Hello, urbane citizen. Do you enjoy a distinguished cocktail? Then you might enjoy The Distinguished Wakamba Cocktail Lounge, located on sunny Eighth Avenue near 37th Street.
Or maybe not. Hey, I love dive bars, but this is one even I avoid. This is the kind of bar where innocent men get shot by undercover cops looking for drug dealers.
Still, you gotta love that ridiculous name. The Wakaba, fyi, are a tribe in Kenya.
I love this place. Mrs Salt and I used to frequent this spot regularly after we were finished checking our garments in the nearby factories.
ReplyDeleteAs an Aries, I'm not sure I can go into a Pisces establishment anyway :-) I pass by on my way to the Garden for NYR games and the awning always cracks me up.
ReplyDeleteTruly one of the last bastions of the old seedy Eighth Avenue. I used to work down the block from this place, and my coworkers and I would always joke about having drinks here (and sometimes actually doing so).
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of a joke about this particular neighborhood: With all the adult video stores on Eighth Ave near the Port Authority Bus Terminal, it always puzzled me why no enterprising businessman opened such a store called the "Porn Authority."