Gowanus and Red Hook are Brooklyn's best-kept bar secrets, where craft breweries, old-school taverns, and low-key music spots share the same waterfront edge. From Other Half's hoppy pours to the worn stools at Sunny's, these picks have earned their place in the Brooklyn bar canon.
Gowanus + Red Hook · 195 Centre St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Brooklyn's IPA cathedral since 2014, with twenty-odd taps pouring hazy doubles, imperial stouts, and whatever experimental batch just came off the canning line ten feet away. Green Diamonds, their imperial IPA with peac…
Gowanus + Red Hook · 253 Conover St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
A Red Hook time capsule where the lights stay low, the regulars know everyone’s dog by name, and the night might end with a bluegrass jam you swear materialized out of thin air. It’s scruffy, soulful, and quietly magica…
Gowanus + Red Hook · 329 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
This spot feels like it’s been holding down the corner forever—dark wood bar, worn banquettes, low lights, and a jukebox that makes everything sound better after a whiskey or two. The burger is the star (thick, perfectl…
Gowanus + Red Hook · 233 Butler St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
If you treat Public Records like just a bar, you’re missing the point. It’s a whole mini-campus built for sound—start upstairs with a drink in near-silence, then drift into the Sound Room where the system is so dialed i…
Gowanus + Red Hook · 406 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA
A Gowanus bar where the cocktail list is tight — negronis, paper planes, the essentials — and the toasted cheese sandwiches in the kitchen have given the whole room a perpetual fondue-adjacent smell that reviewers eithe…
Gowanus + Red Hook · 158 Beard St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, USA
A twelve-tap brewpub on Beard Street doing house-brewed IPAs, sours, and an award-winning Golden Ale. Unlike its Greenpoint sister location, this is a little more raw and warehouse-y, a reliable, unfussy place to post u…
Gowanus + Red Hook · 236 Butler St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
Evalyn’s Tap House is where you go when you want a beer list that actually makes you pause—rotating drafts, European leanings, and bartenders who’ll steer you right without the lecture. It’s warm, a little buzzy, and bu…
Gowanus + Red Hook · 256 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
A backyard bar that feels like a slightly chaotic summer party someone forgot to shut down. Picnic tables, string lights, and a rotating cast of dogs and groups that keep merging as the night goes on. It’s casual to the…