Night time after the Spa
 

Any recommendations for a 1st time visit to the Spa Travers weekend? Looking for some options or any "stay away!" referrals for drinks and or dinner after Friday & Saturday next week.

Have a racing junkie with me Friday. Any bar with cold beer and lots of racing talk/ loosing crying/ past glory stories would be great. Saturday looking for dinner with the wives after the big day.

I will leave the dress code debate alone as I am flexible. Hoping to bump into DT people all weekend. thanks.

Friday night, just about any bar in town will do but I'm partial to the Parting Glass for that type of atmosphere. You never know who will show up- last weekend it was Johnny V. Also try Siros, of course, or the Horseshoe.

For yourself and the wives, I really enjoy Forno Bistro:

http://fornobistro.com/

Grey Gelding is nice as well:

http://www.greygelding.com/

I will check the links out. The wives will be happy if we cash a few tickets. With NY smoking laws they will also be getting less cigar smoke than usual with us. thanks!

They still have outdoor bands down on Caroline St. ?

They play on Polytrack

I liked Clancy's... seemed to be more my cup of tea.

They did in several places downtown the night before the Whitney, I'm not positive if the night before the Travers will be the same.

Hit Siro's after the races, and then downtown. Go up and down Broadway, take a look at some of the hotspots -- you'll see 'em, LOL. Off Broadway, yes, The Parting Glass is a stop, City Tavern, Mare, 9 Maple, Gaffney's, and more. For dinner -- some of my favorites are Lanci's, Chez Sophie, Doc's Steakhouse, Grey Gelding, Springwater Bistro, and One Caroline.

Now, if you are looking to enjoy a cigar -- the only place you can smoke inside is the smoking lounge at The Wine Bar, or outside area at 9 Maple and Mare (I think you can still smoke outside at Mare -- not sure, so check first).

Enjoy!

Eric

Some of the good bars in Saratoga are the Parting Glass & Baileys. Baileys has a nice outdoor patio & live bands. They once had guest jockey bartending nights for charity. A few years ago it was JV, Santos & Robbie Albarado. We had a great time hanging out with them & RA really likes to throw back shots. I know that there has always been live bands on Caroline Street during Travers weekend. I am not certain if they still do that.

I like this place for drinks too. I've heard mixed thoughts on their food, but the filet was done perfectly for me. Good ambiance:

http://www.tiznowrestaurant.com/

Jockey bartending night was fun. The tips went to support (at the time) the Disabled Jockeys Fund. While they haven't done it recently, there's always a couple of "events" or something of the like. There used to be the official jockey karaoke, which kind of turned into the "unofficial" jockey karaoke, LOL.

Eric

If you are over 30 then avoid the Parting Glass like the plague. If you want to impress your wives bring them to the cafe in the Adelphi Hotel on Broadway. Much more discriminating crowd.

I have been on a Seafood diet for many years any time I SEE FOOD I like to eat it:D Thats why every time I make a trip to Saratoga I make a trip To Sergio's if you like Italian food thats the place to go I promise you this you will not leave there hungry.

I never got past the Horseshoe and Double Vision!!!

I've been to the track five times this year and I'm usually hammered by the
8th race. I'd love to see the night life in Saratoga. After drinking beers, going back and forth from the paddock and the track plus hitting the pisser about 20 times a day, I'm too beat to hit the night life. I hit Leon's for a couple of Margaritas and call it a day.

Another good Italian place is Paradiso on South Broaway. Delicious food served family style. I also like Bentley's in Malta. It's only about 10 minutes from the track on 9s. Great food & Nice atmosphere. Great steamed clams. Anyone who is a Red Sox fan will especially love it. They have all kinds of Red Sox stuff all over the place.

Here are the links to info for both places:

http://albany.citysearch.com/profile..._restaurant-nc

http://www.theoriginalbentleys.com/

Sergio's is one place I'd like to go to before the summer is over.

I'd lower it to 28 ;)

How could anyone not like the Parting Glass. They have over 50 beers on tap & in bottles. After you are piss drunk, you can go in the back room and throw darts all over the place.

To each his own. :)

make that 18.

Did you see Greeley's Conquest is entered on Saturday in the Super Derby prep? (Prelude Stakes)

I didn't...haven't checked the stable mail lately...thx.

The same goes for Gaffney's at night. It's WAY too crowded. If you are looking for a nice bar to just chill and relax Parting Glass and Gafney's are not it.
But I would still check out those places during the day if you aren't at the track. There are wonderfull.

I'm 29 and the Parting Glass is my FAVORITE! Yes, crowded... but filled with racing memorabilia and definitely a beer lover's paradise. I can't find a lot of those beers elsewhere.

Check with Byk....he can recommend this wonderful place that charges $15 for a house salad and $13 for a side plate of brocolli.

I have a client in Chicago. He and his wife were in Miami Beach so I offered to buy them dinner, their choice of restaurant. We went to a french place called Evolution. We had the "tasting menu." $650 for the 4 of us, including tip. They brought out small pieces of food I could barely see. The chef stopped by the table and asked me to describe my "experience." I told him that where I come from the portions he served are commonly referred to as "bait." After "dinner," drove straight to Wolfy Cohen's Rascal House deli and got a rare roast beef which I happily ate on the drive home. Live and learn.

OMG... i sure hope he bought whatever it was you were selling him.

i dont think you ever had a cup of tea...anywhere!!!

I do have to say one of the best apps I ever had was roast duck with a very light drizzle of some sort of sweet sauce on a sweet potatoe chip....at least I think it was meant for an app. ;)

If I pay that much for a salad, that better be a damn big salad... tomatoes the size of pumpkins dont ya know.

We didnt stay to find out Pat....Scavs wasn't properly dressed for the occasion.

Bullshit, if I didn't go pull the menu and take a look, people would have had a coniption fit about $12 onions or whatever the **** they were. I should be considered a SAVIOR

Well to set the record straight.....
 

I was there. You really need to picture this. We pull up to what could pass for a French country house which is what it was, an incredible old house, white two story, out in the country, with portico, just smells of class and money. So we go in and fill the entry area of the place, and a number of us gradually looked at each other and our sweaty baseball caps, shorts and t-shirts, and subliminally consider the fact that we had not had any alchohol in like 30 minutes and we are probably certain to grab a wine list, after martini's for all 15 of us (my guess) and do serious damage. We looked at the blue blood crowd with many in coat and tie, white table clothes, candles, checked out the menu and did a little math, and said "this is a potential debacle". This was just a classic replay of the Blues Brothers who show up in the french place in Chicago, and get loaded and say "the little girl, how much for the women?"

To the credit of the nice folks who run the place, they were game, but after everyone agreed this was not the place to spread out the form for the next day, I was the one who offered our apologies for their efforts to seat us.

Anyway, all was well, we found a wonderful place that was more than prepared for the DT groove.

I/L :)

yes and scavs was dressed like a bum....

they must have been some FINE onions!

How dare any of you consider wearing Cubs gear as being dressed like a bum. there were drf hats, hawaii shirts, gym shoes with tube socks, next day DRF's in back pockets and Kev's uglyness, I was probably like 3rd best dressed now that I think about it

Please....noone....NOONE makes shorts, tshirts and flip flops look as good as I do:cool: