Bohemian Manhattan

Last night I caught up with another friend of a friend in the ultra-trendy, very bohemian Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. Again, I had not met this person before which is pretty crazy, but how far wrong can you go!!! It turned out to be a fantastic night.

I met up with her and two friends in Arthurs Tavern, a very rustic American blues and jazz place. This was a true American experience, there were hardly any tourists in sight (apart from me, but undercover of course!). We had a fair beers and then we went underground...Lurking underground was a hidden gem. The very cool Fat Cat Billiards bar. A true wonderland of activity with live jazz, pool tables, chess tables and then there's shuffleboard. Shuffleboard, where have you been all my life?

It basically consists of so-called shuckles, or pucks, which you push down the sandy shuffleboard table, narrowly avoiding the beer-shrewn sandy drop on either side. It is quite possibly the best bar game ever invented.

This game is epicsome!!