New York Cafe Bar

For ex-​pats and lovers of American diner food, New York Café Bar ticks all the right boxes. The portions are big, the prices are low and the menu is close to perfect:
Pancakes with maple syrup
Steak sandwiches
Pastrami on rye
Hotdogs with mustard & caramelised onions
Meatballs in spicy tomato sauce
Fried chicken with sweetcorn and ‘slaw
Rib-​eye steak with bourbon glaze & onion rings
& Pecan pie with rum & raisin ice-​cream
The problem is, everywhere you look there’s huge wide-​screen TVs playing football and big groups of men cheering along to every goal. If they showed baseball or old Scorsese movies I could get down with that but football? Not on my watch.

New York: The City That Never Sleeps… because it’s where King Kong goes mental. Now it has a bar named after it. Who’d’ve thunk it?
The New York bar and restaurant situated in the most unManhattanlike area of the world (Allerton Road) was, I’ll confess, quite a pleasant surprise. The beer-​splashed tackhole of my blunt presumptions turned out to be a decent eat-​and-​drinkery of neglected repute.
I didn’t eat here but judging from the weighty portions being heaved around by the staff, the place gloriously doesn’t skimp on their food. The New York theme applied to the meals’ names lurches from applicable (the ‘Battery Park’ is battered cod) to completely unrelated (the ‘Central Park’ is egg on toast) but ultimately I don’t care because the prices are low and puns make me hungry. I shall probably revisit this place one day wearing a bib and wielding my special shovelling spork.

Now I have been known to be a bit harsh on the old sports bars around town and in all fairness if you in any of them without sport they are pretty average places — New York is no exception but being near my neck of the woods and having had much experience watching sport in here I feel enough affinity for the place to see many of its good points.
New York has gone the whole hog with regard its sports bar status which is a big bonus from the half-​hearted wine bar it once was. Now it has embraced the fact that the only time people came in was to watch Liverpool and Everton games on a Saturday and Sunday they have installed about a million TVs so you can see the events from anywhere — a big plus point for any bar really — they do food with table service and the place seems a lot cleaner and sharper than it used to.
The food is American style breakfasts, burger and chips and hot dogs but very tasty and not at all expensive which is great when you can get a seat, food and a pint for the early kick off.

I’m not usually a fan of sports bars, especially in city centres, I usually find that they are sort of pompous and as a female, am usually judged as soon as I walk through the door. However, this is a sports bar with a difference.
New York has been recently refurbished and has two huge screens and two tvs showing all the major sporting events. New York is also an American type restaurant with decent sized portions for the price.
There are early bird specials which I think are a brilliant price — 3 courses for £7.95. New York also has a takeaway service which is 15% of the menu price.
Overall, a decent sports bar, decent prices for food and drinks, children are also welcome. Strongly recommended.

New York Café Bar in Mossley Hill is a sports bar with a difference, offering quality food and wines at reasonable prices. It’s been open nine years on Allerton Road but was refurbished to the tune of £275,000 in September 2007 and for sports fans it now boasts two nine-​foot screens and nine 42-​inch TVs. Deceptive from the outside, it’s a spacious venue with a long bar