The Stonewall Inn — Restaurant in New York

Sharing my similar experience as user Cfoley who recently posted. My group of three arrived on Wed 9/3/25 around 5PM and closed out at exactly 5:24:17 per my receipt Invoice 28 trans #29. I was charged $39 for two amaretto sours and 1 whisky sour and left a $4 tip for $43 total.

As many people have stated, we were excited to visit this historic place that is deeply rooted in our queer culture. The vibes and area seemed pleasant and you could really feel the history of the place. However, the experience turned quickly sour(ironic I know) by the short blond haired women bartending at the time (I’m sure the same one that MANY others have mentioned here in the reviews).

Beware of this person.

At this point, if the owner of stonewall respond to similar claims to “take care of this” and “don’t condone this behavior” yet she continues to have the same attitude or be employed, than they are just as complicit in her horrid behavior towards people and customers in general. We had no idea what set her off but she treated us so poorly and I’m sure overcharged me (which I find to be the poorest and most pathetic of business tactics of a business. Is business really this slow that you feel to need to scam me out of a few more dollars? I digress)

Happy hour (which we were present for) has well drinks for $7 with a +2 for sour mix. So if my math is correct that would technically would $9 per drink for a total of $27 not $39. When I question this total not once but twice, she continued to have an aggressive, rude, and abrasive demeanor as if how dare I question her and the pricing she gave me when my questions were genuine and I was neutral and curious in my approach; neither rude or hostile. When I asked how it all math out as I tried to explain and rationalize above, she simply said “well THAT’S how we do things here” that the wells drink automatically jumps up to the full priced drink of $13 which gave me the $39 total. If that was the case, why wasn’t I informed as a patron BRAND NEW to this establishment?

I think she clocked we were visiting/tourist and felt she could get away with her lack of professionalism and slimy tactics with zero repercussions or accountability. Had I been aware of these “rules”, I might as well had gotten non well liquor for the same price as well had I been informed. Either she is completely incompetent in her role, wanted to scam me, or both. I feel that would strongly fall under her duties as an employee of this establishment, no? But, I guess it’s my fault for not asking what price each drink should be so lesson learned, but there was zero reason for her ugly demeanor and attitude as a paying customer and fellow member of the community. I wouldn’t have mind so much paying this (imo) up charge had she not been so unprofessional and ugly. If you have gotten this far, I thank you and hope to seen a fair warning to others who are excited on plan on visiting this location.

As a final message I wish to leave you:

I seriously hope some day she gets help. I hope she finds peace, love, and joy in her life that she so desperately needs. I hope I never have to live my life so miserably to treat another human as ugly as she did that evening.

I hope the stonewall owners take this as a final warning that they will continue to lose business if they don’t rectify this persons attitude.

I hope you the reader of this review take heed while entering this place and maybe avoid ordering a single drink (especially if she who must not be named is present). Go for the experience, take photos, feel the history of our ancestors, then book it out of there before considering ordering for the bar. (I wouldn’t doubt that after this they will begin charging a minimum of two drinks to even walk around and take photos.)

And a final message to you, the short blond haired woman: I hope from this day onward that you have every day and life you deserve. I’m sorry u are so angry and unhappy w your existence. I wish you the best & hope the ugly you leave behind is minimal. I hope ppl remember you furthest from...

So wow. The long story short of it is I was absolutely appalled at the way we were treated by the bartenders on Thursday evening (early Friday morning). We walked in at 2:30 a.m., were carded by the door man and told to have a good time. This is my second trip to NYC and my first trip to the Stonewall Inn. As someone who identifies as gay/queer, it was important for me to pay my respects on such a monumental weekend. But the good intention and fun stops there. Once we reached the bar, a female with brown hair in a pony tail and tattoos refused to greet us. We stood there and waited and waited and waited - the other bartender, a slender gentleman with longer hair, made eye contact not once, not twice, but three times and he also refused to greet us. After waiting 18 minutes, and being skipped over for many others at the bar, I finally asked the brunette, tattooed bartender if we could be served. She LITERALLY scoffed in my face, rolled her eyes, and stated "she was busy with other customers". (It honestly just got uncomfortable) She poured her drinks for this other patron and then proceeded to go to a gentleman (friend, they hugged at the end) at the side of the bar and lallygag, laugh and essentially "complain" about whatever it is she was upset by. It became super awkward. Very awkward To the point I stated to her, "I'm sorry, we are visiting and just want to get drinks, not sure what we did?" (Which was absolutely nothing, her and the other guy were rude the minute we walked up, why am I apologizing so you can do your job?) She continued to ignore me and act like I wasn't even speaking to her. So we thought, let's give it a few minutes, maybe she's busy. (HUGE benefit of the doubt here, I bartended for ten years and have never exhibited or extended such rudeness in my life.) At almost the thirty minute mark she finally says "what do you want?" We tell her and she pours two paltry drinks for my friend and I and immediately wants to close our tab. We close it, and because we understand these are people's livelihoods, we left a $10 tip. (She had no problem entering and keeping that though.) For one, I was completely unaware she owned the bar and could make judgement calls on when and why she wanted to or didn't want to serve drinks just because it's late, she's miserable or just doesn't want to serve strangers. Two, oh wait, she's not the owner, and thankfully I'm not either, because there is no way I would employ anyone like this on my staff. Read previous reviews here and on Facebook, you can be assured this isn't the first time and it certainly will not be the last. She was nasty and didn't deserve a dime and she knows it. Extending this behavior to other bar staff is also immature at best, I say this because the other bartender appeared newer. None the less, it's just common courtesy and doing your job, which is customer service, and it should have just come to him naturally. Hopefully you can look forward to whatever excuse she may extend to you for her rude behavior but if you have cameras, video, etc, by all means please view the footage, her actions speak for themselves. (She finally made us those (terrible) drinks, right? Absolutely no reason for the epic and childish meltdown she exhibited at the bar, especially on this weekend)

My review is for the bar staff only, not the inn itself, which had great patrons and good music, and...

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