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Cherry Tavern
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Hours
Daily, 6pm-4am
Happy Hour
Daily,
6pm-8pm; $1 off drinks
Nearby Subway Stops
F, V at Lower East Side-Second Ave.; L at First Ave.
Payment Methods
Cash Only
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The Cherry Tavern allows the unpretentiously thirsty to carry on with excellence the vanishing East Village tradition of shooting pool, getting drunk, getting phone numbers and going home. Poker-playing-dog pictures, '70s porno-mag-style wood paneling and furniture just comfortable and sturdy enough to keep you off the floor make this tiny room so loser-friendly it's hard to believe you're not in Red Hook. Here the chatter is still about band gigs—not stock options or real estate ventures. Both pool table and jukebox get a decent workout beneath the kind of flattering, subdued red lights that have caused many improvised dates to fail the daylight test the next morning.
Trademark DrinkTijuana special (Tecate beer and a tequila shot), $5
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