I like this bar. I did not order any food but it was fun hanging out and having Goose Island on tap.. nice bar area with lots of seats. also plenty of room to stand. read more

Very nice bar to get a drink and hang with friends. The service was great and not pushy on ordering drinks one after the other.

This place is just OK. I've been here twice with coworkers for post-work drinks. The free popcorn is nice--reminds me of places in the Chicago area that do that. I thought bars in New York were too "cool" to do something like that, but I was happy to be proved wrong. Beer selection is a bit too mainstream for my tastes; the most exotic thing they had was Brooklyn Lager. The music was played a little too loud. I had a hard time talking to my coworkers. It's weird when places like this play music too loud. It's not the type of place where people are going to start dancing, so what's the point of jacking up the volume? read more

Snafu is considered a dive bar, but it's more of a mix of dive and lounge; one half lounge and one half dive bar -- a narrow space takes up the front portion of the bar while the back has 2 mini floors. One floor leads to a lounge area upstairs while on the bottom floor are the pool tables and arcade games. Both spaces in the back are not huge, but it's a retreat from the noisy large crowds. You'll find plenty of TVs, a disco ball with smoke machine (although Snafu is not a good place for dancing), okay mainstream music blaring on the speakers, and a very loud and lively crowd at this place. Snafu appears to be an after-work hot spot. A big selling point for Snafu is the happy hour deals they have all week -- $5 martinis, $5 shots, $3 Bud Lights until 8PM plus unlimited free popcorn that you can snack on. I believe the shots may run all night, but the drink specials end at 8PM. I find it difficult to find a happy hour that run past 6-7PM especially around midtown, so for this, Snafu gets a big two thumbs up. When you enter, expect to see a large and noisy crowd of mostly corporate men. The front portion of the bar is a bit narrow and claustrophobic, especially when you have a swarm of people around this area, but if you're looking for some breathing space and elbow room, there is the back upper floor that leads to lounge seating. This area is pretty nice and retains more privacy. They have cushioned seating with small tables plus TVs. It's a lot less noisier, and it's a good place to just sit back and chill. This is a pretty good bar in the midtown east area with a positive vibe and decent happy hour deals. I would come back here again with my friends and/or coworkers especially after work hours. Otherwise, it has a particular crowd with not a ton of diversity that may or may not turn off some, but Snafu retains an atmosphere that is more interesting than many of the generic Irish pubs/sports bars in midtown. The service is also great, especially if you plan to sit in the lounge area of the bar. My friends and I actually sat in the back lounge, and we had a waitress personally come to our table every so often to ask if we needed more drinks, and we never once had to get up to get our drinks. Overall, fun place to just hang out and get a little boozy. read more

Snafu - Sports Bars Near Me - New York, New York

I've only set foot in here once, but it wasn't the place for me. Having visited NYC a few times in the past and got all that cliched tourist stuff out of my system I decided to use this trip for some of the more important stuff like researching the dive bar scene. I found snafu to be fairly divey but the atmosphere wasn't close to what I had found elsewhere. The clientele was 100% male and the barmaid although friendly enough was wearing snafu branded hotpants and a tiny top while the temperature outside was low 40s. The uniform seemed unnecessary and I felt like a bit of a pervert. I didn't come here looking for women to letch on, so even the free popcorn couldn't convince me to stay beyond one drink. read more

Working in East Midtown and then trying to find an after work drink that doesn't cost more than $10 is quite the challenge! Snafu is our new go to joint currently with the awesome $3 Bud lights and $5 other beers. Also the $4 mojitos and martinis mixed with the $4 shots of Patron, Jager, and Jameson make it awesome. Our usual buy is a Bass or Newcastle backed with a shot of Jameson for less than $20 for two people followed by homemade salty as hell free popcorn! All the games you could want to see as well as golden tee and a chill lounge area. Fun bar, beautiful bartenders, great prices, I'm gonna start sounding redundant.... read more

I was in the area, so i decided to check this spot out. Considering its location, it may be considered dive bar-ish but nothing one may find in the lower east side. It had the customary distressed wood bar and back wall papered with signed and doodled dollar bills. The sound system is top notch but the music selection is odd, jumping all over the place. They have a good selection of booze and the servings are fine but not 'cheap'. The 'Specials' are on until 9pm. The prices were normal ($8) and for those keeping score, no buy backs, which sucks. The girl behind the bar was a really cute blonde Russian/Slavic, with these daisy duke shorts, from Russia with Love. In the bar area they have this crazy disco light ball thing. It bathes the area with little light beams and not to be out done they also have a fog machine. The Dyno-fog II. And even at 1am it will be used. Its very effective confusing drunks. They had a popcorn machine going in the back, it seems everyone is wet over 'free popcorn'. Who gives a shit? You want popcorn? Duane Reade sells Pop Secret, knock yourself out. Bars are for drinking. This place is a good option if you are in the area, great tvs if you need to catch the game. Because they don't have buy backs, I can't consider it a 'go to' spot.. read more

God, I love this bar. If you wear a suit and like ripping shots after work, come here for happy hour. You'll be in good company. Free popcorn, $7 mojitos (warning: the mango mojito is too sweet), a pool table, and rounds of shots. read more

I used to be a regular at this bar years ago (2005-2008). Back then, they were more non-descript and lowkey, not too many people knew about them so the bar wasn't too crowded. I loved it that way! It was hardly an issue to find a place to sit at the bar or along the wall, music wasn't too loud, everything was so chill and relaxed. Fast forward a few years. It's gotten way more popular as time passed, so while I'm happy for their business, I'm sad for me because it meant I'd have to endure the crowded bar scene I try hard to avoid. So I stopped coming here because I would get so annoyed with the overcrowdedness. I started coming here slowly again this year but only occasionally (even more rare is me going out - I've become domesticated and don't really barhop anymore in my old age!). The space consists of: - main bar area with a jukebox, TVs, small side tables with high stools along the wall. This part is divey-er than the back part. - back lounge. This part looks way different than the main bar. It has couches (& ottomans, I think), a fireplace (not sure if it's a real or fake one), a booth or 2. Primarily for private parties. - downstairs with a pool table. Also where the bathrooms are. There is also 1-2 tables right by the bathrooms. The only food they have is free popcorn - yummm!! But they do let you bring your own food. They do have happy hour specials, like $5 margaritas or well drink specials, $5 tequila shots, etc. You can have a pretty good time here and get pretty toasted in the process. They have waitresses (for you men or sapphic women out there, they are all hot and model-esque - try to control your drooling!) if you sit at any table throughout the bar (including the upstairs lounge, downstairs tables by the bathroom). All the bartenders and waitresses have been super nice and friendly. Also, they sometimes have a bouncer who checks IDs upon walk-in. In colder weather, they have a coat check girl in the front by the door (on the left when you walk in). read more

Kick Ass happy hour. It's always packed with tons of people, mostly in finance (sorry, we're just all over this city!) Drinks are cheap, bartenders are super efficient and everyone ends up having a grand old time. It's not even as divey as you might think although it'd never make Urban Daddy's Sexy list. read more

I am so indifferent about this bar. 5 pm: My friend and I stopped in because of the $5 margarita and mojito special. We were also waiting for the sushi spot a few doors down to open. We'd spent so much money on drinks the night before and felt we'd hit a gold mine with this place. The drink was pretty strong so we decided we'd go back that night to pregame before heading elsewhere. 11:30 pm: As soon as we walked in, I felt like I'd walked into a Jersey shore bar. The crowd looked mostly underage and top 40 hits were blasting from the speakers. I had two choices: run or get drunk fast. I ordered a shot of Patron silver ($7) and a margarita. It became clear to me that this was not somewhere I wanted to be completely sober, ever, but the drink specials were too good to walk away from. If you're looking for a budget friendly place to dance, feel old at the age of 26, and possibly get hit on by men over 50 this is your spot. read more

Cheap AND strong drinks. Free popcorn. friendly bouncers and hot waitresses. SOLD. Wish I had discovered this place sooner! read more

Cute dive bar with signed dollar bills along the walls and ceilings. Stepped in late on a Monday night and the Happy Hour selection was right up my alley....Red or White Sangria ($10), Mojitos ($10), Prosecco ($8), Margaritas (I think $7, don't remember), $5 Fireball & Jameson Shots. I loooovve sangria so I started with a white sangria and should have ordered prosecco. The sangria was not good at all.....the taste nor size wasn't worth this $10 happy hour price. Not wanting to waste money or send it back, I reluctantly drank it. It took so long to drink that I didn't even want a second drink. The kitchen was closed, however we did receive a bowl of popcorn that was tasty and free! The bartenders were very friendly. read more

It is pretty expensive for a dive bar but the service is sweet and fast. We had fun so we will come back at some point.

I was in the area with some friends, looking for a nightcap. In this area, everything is SO expensive! So, it was exciting to find Sanfu, home of FREE POPCORN and reasonably-priced drinks. (We'd just passed up on going to a super-overpriced diner where ice cream was $9!) The atmosphere wasn't too exciting. It was dimly-lit, and the new James Bond film was showing on the TV. Snafu kind of had a divey feel, but I noticed a sign on the door that they will soon be enforcing a "dress code." I guess they are trying to class up the Snafu just a little bit. read more

Situation Normal: All Fucked Up You know that really does describe this bar... you start "normal" and then it can get dirty quickly... $3 BL, $4 shots, some mix drinks were $5 depending on the day... good deals and a good place for a small to handful size group. Yeah it does seem to be some FiServ peeps "slumming" it here, but there's also more locals just looking to avoid the wannabe chic bars on 3rd/2nd in this hood. I'll be back. Enjoy read more

was looking for a place to watch the cowboys vs packers game and found this joint around the corner. this place is narrow but long. it has a loft area at the rear and also a basement area below the loft. the loft area is more cosy seat down and the basement houses a pool table. flat screen tvs are strategically and even spread throughout the pub and mounted at just the right height. sound system is good but like most pubs a little too loud. music was a decent mix. the free popcorn helps perfume the pub with it's caramel flavour. the crowd were mainly after work professionals looking for a watering hole where they can let out some steam. waiters, cleaners and security staff were efficient but not intrusive. you could probably dance on the bar top as they have poles above the bar top to help you stay there. not some place you would go out of the way for but you should check it out if you're in the area. read more

If I had to come up with a Venn diagram of a dive bar (positives only), it would include: - Cheap drinks - Free Popcorn - Drink Buybacks - Eastern Bloc bartenders We stopped at a Snafu for a quick drink - who said daytime drinking is overrated? read more

Love the unlimited free popcorn...kind of addicted to salty snacks. Great after work happy hour hang out spot. Pool table downstairs is a nice touch, but a little pricey (2 bucks in quarters a game versus a dollar everywhere else...who has that many quarters??) Still, decent happy hour drinks and yummy mojitos for $5. One thing to note: can be a weird crowd. I guess it's the area... but the last time I went my friend and I were the only girls in there that weren't bar staff. Not in a good way, either. Packed full of late 30-something average joes in ill-fitting suits. read more

DIVE BAR!!! to the max!!! It's a place for cheap beer and cheap drinks. I been here a while back and i remember only spending like 20 bucks and was thoroughly drunk. The waitresses were pretty hot if i remember correctly, and the drink specials seemed to last for a long time. read more

Very nice place. I was looking for a place where I can celebrate my birthday I want the place where you can dance, eat, drink and have fun. In Brooklyn it's very hard to find that type of place but I finally find it in Manhattan. The prices are very cheap and you can have fun all night, the music is top 40. I definitely recommend this place to my friends and for sure will go there again. The personnel is very friendly and funny. I love this place!!! read more

if you want to watch a game while playing beer pong with $5 pickleback shots, $5 jager shots, and/or $5 fireball shots (which go on ALL NIGHT) with decent music playing in the background whilst you dance pretending like you in the club up in this dive bar, then COME HERE. note: the ping pong balls suck here. note: the beer pong tables aren't the best either. but still functional. also, it can get really warm in here. read more

Snafu - 1 of 2 beer pong tables downstairs - Sports Bars Near Me - New York, New York

I love this place. Total dive. Diamond in the rough, kids. There are so many types of people there: businessmen, sexy women, converse girls, hip-hop crowd, I even saw a wedding party in there. Very dark, cute, discreet, and the people are very friendly. I danced on the bar with the bartender, which may not be that big a deal to regular bar-goers, but definitely out of character for me. I felt really comfortable, went there about four times in a three week period because I'd just hoard the jukebox and play songs I could dance to. I had so much fun, even when I was the only one dancing. I recommend it 100%. read more

Snafu is my go to bar! I plan all my dinners around it. I go when I'm happy, sad, melancholy, bored, not so bored. Great cheap drinks--great vibe and love the couches in the back. Free popcorn wooohoo. Hint, never go after you eat indian food..fell asleep one time with the heavy indian food nearby and drinking here. Pickleback shots woohoo. Yeah im a whoohoo girl about Snafu. There are more men here than most nyc bars. Except these guys dont talk to you..in their own bubble. Not snafu's fault nyc men are odd. read more

I went to this bar the weekend of December 16th with two friends. I loved that it was open late. If you're looking for a fun spot to have drinks, listen to good music, and hang out late, this is it. I loved the little area upstairs. There are couches and it's perfect for big groups. You can see the entire bar from up there. Very fun spot and the bartenders were super nice and attentive! read more

Snafu - One of the posters in the upstairs lounge area. Very interesting and unique art in the lounge! - Sports Bars Near Me - New York, New York

"Manhattan moments" are covert reminders that we happen to live in such awesome place - I was laying tipsy on a comfy couch upstairs at Snafu, 2 am on Monday, my friend was dancing in front of me with 2 pretty things we picked up at Tao and suddenly I couldn't hold a silly-happy smile It is a typical bar with cheap drinks, free popcorn, and stupid sports channels (is there any place in NYC where they show FashionTV?! "fashion capital of the world" my ass - no wonder Milan won last year), I would never come here otherwise, but I am struggling to think of a better place to finish off the night - quaint and plush upstairs with soft couches, fireplace, and cool posters. They play smth from satellite radio, so we loaded $20 into the jukebox and had ourselves 2 hrs of non-stop hip-hop. Come after 1am - with so few other patrons Snafu starts feeling like your private loft with a bar. read more

Never even made it inside. Our group was standing outside waiting for everyone to show up when a girl walks out from the bar and came over to us. She sporting a mini skirt and giant soars on the corner of her lips asks to share a cigaret. Next another lady gets tossed from the bar crying. A guy asks if she is okay and immediately she tries to start a fight with everyone near her yelling that we can't go to Queens or we will get rapped in the a**. It seemed that the bar was full of dudes and possibly a few cheap prostitutes. So if that is your thing this bar is for you. Thanks but i'll pass on the free stds. read more

A friend of mine recommended this place highly when I came to NYC last week and I can see why. Walking in I instantly liked it, they had Sweet Child O Mine playing. We sat down and ordered our drinks and the place was cool. I'm not really a big bar guy, so a bar is a bar to me, but the music playing was like they stole my iPhone....I loved that. The bartender was friendly, but the bathroom was pretty smelly and dark too if I remember correctly. It's a dive bar, so I'm not complaining. read more

When the group I was with went there we witnessed a patron that had just walked upstairs with his group sexually assault the waitress taking their order. She went and got the bouncer and management who talked to the guy about it but let them stay. As we were leaving I asked the bouncer and management why that guy is allowed to stay. He said that the waitress said that as long as the guy didn't do it again he could stay. Seems to me this establishment doesn't really care for the safety and well-being of their staff. Which is extremely unfortunate because the bartenders and waitresses provided excellent service throughout the night. read more

Go on - get smashed. Sausage fest. All bankers who are trying to hide in the dark, stare at the beautiful scanty glad waitress and get an eyeful for something they can't have, and deep down don't want to be caught with. Everyone knows so no harm, no foul, and at the end of the day its a bar. A couple of girls which makes it acceptable (kinda) Nothing is going to make you write home other than the shots, but everything will make you come back for reasons inexplicable to man. Try and avoid, but you probably will remember it and go back. Well done Snafu. Tip 20/25 @DunsterNY read more

The happy hour drink deals are awesome! $3 brewdogs, $5 Pickleback shots! Needless to say I ended up ordering WAY to many pickleback shots for a Wednesday. To say it is a business class meat market would be the understatement of the century. I mean, it was nothing but ties and beefcakes. Ok, this is starting to sound a little homo-erotic(not that there is anything wrong with that if that is your kind of game, no hate on your orientation). Ok, so the servers are all smokin hot ladies, probably Eastern Europeans. Being Polish and Ukrainian personally, I got me some extra love for the Eastern beauties. I can see why the cattle call of bro's come here after work. The vibe is definitely divey, which I love, especially when you are in the midst of Midtown swag. I shall be back for many a bad decision/pickleback weeknight happy hour! read more

I just... don't... understand. Upon walking in here, I immediately stuck out like a sore thumb because I was not wearing business attire. However, once I worked my way to the back of the bar, I found my friends, the lone twenty-somethings in the place drinking around one of the C-shaped couches in the back, eating a bowl of popcorn that was more than 50% scalding hot kernels. Mostly, I have questions: Why was our waitress wearing booty shorts in the dead of winter? Why is the group of 50ish year old women sitting behind us belligerently drunk? Why is there so much screaming by people in suits? Cheap drinks? Yes. Good drinks? Not so much. This place creeped me out. They get one star for having decent group seating, and another star for reasonably priced Sam Adams on tap. But I will so not be back here. read more

Can't believe I've never reviewed this place and I've been several times over the last seven-ish years. At first it was a place I found myself very late at night after the partying was done. This was when we were young and we went to bars in the Midtown area. Always funny to walk in already greased and run into people from college. These last few years it's a great place to head to post-work. For me, a place that couldn't be more different than Monkey Bar, St. Barts and all the typical suit and expensive joints in midtown. Yes this is a dive bar. There is Golden Tee and a pool table downstairs. Waitresses dressed in skimpy outfits. Great happy hour specials ($3 Bud Lights all!!) and FREE popcorn. Probably more male-dominated crowd (it is a bit strange to see the suit-clad men in this dive...but we know they are there for the bartenders) but a mix of all sorts of people and professions. Until Snafu closes down, this will stay on the 'Go To in Midtown' list. read more

Atmosphere: Dark and packed! Tons of suits after work here. Extremely divey and clubby. Loud music so don't expect to have conversation that is too substantial, as you likely won't be able to hear your friends, so just drink and be merry. Tip for Men: The bartenders are minimalist when it comes to clothing :) Drinks: HH specials available. I believe it was beers and $7 margs but they weren't too strong. Food: Free popcorn! read more

I don't understand why this place has low rating! Awesome drinks! Awesome and caring waitress with curly hair And most awesome DJ with quality music!!! Love this place! Oh, and comfortable chairs and couches to relax! Love!!! read more

Dive bar for JPM... If you ask 10 people in this bar any given week night where they work, 9 of them will say JP Morgan, the other one will be the bartender. The good about this spot is that it adds a moderately priced option to those who work there, as well as a decent setting, upstairs seating, main bar area and even a pool table. The not so great, the drink specials are only OK. read more

I kind of love Snafu. I'm not entirely sure why... Maybe it's the free popcorn, maybe it's the cheap* drinks, the alllll day happy hour/specials, or the fact that it's never really crowded, it's dive-y, but in a good way. I sort of have low expectations for midtown bars, so maybe it's just because I'm not repulsed as soon as I walk in or put off by the crowd. Snafu gets me drunk. I can order food from elsewhere while I'm there. (they have menus behind the bar) I'm a happy happy girl. *FYI - the drinks are cheap because they use well alcohol. You'll feel it the next day, but what else do you expect from a $5 martini! read more

My friend and I found this bar randomly on a Saturday afternoon. We were looking for a good pool table and this was the best place we could have found in Midtown, I think. Really relaxed atmosphere, they serve popcorn, cheap drinks and good specials. There are some arcade games downstairs and then finally, below the bar, there is a pool table in its own room with a huge wall of house rules for pool players... so things don't get rowdy! :) We played alongside some great players. Was such a fun afternoon. Check this place out if you're in the neighborhood! read more

Now this place is a real dive. It's around the corner from my NY office and we go here after meetings sometimes because they ways have room for us. I've gotten flat prosecco and Moscow mules that were pretty good. Get beers here, it's the best option. read more

Thanks Darren S for the recommendation. $5 chocolate martini special? I'm in! Cute cozy bar in midtown. I was there kind of early so it wasn't very crowded. Most of the patrons were watching a football game. (not really easy to meet people)I think it will be fun to come back with a group of people that I already know. read more