Lower East Side • Essex Bar & Restaurant • Jewish/Latin?

The Essex, restaurant
120 Essex Street
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Essex Bar & Restaurant is one of the most popular restaurants in the city for brunch. All you can drink mimosas, bloody marys or screwdrivers make this a raucous restaurant and a lot of fun.

Essex is a fun room, but a real surprise at first when you walk in. The room looks enormous in the photos, doesn't it? But it is not. It's a good size and if you never saw the photo, you would not be disappointed. The height of the camera does wonderful things for a photo: lesson learned.

The peach martini and the pomegranate martini are both well done and went down nicely. Calamari appetizer was perfectly done but not enough habanero-avocado dip. I knew it the minute the calamari came, 'That's not gonna be enough.'

A soaring ceiling is one of the hallmarks of Essex, this wild and raucous restaurant on the lower east side. Opened for dinner during the week and brunch on the weekends. The generous alcohol policy (three drinks included with the $15 price for brunch), makes this one of the best brunch values in the city. Even if you make a reservation, be prepared to wait.

People line up and wait on Sundays for a chance to have the Essex Brunch Experience. It's loud during brunch and the wait staff can be very busy, making the thin skinned customer think they are being mistreated. No, its just wildly popular and that comes with the territory.

Essex has a lot of things right -- one of them is that the times, they are a changing. Their menu is a fusion of Jewish and Latin food. The old Jewish neighborhood has left and in its place is a large Hispanic population.

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Businesses along Essex Street
49 Essex Street	Painkiller Tiki Bar	Bar, Lounge
49 Essex Street	The Pickle Guys	Pickle Retailer
103 Essex Street	Le Lupanar	Restaurant
115 Essex Street	Boss Tweed's Saloon	Bar
120 Essex Street	The Essex	Restaurant, Jewish Latin
137 Essex Street	Foundation Bar	Restaurant, Nightclub
133 Essex Street	Evan Ford	Restaurant,
139 Essex Street	Khushie Indian Kitchen	Restaurant, Take Out Indian
149 Essex Street	White Furniture Industries	Furniture Modern
151 Essex Street	Laugh Lounge	Comedy Club
159 Essex Street	Wholesome Foods	Retail, Food, grocery
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Clinton Street	Grand Street	Suffolk Street
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