Billymark's West

Last time I was in Billymark's West, with its percolating undertone of laid-back conversation and upper layer of cool, hit songs you remember singing in the shower way back when before you got all stiff and concerned with life, I remember thinking that this is the sort of place Hemingway must have been in when he talked about the whirl and gentle tug of happiness with the walls spinning and spinning while you sip the drink in front of you, surrounded by good people and their quiet comfortable lives. I suppose our lives aren't always quiet and comfortable, but when you're at the bar with one of the Penza's serving you drinks and chatting it up, it just seems that way. Besides, McSorley's is a run-down price-inflated teeny-bopper bar that's lost any character that artists like Edward Hopper and John Sloan endowed it with decades ago. So don't go there. Pros: The Bartenders, The Clientele, Inexpensive Cons: No Taps more

Once you hit the front door you feel it, it's that feeling you get from good people, great music and total escape.Talk about getting away from the everyday do's and dont's in Billymark's no one cares. It's a step into time,when it was a good time. Pros: great music, come as you are, good barkeeps Cons: to far from ocean more

Once you hit the front door you feel it, it's that feeling you get from good people, great music and total escape.Talk about getting away from the everyday do's and dont's in Billymark's no one cares. It's a step into time,when it was a good time. Pros: great music, come as you are, good barkeeps Cons: to far from ocean more