07/09/09

Best Beer EVER!

by belladiamondz

This bar is walking distance away from the Pavillion Movie Theather...while waiting for a movie to start we decided to go in and try one of their famous containers. Its basically tap beer....but im not going to lie its the best beer ever!!!!

I dont know what it is about the beer...but it beats anything I have ever tried.

You def must stop by this lil corner hole in the wall bar and try one of their containers...they are HUGE...think 7/11 BIG GULP size....and only $5.00!!!

• Pros: Cheap Good Beer...Enough Said!
• Cons: A lil run down...but that adds to the bar's charachter!

03/18/09

Should be closed down! Arrogant Owner. Flat Beer!

by GabeBrennan

In this day and age when every business under the sun is going out of business, why does Farrell's still exist?

The owner and staff are arrogant pigs!

The place is dirty!

As another reviewer mentioned previously, my "non white" friends were completely ignored and refused service. What year are we in?! How can this even be allowed?!

Do NOT support this place!!!!!

I'm not surprised there is a petition going around to get this place closed down. It can't happen soon enough!

If I could give it zero stars, I would!

• Pros: NONE!
• Cons: Too many too list!

03/03/09

The Best Bar in Brooklyn

by TimQMills

Farrell's defines Brooklyn; it is the quintessential Brooklyn bar. I'll describe a typical Tuesday summer evening. You walk in around 6PM and the Bar is already full; not packed, but full. Everyone just got off work and this is the first place they went before they go home. The Yankees and Mets pre-games are on the TVs. An FDNY 'proby' is sipping a gigantic foam cup of the most delicious and fresh Budwesier (the only beer they have on tap) while listening to a lifelong NYPD officer talk about how he saw Sandy Koufax at Ebbets field when he was a kid. You buy your own giant foam Bud for $5 and strike up a conversation with someone. You don't have to worry about talking over music or the TVs because there is no Jukebox and the volume is never on the TVs; encouraging discourse over distraction. The games start and someone is calling the Yanks a bunch of prima donnas and someone else calls the Mets a bunch of wimps. The bartender converses with someone who has been coming there for 35 years. Someone complains about their job; someone else praises theirs. Someone yells about how A-Rod is a mook then claps when he hits a HR and laughs about it. A few people leave and a few more who work til 7 show up. You continue your conversation with a complete stranger as you order your second Bud and realize why you love coming to this place. You go home and eat dinner and watch the rest of the game before you go to sleep and get up to do it all again tomorrow.

• Pros: Cheap, delicious tap beer and the best atmosphere for baseball in Brooklyn
• Cons: None

01/22/09

Terrible

by facthead

I went there with a non-white friend once. The bartender came up to me, took my order and totally ignored my friend. He made it pretty clear he didn't want him there, so we left and haven't been back. If you value diversity I would recommend skipping this place.

• Pros: none
• Cons: bartender discriminated against us

12/16/08

For all the Yuppies complaining about the greatest bar in Brooklyn

by FarrellsSoftball

GET OUT! No one asked you to move here. We don't want you here. The bar has been there before you were even born, let alone been living here. IF YOU DON"T LIKE IT GO AWAY!!!!! Go back to the mid-west.

You are guest here and always will be. No matter how long you yups are here you will never be Brooklyn.

• Pros: Greatest Tap beer ever!
• Cons: Yuppies complaining and trying to close down something that will mean more to BK then they every will.

09/23/08

Good times

by Kanuc

Around 1982 I ran into some dudes (Tim & Rich )from Brooklyn while in Montreal, They drove back the next day and brought my friend and I with them. We went to Farrells bar and those guys went back to work ( New York Telephone) that week. My buddy and I would come back to Farrells bar every evening before we went back to Canada. Stood out on the sidewalk with the paper cups and shot the s**t with all kinds of Brooklyn people. Rich brought us to his house for dinner one evening to meet his mom and aunt . IThey laughed at me because there were steel garbage cans out and they had a chain on the top which I thought was to keep them from being stolen. We use bags, here. It seems that Farrells bar was the meeting place for those guys at New York Telephone and anyone looking for some good times.

We (my wife and I)are coming back to Brooklyn and will be stopping by Farells for sure.

09/04/08

Best bar;best beer

by bayridgea

Great bar. Haven't been there in twenty years. When I went they didn't like to serve women at the bar. From everyone's description it still sounds like the same place except the quart used to be paper and $1.00. Great place. The retard who doesn't like it can go eat some salmon puffs in Manhattan. Most of the guys I hung out with there are now lawyers or successful businessmen.

• Pros: Good cold beer. Regular people

08/28/08

To the guy who posted the last rating

by rswenson390

To the person who posted before me,

I would be willing to bet everything I own on the fact that:

a) I am much more intelligent than you are, and

b) I am much wealthier than you

As a lifelong patron of Farrell's,I am personally insulted by your post. The next time you call someone a lowlife, why don't you try doing it in person as opposed to over the internet? Something tells me you don't have the stones to do so.

08/28/08

home to the real Brooklyn

by ihateyuppies21

Hey Farrellssucks you obviously are not from the neighborhood, here is a recommendation...LEAVE!!!!

I have been going to Farrells with my friends for over 10 years and plan on doing so for another 50. Don't worry you will be living in the new "hip" place in 5 years and pissing off another neighborhood with a history going back generations, that you will destroy.

I raise a container to all my Farrell's brothers and sisters

• Pros: great time with friends
• Cons: Yuppies and hipsters in the neighborhood

08/22/08

Smelly bar, unpleasant crowd, bad neighbor

by Farrellssucks

This bar's redeeming quality seems to be their enormous portions of cheap beer designed to attract the kind of people who drink to get drunk quick and act out all of their anti-social tendencies and aggressions caused by being at the bottom of both the socio-economic and intelligence scales.

Drinking outside is encouraged, as is screaming and yelling at all hours of the night, whatever day of the year.

If you want to hang around jobless societal leeches who don't have to get up in the morning to work, this is the bar for you. Also good if you like to mix your 32-ounce Bud with a few tokes on a joint under some child's bedroom window. The place also attracts cops and firefighters and, on this basis apparently thinks it's above the law. If you want to go and see what our Bravest and Finest are really like off duty, this place will make you wonder whether we really should be raising their salaries, rather than encouraging all of them to go live and work in New Jersey.

• Pros: If you are an a**hole, you will find lots of people just like you here
• Cons: Its very existence