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Forbes
Knickerbocker Bar & Grill is a steakhouse, known for its 28-ounce T-bone steaks, more than as a neighborhood bar. Ron D’Allegro, one of its managing partners, explains that it’s been around since 1977 or 48 years, and its bar attracts a slew of regulars and mirrors the atmosphere of the 90s TV show “Cheers,” where everyone knows your name.
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Forbes
When I dined recently with three friends at the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill on University Place in the heart of Greenwich Village, I was surprised by who was filling nearly every one of its bar stools. Most Village restaurant bars these days are inhabited mostly by Gen Zers in their twenties and Gen Xers in their thirties with rarely a person over 50 years or so in sight.
But at the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill, nearly every bar stool was occupied by guests 50 years and older, and they were all talking, despite placing their smartphones on the bar. What gives?
Knickerbocker Bar & Grill is a steakhouse, known for its 28-ounce T-bone steaks, more than as a neighborhood bar. Ron D’Allegro, one of its managing partners, explains that it’s been around since 1977 or 48 years, and its bar attracts a slew of regulars and mirrors the atmosphere of the 90s TV show “Cheers,” where everyone knows your name.
“We welcome new people, but the older folks feel comfortable here,” D’Allegro explains. It attracts regulars because it keeps its liquor prices moderate and “that helps keep the seats full.”
Why does it attract so many people aged 50 to 80? D’Allegro says there’s no loud music blasting away so it’s a calming atmosphere for many people of that age.
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ZAGAT
"A great alternative to NY's stuffy steakhouses," this "long-running" Central Village American is a "favorite" of the "over-40" crowd thanks to its "very relaxing" ambiance ("love those booths"), well-made Gibsons, the "best T-bone" and "swingin' jazz."
New York Post
Manhattan's most easygoing steakhouse since 1977, wrapped in wood paneling and New York memorabilia, draws regulars like Chris Noth, F. Murray Abraham and Ethan Hawke.
CUISINENET
A Village place that's been around forever, Knickerbocker has the classic feel of an old steakhouse, with its open room done in dark wood and whimsical antique New York posters....
CITYSEARCH
The Scene The Knickerbocker Bar and Grill is a spacious bar and restaurant with a refined, gentlemen's club ambience....
WALL STREET JOURNAL (Urban Gardner, by Robert Gardner Jr.)
Knickerbocker... where the decor is as no nonsense as its T-Bone Steaks....
Knickerbocker remains popular because they serve as a refuge from breathless nonsense, exaggeration and overstimulation of contemporary society. They're oases of sanity that offer customers a subliminal pat on the back for their steely resistance to the trendy.
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New York Times:
On a recent evening at the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill on University Place in Manhattan, Gray Coleman, an entertainment lawyer, and his husband, Brian Theis, a cookbook author and television contributor, said the appeal of being a regular is the lack of ceremony.
“We’ve lived in Greenwich Village for almost 35 years. Usually when I walk in, I don’t have to say ‘Coleman, party.’ They know who it is,” Mr. Coleman, 67, said of the restaurant, which he and other house faithfuls fondly call “the Knick.”
Mr. Coleman isn’t looking for culinary fireworks. Consistency is the point. “I think there is a high level of predictability, and that’s key,” he said. “You’ve eaten almost everything on the menu, and there’s none of this ‘Am I going to make a wrong choice?’”