This place is RACIST! I'm not usually one to pull the race card....
I try to believe I'm living in 2012 and NOT 1965 but sometimes I'm sadly reminded of my beautiful chocolate skin tone. My African American girlfriend & I went here on 3/24/12 because we heard about the $13 all you can eat crawfish. We planned all week to come here after participating in a fundraiser that morning downtown at First City Tower. We and our other 3 white girlfriends all met there to chow down on crawfish. Our white friends made it there before us, and were already seated sipping on drinks. We got there about 10-15 minutes later but the door man wouldn't let us in. He claimed we needed a reservation. In the meantime two young, good looking white girls were let in before AND after us. True, they could have had a reservation, or maybe already checked in, but the sign on the sidewalk only said ""$13 all you can eat crawfish"". The sign said nothing about ""reservations required or preferred"" (even though their Facebook page says they are preferred). Anyway, we proceeded to question the doorman about why we could not get in. We tried not to make a scene even though we did ask for the manager. BTW, we were appropriately dressed. While waiting on the manager, we called our friends, who told us they were already inside. They flagged us down from inside the bar. The doorman couldn't help but notice we were part of a large party and eventually let us in before the manager could come. More of our white friends, who came later, did not have a problem getting in. We have since flamed this place on Facebook and apparently Bronx Bar has a racist reputation. Needless to say our group is boycotting this place. We now go to the Mezzanine Lounge for all you can eat crawfish on Sundays. So said this happened in 2012. On a positive note, the crawfish there WAS good...the butter dipping sauce is phenomenal...and we put a big dent in their crawfish as payback for their 1960's treatment!
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