Monday, December 4, 2017

Donner and Blitzen's Reindeer Lounge opens for the month in the former No Malice Palace space



The former No Malice Palace space on Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B is now home to a pop-up holiday bar called Donner and Blitzen's Reindeer Lounge. They opened on Friday, and will close on Jan. 1

Via the bar's website:

We've decked the halls with pop-up magic and stuffed your stockings with craft cocktails and mulled wine. Fire places, grandma's quilts and xmas decorations galore... a visit to this heard's house party will make your Insta-Story lit.... we're not kidding, there are a ton of lights. Don't forget to grab a photo-op in front of the custom "Reindeer Playing Poker" mural in the back yard! Whether you have a last minute holiday party to plan or just need to get your yule-tide on, Donner and Blitzen's Reindeer Lounge is your home away from holiday ho-ho-ho... you get it.

The cocktails ($13) include Zuzu's Petals, Elf Nog and (seriously) Nog-Gonna Make to Work Tomorrow.

A feature on the bar in Metro notes, "The decor inside the East Village bar looks as if all the twinkle lights wrapped around the trees and houses in suburbia had been brought inside instead; let’s call it Enthusiastic Dad."

This is the second pop-up holiday bar to open in the East Village this season. Mace, the cocktail bar on Ninth Street near Avenue C, goes by Miracle on Ninth Street during this time of year. (Same bar, just with Christmas decorations.)

No Malice Palace never reopened after the death of its owner, Phil Sherman, in November 2016.

9 comments:

JQ LLC said...

I hope Bad Santa shows up to kill the vibe.

Anonymous said...

How does one get a "pop up" liquor license? Is any available storefront a potential 4 week bar?

Anonymous said...

As if one day of Santa Con wasn't bad enough, we get these stupid temporary bars to accompany the oh-so-holy holiday season. Since when did Christmas = bars?

Anonymous said...

What about Dasher and Dancer? Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid - what are they? Chopped liver?

Glenn said...

Yet another example of how hopelessly square and infantilized the EV millennial demographic is.

Anonymous said...

Do they not recall the most famous reindeer of all? How is it that there is no pop up bar named after him.


First, all of the other reindeers used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph, join in any reindeer games. East Village used to be place for those who have been marginalized. Now even Rudolph can't join in any pop up bar names.

The target patrons for this must have been very good for pop up bar's sake since Santa is giving them plenty of moolah to afford those watered down cocktails.

And G-d bless us, everyone.


Anonymous said...

For the love of God... Santacon is metastasizing

Anonymous said...

Just when you think it can't get worse, this place comes along...

http://www.boweryboogie.com/2017/12/orchard-street-now-jingle-hell-fornicating-reindeer-pissing-santa/

Anonymous said...

While I was really against this at first (living a block away), the crowd has been calm. I went in and it's not the SantaCon obnoxiousness, it's actually really nice. I won't be there every week, but the cocktails are good and its a nice little dose of Christmas, if thats you're thing.