Freddy's Bar

"One of the BEST BARS IN AMERICA"-Esquire Mag: Great beer /cheep drinks & Food in comfortable, unique Bar setting with BACKYARD. Free LIVE music in backroom, Free Wi-Fi. Engrossing video collages by co-owner, Donald O’Finn (Village Voice "Best Video in a Bar").

8 / 10
323
ratings
  • Phone

    (718) 768-0131

  • Website

    freddysbar.com

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  • Type

    Pub

Address

627 5th Ave (btwn 17th & 18th St) Brooklyn , NY 11215 United States

Credit Cards No
Wi-Fi Free
Outdoor Seating Yes
Music Live Music
Restroom Yes
Menus Lunch, Dinner, Happy Hour
Drinks Beer, Full Bar, Cocktails

Comments / 75


Keywords:

back room tater tots south slope la freddy happy hour good for groups authentic TVs good for singles bar hipster live music hot dogs casual comfortable Pabst Blue Ribbon quesadillas sandwiches comedy bacon
Michael Spinelli

Reminds me of the old-school East Village bars we grew up with. Great beer selection and the food is a few levels up from typical bar grub. If I lived closer this would be my local.

Sage

A great dive bar . Always comfortable , with nice bartenders , good selection of beers and spirits, tasty bar food and live music .

Marc Mayer

The drinks are great, the food is tasty, but the video art constantly playing is AMAZING.

Bobby Hankinson

Charming dive with some great stuff happening in the back room . Check out "Whiskey + Coke " for the most unpretentious reading series in Brooklyn.

Funes

Freddy's is king of the dive bars . Great music , good vibe and flowing drinks.

Meg Lewis

Incredibly crazy weird bar with strange memorabilia . You're gonna love it!

Gus Gus

Awesome staff , great vibe, strange jazz in the back room , great tasting food!

Alex Mizrahi

"...where the taps work, and there's more than one grade of booze. By local standards, that makes it a palace--although if it were a real palace , its own inhabitants would be plotting its overthrow." Read more

Emily W

Cool music in back room , good vibe, prices are decent. Nice on weekday or weekend

Lauren

The best x weirdest bar I've ever been to. The bizzare video loop alone is worth the trip.

Johann R.

Love this bar . Very quirky. And say hi to the ancient frog

Patrick Hipp

Get the hot dogs and beans and an order of tater tots . It's like middle school , but drunk.

Melissa Yu

Dive of dive bars . Love this place $3 PBR cans and a solid food menu that I'm looking forward to trying.

Shahrzad Shams

A little secret muse in South Slope . A Lynchian dive worth the dip .

Gothamist

Freddy's wasn't always in this neighborhood , but it's an old favorite no matter where in Brooklyn. Pro tip: There's a backyard for private smoking. Check out their back room for musical performances .

Andrew C

The perfect tater tots . Do whatever you must do get them.

Jillian Switzer

No frills. Check out a concert in the side room or head to the patio out back.

Chirag Patel

Great vibe with locals even on a Saturday night. Good food and fun music venue

Just Whitkin

If Tobacco and Tom Waits opened a bar together, this would be it. Impossible to not love the atmosphere.

Patrick Hipp

The fries a la Freddy will kill you, but you will die happy.

Fodor's Travel

The colorful watering hole stood in its previous home in Prospect Heights for almost a century but relocated when the Barclays Center took over the area. Read more

Christo dK

Bluegrass! Sunday at 3pm to 6pm in the back room . Great way to spend a Sunday afternoon with a 3 buck pint.

Stan Killian

Have a delicious Bloody Mary made by Tracey, the #BestBloodyMary in South Slope ! #FreddysBar

amNewYork

Resurrected in Park Slope from its Prospect Heights ruins, Freddy’s famous, quirky décor — like a giant marlin and four-inch stiletto — has returned, along with much of its loyal clientele.

Bluepaw

Come for the affordable beers , stay for the animals, history-scarred tables, and cat drinking milk .

Donald O'Finn

Just saw Freddy's is Ranked 258th out of 4.342 Brklyn Restaurants . Pretty good for a Bar !!!!!

Autumn Rayne

Live music in a small room to the back. Drinks are reasonable and cool atmosphere

James C

Awesome happy hour for a bar so close to park slope. Cash only .

Donald O'Finn

Try the Moscow Mule ! The B.L.A.T (Bacon , Lettuce. Avocado & Tomato Sandwich .)Plus NEW HAPPY HOUR ! - ALL DRAFTS $3, & $1 off everything else.

Wade V

Tots with gravy , cheese , bacon and scallions . Best tots of me loif.

Luke

The friendliest frogs in town ????

Village Voice

Readers' Poll winner of The Village Voice Best of NYC 2012 Best Dive Bar !

Ethan A

Dive-y but delightful. Chatty bartenders . Solid hot dogs . #

Zack Sheppard

Dare I say it: best Reuben .

Benny Wong

Sit at the bar , watch the tv , and happiness will descend upon you.

Christina Seeber

Get the Tots a la Freddy !! There's gravy n shit on there!

Amy Bilancini

Everything about Freddy's is great! Great I say!

Patrick Hipp

You're not having a stroke: those are artificially piped-in cricket sounds in the backyard .

Ingrid Stenquist

Gothic hipster meets the addams family meets hilbilly meets rock meets punk meets haunted house meets the twilight zone. Where the hell am I?

Amber Gautreau

Fries . It's all about the fries .

Nate Folkert

o'doul's premium bottles $4

Chad Burgess

They have @oskarblues Dale's cans here, plus solid drafts - gocraftcans.com

Breanna Pitta

The Margarita Flatbread was good

Elysia Mann

Monthly reading series! <aclass="entity url"rel="nofollow" href="http://freddysbar.com/events/626/cringe-is-an-international-craze-and-monthly-reading-series/"target="_blank" data-sig="xGVve8C9ubydPzxvUTs4hlKyiUU=" onmousedown="fourSq.ui.OutgoingLink.mousedown($(this), event)" data-source="tip-text">http://freddysbar.com/events/626/cringe-is-an-international-craze-and-monthly-reading-series/</a>

Carmen N

Obsolete Cinema is super fun.

Cait Smith

Every time I am here they play a marching band version of "Sexual Healing." Every time

Ian Westcott

Patty melt , tots , Smutty IPA .

Amanda Theiler

cheap shows most nights

Mya Spalter

This place is cool...except for how it's all blurry.

Danielle Carrick

Awesome FREE comedy every other Monday.

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