The District Sips: Beauty Bar
With locations in Vegas, LA, and NYC, Beauty Bar is barely a newcommer to the bar scene. What is new, though, is the amount of cash left in your wallet after a night out here. For any ladies tired of dishing out wads of bills for $12 martinis, this section is for you.
Just as the name suggests, Beauty Bar is reminiscent of beauty parlors your grandma might have visited in the 50’s: pink and blue, wave silhouettes, and enormous hair dryers on every wall. Mixed in with the perfume bottles and pantyhose posters is an real bar and a small but strong martini list. With names like Shampoo and Prell, you can bet the drinks are a teeny-weeny bit sugary for those with a more refined palette, but at $8 a pop, you can’t go wrong for a social sip.
For more of a Girls Night Out, catch your BFF’s and call ahead: Beauty Bar offers a Manicures and Martinis special that includes getting your nails done with a Beauty Bar custom martini for only $10. If you have a big fete be sure to call ahead- it can be a long wait to have your manicure done with only two (wonderful) manicurists doing the work.
After your nails are dry you can try to pinch dinner rezzies at any of the Union Squares and Alphabet City restaurants in the immediate area, or only just saunter into the backroom of Beauty Bar for some 80’s-riffic dancing courtesy of the tunes of Duran Duran and Crowd of Seagulls. Couture? Not even close. A cheap and fun night out? For sure.
Beauty Bar. 231 E 14th St. (212) 539-1389
