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One Manhattan man has decided to go to 365 bars in a year, and of course he is going to blog about it, and get a book deal, then a movie which your dad will want to see with you one Christmas! We love this country, and so does Marty Wombacher, author of 99 Beers Off the Wall, who's heading to his 60th bar today. As usual he will be reviewing every drink on his blog A Guy Walks In To 365 Bars. Fascinating! So what can we learn from a man trying to frequent about 18% of Manhattan's bars (NewYorkOnTap estimates about 2,000 in the borough)?
According to him, the best bar in New York is Winnie's on Bayard Street in Chinatown, because they let him eat a fried pork chop off the employee's menu. We agree that they have a great karaoke selection, but it seems pretty biased. The "Worst Bar in the World" title goes to The House of Brews, and his nasty review caught the attention of owner Tony Quinn. Wombacher was upset that the bar didn't have a $100 bottle of beer listed on the online menu, and summed up his experience there by saying "I go there ready to spend lots of dough and give them free publicity and they treat me like seven pounds of dog shit and more or less throw me out because I’m going to give them free publicity."
Quinn later told the Daily News "Why did he have a psychotic meltdown because we didn't have a beer?...He goes into bars and tears them apart. He doesn't understand the business." Not only that, but are we really going to take our bar advice from a guy willingly drinking a tall-boy of Budweiser?
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Marty Wombacher walks into 365 bars.
365 bartenders say, "Why the long face?"
what's with all the "walks in to a bar" jokes today?
It's Theme Week.
How hard is this to accomplish? According to NY Mag there are 372 bars in Midtown alone.
It's really sad that this is what became of Al Gore's once fantastic invention. Can we please send back the internet? It's broken.
I would never throw out 7 pounds of dogshit. You know how much lighted porch poop pranks that is? comedy gold.
So the guy goes nuts because a bar doesn't have a beer he wants, and won't let him take pictures of random strangers? Then on his blog he's so enraged about the "incident" that he starts raving about how the bar can F off, and how it's a shithole, and so on and so on.
I don't know...this guy kinda strikes me as a tool.
Whatever...if he visited 665 bars in 365 days, maybe I'd be impressed.
Meh. That's not even all that hard to do. Three beers per day, one in a new bar each time, would be 1095 bars, and he wouldn't even have to get drunk or have a hangover. This guy not only is a narcissistic douchebag famewhore, he's not even a very ambitious one.
Exactly. Liver transplant candidate in a year or he's just fakin'.
this is nothing.
some old guy hit 1000 bars in a year in 2005 - and he wasn't a jerk.
http://thousandbars.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_archive.html
how soon we forget.
hey, thanks for that - i'm likin' that guy!
Exactly my thought. That 1000 bars blog guy is my hero...
Hey, I am that guy that had at least one drink in 1000 different bars in one year and I was a youthful 60 when I embarked upon my journey. I hit my 365th bar, Boxers in Greewnwich Village, on April 5th.
Well done, my pickled friend!
This is not impressive.
smells like a favor-for-a-friend post.
i'll be sure to send my tip for "365 Days, 365 Dumps" on which will be chronicled my daily BM... every day for the next year. (expect some exciting results on the day after Halloween!)
dang reply fails.
if only he was trying to get into a gym everyday FREE for a year after going to these bars...then i would be impressed.
Big whoop. I, like thousands of other NYers have been doing this for about two years without all the fanfare. Delete your blog, Mr. Wombacher.
what bar can we meet at tonite!
Scores.
This:
Review of CoffeShop Bar
...is gold. I would say read everything in bold, but that's nearly the entire page, so just read everything. It's like they kept Brad Garrett awake for 48 hours, put glass in his shoes and told him to go do the review.
Someone doesn't know his way around HTML tags, does he?
Haha, maybe. I just thought he was shouting, but i see your point.
Wow I've been reading this site for the last 10 minutes and it all seems pretty pathetic. Dude in his late 40s goes into bars by himself and has someone take pictures of him making goofy faces and gets offended when people are creeped out by him.
and then goes back home to his mother, who won't let him drink beer in the house.
365 bars in 365 hours. Now that I would say was impressive.
Seriously, that is the WIN. Can you imagine what hour 321 would sound like?
This guy fucking bugs me. Douchey/dorky middle aged alcoholic tries to cash in on his addiction. His webskills are a step below the contents of "Blogging for Dummies".
lame
"Delete your blog, Mr. Wombacher."
Uhh...how about you just don't look at it, juliec? Last I heard you weren't in charge of what I do.
Marty, I'm highly supportive of all kinds of drunken shenanigans and creative boozing, but your histrionic, aggrieved, and angry tone isn't going to win you many friends. You're clearly doing this for attention, so why not at least try to make it positive attention? They didn't have your beer; so what? Mistakes are made, websites fail to get updated; it really doesn't surprise me that a bar might be out of a huge, $100 specialty bottle that maybe gets ordered twice a year. Was the bartender rude to you? Hard to tell. By your tone, it's easy to believe that you acted like a giant fucking (your favorite word right?) asshole and then painted yourself as the victim. I know plenty of people who could have turned that situation to their advantage- perhaps a free beer because they didn't have the one you really want?
As a huge beer fan, i know i'm going to turn your mistake to MY advantage. I'm going to go right down to that bar, seek out the owner or manager, and say "man can you believe the fucking nerve of that used tampon Marty Wombacher? What a piece of shit! Guy wouldn't know a bottle good beer if it raped him wide-end first, which he deserves by the way." Bet I wind up getting a comp out of that.
It's exactly that kind of witty repartee that makes your site unreadable.
Marty, you appear to be kind of a giant prick
Seems to be more of a pathetic rather than giant one.
hi marty glad you could join us
i think you are a total douche / barf bag putz
thanks for visiting suprise you had any time knowing how busy you are
marty i am sorry.... my prev comment was written in haste ... i had not even seen your blog yet ..... i am pleased to say i have now been to your bog err blog and read the review of the coffeshop bar etc and read the delightful encounter with the lady who did not want to have her photo taken. Ah alas she said NO. do you really have to wonder???
After giving this some serious thought i really feel bad for you.
you are a sad lonley angry person who needs help. on top of that your still a douche bag prick with a chip on your shoulder and you dont have a life. so double sorry for you
no means no - i am sure you have heard that line used by many a male and female and not just when trying to take photos
Someone who visits a bar once a day and drinks a Budweiser tall boy is hardly an alcoholic.
This individual is trying way too hard to be some one.
marty wombacher = GOT SERVED
Wombacher Brewery, "The beer that made it a cold drink." Try it, it's cold."
Marty's blog is truely inspiring... that I and many others have more writing talent and could do a helluvah better job at this "quest" than he.
Amateur. This guy hit 1000 NYC bars in one year. He's in his 60s, though, and therefore Uncool.
http://thousandbars.blogspot.com/
www.forgotten-ny.com
"I go there ready to spend lots of dough and give them free publicity and they treat me like seven pounds of dog shit and more or less throw me out because I’m going to give them free publicity."
More like 200 lbs of dogshit. And didn't he know that the only place that serves $100 beer is the Douchebag Hall Of Fame in Columbus Ohio?
I accomplish this task easily. Didn't know I was on "a mission."
Next!
geez, you guys are mean!
i cannot wait to read the book and see the movie of this
for real! the gripping schadenfreude of watching this outstandingly miserable man have a miserable time and alienate people in a different location each day! it's gonna be bigger than "Saw."
I can't wait till this a'hole shows up at my local watering hole "the Ear Inn". His ass will be sitting in the middle of Spring street before he is half finished with his Bud.
So he's basically going to drink every day for a year? Is there anything shocking about this? Has this never been done before? Are there not people who have been drinking every day for five or ten years? Oh wait, I forgot: he got a book deal.
Somebody needs a woman . Must have been hell on his shoe game !