Troost — Restaurant in New York

We had an unfortunate experience with an unhinged bartender last night! We were a group of 7, everyone bought drinks at the bar and we were sitting at a table in the yard. The bartender came out and noticed that there was a nearly empty beer bottle on the table. Hastily judging the situation, she aggressively snapped at us saying that they don’t serve that brand of beer and that she was going to add a $30 corkage fee to the tab. Fair enough, our bad! The one of us in the group who brought in the bottle is visiting from Denmark and wasn’t aware this would be much of an issue, especially seeing as though he was finished with it and we each bought drinks at the bar. Well, it turns out it was a major issue for this one bartender. In fact, instead of accepting our reasonable explanation and accepting the $30 corkage fee which we were willing to pay, she considered any sort of attempt to reason with her to be antagonistic and she told us our Danish friends had to leave. Extremely confused with this response, we all gulped down our full drinks, paid our tabs (still tipping 20%) and obliged. She easily could have handled the situation with a bit more understanding. We were not being loud, drunk, or rude. It was clear that this bartender (tattoos, permanent scowl) had some kind of axe to grind that night and the sight of an empty foreign beer bottle triggered her to randomly enforce a rule… in a place where no staff ever checks ID and patrons casually and openly do hard drugs. ...

The drinks are amazing, the atmosphere is beautiful, alot of locals who are very personable that may give you some advice if you are a traveler of brooklyn.

the only reason i had to give this place a 4 instead of a 5 star was the fact the bartender from Oregon kept projecting her personal issues to me as i was having drinks with my girlfriend. We started chatting with her and she mention she came from Oregon so my girlfriend asked what brought her here so she went on about how her boyfriend broke up with her and the drama in her life. Then after a couple drinks I asked what she does other then this and what shes passionate about, So she called me her dad and flipped out, I appologized and talked to some locals and she came back to talk about how rude I was and kept going on about it. Projecting all the personal problems she had working as a bar tender.

Anyway I would recomend anyone coming here, if you get a girl from Oregon, i recomend not tiping her very well but the drinks are well priced and very good.

5 out of 5 if anyone else worked there

4 our of 5 of the girl from...

We happened to walk by and decided to stop for a drink before starting our bar hopping from the brewery down the block. I fell in love with the place immediately; the decor, though in a small space, gave it a classy and comfortable vibe. The drinks were a bit overpriced, but I didn't mind since they were strong.

We noticed a lot of people heading to the backyard space, and our curiosity was piqued. When you walk out, you're initially met with a wall, but beyond that is a surprisingly large outdoor area with plenty of seating and lights. As we finished our first round of drinks and wanted to stay and enjoy the space, we were met with multiple rats running back and forth. A couple of them even started fighting, which really made us decide to leave for the next venue. I'd love to visit again, but I'm hesitant with the rats running around...