Indigo Murphy’s

Great neighborhood bar, went for after game drinks with the Brooklyn rugby team and it was always a lot of fun.

This is a nice quite bar. Went here with a group of college friends and the price was great especially compared to anywhere in the city.

I love this place! The décor is great, the atmosphere is great and the people are great!

This new bar with neon-​blue awnings is built over the wreck of the former Bentley’s…and gamely carries on many of the same traditions which put an end to its predecessor. Indigo Murphy’s more truly epitomizes the «old man’s bar» than any other you can find in 80 blocks in any direction. Its a bar which lives on ‘regulars’. Average age: 55 – 75. Drinking Bud Lites and Millers, vodka-​tonics, and ‘old-​fashioneds’. It’s got that same black, dead, lacquered-​beam interior found everywhere in Southern BK. Sports kitsch and Irish knick-​knacks all over the walls. Out-​of-​place: gigantic flatscreens and a stupid hi-​tech jukebox; and yeah that garish bright-​blue color scheme that comes with the new name. Still the same: the bartenders are ruddy, olé-​timey vets (or else younger dudes with too-​snug tee-​shirts and too many muscles). You can hear F-​bombs and N-​words and C-​words and gay slurs – talk of weed – all day long, here. Its a sausage fest — you don’t come here to find chicks. The only girls who come in here are relatives of the regulars. The place needs more boobs and ass – even a cheerleader calendar would be something. I think there’s just ONE Corona poster on the far back wall, with a swimsuit chick. Not enough!
Now, don’t get me wrong – I really like bars with ‘regulars’ – but here’s the downside: a ‘family’ bar like this, can have too much «chumminess». Too much backslapping and and hallooing and huzza-​ing. Too many guys talking about their Toro mowers and their latest oil-​job and their timeshares and their sciatica and their hernias and their diabetes. It’s just not always what’s wanted. Some of us drinkers come out to get away from our families. We wanna sit in peace and quiet and kill ourselves slowly with booze. Enough with the good cheer.
Nevertheless, there’s some upsides too: pizza place right across the street; and on Sunday/​gamedays, there’s big buffet trays of free, hot, home-​cooked food! Friends, staff, and family members of Murphy’s **bring this in themselves**. Amazing. Try finding that in Manhattan.
Bottom line: there are so few bars in highly-​residential Dyker Heights; and the 1 – 2 which are still there are like little atolls — they have a tough time surviving – so we’d better value them while they’re still around. Overall, I give ‘Murphy’s’ a positive vote.

This used to be called Bently’s…now they renovated and it looks fresh! This is a neighborhood bar. I love the atomsphere here, I feel comfy.
I met 4 bartenders and they were nice and attentive everytime I go.
I love coming here at times with my friends that wants to hang out low key.

Great neighborhood bar. Only popped in once before a party elsewhere and I was pleased with the crowd, which was small at the time, and the overall vibe of the joint. Very clean and down to earth place.

Greatest «NEW» old school place in town!!! We had the greatest Friday afternoon!!! Looking fwd to MANY more!!! AWESOME!!!