New bar Bizarre opens in Bushwick (all photos by courtesy of Bizarre)
It’a about time that something BIZARRE opens in our quixotic neighborhood. This new zany bar is brought to us by two Frenchmen, Jean-Stephane Sauvaire and Greg Baubeau. BIZARRE, the name of the new addition to our neighborhood, will open its doors this weekend for the three day long opening party.
I bet some of you old-time New Yorkers are wondering, isn’t there a cafe named Bizarre already? To answer your question, yes there was. Bizarre Bushwick pays homage to the legendary Greenwich Village café where Andy Warhol discovered Nico and the Velvet Underground in 1965, and where the beat generation held their poetry readings.
Bizarre Bushwick will be also be a performance space for musicians, burlesque dancers, and other performance artists. In the spring the basement will become an art gallery and will begin to serve food. The drink menu lives up to the bar’s name. For $12 you will be able to sit back and enjoy an ABOMINABLE SNOW MAN (Plantation 5 years old rum, curacao, honey, one egg, Ground Cinnamon on top) or for $13 an absinthe cocktail. There’s also French wine, beers from around the world and a full bar.
The opening party will start on Friday at 4PM and end on Sunday 11:45PM, so I hope you all have a lot of energy this weekend or some really good drugs. The festivities will include an “assorted amount of madness,” and erotica. There will also be a handful of DJs.
BIZARRE is located at 12 Jefferson St, off the Myrtle-Broadway JMZ stop. So, we wonder, how did two Frenchmen come across this location? The owners, who are both in the film industry, found a house thanks to a film shoot and fell in love.
Stay tune for our zany review on BIZARRE and see you at the opening party!
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About Asha Chagoyen
Park Slope transplant living in East Williamsburg
I love how the price of a cocktail could probably feed a local low
Income family
Good to Know! Love It!!!!!
Wow, $12 for a cocktail in Bushwick. I love that there are interesting drinks to be found in the hood, but do we really need another place that’s too expensive for the locals to drink at?
Welcome to the world of gentrification! Where Williamsburg becomes the MPD and Bushwick becomes Williamsburg, complete with dining, culture, entertainment, and general living that’s designed for everyone except the current residents.
Charles, wake up from the black and white reality. Locals run these businesses as well and create jobs for others. Opportunities await everyone who sees them.
Except it wasn’t opened by two locals, it was opened by two french guys. “Local” implies someone’s been around for a while, not just 2008 while location scouting.
http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2013/01/18/le_bizarre_bar_ouvert_par_2_francais_a_brooklyn.html
Yes, this one was opened by French people, we say it in the article. But many other new businesses were opened by the locals, and are being successful. Look at Bushwick Coffee House, Central Cafe and many others.
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Still plenty of local,crappy dive bars for you to get your drink on. There’s a liquor store right on the corner,if you’re really worried about $$ (yet why still living in an overpriced hood?). This place is going for something different,& as soon as you walk in, you feel it. In a good way. Tired of the same folks who gentrified the hood bitching about it after the fact! Get over it. You’re here,you’re part of it. Deal w/it. Now there’s a nice bar in the hood,so instead of dissing it,just go to your crappy bars.
Yeah , no shit…Its Bushwick i can see project housing and trash violently blowing across the street Daily. I live across from HI Mango, and all the bars around are serving $6-7 beers $10-12 cocktails, with no cool attractions. The dirthole bar attached to the rice ball place on Flushing..perfect example. My Gfreind and I are drinking beer an playing pool 3pm-she serves us barly cold beer for 6 bucks, next 2 rounds still 6 bucks, what a rookie.. Someone loan me 20grand Ill create a sweet bar.
BIZARRE ROCKS! (& it shimmys,too) I see the usual sad lil’ haters griping about the $12 cocktails,but they don’t ALL cost $12. Just the house specials…which are actually quite special! That high price rent you pay in a gentrified hood is why the drinks cost so much,not the other way around! There’s no other local place like this,& I’m just happy the J/M/Z side of Bushwick finally has a nice,classy option to get our freak on (& not just the L-train side). WELCOME THIS CLUB,& it’s film screenings & absinthe & go-go dancers & bands & fat soundsystem & warm ambience! Don’t be a jaded hipster & diss anything that isn’t perfectly suited exactly for your precious needs. I’ve lived in the hood for 8 years,& this place is GREAT!
I’m sure this place is fun, but Charles is absolutely, undeniably correct. If this place hires even ONE waiter who grew up in the neighborhood, I will eat my own hand. Until then, let’s stop kidding ourselves that we as transplants are anything more than interlopers. We raise rents which closes local businesses. How many times do you frequent “soul 2 soul”? Hahaha. I’m sure the local church going community is really excited about this new burlesque bar.
love it !!! and you have the beautiful mural of the mother earth in front of the bar !!!
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