Pine Box Rock Shop

Pine Box Rock Shop

12 Grattan St
Brooklyn, NY 11206
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Rating: ★ ★ ★
Cards: Cash Only
Hours: Mon-Sun 5pm-4am
Subway: L to Morgan Avenue
Food/Menu: Bar Snacks
Booze: Full bar
Happy Hour: No
Bushwick BK says:

Pine Box Rock Shop — named such for its previous life as a casket manufactory and because the interiors are clad almost completely in salvaged shipping pallets — will in addition to liquoring up the locals host live music in a large rear party area. Many other repurposed materials, from lighting to cooling equipment, were used to cut down on costs. The counters are clear resin encapsulating hundreds of concert tickets from shows the Rushes and their friends have attended over the years.

Pine Boxhas 16 beers on tap, with most beers about $5. “The guy who installed the lines — we were prepared to go with 12 — he was like ‘oh, a box this size you can get 24 in there!’ Well, how about 16? We figured that was a good compromise.” There will also be a selection of canned beer for about $3-6. Cocktails should be around $5 and up.

The Brooklyn Paper says:

If you’re dying for a drink, there’s only one place to get it: At the new bar and music venue in a former coffin shop in East Williamsburg. Owners Heather and Jeff Rush are about to open the Pine Box Rock Shop on Grattan Street — and the site’s macabre past is definitely part of this bar’s present.

For a place that used to be a casket factory, it sure doesn’t smell like death — but there is a modern funereal feel, thanks to all the wood on the walls.

The result is a charming, homey do-it-yourself ambiance — like an unfinished schooner. Perhaps the bar’s oddest fixtures are its icebox and two sinks, which the Rushes collected from a closing auction at Studio B, a troubled Greenpoint club that finally closed last year.

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