me they also had issues with this specific bouncer on previous occasions and had complained to management about it. It’s pretty crazy. Sometimes the situation at a sports bar can call for a tough bouncer. But a rainy Sunday afternoon (not football season) when there’s 12 customers in the entire place in eating lunch? Doesn’t make much sense. My guess is the ownership knows and doesn’t care because I haven’t seen them acknowledge any bad reviews before. I’ve been coming to Blue Haven for many years but no longer. Many nice, clean sports bars in the area that understand hospitality and where staff treat customers...

We were pretty hungry and hubby hadn’t liked any of my other suggestions. So I found this place and we gave it a shot. For atmosphere, it was exactly what we wanted - 5/5. There were only a handful of people at the bar, no one else at a table, candles and gymnastics on the TVs. It was loud without making it so we couldn’t have conversation. The bartender was British. All of this was awesome!

The food was fine. I appreciated the large portion size considering the price. We got the nachos with fried chicken and the bacon Mac & cheese. Heads up that the fried chicken is obviously a Fried breast that is chopped and many pieces don’t have a fried exterior (I was expected crunchy nuggets). And the breading on this was soft and falling off. Fail. The bartender suggested the pulled pork that has a bbq-like sauce. We probably should’ve gone with that instead. The Mac & cheese wasn’t the best I’ve ver had, but it was pretty decent.

We will definitely remember this place because of the great casual feel that we needed for our last night in town without the kiddos....

The place is really spacious and has plenty of space. We decided to sit on the bar as we just wanted some drinks and appetizers.

First of all they don't have a nice happy hour, with so many good bars around which offer a better happy hour, this place definitely lacked in a good HH options. We decided go for a glass, they were out of Merlot so went with Pinot Noir. It was like $10 bucks with tip during HH, don'y know how much they charge during non HH.

We got our drinks and me and my friend noticed that the glasses had a lot of stains and were dirty. When we asked the bartender said they are washed in dishwasher but still the glasses need to be clean. It grosses me out when a place serves drinks or food in utensils which are not clean. So in the end she got us new glasses.

We had the fries which were OK nothing special about them. I would avoid this place in future as there are a lot of better...