Meatpacking District, Little West 12th Street between West and Washington Streets

Remember I mentioned the Brass Monkey a few nights ago?  Well, there it was across the street from Nick and me and as our conversation drew to an end, I noticed I was feeling a little chilled and I remembered the very fine Irish coffee I had at The Half King last week and so I took myself across the street and settled in at the bar.




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Sad to say, this Irish coffee was not all it should have been.  The bartender poured the coffee and whiskey and then made the whipped cream by shaking it in a cocktail shaker.  This takes a long time, and I give her credit for working hard, but by the time it thickened, the coffee was lukewarm at best.  Still, after all that hard work, I could hardly complain.

It was a nice bar, only a few people in it when I came in, but by the time I left, it had started to fill up.  A couple came in with their child; it seemed to be a neighborhood kind of place. 



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It was about 5 o'clock when I emerged and starting to get dark.