Meytex: A 4 on the Scary Scale

Josh Bernstein of New York Press has a new series going: Scary Bar Project.  In a recent article he and his girlfriend visited Meytex Lounge.

Now, we got ourselves in hot water for expressing our, uh, reservations about Meytex's exterior decor.  Seems we're not alone.  From the article:

"Scary bars offer similar caution symbols. Chiefly darkened windows make your imagination skitter toward fisticuffs and filthy booze, bathroom blowjobs and coke bumps.

“Um, I’m not going in there,” my girlfriend says, gesturing toward the blood-sausage–colored windows of Meytex Lounge. A Ghana flag decorates the green awning, the only clue to its grandeur—or god-awfulness.

“It’s probably a stripper bar,” she says."

The article goes on to describe the Meytex experience as good and generally non-scary.  We've eaten there and found the food to be pretty good - the fried chicken being the best item.  We also learned something new from Bernstein:  Meytex offers some supercharged version of Guiness that will get you rrrreal drunk.

Meytex will soon be undergoing a exterior cosmetic makeover, actually, as part of PLUS' storefront improvement program.

Thanks for the link, Adrian!

Comments

[Midwoody]

Here is the link to the article:
http://www.nypress.com/20/18/food/joshuambernstein.cfm

[ATP]

Thanks Midwoody - oversight on our part.

[Rina Kleege]

Wouldn't it be nice if one could see into Meytex? I find the blackened windows totally unwelcoming and forbidding.