No matter if you wanna hang out in a cozy atmosphere with cuddly sofas, have the hippest bar or wanna storm the stage to show everyone your famous karaoke talent, there is certainly the right bar out there for you:
The Boiler Room: This unfussy cruise bar drawing a mixed-age crowd who appreciate its pool table, a cozy bar with nice selection of beers and cocktails, and comfy sofas, and awesomely eclectic juke box.
Lucky Cheng's: Isn't a gay bar per se, but rather a flamboyant, campy Pan-Asian restaurant with a comical drag cabaret show and smashingly costumed drag queens serving the food. Karaoke insight.
7A: Is the local equivalent of an all-night diner. It looks like any other arty, dark cocktail bar and restaurant in the neighborhood, but 7A is open 24/7 and doles out big and reasonably priced portions of above-average all-American fare from omelets, burgers and pastas to seafood and meat grills.
Club 82/Bijou Cinema: was a beloved drag cabaret and glam-rock venue made famous by the likes of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Harvey Fierstein, Blondie, and the New York Dolls. In this sense, it's one of the more important sites of gay history in the East Village. Club 82 offers a bar plus a cinema.
Phoenix: It's relatively large as East Village gay bars go, with a main bar area, a pool table with small seating area in back, decent-size bathrooms down a flight of stairs, and a small conversation nook around the corner from the main bar. The bartenders are efficient and friendly here and the bar is typically packed with good-looking guys of all ages.
5 Best Gay Bars in the East Village:
The Boiler Room: 86 E. 4th St., near 2nd Ave.
Lucky Cheng's: 24 1st Ave., near 2nd St.
7A: 130 E. 7th St., at Ave. A
Club 82/Bijou Cinema: 82 E. 4th St., at 2nd Ave.
Phoenix: 447 E. 13th St., near Ave. A
