327 West Saint Georges Avenue
Linden, NJ 07036
Union County
Phone: (908) 925-9855
Fax: unknownWebsite: no website on fileEmail: no email on fileHours: unknown
by Brian Y. on The layout of the place was nice, but it does not factor into any rating I do on rateclubs. The food we ordered was decent for the price. I did enjoy the spicy octopus fried rice. But nothing really that special. The price of the drinks here is what brings down the rating for me. Make sure you know how much everything you order is, because some of the alcohol is moderately priced and somethings are overpriced. All in all it is a decent place to chill and drink, but they are way better places in Ktown.
by Scott B. on So the Middlesex has the mid-20's to early 30-somethings-sort-of-trendy-sort-of-scene-hipster -thing going on... with some cool A/V stuff, and odd dance parties... which is great... BUT... herein lies the problem: The bartending staff. I've never seen bartenders move soooo slowly in a packed venue before in my entire alcohol consuming life. Like freakishly slow. Like we-just-smoked-a-joint-in-the-back-room slow! And I've been there twice. With the same bartenders now. This is fine in a nearly empty bar... on a slow and uneventful night. If I'm one of the few parked on a stool at a bar, I could care less... but when there are a gadzillion people trying to get drinks... let's be serious... you gotta move it, move it! I mean, these bartenders had no idea who had been at the bar the longest, who had just shown up, or what people had just ordered. It was sad actually... very sad... the saddest I've seen actually. Good news: no cover.
by Lon Macadam on Talk about an identity crisis. Since the slick make-over in 2007, Sidetracks seems to be trying everything and anything, without much success. Sports bar, Irish bar, lounge, Latin nightclub, neighborhood restaurant, fine dining, live music - who really knows? The once-devoted Irish crowd has largely dispersed to various pubs in the neighborhood, leaving Sidetracks at night to become an outer-borough nightmare of wanna-be NYers in cheap clothes, sadly trying to get their freak on. If you want to see ugly first hand, try Thursday night. It must be a helluva job getting the perfume smell out of the place. The food is simply awful, and overpriced - they're buying the cheapest ingredients available, and nothing tastes fresh. Waitstaff and busboys are always scurrying around, but the restaurant operation is amateurish at best. Even more peculiar is the odd collection of floorwalkers that pose as "management." That bald German guy spends his shift sneering at customers, chewing out employees, and smoking cigarettes in front of the entrance. Cead mile Failte, my hole. He wouldn't be so arrogant if he knew what the staff and customers say about him. As for the bar, one night the Irish bartenders are friendly and fun, the next they're moody, distracted, and whispering amongst themselves. There are drink specials and good happy hour prices, but no one at Sidetracks can actually pour a proper cocktail, nor do they care. Really sad how the Sidetracks relaunch once had so much promise, only to see it slip away like the 7 train speeding down the track. I guess the owners are asleep, or busy tending to their growing empire of bars in Manhattan.
