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Home Sweet Home

131 Chrystie St., New York, NY 10002
nr. Delancey St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-226-5708 Send to Phone

Photo by Evan Sung

Hours

Mon, 8pm-4am; Tue-Sun, 3pm-4am

Nearby Subway Stops

J, M, Z at Bowery; F at Delancey St.; B, D at Grand St.

Payment Methods

American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

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A former sign-making shop is now a bar with no sign. Add to the irony: Aside from a couple of grandma’s couches, there isn’t much to make this subterranean lair—also once a bean-sprout factory—feel like home sweet home. At best, aficionados of taxidermy and lovers of knickknacks will feel like they’ve paradoxically climbed down a stairway to heaven. The wooden bar’s illuminated diorama-like display cases show off eBay detritus like a de-necked electric guitar, dental casts, and the disembodied horse-head of a hitching post. As far as real animals go, a stuffed rabbit, an eagle, and a beaver frolic around a tree branch repurposed as a lamp stand. That sort of exoticism doesn’t carry over to the beer selection or to the D.J.’s jams (which run the gamut from Skynyrd to the Smiths), although on Tuesdays, the spillover crowd from Happy Ending’s long-running Shit Hammered party can be as freaky as the trinkets.

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good time

them_apples from 10009 | Posted on 7/28/08

Overall Reader Rating: 8 (Recommended)

great bartenders, good drinks, fun music and kitschy ambience - most fun i have had in awhile on a night out. the dancefloor was packed, no one was pretentious or snooty and the taxidermy is not too in-your-face. it's...Read More

Fun place any night of the week

Drifter220 from 11232 | Posted on 7/10/08

Overall Reader Rating: 8 (Recommended)

I've been going to HSH fairly regularly for about six months now and have yet to be disappointed- generally fun, unpretentious crowd and a fun place to let loose and dance. It does get crowded at moments, but never so...Read More

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