Deathwatching: The Blue Seats Menu Revealed
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Blue Seats, the recently opened sports bar on the LES that has yet to please locals with its outlandish pricing scheme and long-delayed opening, finally starts serving food towards the end of next week. There is a menu available on their website, but it hasn't been updated. Perhaps we should have a look at the menu being offered for tastings, prices included? It's just below—and we'll give the venue credit for keeping their food prices far more reasonable than their seat prices, which can be upwards of $150/hr.
Before we get there, here's a Blue Seats deathwatch update. Eater conducted a spot inspection of the venue last Saturday, with the Yankees playing the Red Sox and two dozen college football games in progress. Ghost town.
Blue Seats
Appetizers
- Fresh cut mozzarella sticks $8.95
- Fresh mozzarella with tomato and basil $10.95
- Scarpiello Chicken Wings $9.95
- Asian Style Chicken Wings $9.95
- Buffalo Style Chicken Wings $9.95
- Chicken Wings Sampler $14.95
- Fried Calamari $11.95
- Grilled Calamari $12.95
- Baked Clams $10.95
- Scallops wrapped in bacon $12.95
- Spring rolls $9.95
- Fried Oysters $10.95
- Hamburger Sliders (per piece) $3.00
- Philly Cheese Steak Sliders (per piece) $3.00
Raw Bar
- Shrimp Cocktail $12.95
- Clams on the half shell (1/2 dozen) $7.95
- Clams on the half shell (dozen) $12.95
- Oysters on the half shell (1/2 dozen) market price
- Oysters on the half shell (dozen) market price
Salads
- Watercress, roasted walnuts and blue cheese $9.95
- Caesar Salad $8.95
-With Grilled Chicken $12.95
-With Grilled Shrimp $14.95
- Iceberg lettuce with blue cheese and crispy bacon $8.95
- Fresh Mozzarella wi/Grilled Vegetables,Roasted Peppers $10.95
Paninis, Po’Boys and Sandwiches
- Grilled Vegetables w/roasted garlic, fresh rosemary and
goat cheese spread $9.95
- Grilled chicken, sundried tomatoes, with roasted garlic,
fresh rosemary and goat cheese spread $10.95
- Grilled chicken, fresh mozzarella, roasted peppers $10.95
- Proscuitto, fresh mozzarella, roasted peppers $9.95
- Chicken Parmigiana Hero $8.95
- Veal Parmigiana Hero $10.95
- Classic Philly Cheesesteak hero $12.95
- Sausage, roasted peppers, caramelized onions $9.95
- Fried Oyster Po’boy $12.95
- Hamburger $7.95
- with Cheese $8.95
- Crispy Bacon ,Tomatoes,Jalapeno & Cheddar Cheese Quesadilla $8.95
- Grilled Vegetable Caramelized onions & Goat Cheese Quesadilla $9.95
- Blackend Chicken,tomatoes &Cheddar Cheese Quesadilla $9.95
Entrees
- Shell Steak $23.95
- Chicken Parmigiana with Linguini $16.95
- Veal Parmigiana with Linguini $19.95
- Chicken Marsala $17.95
- Veal Marsala $20.95
- Baked Macaroni with Cheese $12.95
-with Bacon $14.95
- Rigatoni in Vodka Sauce $14.95
- Chicken Gabriella $18.95
- Linguini in Clam Sauce $17.95
- Double Cut Pork Chop $17.95
You know how I know you're gay?
You order salad in a sports bar.
The bar was pretty crowded Sunday for NFL games. Didn't go in so don't know if the booths/rooms were booked.
It's pretty much all mozzarella all the time on this menu!
They shoot horses, don't they?
re: #1, sometimes macho hetero dudes want their anorexic girlfriends to eat salads.
i think the menu looks alright, and the pricing seems fair, though one would have to evaluate the quality of food to say for sure.
Absolutley awful menu for a sports bar. I don't want Chicken Parm over linguini when I watch a game, a chicken parm wedge maybe - the offerings are way too "upscale" for a sports bar - nachos, burgers, beer and wings - that formula has worked for years and won't change - if I need a knife and fork to eat it during a game, I'm not odering it - I'll go to an actual restaurant like Babbo if I want itallian.
Again, not too bad of an idea. They credit the food and alcohol prices from the seats. So its basically just an minimum order amount.
I don't eat at restaurants with cents in their prices
seriously, i agree with #7 is this a Denny's pricing scheme? everything ends with .95 Is that to leave the nickel for the server? What to go get a shoe shine circa 1904.
Place is all wrong. Bunch of "Vinnie" meat heads that most likely grew up playing football in Long Island, made a few bucks on Wall St. and then got together, "grunted" and said "sports bar!, yeah" then high-fived and asked Mom & Dad and all their buddies from Mineola for some cash.
You want to make it "up-scale based on your seat pricing and then this is your menu. JOKE! Menu is about as imaginative as what you would see at a bad.... hate to say it... Long Island (or Jersey) wedding reception hall...
is there something beyond DEATHWATCH?! Like SUPERFUND SITE? or Chernobyl warning?
poster 7 likes it craft-style when they just list a number, without even specifying the currency type, using decimals, or using zero. minimalism...cool.
Hey #8, keep cashing those unemployment checks, balloon knot.
ha, i never even thought about menus with cents in their prices till now. thats pretty funny cause it's true. cents on a menu is not a good sign. just round the fucker up!
@#1: Yeah, hi-five Lil' Jimmy! NICE! GOOD CALL. THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW SOMEONE IS GAY!
If they are crediting the order counts from the seats, I don't know if I could eat $150 worth of chicken wings an hour, but I sure as hell would order them, on principle. I'd love to amass a pile of $450 worth of chicken wings during a steelers game.
Forget cents on the menu, what's the point of prices at all?? If they just went "All you can eat and drink, $50 per hour, per person" They could basically run the same scam and make it sound somewhat appealing and generous. Nobody's ever gonna crack that $50 minimum anyway if the food is this inexpensive. What's the harm?
Jeff, that's an interesting idea, though I doubt you'd make the same idea sound appealing at $150 per person per hour. Not appealing to me, anyway.
30.
Nicole kaplan (del Posto) takes slap at Tailor.
http://www.amny.com/entertainment/dining/am-pastry0919,0,4560184.story
By jeffrey at September 19, 2007 10:49 AM
31.
Saw that! The quote astounds.
"I don't really like that whole, 'Oh, here's how you take mango puree and turn it into a tube and stick it upside down.' That's just not my thing."
By Whoa!! at September 19, 2007 10:52 AM
it's amazing that all you big, brash brutes who still miss your college days back when you had a pair complain about a menu with cents in the end of the price. why is that such a big deal!!.
why don't you bullies admit it,,,, you sit around on sundays and watch reruns of sex in the city. it's sad all of you even live here and people have to open these gay ass sports bars for all of you,, and you still complain!!
maybe your mommy's still putting too much starch in you underwear.
i can't beleive all of you big strong men are complaining about some change at the end of the dollars on a menu in a sports bar.
my god, the only reason they have these places is to try and satisfy all you jocks who still miss your college days. go back to where you came from so we don't need all these terrible sports bars.
what's a matter, your girlfriends or wives wear the pants in the family and won't let you watch the game on your own t.v.? or are you just hoping to get a chance to get drunk and sing your old college fight songs with your loser buddies?
i bet you guys have to watch sex in the city with your girl.
you people really cheapin the feel of nyc.
I like the first version better, it's more to the point.
On the website, they list "Chicken Gabriela" twice, wtf?
# 8, you are right on and hilarious!
This place is a fkkng joke with douchebag writter all over it.
Since when did Eater become some social networking site for 17 year old kids to call each other gay?
See what happens when you open up a place like Blue Seats downtown? Everyone starts acting like those kids in middle school that made fun of me for not knowing anything about sports.
But I do know about food, and I'll say that "fresh cut" mozzarella sticks means about as much as "freshly grated" cheese or "farm fresh seasonal vegetables".
I've been to the blue seats twice and I've been given a tour of the private rooms along with a price rundown and there is no seat anywhere that's $150 and not even a rental fee for any room just a minimum purchase for food and drinks in the private rooms. So how come everybody else seems to know this besides eater.com who is supposedly in the business of knowing things about restaurants and bars. Is it that they don't even read the blogs posted on their own site because they think that bloggers are a bunch of know nothing idiots or because false information is better for business.
Why don't you all think for yourselves and go see a place for yourself before judging it based on the opinion of others.
I agree with #22, you are all a bunch of asses!! As I posted on here before, the minimum is for the booths and 2 private rooms, not EVERY seat in the house. You have no clue what you are talking about. You pack a booth full of your friends and for $100 p/hr your food & drinks are knocked off that price, not in addition to! I don't know about you pansies, but my girlfriends and I could do a lot of damage with that! And I don't know which Eater.com idiot wrote the original post above, but I was at the Yankee/Red Sox game there on Sat. the place was packed. Don't spread the wrong information to your readers, it's just ridiculous and misleading. As for the food, I've had it, and it's delicous, and I know food. The Philly Sliders and the wings are FANTASTIC! I actually saw quite a few people eating the ENTREES!! So to the moron who said that he wouldn't eat chicken parm in a sports bar, maybe you wouldn't but you AREN'T EVERYONE!! I think that many of you that post on here are misled about this place! SAT/SUN/WED/THURS in this place were very busy. Saw with my own two eyes. Even saw that both private rooms and 3 booths were occupied on Thurs. so I guess people with real taste, class and $ in their pockets appreciate it, unlike you people who want $0.25 drafts in a place that smells like VOMIT!!
i was there for the yankee/bosox game as well and yes it was packed and fun. i met a girl who helped me with our booth's minimum. thank you blue seats!
the only really good thing about this place was the service. the menu they show u is about half of what is advertised on the website. the food wasnt awful but i hope i dont get that e coli from the sliders. we got one of the booths and it would be fine if the setup of tvs was better. theres 3 on one side of the wall and 2 that are high up where u first get into the booth. u cant see the 3 little tvs clearly cause they are plasmas and unless u look down on them u get a funny picture. this place wont make it past week 8 of the football season. for 4 of us in a booth came out to 65 a head--save your money and buy a fat bag and watch the game at home
Was is in there Thursday, Oct. 4th for the Yankee game. (Agh The Yankees!) The place was mobbed!! All the booths, tables and rooms booked, standing (barely) room only. No one seemed unhappy to me! Very drunk yes, unhappy no! As long as there are sports on t.v., I see this place surviving!!
By the way......what's going on with this "Death Watch" anyways? Eater wants to be tough, but where is your back up?
Okay, it's packed for Sunday NFL games. But if this place expects to live off of the Sunday meal ticket, good luck to them. Their rent is probably high and if they think they can afford to cover rent overhead, etc. off of good Sunday and maybe Saturday college football business, they must know something we don't. Eater is spot on = Deathwatch. Who the F needs oysters with football?
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