Post #513352 by JerseyRED on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 9:14 AM

Name:Painkiller
Type:bar
Street:49 Essex Street (Lower East Side)
City:New York
State:NY
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:Soon to be operational (mid-late March / beginning April)

Description:
From the NY Times article:
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/an-island-cocktail-lounge-manhattan-island/
"Richard Boccato, the veteran bartender and bar owner who will run Painkiller with his Dutch Kills colleague Giuseppe Gonzalez, said he hoped to kick off a new era in tiki culture with the bar.

“We’re not trying to do a classic tiki bar,” Mr. Boccato said. “We’re not going to build our father’s or grandfather’s tiki bar. We want to foster the inception of a New York tiki culture. We’re not taking you off the island of Manhattan onto the island of Oahu. We’re staying right here.”
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Mr. Boccato expects Painkiller to be open “between the Ides of March and April Fool’s Day.”

[ Edited by: JerseyRED 2010-02-25 09:21 ]