Gramercy Ale House — Restaurant in New York

Service was great and beer was cold, but I'm going to call it as I see it - it's 2024 and you're selling cheap, bottom of the barrel beers for $8+, you don't need to nickel and dime with a 2.5% credit card fee as well. I will absolutely, positively never return to this place on principle alone. Grow up and bake that fee into your pricing like the rest of the planet. You wanna offer a discount for cash, go ahead. But if you can't figure out how to price your menu properly at this point, you deserve to fail in business. No matter what your POS or merchant services sales rep tells you, all the data in the world says not to do this. If the data suggested it was a good idea, every major restaurant would do it. All it says to me is that whoever runs this place doesn't understand the core tenets of hospitality, probably treats their employees poorly and definitely cuts corners. The HD cameras pointing into the bathrooms also suggest the same. Again, the staff were fantastic, but when there are literally thousands of places to get a beer in the city, why would I return here to be squeezed? Also, illegally charging tax on a borderline illegal service...

Poor excuse for an establishment. They have board games behind the bar, I asked a fellow patron to reach up and grab me a game. As he was reaching up, the bartender comes over and shoves him aggressively, spills his drink all over him. Bartender’s defense is “no one is allowed behind the bar”. I said, that’s an excuse to assault somebody? Also, they refused to give me a game, said they are looking to close soon. Mind you they just gave someone Connect 4 a few minutes beforehand. It’s 12:30 on a Saturday and still loads of people coming into the bar. Not sure what their problem is or why they’re so miserable. The whole team was unprofessional and should be ashamed...

Oh, wow! After all the renovations, it's amazing how this bar managed to transform itself into yet another generic watering hole for the basic bros of Murray Hill. Now you can enjoy the ambiance of endless sports on flat TV screens, just like every other bar in the universe. The outside used to have some character, but let's be real, who needs that when you have the opportunity to watch every single game ever played, 24/7?

And don't even get me started on the clientele. These toxic sports-obsessed frat boys and their bruh-ettes who pretend to know what a touchdown is just to cozy up to the guys? Please! They're infiltrating and destroying...