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Review from Matt M.
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New York, NY
4.0 star rating
7/22/2011

This is the end my friends.

I've gone and closed.

Goodbye neighborhood.

The most disgusting bar ever is dead.

The end.

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Review from lisa a.
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Brooklyn, NY
4.0 star rating
Updated - 7/19/2011

So long, you stinky, smelly, scary bathroom, 'Oh my god please guard the door so no one busts in on me!,' 'don't order a drink that comes in a glass', advised a friend who used to barback there, free drinks, cool bartenders, old punk rock, kick ass jukebox, many a fight broke out, hang out after ex-boyfriend's band played at the Continental (when it was a punk rock bar), tattered upholstered barstools, stumble out of there near 6am in 1999, bar.

i think you ran your course after i started to see gawkers, and NYU students there years ago.

i will think of you fondly. you can now join Coney Island High and CBGB's....

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Review from Eric H.
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Chicago, IL
5.0 star rating
7/19/2011

No! Say it aint so! Say it aint so!

One could posit that the ghost of Mars Bar will soon have their revenge served cold amongst the rest of the historical biting flies on the hide of The (dying) American Leviathan that killed the only true dive bar in America*******

But I do so solemnly swear, that when that USA wrecking ball made from imported Chinese steel slams into the side and crumbles this sacred space into sticks and stones, our American Empire's decline will become irrevocable marching forward in double time to our sealed fate as a nation of low waged servants.

Alas poor Mars Bar, I knew ye well. A TV-less Bar
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: it hath
borne me on it's back a thousand times while I drank liberally; and now, abhorred in my imagination it is!

******** before I have half of Louisiana( the living and the dead) breathing down my neck with righteous indignation and furious anger about the above label of America's best diver bar, Louisiana still holds the record of the world's best dive bar, so back off! and show some respect for this Eulogy!

Singed;

The Management!

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Review from Tom Z.
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Austin, TX
5.0 star rating
7/21/2011

I used to drink here when I was 15. They actually carded me when I was 25. If you dont like the bathroom go piss on the condos across the street. Cant believe this place is closed

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Review from Lauren T.
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Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, CA
3.0 star rating
7/18/2011 1 Check-in Here

I felt like I was in the inside of a urinal

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Review from Chris H.
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New York, NY
5.0 star rating
6/28/2011

Diveiest dive bar on the planet. Kind of punk/biker feel. Disgusting inside.

No beer on tap and they will probably spit on you if you order a cocktail.

No suits any where in that place.

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Review from Shea M.
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Hempstead, NY
5.0 star rating
6/23/2011

This dive bar to me is everything a bar should be. Rock on the jukebox (!) that's a little too loud. People I would never see in daylight laughing too hard over bottles too warm. Writing all over everything.

I couldn't stop looking around and I met some of the coolest nutters I've ever had the pleasure of talking about the future of the internet with, over the strongest gin and tonic this side of the Mason-Dixon line.

I heard this is getting torn down, which is a complete waste. I need a place to wallow a little and laugh a lot, this Mars Bar is perfect. I may resort to the sewers next.

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Review from Jeremy D.
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Brooklyn, NY
5.0 star rating
5/29/2011 2 Check-ins Here

Good times. It's a real shame they'll be tearing this place down. I'd say check it out before they do. Pretty much every square inch is covered with graffiti. When I went, I saw this crazy coked up dude get thrown to the floor by this other dude who seemed to be a regular or an off-duty employee or something. Later, this one girl spit in this other guy's face and the dude threw him out.
Ok, I don't always revel in seeing that sort of thing, but for some reason it just didn't bother me. I don't know what that means exactly. But I really like it here. Maybe because there's nothing faux about it. The lighting isn't planned out for maximum luxuriant impact. The crowd is there to drink and to be loud. There's crazy drawings all over. Shit yeah.

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Review from Stephanie S.
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New York, NY
5.0 star rating
6/16/2011

the best bar!
I'm furious this place is being torn down. More evidence NYC is being a giant mall - goddamn disneyland. The last of what the this city used to be

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Review from sandy c.
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New York, NY
4.0 star rating
4/21/2011

Punk is NOT DEAD!

It's alive and kicking at Mars Bar. Double sized shots for $6, and mixed drinks served in Styrofoam, jukebox filled with all the punk rock classics, sharpie graffiti on the walls, urine on the floor in the bathroom with NO DOOR LOCKS. I love this place, but couldn't bring myself to use the bathroom. Went in it three times, only to turn around and walk back out, "I don't have to go THAT bad." I've grown up since my punk days....

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb!

Smell the filth, throw back a few shots of Jamison, chant the lyrics to punk rock anthems.....a dirrrrrrty dirrrrrttty good time.

Cheers!

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Review from Amanda M.
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New York, NY
4.0 star rating
4/4/2011

The village is my all time favorite neighborhood in all of New York. I have always said that I want to live above "Search and Destroy" and eat "Pomme frites" for the rest of my days...

I have never been to Mars Bar because I am the stay-at-home type... My friend and I decided to head out to St. Marks for some udon... I decided that tonight I was going to drink and that I was going to try out Mars Bar... I have always been the Dive type... So, why not?

I walk in... WHOA... it was dirty, smelly, crowded, covered in graffiti, full of tattoos, etc.

I was a little hesitant that the patrons of Mars Bar were going to give me that "she doesn't belong here" look...

I had the most fun that I have ever had at Mars Bar... I was offered a seat on a chair that was torn up... I ordered plenty of beer... had a karaoke session with a drag queen... and danced the robot with a bunch of drunk people.... It was awesome.

This the ultimate Dive.

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Review from Don H.
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Parsippany, NJ
5.0 star rating
5/9/2011

It's small, dirty and crowded. No beer on tap and they will probably punch you in the face if you order a cocktail with more than 2 ingredients. So yeah it's perfect.

Where else can a group of 35-56 year olds wander in on Saturday night, have a great time and not feel like a chaperone at an NYU party....oh and the bartender insisted on seeing our ID's...including mine(yeah look at my picture)

If this bar is torn down for another soulless apartment building there is no god...oh shit I'm an atheist!

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Review from Joanna P.
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Brooklyn, NY
5.0 star rating
3/16/2011

I've never been kicked out of this bar. Even after spitting in some girl's hair. (SHE CUT THE BATHROOM LINE OK?) Great jukebox. Cheapppppppp drinkies. Tip Amy or I will find you...

So glad I got to hang out here before it's merely legend. If you're prude, use a restroom somewhere else first, as someone WILL walk in on you (no locks.. no handles actually) Saw someone hammer a nail into his urethra jim rose circus style on a thursday at 4 pm while the bartender looked on, bored to tears look in his eye.

So yea you get the gist?

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Review from Fallopia T.
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New York, NY
4.0 star rating
3/5/2011 3 photos

Fuck, I love dive bars; I went here with a friend last night to soak up the atmosphere. I couldn't help congratulating myself for not drinking, thereby avoiding the $6 draft beers--although I have to wonder: with all the money I've saved not drinking for over 20 years, why don't I have a house in the country or at least an IRA?

My 50-year-old friend got proofed and was offended; I guess they do it to everyone. I was reluctant to come here, but it was like Br'er Rabbit saying, "Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!" I get a contact buzz just from being there.
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Edit: Sadly, Mars is closing by the end of this month. "Thanks for the memories" is painted on the marquee outside.

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Review from Britton B.
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New York, NY
5.0 star rating
2/13/2011 1 Check-in Here

"A World Apart"

Mars Bar is a self-contained dystopia frequented by would-be graffiti artists, British expats, and homosexual queens named after large jungle cats, celestial bodies, and 80's hair bands.

In short: it is a perfectly unique, absolutely grungy, once-in-a-lifetime experience. Not a single abnormal phenomenon discovered within the dirty walls of Mars Bar could exist anywhere else. In the words of Hunter S. Thompson, Mars Bar is "too strange to live, too rare to die".

The lone bartender works with diligence to slack the thirst of the eclectic roster of patrons, at times joined by one local or another behind the bar. Make no mistake about this seemingly familiar and laid back ritual: you are just a visitor here, you are not family.

Most of the people at Mars Bar will tell you about how they have been coming here for 20 years. How the walls have been repainted over and over again, yet their signatures - etched in colorful Sharpie - have been reapplied over each fresh coat.

Some of them will sit on the bar, eyeing you like a delicate morsel or some rare delicacy, and then offer to blow you in the bathroom. Some will rant and rave about how America was once great, but is now damned and broken and nothing but a hollow shell of its former self. Others will tell you of those they have lost to drugs, AIDS, suicide, and murder. They will share with you lyrics from their unfinished songs, sonnets, and soliloquies.

It is a dark place, inhabited by souls and specters who have not yet realized they stand with one foot in the grave. They all have unfinished business, and every one of them seems unaware that dawn quietly approaches. With the sun comes life for the rest of the City, but for Mars Bar it brings only silence.

As day breaks and the shadowy figures seep back into the dark recesses of Bald Mountain*, you cannot help but feel as if the City itself has changed as a whole. Something sinister has exited the stage. A great beast has lowered its head to sleep.

The streets are cold and quiet, but there, on the corner, is a shack filled with oddly shaped spirits and an old jukebox; echoing the collective melancholy and loss back at anyone still listening.

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Review from Lana W.
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Brooklyn, NY
3.0 star rating
6/12/2011 1 Check-in Here

This bar kinda sucked. I always wanted to go there when I was walking by and finally did one day. I'm glad I did just to see that I haven't been missing anything. Bartender was kinda rude, drinks were expensive for being a "dive bar," ($4 for a tall boy of Lone Star I think), and it smelt like piss. Trust me, I usually don't mind bars that smell like pies because it goes with the territory (cheap drinks) but not if the drinks are even cheap. This place is closing down soon and it definitely shouldn't go on your closing businesses bucket list.

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Review from ryan n.
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Brooklyn, NY
1.0 star rating
6/29/2011

this place is a toilet.

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Review from Kunal M.
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Washington, DC
5.0 star rating
1/30/2011 1 Check-in Here

Mars bar is Special. The weirdest characters, cheap drinks, dark, nasty restrooms make this among the greatest dive bars in east village.

To come here make sure you have been to dive bars many times. This place is not for those with weak hearts.

Highly recommended dive bar.

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Charleston, SC
5.0 star rating
4/4/2011 1 photo 1 Check-in Here

Get here before it's too late! Great bar, great patrons, great music.

Sub par bathrooms, go in behind a dumpster before entering this LES dive.

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Review from Poison P.
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New York, NY
1.0 star rating
5/16/2011

assholes ! douche bags! drunkards! hobos! hot girls with daddy issues! and drug dealers gallore!

broken bottles in vomit and shit stains on the floor!

the drinks aint cheap, but please have sum mo!

once you get used to the heavy stench of old beer, and pee
youll find yourself wondering..
where else would i rather be???

come rot in hell! at the mars bar (now for a limited time only!)

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Review from Tonianne D.
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Brooklyn, NY
1.0 star rating
4/25/2011

When I go to bars, I drink alcohol. Drinking alcohol makes me have to pee. When I have to pee, I go find the bar's bathroom and I use it. I can't use the bathrooms at Mars Bar because they're fucking disgusting. So why would I drink there? I guess things like toilet paper aren't "punk rock" and neither am I.

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Review from JOSEPH M.
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Seattle, WA
5.0 star rating
5/23/2011

One of the true relics of when downtown used to be cool and far out. Weirdos to be observed, engaged with, or avoided at all hours. Bartenders are characters. Be careful who you talk to or you may end up having your ear talked off by a tweaked out pest. Awesome rock juke. Dirty, grimy, fully NY.

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Review from peter d.
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Brooklyn, NY
5.0 star rating
12/17/2010 1 Check-in Here

This bar has bottled up that uneasy subway feeling of "I hope that guy doesn't touch me, just in case that stench happens to be him."

If you stay longer than a drink, you'll realize that the stench is neither him, nor the guy in the corner, but rather the bar itself. If you stay longer than five drinks, you'll realize that you have now become part of the stench, and that the stench has become a part of you, if only for a little while.

But despite its olfactory issues -- or perhaps, in part, because of them -- Mars Bar has the remarkable distinction of being the only place I know that is never, ever boring.

And when it's gone, a small, but important piece of the city will go with it.

Listed in: e.vill empire, old new york., cheap drinks.

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Review from Angel H.
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Queens, NY
5.0 star rating
3/4/2011

Mars Bar. One time during the early 90s, I saw JG Thirlwell (aka Foetus) walk past this "refined" establishment.

Up until recently, I would say "Mars Bar-is that dump still open!?!"

The sad part, only for a little while longer.

Mars is the Old Yeller of the East Village bar scene. Once loved, but grew rabid and old with time. With tears, the boy is forced to shoot the mutt out of its misery.

While I was scared to use the bathroom, I'll still miss you, Mars Bar.

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Review from Rena J.
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New York, NY
5.0 star rating
3/13/2011

An East Village institution that is sadly closing its doors soon (they're supposedly reopening in a few years, but I wouldn't hold my breath). Even if you don't like grungy dive bars, there is no denying that Mars Bar is a unique place. The first time I went here, my friend and I happened to catch a literary event with the likes of Reverend Jen and Jason Flores-Williams. Rev. Jen read an excerpt from her book Live Nude Elf and talked about female ejaculation. Good times.

The bartenders are cool as hell, the walls are covered in graffiti, the jukebox plays nothing but punk, and the crowd is mostly freaks and weirdos (in a good way). I've never used the bathroom, but I've heard it's pretty disgusting. But what were you expecting, the Hotel Rivington?

My only regret is that I didn't discover this place sooner. Do yourself a favor and have a drink (or three) here before it's gone.

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Review from Campbell K.
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Manhattan, NY
4.0 star rating
1/4/2011

Cash only, every surface covered in scrawled marker and peeling stickers, awesome selection on the jukebox, 4 ounce shots for 6 bucks, and scruffy regulars waxing drunkenly about the "old days" (were the 90's really that long ago? I was born in '87 for god's sake). Solid shit.

Don't show up in your suit, though.

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Review from Richard O.
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Chicago, IL
2.0 star rating
1/10/2011

This might be the dirtiest place I've ever been. I didn't even feel comfortable enough to order a beverage in a bottle. Everyone calls this a punk rock bar but it seemed like they were just playing Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins all night.

We kind of felt like it used to be something interesting but now was a hollow shell across the street from Whole Foods watching the clock tick down to its demolition.

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New York, NY
5.0 star rating
5/8/2011

The Mars Bar is EPIC. Best.staff.ever. Jukebox is amazing, alcohol is cheap and hard and if you gotta go, you gotta go, just byotp and have someone watch the door for you.

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Review from Richard T.
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Manhattan, NY
5.0 star rating
11/23/2010

My usual watering holes are more along the lines of Angel's Share, Flatiron Lounge, but....
If you want to do something bad, you might as well go all the way.

-shots of johnny (red only) served in a small fish bowl
-beer in bottles only, no tap (9 outta 10 blindfolded d-bags can't tell the difference anyway)
-shots of jack served in a small fish bowl
-real graffiti as art!
-shots of vodka served in a small fish bowl

My night ended with one of my friends forever banned from a nearby restaurant. I will definitely come back here, and check out said satanic bathroom.....after a few fishbowls of jack.

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Review from Juan T.
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New York, NY
3.0 star rating
9/21/2010

Its a dive bar, i get it..But i was twisted when my friends took me there. Prices for drinks are reasonable and they ave BRUGAL shots. Decor is..what decor, its nothing..grapity everywhere and thats it.
STAY the HECK away from the latrine. its nasty.. besides that its an ok place to stop by, do not bring dates here, they will hate you.

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Review from PILSEN C.
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Chicago, IL
5.0 star rating
Updated - 1/6/2011

Sadly, as I predicted, it's closing:
http://www.brooklynveg...

It was great knowing you, Mars Bar. See you in the gutter.

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Last true sh1thole in the East Village. I will miss it, its shit beer, and even shittier patrons… Read more »
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New York, NY
5.0 star rating
2/11/2011

i grew up in a city, went to school in a city, and generally couldn't imagine anything else except city life.

i'm no bad-ass, but i've had my share of eye-opening experiences and can keep my cool when dealing with just about any situation. sometimes f'ed up stuff happens when millions of people are living in an urban jungle, but shit happens right?

this all said - mars bar might be the only place in new york city where upon walking in my brain started screaming -

HOLY SHIT. DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING... and don't even THINK of using the bathroom here!!!!!!!!! AH!!!!!!!

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San Diego, CA
4.0 star rating
11/19/2010

Highlights of the day. Getting a "shot" of Jack which I had to take two big gulps to finish. Watching a self-described drunk "vampire" getting ice chips thrown at his face and kicked out of the bar by the bartender. Actually using the restroom.

Pro tip: don't even go into the restroom. It's like Satan took a dump in there and they never got around to cleaning it.

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Review from Elizabeth B.
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Brooklyn, NY
5.0 star rating
3/24/2011

The doorway to Mars Bar is a portal into a disgusting and completely unsanitary alternate reality. They have beer and huge shots of Jagermeister. Pee someplace else -- a suggestion -- the fancy new pizza place on the corner of Bowery and Houston. Or behind a car, if you've been at Mars Bar long enough not to care anymore.

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Brooklyn, NY
5.0 star rating
4/2/2011

Warning, anti hipster sentiments to follow.

How anyone could give this place one or two stars is ridiculous... I mean, god, look at the outside, if you decided to go in after seeing it than any unpleastantries you experience are your fault- no complaining. Yeah, it's a dump, yes, you'll get an STD just from touching anything in the place, and, the people used to be just as bad as the place itself. I don't know about now, I suspect that hipsters may have taken over, who sadly, just TRY to look like broke artists and punks, but who, you know, have those handy trust funds.

Anyway, my point is that Mars Bar is one of the last places left that still has any of the character of what NYC used to be (at least, when I was a kid), before it turned into a homogenized wreck of mid-western transplants housed by NYU. One of the last places that has any of that awesome, trashy history that helped make all the hipster "artists" think NYC was a cool place to live in the first place. And now, sadly, it's going to close. I give this place five stars just for being one of the very few true dive bars to last this long in the face of NYU city that been building up around it. It's certainly no palace, but it is a piece of NYC history, and I'm sad to see it go.

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Review from Megan R.
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San Francisco, CA
5.0 star rating
9/20/2010

Crazy cheap for Manhattan, forever changing decor that you can have your own part in creating, and some of the most interesting people that you will ever meet.
Don't come here if you want something upscale and fancy. This is a must when down in the East Village, a great place to pre-game!
However, fair warning do NOT use the bathroom there.

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Review from Freya C.
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New York, NY
4.0 star rating
10/17/2010

Tequila ... in a wine glass (try to ignore the permanently greasy fingerprints around the rim).

Pint-sized shots (perhaps enough alcohol to kill all the extra bacteria you are about to swallow).


Salt out of a 2lb cardboard canister (don't look at the sticky lumps inside).


No lemons to douse the bitter saline injection of filth- you can have a recycled lime slice though?

What a delicious recipe for disaster oh yes only at Mars Bar.

And no, do not go to the bathroom (plenty of excellent descriptions below and I'm sure more to come, ironically probably intriguing new explorers to at least take a glimpse, well if you must, you must).

Amazing atmosphere- yet to experience such grotty eccentricity elsewhere in the city. Best people watching. Bemusing small talk. Whether to start or end the night here, I am not entirely sure- maybe both. Maybe you should never leave.

Listed in: Libation Lucubration, I'm Locked Out But It Doesn't…, Five Stars For Dive Bars

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Review from Francesc H.
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Astoria, NY
4.0 star rating
10/10/2010

The wind howled as my cousin and I walked into this joint, two strangers in a strange land. If ever Earth had its own version of the Mos Eisley Cantina, then Mars Bar would be it. A strange odor wafted over to us as we sat by the window, slowly drinking our beers as the regulars grunted and mumbled to each other (or maybe they were pissed off Wookies). This one guy was babbling in a thick brogue, looking for someone with whom to fight. The bartender was keeping him in check, threatening to cut him off for the night. He sat down for a few minutes, nursing his drink for a few minutes before resuming his diatribe to whoever would listen. I half expected Ray Winstone to come out of the bar, smack this guy around and toss him out, all the while reminding everyone that we didn't see anything.
I can't wait to go back.

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Review from Jonathan R.
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Island Park, NY
5.0 star rating
8/28/2010

two reasons only for getting a full rating because i believe you rate a place on the merits of what it is in reference to its milieu rather than the broader cohort of surrounding places with a different kind of vibe. This bar is a quintessential dive. If dive bars were divers, this place would be Jacques Cousteau.

I go there because I order a 5 dollar shot of Bushmills and it comes in a jigger glass filled to the top. And if that wasnt enough, the white support beam next to the juke has scrawled 'Penis 4 Eva' prominently on it. I mean, thinking about that, someone literally had to break out a pen in the middle of the bar and write that and the armies of so called good taste werent there then and arent there now. I love this place.

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Review from Melissa A.
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Brooklyn, NY
4.0 star rating
9/18/2010

Cheap cheap....very cheap drinks, awesome bartenders, buy backs, and a funky decor. Its probably one of the best dive bars in the city. Its as dirty as hell though, and I sometimes wish I knew I was coming here in advance so I could bring my own toilet paper. (Trust me, 9 out of 10 times the stuff they have in the bathroom is wet...with God knows what)

Its a must have on a night of East Village bar hopping. Its a must have when drinking on a budget in the city. Its a must when wanting to finish up an awesome night.

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