New Bar Alert: Skinny Dennis
The garrulous guys behind popular craft beer dive Lucky Dog have branched out with a new joint just a few blocks away on Metropolitan Avenue, in the former home of Bar Berry. Called Skinny Dennis (after a country music bassist who died onstage in 1975 at the age of 28) the bar perpetuates the laid-back yet well-curated vibe of Lucky Dog, but with a honky-tonk theme. Co-owner Sal Fristensky happens to be a big country music fan, and Skinny Dennis will present live music three nights a week, supplemented by a jukebox that spans the spectrum from country to classic rock….
Most of the beer is domestic, with 18 craft brews on tap, and all of them running about $5. For good old boys on a budget, Skinny Dennis also serves a 24 oz Coors banquet beer in a mason jar for $4, as well as $3 Bud, PBR and Rolling Rock. Or for $6 you can get a delicious and refreshing Uncle Willie’s Frozen Coffee, which comes out of the daiquiri machine Mack bought for $9,000. Ingredients include milk, vanilla, sugar, bourbon, coffee liqueur, brandy, Oslo coffee, and another floater of bourbon on the top for good measure. Skinny Dennis serves it in a classic “Anthora” Greek coffee cup, in case everything else in the joint makes you forget you’re still in Brooklyn.
Skinny Dennis
152 Metropolitan Avenue
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Open 12pm – 4 a.m. daily







I’m so tired of that ironic honkey tonk country music bullcrap. It’s mega annoying. I know every one of Lucky Dog’s crappy twangy playlists by heart – that theme is so tired.
Anyone know if they have a phone number or website yet? Want to know before I head over.
Checked this spot out on Sunday afternoon.
Moderately crowded and the Uncle Willie’s Frozen Coffee was pretty boss.
Free peanuts.
So go.