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This warehouse-sized lounge and game room is cavernous as only a bar in Queens can afford: It’s big enough to house a grid of fourteen billiards tables, three Ping-Pong tables, a foosball table, a skeeball pen, and a Pop-A-Shot basketball game. From its second-story perch, you can take in Astoria’s burgeoning industrial-residential sprawl from a wall of tinted glass windows. Break Bar falters a bit with the swank ambitions of its back area—a neon-lit, polished black bar serves uninspired martinis (stick to the beers on tap), and any pool shark worth his cue chalk stays away from the purple velvet chairs next to the Big Buck Hunter and Cross Fire arcades. — Annsley Chapman