Time Out

Diese Sportsbar, ist Amerika!!!
Auf der Suche nach einer guten Sportsbar sind wir an einem Sonntag im Time Out gelandet. In der Nähe liegt ein guter Comedy Club, aber auf das Time Out macht kein Reiseführer aufmerksam. Vielleicht hat man deswegen das Gefühl, nicht in einer typischen Touristenkneipe zu sein.
Die Auswahl an Bier ist riesengroß und es gibt zur happy our Bier für 2 $. Die Burger und Pommes sind American Diner extra Klasse. An Football Sonntagen werden alle Spiele auf verschiedenen Großbild Fernseher gleichzeitig ausgestrahlt.
Wer Lust auf Sportsbar, American Food, Cheap beer und Natives hat sollte hier unbedingt hin!!!

Um, this place closed months ago (February to be exact).
I’m only writing a review to add it to a list of dive bars I went to with some friends last summer. Anything I say about it now is kinda meaningless, because, like I said, it’s closed. But here we go:
Time Out was a pretty chill place, several beer pong tables, pool downstairs, lots of TVs showing the various sporting events. Not my favorite, but not a bad place either. If Yogi’s was too packed or not really all that fun, Time Out was always worth checking out.
Basically, it’s closed, so if you’re still reading this, I don’t know why.

The manager and bartender were complete a-​holes to us for merely moving one of their tables in the back where no one was! I guess they were on a power trip? I don’t know, I’m not going back.

Time Out is a place for friends. It’s a local spot that people hit up on the daily to meet up and throw down a few beers. If you consider coming to this bar as an outing, then you are definitely going to be disappointed.
Food wise it isn’t anything special but everything is priced well and the wings come in 10 different ways and they are all the highlight of the menu. An order of fries is pretty big and will keep everyone going for a while.
All in all I loved coming here after work. It is what it is and to expect more isn’t fair.

For anyone who wants to give this place a completely fair review, it actually deserves only 1 star:
1. It is dirty. yes. very dirty.
2. The beer pong is idiotically set up right next to the bar when it could easily be set up in the back of the bar. This is idiotic for many reasons: it is the most heavily trafficked area, making it difficult to shoot well; the back of the beer pong tables are set up right next to a railing — if your ball misses in that direction, it will end up downstairs and you will have to go downstairs to get it back. if you miss the other direction, there is a decent chance that it will roll close to the front door before you can get it back. if it avoids those two scenarios, you are constantly having to reach between people’s feet or close to the bar.
3. Did I mention it’s dirty?
And Yet I’ve given it 2 — Why? Well,
¹⁄₃ star: closest place to me for Beer Pong
¹⁄₃ star: the bartenders here are HOT. it is impossible to go there without commenting on it at least once.
¹⁄₃ star: there is just something I find… i don’t know, quaint? ironic? about how much of a dive bar this place is! It is the DEFINITION of Dive Bar — Anything that can pull off something so quintessential without trying (or rather, *because* of not trying) and without apologizing, deserves some recognition.

Why does Unilocal not allow us to give negative stars? This place is GROSS!
It smells bad in here.
The floors are always wet.
I refuse to wear flip flops in here, because that would put my feet too close to the wet and smelly floors.
Whenever my roommates and I go out, and they suggest Time Out, I either change my mind and stay in, or I persuade them to go to the Gin Mill or Jake’s Dilemma instead. Yes, it’s so bad that the Gin Mill and Jake’s Dilemma manage to outclass Time Out by miles.

Do NOT let your beerpong ball drop to the floor. You will certainly contract the plague. I’m a world champion beerpong player, and the set-​up of the tables hinders good game play. If you miss (which my genetically blessed right arm does not allow me to do), your ball will either be lost in the feet of a few meatheads or roll downstairs.

I had the best (read: most debaucherous, troublesome, late night fiasco) time here last Friday.
Go to Time Out if you are ready to settle in and act like you’re 21 and at the University of Virginia. After work a group of 10 (which ballooned to 20ish) of us took over the downstairs area and flippy cupped our way to a hot mess of a state. Over-​use of high fives, «Yeah baby!!! Top THAT!», and «Oh my god! You are SO my new best friend!!!» ensued. Beer pong is an old favorite, but flip cup proved the better choice for the night, seeing as chasing a ping pong ball through a forest of drunk legs surrounding the multitude of other beer pong tables was totally the most challenging thing about the night.
I might not be back often, but I’ll be back and ready to rumble in a heartbeat the next time I just need to have simple good old fashioned stupid fun.

I have to give credit where credit is due. Yes this is a frattyish college hangout, but I think it does it a little better than many similar places on the UES.
First, the place doesn’t look like it is falling apart at the seams which is usually the standard for places like this. We got pitchers of some cheap beer, and it was like $ 10 or so, not bad. They have the latest Big Buck Hunter game (PRO EDITION!), which is always a funny experience depending on who you’re playing with. The crowd here was surprisingly friendly, and my friends and I faced a group of strangers in a couple rounds of flip cup.
One thing that was super annoying is that while the electronic jukebox was cheaper than other places I’ve been, there was absolutely no selection to speak of. I had to really dig deep to pick 5 songs for the $ 2 I put in. Oh yeah, and that cat everyone talks about is still around… wtf? Aren’t some people allergic to cats? Be warned.
Anyways, I wouldn’t mind coming back with a group of friends.

see, i’m one of those kickballers in sweatpants playing flip cup so i guess i have a totally different experience, but this place is alright. digital jukebox, plenty of space for flip cup, and still 2 beer pong tables. if you came into this bar on a night when kickball teams were there, i can see why you wouldnt want to stay. there is nothing special about this place, just a bar… with good chicken fingers and skinny fries. and room for flip cup. did i mention i love playing flip cup?
they have a sticker in the window that says « Unilocal loves it here» or something. which is funny after reading some of these reviews…

I’m sorry but not to get righteous, but I’ve pushed my way around the city and can say that I’ve been to my fair share of bars. Probably too many.
This place sucks. Again, i love beirut and I love flip cup, but in a bar I’m not sure if it works really. Maybe during the day. Maybe at a cooler place. But for the most part, leave the big games either on the TV or at house parties.
So Time Out really doesn’t care what other people think. It’s there to drink copious amounts of average to cheap beer and it kind of sticks out in the area. There were kickball teams there. Girls in sweatpants. Guys in gym shorts. Two massive flip cup games in the back. Drunk bartenders (oops I’m sorry did I spill that illegal bean? Whatever). Absolute filth (there were holes in the bar, I half expected a roach to crawl out). Warm-​ish beer. Underage teens.
There’s a certain art to making a good college bar. In the suburbs Time Out would probably work. This is New York City folks. We kick ass, and there are plenty of bars downtown, and even nearby (Gin Mill, Bourbon Street) that are much better, slightly classier, and Time Out is like their annoying little brother.

Sorry, but I saw that Time Out earned the most violation points, by far, of ANY restaurant/​bar in NYC from the Health Department, over 100 points when most places score about 10 points. For things like not having a sink for employees to wash their hands in, not having a sink for dishes to be washed in (hope you only drank the bottled beer). It is so disguisting inside it’s unbelievable, not dive bar disgusting but just plain unsanitary. I live around the corner and would take the subway to another neighborhood if this were the only sports bar in my neighborhood. Fortunately, Blondie’s is nearby.

Three dollar well drinks at happy hour, people. Three dollars. Buzzed with a ten dollar bill. And the happy hour specials are until 8pm, which is clutch for those of us who never seem to wander out of the office on time.
Minus a star because they have a black cat creeping around ON THE BAR and like all over the place. I don’t like cats. And I certainly don’t like them and their nasty little hairs to be anywhere near my drinks or the ice for my drinks. G-​R-​O-​S-​S.

Its college city on the upper west side at this beerfest of a college wannabe hangout. There are a variety of games here from beer pong to flip cup and foosball coupled with air hockey downstairs. Service has always been polite and prompt, except on the super busy nights (virtually any weekend) where it seems they are severely understaffed and the wait for food can be as much as 30 – 45 minutes.
As a sports bar, the place is great as they have a dining area adorned with 10 flat screens, 4 tubes, and one giant projection screen. And the prices are great starting with their $ 5 cocktails and $ 10 beer pitchers. Don’t be impressed by the food as the bar food here is no different than most college sport bars, but do try their deep fried macaroni and cheese. While its heart attack worthy and likely to kill you after 2 orders, its likely more people have died here from bad Yankee games.

Upon entering, the first thing I did was cringe. This bar wreaked of old beer that’s been spilled and never cleaned from all the beer pong that goes on there. And add a crowd and you have a collective smell of old cheese. Still, the crowd I came with frequented the place so I thought I’d give it a chance and ordered myself a fuzzy navel. The cocktail was below par and I couldn’t stop trying to get that smell out of my nose. The environment was quiet and spacious but eerie and unwelcoming.
Were I in the mood to have poor cocktails in a gym locker room, this place would be great. Otherwise, I’ll pass.

Beirut! Beer pong! Whatever you call it. It’s an entertaining game that I have no skill in. Apparently I am ‘clutch’ but suck the rest of the time. Anyway, this place is chill and it has beirut in abundance. The bartenders are nice and so are the ppl that go there. Anyone can challenge you or join your game and no one cares… probably bc we’re all too drunk. But it’s all in good fun! Sometimes it’s hard to find a table but that’s ok. Oh and there’s lots of space and lots of TVs to watch sports.

Beer pong baby! Grab a $ 10 pitcher of their special (usually Bud or Coors) and challenge me and my friends for table and see how well you stack up. Cheap drinks, hot bartenders, tons of TVs for every game on that night and Gray’s Papaya down the street for drunken munchies. What more can you want from a night out?

To me, Time Out is a place to go and play beer pong, period. Compared to the entire universe of dive bars in the city, Time Out is relatively average — a plus is that it’s included in the handful of places I can count on to have a beer pong table; a con is that it’s below-​average in terms of cleanliness but what can you expect when the main attraction of the venue involves beer, cheap plastic cups, and drunken competitive emotion at its very finest?

There’s nothin wrong with this sports bar, from the many, many TVs to the beer pong tables, to the spacious seating in the back and, especially, with the Rheingold specials. Personally, I think Rheingold is a rather nasty beer, but at 1 dollar a can, 2 a bottle and 7 a pitcher, it’s worth it. Glasses of Molson Canadian are $ 2.50 but the pitcher is $ 17, which is a little pricy. Wings (at least last night, a Wednesday) were a quarter each. A very solid spot to watch some games with the fellas.