Off the Wagon

Off the Wagon's bar menu offers comfort-food favorites such as baskets full of fried onions, tater tots served alongside Cheez Wiz and buffalo wings smothered in hot sauce. From the outside, Off the Wagon looks like a Bourbon Street saloon, but inside it's a decidedly NYU scene. Exemplifying the area's boisterous spirit, on any given night the two-story bar is brimming with students and other young locals trying their hand at beer pong or cheering sports games on one of 18 screens while tossing back a cold draft at happy hour—which actually lasts for six—making it easy to see how the establishment earned its moniker.