Sweet 36 Review

Noisey AF, good spot otherwise...it is a bar after all :D

Another less-than-stellar Clinton Hall location. Service was very inadequate overall, and the large room was filled with a gloomy vibe on an otherwise pretty Saturday afternoon.

My biggest issue is with their whole "supercraft" beer focused menu. New York City and the surrounding suburbs are home to well over a dozen top-notch breweries, yet the menu is overwhelmingly filled with out of town breweries ranging from "been around a while" to "who?". Now, I don't expect the latest releases from the hottest breweries, because certainly there's more demand than supply for these beers, but an effort to have *some* local craft (besides the ubiquitous Brooklyn Brewery) would be appreciated. Otherwise, drop the shtick.

Came here on a Saturday night at 8pm to meet up with friends from out of town. We were going to be a party of 6. At the door, they ask you what you are here for. It felt like a trick question. I'm like, "Uhhh... drinks?" The bouncer then said, "well if you want a table, you have to put your name down with the hostess." I said, "our party of 6 wont be complete until 9pm though so it'd be pointless to put us on the list for a table now." The hostess and the bouncer looked at each other and begrudgingly let us in. It's like, Geez, do you get paid per table here?
There was an empty table right next to the bar and I asked if we could sit there while we wait for the whole party to get there. We were told that that specific table has no waitress service and everything we need would have to come from the bar, which is perfectly fine by me.
My friends and I started off with some pours of cider, Hefeweizen and the CH IPA, $8 each. We also got the Bacon, Bacon, Bacon Burger, the Double Smashed Burger and the Fondue Burger ($17 each and comes with pickle and fries) The burgers took forever to come out and our Fondue burger was even given to the people seated at the bar by mistake. The guy just so happened to be an honest guy and looked at me and said, "I didnt order this. Didn't you guys order food?" If he didnt say anything, I wouldn't even have noticed that our food went to him instead.
The Double smashed burger apparently won an award at the NYC Wine and Food festival for best burger. To be honest, it was just an OK burger, nothing astonishing or spectacular about it. I asked for it medium and it came well done and dry as heck.
Because we were seated in the no man's land table, nobody ever came to ask us how the food was or if we needed anything whatsoever. I had to go get my own napkins and condiments at the bar, to boot. I couldn't find salt or pepper shakers anywhere and those fries desperately needed it.
They had board games that you can bring to the table, which were fun. We really wanted to play the Giant Uno card game but alas, the sets were being monopolized by 2 tables.
This place seems to be a big hit for birthday parties as we observed multiple groups wander in en masse throughout the night with party balloons in tow.
I must say, the Saturday night DJ was awesome. Great mix of dance music to drink and bop around to all night. If only there was space to actually dance to the fun tunes.
Overall, it's a cute twist on a beer hall. I'd come here again for happy hour since the beers are on point and cheaper. But I doubt that I'll be getting the bland burgers again nor sitting in the Fend For Yourself no man's land table ever again.

It's a really chill restaurant/gastropub. There are games on the walls and available on every table, it's a super fun date spot or just to hang with friends. Average meal is around $17-20.

Ig makes it look amazing but the good is just regular

Stumbled upon this place looking for some apps and drinks. Loved it! The service, atmosphere, food and drinks exceeded expectations. Portions were plentiful and food was flavorful. Fun and lively crowd. The games were a hit!

Clinton Hall takes it's inspiration from Castle Clinton located in Battery Park. The main goal for the owners to have a American beer hall was to get people together away from their phones and laptops. This can be clearly seen with their communal tables, a wide variety of games offered and huge shared dishes. The bar has a bewildering array of specialty beers served on tap. The servers were warm and welcoming but with so many tables to attend they do get quite busy. With a laidback and chill vibe, this place is a perfect after work spot for drinks and food.

With some recommendations from our server we were all set with our order. We got the Dipper Trio, Truffle Parmesan Fries and the Famous Doughnut Grilled Cheese. The dipper Trio consisted of Guacamole, Spicy Feta, Squash Hummus along with Pita Chips. All three dips were pretty average and missed the oomph factor. The Truffle Parmesan Fries which was again nothing special and we thought could have been better. Next was their Famous Doughnut Grilled Cheese and it totally lives up to the hype! The Doughnut has a crisp on the outside and warm and soft on the inside. The tomato dip goes so perfectly well with the Doughnut and cheese. Each bite of this was simply heavenly!

We ordered the Crispy Chicken Stack for entrees. This sandwich was loaded with Fried Chicken, Fried Pickles, Cole Slaw, Pickles and a lip smacking Hot Honey Sauce. It's not just a sandwich, it's a monstrous sandwich and definitely a contender for the recently trending Chicken Sandwich Wars.

For dessert, our choice was obvious. If there's anything with Red Velvet on the menu, we want it! So we got the Red Velvet WTF Waffle and we had no idea what we had gotten ourselves into. This one dessert is good enough as a whole meal for three/four people. There's no adjective to describe how ginormous this dessert was. It includes three stacked Waffles, a big slice of Red Velvet Cheesecake, Vanilla Icecream, loads of whipped cream, crushed Oreo, Sprinkles and M&Ms. The Red Velvet Cheesecake was extraordinarily delicious and we hope they put it up on their menu separately too. The waffles were soft they escalate slowly on each and every taste bud and make you close your eyes. Perfection.

One of the best restaurants in NY, not expensive at all with nice staff!

Very large space with a great selection of both beer and games. Was able to walk in on a Thursday night with 20+ people with plenty of space. Only gripe is that the table setup/ordering with a server vs. from the bar is a bit confusing.

Very rude and disrespectful . Doesn't anything overcome that? Tell me.

Went on a Monday. Very active place. Good selection of beers

they use your credit card for security but if you pay with cash they still charge your credit card. I tried to talk with them but they said they have a receipt signed by me but its impossible! I never signed anything because I paid with cash! I plan to notify the police! DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD!

What a fun time! Good beers, delicious food, and fun games. Cards, Jenga, sorry, connect 4. All the good ones! Definitely recommend!

The menu and staff are extreme the deceptive. The fries that "were included" with the burgers ended up not being and cost our table over $40 more then what was expected. Extremely deceptive business practice. Be careful on what you order

Everytime I got to this location, the service is absolutely terrible, and it takes forever to get a drink. The last straw, is the fact that they refused
to served us, on a Wednesday at 10PM. They said we were too drunk, with no absolute reason, even though we had just walked in the door.

They are known for their burger. It is disgusting. Dry as can be.

This place is great! Especially on a Tuesday night for Drag Bingo, Jacklynn Hyde has ya entertained and laughing for hours. They have amazing prizes to win too like round of free shots and free food, and it doesn t cost anything to play. This place is big inside and have table games plus the food is awesome! Will go back for sure!

Good place to go with lively music and games to play.

Cool atmosphere with games all around - appeared to be a college hang out. There s a bouncer that checks ID when you come in. Very young crowd - pretty sure my husband and I were the only ones over 30. White claws everywhere. Would go back if it didn t make me feel old.

great place for drinks after work, very nice that there are games to play

Went here for an event. We had pretty good, standard bar food. The bartenders were pretty great, and we're definitely the highlight of the event.

Awesome place to go with your friend in be a big kid

This is a huge bar in midtown. We had a team event and the staff was friendly.

There are loads of things to do such as Jenga, Board games, and ample.of telivision sets.

What a cute site with lots to do, lots to drink and plenty of people.

Good news. Clinton Hall has beer and enough food for you and all your friends. Bad news. The service is slow to non existent. The manager seems to be carrying the staff. He was great and comp us for all because of the bad service so respect to him. But as a married guy with a kid, it's not my style (dude + bad) and I wont be coming back.

Good Beer selection for a good price!
Excellent fondue burger!!

Management is very responsive and the entire team provides good customer service. Well-made drinks and tasty food with great spacing on seats and TVs. The donut and tomato soup are a must try.

The food was great, so was the staff, and I'm particularly amazed by the variety of games that were there. Definitely will return!

Really fun place, great drinks selection, nice staff & amazing BUT sickly donut cheese toastie

Fun place, good eats...good drinks. Don't remind me what I spent

Too crowded and staff were not friendly. I was there with 12 people. Will not go back

Absolutely delicious bar food. Both the dry aged burger and the smash burger were awesome. The soft pretzel was warm and fresh, plus that was the best honey mustard I've ever had. The staff was super friendly and very helpful. The beer list is advertised as "Super Craft" but if you're used to going to places like Gold Star, Proletariat, Covenhoven, etc. you probably won't be that impressed. But the drink menu is definitely a step above most bars of this caliber as I was able to order a Finback beer.

The place is super fun, ideal to go with friends, has many board games and also other games on the walls.
It's American food, very rich. It fills the place quite.

Great food and staff....limited but varied beer selection. Wasn't overly crowded. Had games you could play....good place to meet with friends or take a break with family.

Cool spot, good beer menu, the crossword puzzle wall is a good touch.

Went there for happy hour with my co-workers. First time there, had fun...

Paid $394.00 plus a $455 drink tab minimum for three appetizers and to reserve a table for a party of twenty then got a table that only sat ten (which is apparently their standard for reservations) for two hours. This then resulted in half the party standing around a table for the night. Asked the manager on site, Ernie Sanders (which is what he stated his name was. Unlikely, but I will be finding out his name either way), how he would be able to accommodate us and his only offer of a solution was to have us go upstairs (after we were an hour and a half into the reservation). This guy Has very poor customer service skills. When he finally came out to speak to the table he threw his hand in my partners face, letting her know he only speaks to one person at a time. Already off to a poor start. After I explained our frustration about the situation he said there is nothing he can do other than move us at this point. Asked him if I could speak to Benny Klein, the event coordinator, he said I could contact him via email and he was not going to call or contact him on my behalf. His attitude towards a party of twenty resulted in Clinton Hall losing business, and gaining a very bad reputation among 20 people who will surely share this experience. Word travels. Maybe the worst disregard for the customer I have ever seen from management and something I will be contacting the company that manages this location about. Fortunately for them, the food and drinks were great. No thanks to Ernie. Not sure why he s managing this location. I m sure they could find someone more qualified in the service industry.

Awesome appetizers, awesome beer selection. May be too loud for some

Large space. Lots of craft beer. Reasonable price. But very loud, and attracts a large crowd. If you want things lowkey dont go here. But otherwise a standard craft brew beer hall

Great place to hang out especially during times when it's not crowded. A decent variety of board games and beer. The Injectable Doughnuts are awesome.

Not sure if it's a great place to eat, but it's an awesome small concert venue. At least they turned it into one when Arizona performed. Overpriced to a pretty high degree so it felt more like a bar than a food hall. But overall still great. If there's a concert, I would recommend checking it out. Not sure how frequently they'll be doing this though.

Large space with a big selection of interesting beers that regularly changes. Busy, fun vibe, and not too loud, good for coworker events or a group of friends. We had a relatively big group, and waitstaff were very attentive coming over multiple times for orders. The game walls and the card/table games you can grab were a nice touch.

Double Smash Burger is the best burger I've ever had.

Very large space with an upstairs. Lots of beers on tap and large picnic tables for seating. Entrance has no stairs so wheelchair and stroller friendly.

The space is large and they have some fun games for everyone. The food was ok and Stick to the beer selection.

Good for a group gathering but they don't have pitchers

Love this place! Games, Beers, fun and great service and great food!!! Can t wait to bring friends!!!

If I could give a zero star rating, I would have. Waited 20 minutes for Happy Hour drinks. Notified waitress that we wanted food. She walked away and never came back until we got up to leave so we could get food somewhere else. Rude, drinks were awful. Just stay away.

Great burger! Good beer selection! Service was a little slow, waited over 10 minutes for my beer to come and once we finished our food we never saw our server again. I'd still come back, the burger was that good.

The service was not great, food was served cold and took forever to arrive nor was it made the way it was described on the menu. The nachos grande arrived like someone had opened a bag of chips and dumped on a tray, drizzled some sour cream and sprinkled a few black beans did I mention that took over an hour to be delivered. The only reason it got 2 stars and not 1 was the beer selection. Many excellent offerings but several were already kicked at 7 on a Friday night, switch them out already guys to start a weekend!

Good location for a group get together. We made a reservation, the service was great.

Fun place! Games, drinks and good-looking guys and gals! What more to entertainment can you get!

This is a great place. The food, cocktails and so many table games to choose from, all will keep you busy for all your visit, Great Place to hangout.

Really fun place to hangout and play some games while you drink.

Went there after seeing the Fondue burger on the idiot box on the Food network..
What an over hyped burger..just get the fries and cheese as a side rather than a hole in the burger with a few fries sticking out..
Place has a millenial vibe with that age range seeming to be the majority of patrons there and the drink menu would verify that as well as the team members..
Drinks were good..not strong and very pricey as was the waste of a Fondue burger..
I would go again to any of the locations the food was good tasting and the old school table games to play are cool...

Great burgers and beer. Little loud, but other than that it's great.

Great beer hall with good burgers and desserts. Many board games to pick from as well as a giant chess installation and dry-erase walls to use markers on. A casual setting to meet friends after work or to take family for a fun evening.

The beer selection is so good and rotates often. The staff is friendly and the food is everything guilty pleasures are made of. Games for your table make the time with friends that much more fun. Try the grilled cheese donut. Or the buffalo cauliflower... Better than most. Burgers look lean and mean. But don't take my word for it. Go for yourself.

I could find better service at a glory hole in a truck stop

Great place, the games are obviously well used but in good condition. Solid selection (multiple copies of CAH if you're into that). There is also a nice assortment of beers in tap. I'd recommend the Nachos, even without meat they were great.

I sat at the bar, which wasn't busy for 5+ men and noone even acknowledged my existence. If it was busy obvs 20 min plus could be excusable
But there was all of 10 people in there.

Awful place. Shown to a table on Friday night, only to be told it was taken. The staff absolutely disinterested and very rude.

This smells like a place that thinks it's better than it is.

AVOID!

Awesome wings. Seriously get the wings. Sweet and spicy. Great burger.

Came here on Saturday after noon around 3pm
The restaurant was not crowded at all.
Hardly see waiters, we need to go into restaurant and find waiter by ourself.
After seat in, no one serve us , we need to go to counter to call waiter again ourself to order the food.
I wish their service can improve .

Besides this, here has lots of broad game, and the space is very big, very comfortable .
Definitely good for group of people hang out together. And the food actually was amazing too. Here is what we order:

The Famous doughnut Grilled Cheese: very crispy doughnut with grilled cheese. Somehow the tomato dipping sauce was perfect with the grilled cheese.

Birthday Cake WTF Waffle: when we see the picture on yelp, we thought just a regular size dessert, but when the waiter bring super big plate, we were like WTF lol. Looks super sweet, but actually not. The waffle taste so good with the icecream. And 3 of us did finished the whole thing!! Super yummy!



Nachos El Grande: was good. It was way too much food for us. So we ate little bit slower. The tortilla became not that crispy. So make sure you eat fast!

Fondue Burger, eat !!! Enjoy the most amazing hamburger in NY!

Great burger, terrific craft beer selection & all the games you could want to play too!

Limited variety of beers, but fun place for santacon.

Double smashed burger is my favorite burger right now hands down. It won the Burger Bash people s choice for a reason! Service is not the best but it s worth the visit.

Great Atmosphere, awesome location. Their double smash burger is world class. A definite place to stop if you are hungry and looking for a relaxed place to eat. It even comes with jenga!

Great burgers and a friendly staff. Nice rotation of beer selections - lots of craft beers from all over.

Solid taproom with a ton of drink options. We sat at the bar, service was great and food came out fast, which was pretty good for a massive bar like this.

Food was delicious! Topped our lunch off with Walter Whites Methadonuts . Will come back again.

If your looking for a hot dog with some flavors look no more this is the spot to satisfy your cravings from Clinton Hall to deep fried oreos and twinkies to churros to a beer with your hot dog dirt dog is the spot!