The Bar Coat Hook Hall of Shame
5/1/08 update: Fish and Farm has a great homemade cocktail ingredient program, but alas, nowhere to hang your jacket at the bar. They've been added to the Hall of Shame.
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Every bar top should have coat hooks beneath it. That way you don't have to try to hang your jacket off your bar stool under your butt, having it slip off half the time and getting dirty when you put your feet up.
Bar hooks seem like such a simple and necessary bar element, like toilet paper in the bathrooms or lemons in the garnish tray, yet there are many places that have not installed them. I'm constantly running my hands along the underside of bars feeling for the hooks and getting nothing but gum and boogers. This has to end!
It is up to us to shame these establishments into installing coat hooks. Together we can make a difference! Thus I present to you:
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Every bar top should have coat hooks beneath it. That way you don't have to try to hang your jacket off your bar stool under your butt, having it slip off half the time and getting dirty when you put your feet up.
Bar hooks seem like such a simple and necessary bar element, like toilet paper in the bathrooms or lemons in the garnish tray, yet there are many places that have not installed them. I'm constantly running my hands along the underside of bars feeling for the hooks and getting nothing but gum and boogers. This has to end!
It is up to us to shame these establishments into installing coat hooks. Together we can make a difference! Thus I present to you:
The Bar Hook Hall of Shame
(add your nominees in the comments and I'll expand the list here)
5/1/07 I went to check out Etiquette Lounge where they had no coat hooks, and they admitted to not having them at their other venue Element Lounge either.
5/15/07 Congratulations to Rye, where they finally installed coat hooks and made the bar a more comfortable experience for us all.
5/1/07 I have decided to drop Etiquette and Element Lounge from the Hall of Shame, as they're not really venues where you sit at the bar. Nightclubs do not need coat hooks.
(add your nominees in the comments and I'll expand the list here)
- Fish and Farm (added 4/18/08)
- The Transfer
- The Pilsner Inn
- Colibri Mexican Bistro
5/1/07 I went to check out Etiquette Lounge where they had no coat hooks, and they admitted to not having them at their other venue Element Lounge either.
5/15/07 Congratulations to Rye, where they finally installed coat hooks and made the bar a more comfortable experience for us all.
5/1/07 I have decided to drop Etiquette and Element Lounge from the Hall of Shame, as they're not really venues where you sit at the bar. Nightclubs do not need coat hooks.
Labels: bars, hall_of_shame
posted by camper at 7:00 AM
6 Comments:
hear, hear!
Maybe it would be easier to champion those places that do have coathooks since there are so few in this town.
Late to the party but... when the man is right, the man is right.
Yes, yes, yes. This is my biggest pet peeve at bars!
I am suggesting this to a partner in a high end resturant syndicate in NYC. Great Idea!
Found you via Jeffrey Morgenthaler, and HAD to chime in about bar hooks, which are absolutely necessary to take your bar from "eh, it's good.." to "I love that place!".
Such a simple, easy touch to let us know you care about your customers, it's a shame most places don't do it.
"I'm constantly running my hands along the underside of bars feeling for the hooks and getting nothing but gum and boogers."
I've been in that situation more times than I'd like.
The Toronado is the worst offender! It's not like I'll ever stop going there, but hooks would be nice; their floor is icky.
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