Oh, Bar Akuda (sung to the tune of Heart's "Barricuda").
The sports bar-restaurant at 16 First Ave. between East First Street and East Second Street is looking closer to opening.
Bar Akuda is the latest from the owners of Murray Hill's Mercury Bar and Tonic East, among others. No word yet on an opening date for the space, which will serve lunch, brunch and dinner.
The address was previously home to Sutra Lounge.
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Woo!!!
Whoa Bro! Can't wait to get drunk and coked up with my mates and fight in there and on the sidewalks and up the street home.
making the jager bomb fried chicken bar not look as bad now. Yikes.
They missed the "F" in the middle: it's BARF AKUDA.
oh yeah, just what we need, more thporths barz, watch the corporate thrports with their corporate intoxicant thponsers!
Love the comments on this particular thread. Thanks for the laughs in the face of yet another miserable sports bar, Anons. and Giovanni.
The last thing I would like to see is the owners of fucking TONIC opening up a place here. Jesus.
sigh.
Heart reference= Groan. & yeah I fucking bit.
This used to be one of the most East Villagey blocks, ever. and now...all gone. Grateful to have experienced it in the 70s and 80s. I understand that places undergo a metamorphosis every now and then. But sometimes, during such an undertaking, more is lost than gained. On the NW corner of First and First, there was a place called 'First on First'. The most integrated bar I've ever been to in the EV. That was around 1977 - 78. my memory is fading.
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