O.W. Bar

Cute setup, decent prices, and some awesome go-go boys. Nice, unpretentious crowd.

I'd skip a bar with the tasteles and insenstivity to the gay community to host drag queens who make AIDS jokes, then, after I complained, make more jokes. When I booed, the person with the professional title of "barback" told me to leave, claiming drag queens can make whatever jokes they want. Oh really? About a two-decade long, government-exacerbated plague on our very lives? Oscar Wilde is rolling over in his grave on this travesty in the use of his name. Skip OW in memory of the real Oscar Wilde who served jail time rather than compromise himself.

Good selection of beer, smoking patio, convenient location, and friendly staff make this my favorite bar in the city.

I have always had a good time in this bar with both gay and non-gay clientele. The bartenders are very lenient and don't cut us off just for a slurred word. And besides, there's a patio in back for free mixing and smoking a good cigarette with a buddy. Oscar Wilde is much better than the Townhouse, anytime!

I've had a wonderful evening each time I've been to the O.W. Bar. If for no other reason than I'm a beer drinker, and O.W. has the great Australian beer -- Foster's -- on tap. It's so lively, with that great jukebox -- tens of thousands of tunes, every imaginable musical genre -- with a very diverse crowd. Though the crowd skews to those in their 20s and 30s, I at 57 have never felt out of place. There's a drag show, a game night, and now that the weather is nice, the patio is perfect for cruising or just having a Foster's outside. That this Chelsea-like place is on East 58th Street is even more remarkable. Go with a partner or go solo, you won't be solo for long. Highly recommended.