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Bootleg Bar Opens on Myrtle Avenue! They Have a Pinball Machine

Finally, the gods have answered our prayers

Bootleg Bar Opens on Myrtle Avenue! They Have a Pinball Machine

Bootleg Bar Opens on Myrtle Avenue! They Have a Pinball Machine

Finally, the gods have answered our prayers

Bootleg Bar Opens on Myrtle Avenue! They Have a Pinball Machine
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All photos by Scarlett Cavanaugh for Bushwick Daily
All photos by Scarlett Cavanaugh for Bushwick Daily

Finally, the gods have answered our prayers. Don’t get me wrong – I love Arena Billiards. But ever since I moved to this side of the Myrtle-Wyckoff stop, I’ve been on my knees daily askin’ the good lord for a place to wet my whistle with the standards I’ve come to know and love: Lagunita’s, Bell’s, SixPoint, etc.

And I don’t know if it was the goat I sacrficed on the Spring Equinox, or the tithe I dropped in the mail to Salt Lake City, or what, but I do know that I will be spending plenty of summer nights in the cozy brown booths at Bootleg Bar. (And at Old Stanley’s! Full review coming.) Bootleg Bar is co-owned by Bobby Rich, an alum of Goodbye Blue Mondays, and Marek Gregorski, owner of East River Bar.

Bootleg Bar smells like delicious new paint.

Bootleg is slendar and austere. The décor, though sparse, is punctuated with soft gestures hinting at the history of the space, which was a German pub and grill in the…

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