The Jar Bar

I love me a good dive bar — but to be honest — it’s more of a neighborhood bar. Which is great since it’s in my neighborhood. The bartender made us feel at home, poured an excellent Guinness and made us want to come back. Happy Hour from noon to 7? Kiss Pinball? Good music?
Grab some food from Cemitas El Tigre two doors down and bring it in. Or they have a grill in the back garden that we were told people could use.
The beer selection could use a little help. Maybe swap out a miller/​coors/​Bud with a good craft beer or two? Of if not on tap maybe in bottles?
It looks a bit odd on the outside, but give it a chance — you will definitely come back.

I was in the area to meet a friend and he suggested this place to grab a drink. Great dive bar that is off the beaten path. There are other businesses in the area but no other bars on the particular block.
The bar is off to the right when you walk in. There are a few tables to the left. There is a digital jukebox and the bar widens out once you get past the bar. There is a pool table with plenty of room to move around the pool table to take shots without hitting something behind you.
There is also a beer garden out back which is great for the smokers.
Great overall vibe for a bar.

Its nice to see a real bar for a change. Bring me back to the neighborhood a decade back. There’s too many gentrified establishments in the neighborhood IMHO.
friendly service, friendly people, warm and unpretentious. Happy hour is noon –7 pm and they have a late night happy hour as well. Good selection. $ 5 jar and shot. Pool table, dart board, pinball and outdoor seating too.

Love the atmosphere and the people very laid back I highly recommend this place the beer garden is great so are the get together such as ladies night can’t beat the drink specials ! The barbecues are really good too you get to hang out with old friends and also make new ones .The bartenders are very attentive love this bat!

1^st thing I have to say is this place is super chill. Everyone is laid back and comfortable. From the pictures on the wall to the well designed chalk board behind the bar, I dig this place. The bar looks complete which is different than most bars in the area. Plus, they have a pool table and an outdoor space. This is my new favorite bar. Only negative is the beer choices are limited but it’s not really a beer bar anyway.

Went to the Jar on a Tuesday night and was awesome! Darts, pool, shuffleboard/​mini-​bowling. Danny, the Irish bartender was the best! I’m picky about bars but this def is the most chill place sunnyside has to offer

Love our new lil neighborhood joint!!!
So this bar is less than a block from our apartment. We peeked in the window one night and kept walkin… This bar is under new ownership which we just happened to notice and man has it cleaned up!
Super chill, no frills dive bar with great prices, a nice little patio area and super friendly bartender.
Jason made us feel right at home! We have for sure found our new neighborhood bar. $ 5 beer and «jar» special (any draught beer), little back garden, juke box, pool table, I’m in.

After noticing the name changed to The Jar Bar a few weeks ago I decided to stop in on a Saturday afternoon around 4 to see what was going on.
First impression was that it’s a nice local spot where the regulars make you feel welcome. Being on 48^th ave as opposed to Queens boulevard I’m guessing everyone that comes here is a regular to some degree. I’m pretty sure no one would go out of their way to come here but it was pretty busy for a Saturday afternoon when there wasn’t much going on.
The Jar Bar has 9 taps (bud, shock top, goose island, palm, sam adams, coors banquet, miller lite, smithwicks and of course guinness), along with a few bottles offers a nice selection but nothing to go crazy over. Prices seem reasonable with $ 5 imports pints and well drinks and $ 3.50 domestic pints according to the sandwich board propped up outside the front door.
The bartender was warm and friendly and got me my drink as soon as I walked up to the bar.
The interior is low key with a 12 stool bar, a few tables table tops along with an Internet Jukebox, joker poker machines and pool table and flat screen T.V.‘s showing the Mets and Yankee games. On a side note, I think the old school bowling machine game they also have tucked away in the corner is a real bonus! It’s hard to find those types of bar games around today, especially in this area. I’m sure I’ll be dumping plenty of money into it after a few pints of Goose Island.
Another big plus of the Jar Bar is the shaded outdoor patio with a few chairs and picnic table. Unfortunately, the space isn’t that large and seems to be surrounded by some pretty unkept yards but any outdoor space you can find in queens to have a drink is good in my book. The spanish music coming from the apartment building behind the bar actually enhanced the sitting out back experience which I found kind of funny.
All in all I’m happy to know that this place is close to the old homestead and can see myself stopping in on occasion.

Love this bar. The price is amazing and the people are very friendly. It’s kind of far away from (3 block from queens blvd) but definitely worth it for it’s price. Has a pool table and various bar games to play.

Although I live a block away, I only «fell» into this place a few weeks ago.
It is entirely non-​descript. I actually thought it was a private club house type of deal and so never bothered to enter it!
It is as divey as dive bars go. If you want something chic, don’t go here. Truly, the charm is in its unpretentiousness. There’s no school like the old school, you know? The crowd is mostly Irish locals and regulars, and there is a good age range here. And they are the nicest people you could ever meet. The bartender too, is completely cool.
You can’t get more community than Leitrim House. So happy I found it.

Filthy dirty little hole in the wall with a few bar flys. Uggg.

What a great local bar. Discovered this place on Unilocal as on of the dive bars near Sunnyside (technically it is in Woodside because it is on the south side of 48^th Ave). A little bit older crowd, but very friendly, chatty, and welcoming.
The place has a pool table but it was covered with a sheet of ply wood because they had a make-​shift buffet set up for one of the regular’s birthday. There is also a shuffle board bowling game, but it looks like it is out of commission. Then there are two electronic games in the back but I didn’t take much time to investigate.
Beers are around 4 – 5 bucks and whiskey starts at $ 6. The bartender was fantastic. I’ll go back to Leitrim just to see him.

This is a fantastic, modest and unassuming bar in Queens that would probably be pissed at me for writing a review of them on the internet, but the Unilocal Code perseveres so I am exposing them. Let the hipster invasion commence! (¡j/​k!) HIPSTERS, PLEASE STEER CLEAR!!!
Seriously though, as far as understated incredibleness goes, you can’t get much better than Leitrim. Named after a county in Ireland, this is as bare a bones, come in and get the job done, old school Irish bar as ever there was. Walk in, bar to your right, prerequisite professional drunk (no, it wasn’t I!) slumped over the bar, great, friendly and unassuming bartender manning the taps & bottles, reasonable prices, friendly, welcoming vibe and not the slightest hint of pretense. Extremely refreshing!
I love these guys for serving pints of draught Shaefer all the time for just $ 3. Also, I believe that all shots and on the rocks drinks, from bottom to top shelf will cost you only a meager 4 bills. They have a great juke, video games, a pinball machine (!) and pool tables too.
The patio in the back is a respite for smokers or drinkers who just want a breath of fresh air. The resident stray black cats who live out there will keep you company if you’re alone, too.
This is a wonderful place in which to wait for a table at De Mole:
(if you leave your cell # @ De Mole, they’ll call you when your table’s ready) which is just two doors down from Leitrim.
This is also, and most importantly, a wonderful place to go drink and have a peaceful time when you just want to visit a bar without all the BS and expense that you’d otherwise be forced to encounter in most other places. Leitrim, one of the last of a dying breed…

Sadly Im a semi regular in this dive as well. NOT BY MY CHOICE! My boyfriend is a bit more of a regular here and only because of location and one of the bartenders is his friend. Its REALLY a neighborhood place! While I am in Woodside. I am from the wrong side of the tracks.

everything steve said. and more. if you are an awesome person… come.
if not…
please do not.

Given my history with reviews («Oooh, Maria M. reviewed it, and she liked it! Let’s go!!!»), I’m going to hope that I can get away with saying a few kind words about this place and it will remain never crowded and totally Woodside.
I liked this place a lot. It’s quiet, modest, old school (Dean Martin was part of the night’s soundtrack) and divey without being creepy in the least. It has some games, a pool table, a dartboard and a jukebox, the accoutrements that any dive bar worth its salt would have, and there is a patio in the back.
The reason Molly C. is now on my «Partners in Crime» list is because she discovered this place for us. Yeah, I live a block and a half away and pass this place often, and it took a Brooklynite to get me in there.
So, if you want a lounge where you can sit on leather banquettes and get bottle service, don’t bother with this place. You won’t possibly know how to appreciate it.