The Recovery Room Sports Bar — Restaurant in New York

Extremely rude staff. Don’t want to bring race into it but do yourself a favor and don’t go to this spot if youre a person of color. My group of friends and I walk in to go seat ourselves and as we’re about to sit, the security asks us for ID (which of course is no problem) we all take out our IDs, but this guy then proceeds to tell us we need to go back outside (red flag #1- if you knew you needed to check IDs, you should have been posted at the door, not allowing anyone to enter, let alone allowing us to get sooo far into the establishment) anyways, we go outside and the security quizzes EVERYONE on what their name is, their date of birth, address and even asked my husband to spell his last name and told him to “stop sounding like [hes] effing guessing”. We ended up leaving after he checked the IDs cause obviously we were not going to give our money to this establishment.. I am sure he didn’t do this to his fellow Caucasian folks in the bar but to a group of brown, highly respectful adults, it’s a...

This is a bar with a LOT of potential. We ended up there at a bad time as their radio was down and their taps weren't working, and they had a large event the night before. However, this does not take away from the fact that it has a really good regulation pool table, and a safe area where you can play darts. The owner is very friendly and entertaining. For a local bar it has a homey feel and the people seem genuine. The pours are good and the service is too. I plan on coming back and hope to increase my star rating upon...

Pauly gave my boyfriend and I the best experience of our lives. Not only was he so welcoming, he was so generous & treated us like we were regulars. We go to a dive bar back home just like this and they made us feel like home. Pauly was an absolute amazing human being and deserves the absolute most. 10/10...