Chief Beer Officer's Work Obviously Just Getting Started

Where: 160 W 25th Street [map], New York, ny, United States, 10001

4/03/2007 at 9:20 AM
Tags: Four Points Hotels, Scott Kerksman, New York Hotel Reviews, Beer

So about that new beer guy at Four Points Hotels. He's got some work to do at the Four Points by Sheraton Manhattan Chelsea. We stopped in to the hotel's restaurant and "lounge"--U and Mie--for a couple brews.

We've got no idea where the name comes from, but it's about as bad as the place itself. The centerpiece of the small, poorly lit space is a giant flat screen TV, tuned to Girlfriends. Our lovely bartender did a good job of keeping our mugs full, though she's "Not much of a beer person," and couldn't warn us off what turned out to be a terrible Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat. The only local/"interesting" choices on the beer menu were Brooklyn Lager and Brooklyn Pilsner--available in tons of bars around the city.

What would normally be a bright spot--the happy hour discount--wasn't really that great either: It's comparable to loads of seedy midtown bars with the same amount of character as U and Mie. The place does have cute novelty cocktail napkins, though. We're filling ours out to read like a memo to Scott Kerksman: There's plenty more work to be done.

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