Home > Nightlife & Music > Barbès

Barbès

Critics' Pick

376 9th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215
at Sixth Ave. See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
718-965-9177 Send to Phone

Reader Rating:
9.7 out of 10
|
3 Reviews | Write a Review
Scene: Jazz Club, Cabaret, Live Music

Photo by Kate Attardo

Map Rate & Review

Official Website

barbesbrooklyn.com

Hours

Sun-Thu, 5pm-2am; Fri-Sat, 5pm-4am

Nearby Subway Stops

F at Seventh Ave.

Payment Methods

MasterCard, Visa

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Various Dates	Barbes Reading Series
Ongoing Various Dates	Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series

See Full Schedule >>

Profile

This Park Slope bar and performance space is named after a neighborhood in Paris, and the scruffy creatifs who frequent it are straight out of a Renoir film. Wooden tables and chairs line the perimeter in true French café style and wall light fixtures with bare bulbs and forty-five records for bases bathe the compact space in a dreamlike glow. Barbès attracts a unique array of local jazz, experimental and world musicians—from a solo violinist to the weekly Slavic Soul Party featuring a nine-piece Balkan Brass Band. When the music rebounds off the punched tin ceilings and black-and-blue tile floors, the back room crammed with folding chairs can get loud and raucous, but Monday nights during the Traveling Cinema Film series, an intellectual hush falls over the crowd. After le film, Slopers under the influence of the popular "All Anise Drinks" menu (Absente, Ricard, Pernod, etc.) spill out onto the front sidewalk and smoke the night away. — Tim O’Keefe

Ever since discovering the joys and wonders of licorice tasting fairy drinks. I have located a pixie grotto in Brooklyn where these elixirs flit. It's called Barbes and it is now my bohemian lair. Everything about this place is wondrous, from the engraved tin ceiling to the dim romantic cherry glow of the place. Barbes hosts an array of exceptional performers in the room beyond the bar, but I was so taken aback with the friendliness of the barman, I never made it into the second room! The first drink I ordered was a modern Absinthe, called Absente. This was delivered with accompanying carafe of ice water as it should. I noticed a preponderance of good looking guys with shaved heads and black rimmed glasses - including myself and the bartender. Who is the inventor of the delicious Bar Bass - a Citron Cosmopolitan with a splash of Campari, Ricard and a twist of some sort of peel... one sip of it and I was relaxing in the cool summer breezes of the Riviera. The extensive quivver of anise drinks makes it compulsory for me but I assure you, the place is magic for anyone.

Read All 3 Reviews >>