10/17/09

KARAOKE EVERY THURSDAY!

by Bobby Service

We host KARAOKE every Thursday night at the Alligator Lounge from 10pm til 2am. Over 10,000 song choices, and totally free.

Nope, we don't accept tips. Just come and sing your butt off. Even if you've never done karaoke, we'll hold your hand!

You can even find your song beforehand at our website: newsoundkaraoke (dot com).

Your hosts,

Black Waterfall and Bobby Service

• Pros: Free, drop dead gorgeous hosts, no tips, smart sexy crowd.
• Cons: Wish it could go on forever but ends at 2am.

03/20/09

Great mixing kettle. brick fired and chill

by JohnnyQPublic

Re: babies. I'm pretty sure you can bring your babies in there and the manager/bartender wont care as long as you are guardian, but WHY would you bring your kids into a bar? I've been a bartender for a long time and have never heard of the "policy" of not allowing people to bring their babies into a bar, but I do know of the 21+ law applied to all bars. And you are still technically bringing in a minor. This isn't the midwest where you know your sheriff. The cops are draconic around williamsburg when it comes to minors. Also By bringing your child in there you are just endorsing smoking and swearing and debauchery. So you can have a free pizza?

I think there are many things that you can do with a child that don't involve a bar. On the other hand if thats the sort of example you would like to set for your child. Hey it's a free country.

• Pros: best free pizza in town
• Cons: the mix can be irritating

12/30/08

A BAR THAT DOESN'T ALLOW BABIES??? Sounds like umm a bar-duh

by ts80

Well sorry but a lot of bars do not allow children/babies into their bars. Perhaps you can start a bar that is baby friendly!!! Sounds like a great a idea-Have a place where hipster parents can bring in their children and drink. I don't think you will win any Parent of Year awards by starting this trend. Sorry, call me old fashioned, but sort of getting tired seeing Williamsburg parents acting like 21 year olds by bringing in their children into bars and then getting angry/distraught when they are not allowed. By the way, right across the street there is a pizza place and also two blocks away-perhaps that is the proper place to have children eat because children shouldn't think its the norm to see mom and dad drink at a bar during the afternoon. By the way ask the manager next time-he will tell you the same thing. And I really doubt, the bartender saw you with your baby going up to the bar, let you order the beer and pizza and then said you had to leave. Doesn't make sense. If you didn't want to give up your drinking in a bar phase, perhaps you shouldn't have had children.

• Pros: Free Pizza
• Cons: Hearing the "You can have whatever you want" song

12/26/08

Free Pizza AND we invite mom's and kids.. response to Malibu Ursie

by JohnAlligator

Malibu Ursie .. please ask for the manager in this instance. As an owner, I can tell you this isn't policy, just an out of line bartender. You can curse the darkness in citysearch, but it doen't get fixed until you talk to the management !

11/06/08

I liked this place until I had a baby. Completely unfriendly!!

by malibu_ursie

They kicked me and my friend out this afternoon with our 11-month old babies. 6pm, maybe 6 other patrons in the joint. They didn't refuse us service, though. They let us come in wearing the babes (no strollers), order our pints, pay and tip (!), and receive our pizzas. Then the bartender brings us a pizza box and asks us to leave because they don't want children. My baby likes pizza, that's why we went there.

Before you ask, our kids weren't being unruly or crawling on the floor or making any noise at all. They were sitting on the private banquette with us, waiting for the pizza to cool and drinking water.

I can understand bars not wanting babies in them, kind of, but this isn't the midwest. In NYC, kids are the norm in all establishments before things get crazy later in the evening. Whatever, right? I hope Alligator is doing so well that they can afford to lose my business, my friends' business and the business of everybody who reads the local mommy forums where I posted this story.

FYI: Harefield Road, at Metropolitan and Graham, pours a much better pint of Guinness anyway.

• Pros: everybody likes guinness and pizza
• Cons: irish (babies) need not apply

02/13/08

In response to Tijuanadonkey's review

by Hymburglar

I read tijuanadonkey's review and have to say it's just flat-out narrow minded (I'd say a word that starts with an R and rhymes with Bassist, but citysearch won't let me. weird.). He's basically saying, "This place would be great, but there are Mexicans and they scare me. I want to go back to Barcade, where only white people like me hang out." He seems like the kind of guy who looks at people painting a house and then wonders why on earth they don't just live off their mommies and daddies, then goes and paints a picture to express his sadness and anger at the world because Mommy didn't deposit his allowance yet.

That being said, I've never had a bad time at the Alligator Lounge. The pizza is good, the beer decently priced, and the music good. It can get crowded at times, but not any more than any other bar. It's not a place I'd spend an entire night at, but a great place to have a pitcher or two and some pizza while talking with a friend about anything. I really can't complain about anything, so I'm giving it five stars.

08/27/07

Avoid when crowded

by tijuanadonkey

ALLIGATOR LOUNGE has the potential to be the second best bar in Williamsburg. The best is and will remain BARCADE where video games rule. ALLIGATOR on the other hand is great because unlike many of it's contemporaries is not pretentious. Most 'Burg bars refuse to stock everyday beers like Budweiser and Coors. They also refuse to have a television, both of those things are too "common." Maybe the proletariat enjoy watching mundane banalities like a game after a hard day of work, but that's for the peasants they feel. This bar refuses to go along with that. Actually, they take the ethic of giving people what they want to the next level. They offer free pizza, yes, FREE. All you have to do is buy a beer and a delicious brick oven pie is yours.

I went this Friday to see a new addition. Bands, the seldom used back room is now offering live music. Awesome. I hope this trend continues. My only complaint in this department is the lack of air conditioning in the back. But I love the tiki motif, too bad some piece of doodoo decided to tag up the back wall. Speaking of the feces people, this is the one thing that demotes the bar. The crowd is diverse, unfortunately in a neighborhood that includes many mestizo residents that means some of these two legged vermin will come by for the free grub. Standing outside the bar I witnessed one large specimen assaulted some poor patron coming out of the bar with his girlfriend. In true scumbag fashion the subhuman landed a massive shot to the head of the guy while his back was turned. I give to the girl credit as she started swinging at the back peddling human dung heap. He walked away. Best was the yard ape standing outside pretending to be a bouncer. Between bites of his sandwich and ogling all he could muster at the savagery he was responsible for handling was a few halfhearted "Yo, yo, yo's." Worthless. Too bad because if you take away this element, ALLIGATOR LOUNGE will be the second best bar in Williamsburg.

• Pros: free pizza, good beer
• Cons: low life clientele at night

02/25/07

Good nabe vibe.

by kaplack

Cool place to hang out friendly staff, good pizza, nice decor. Free pizza and good pizza with a beverage, is that cool or what. Check out the back room vibe too.

08/02/06

Free Comedy show & Pizza on Tuesday nights

by uandme2gether

Pretty much has everything you would want in a local bar. (Pool table, juke box, good people). The 2 unique things about this place are: A FREE COMEDY SHOW & FREE PIZZA on Tuesday nights. The comedy show is in the back room & starts about 9:30. Not all the comedians were great, but what we got for FREE, was quite entertaining & fun. Some of the ethnic comedians were unique & very funny. I'd like to go back to see the Free comedy show again. It's a night better than staying home & watching TV. After the show we had more fun meeting other people and even talked to a few of the comedians on the show. The great thing about it was NO Cover Charge & No drink minimum enforced like they do in the comedy clubs. The Free Pizza was ok also. It's not the best pizza, but again, it's free.

• Pros: Free comedy show & Free pizza on Tuesday nights
• Cons: Could use a better microphone system in the back

07/05/06

It's not a "croc"--the pizza really is on the house at this island-themed neighborhood bar.

by Kara Zuaro

Pink flamingoes and swimsuit-clad mannequins jut from the walls at this pizzeria-cabana club-sports bar. Free food is the great equalizer for a friendly mixed crew of artists in paint-stained overalls, local ladies shrink-wrapped in tube tops and tight jeans, and neighborhood dads in baseball jackets. Though the pies are free, the toppings will cost you ($2 for the first, $1 for each additional). Groups crowd into booths and wash down slices with well-priced pitchers of Guinness and Stella or get more beer for their buck with pitchers of Rheingold. Regulars shoot pool and watch sports at the bar, and an easygoing rock jukebox--spanning from Steely Dan to the Shins--aids the digestive process.