Pure gold. Such a cool, cute little place

Really cool little bar with funny deco

Awesome neighborhood spot, attentive knowledgeable staff, interesting crowd and rad menu. Chickpea Sliders are excellent.

A great local bar! Good cocktails and a decent happy hour.

Killer spot. Cozy environment, nice decor, delicious cocktails, friendly patrons and they even have food!

Best neighborhood bar. Great beer selection and tons of cocktails.

great spot, the monday night bartender, a woman about 50 years old, was really nice

Adorable, cozy space, fun funky design, great food, great drinks, great peeps, great place to just be.

Great spot to chill on a couch and grab a drink

First time in Brooklyn, awesome place - cosy, friendly, bookish, cheap. Love it! Totally recommend!!! :))

Amazing place, great drinks great customer service , overall a great experience.

Smart staff serving great cocktails. Love this bar.

Awesome bar! Great ambience and music selection.

The vibes are immaculate. Come play chess or Jenga and have an excellent time.

Cool spot, nice people, good vibe. Food wasn't too bad either.

A fine selection of whiskey and friendly bartenders in a cosy, welcoming space!

Awesome place. Awesome drinks and great decor.

Good people. Great drinks. The best Trivia Night ever!

Excellent drinks, great books, fantastic company. What more could one ask?

Super chill vibe and best bartenders ever!

Great bartender, great drinks, great decor/vibe

I love this place. Very local with a lot of different flavored people. The bar tenders are nice and they have a great happy hour.

bartenders are great, diverse crowd, welcoming group from one end of the bar to the other of a bar. maybe 3 or 4 privates tables shoulder the wall and sit below the bar stools

This place is has a great selection of beers and the pull pork sliders are a MUST and they made me feel very welcome... Thanks BOD Great Time! ..Rinas the best!

It's cozy and the people are friendly. Cocktails are very nice

Welcomed and served by bartender extraordinaire, Gab—a great neighborhood bar to grab a cocktail or beer.

An awesome place. The drinks were good, the decor was cool, and the people were so nice!

Bar with a coffeehouse vibe. Was desperate to watch the NBA finals because I have no TV at the moment and they did not disappoint. Plus a tiny outdoor spot if you're just looking to be outside

The best local bar 💯

My favorite neighborhood watering hole. Great cocktails, affordable prices. Fun interior with friendly staff.

Beautiful space , very relaxing. Great atmosphere goes well with the drinks and infused spirits!

I loved the place. It was cozy and they had very I interesting decor. I was taking g photos of everything. I will definitely go back.

Our bar tendress was so warm and fabulous. Super Covid-19 aware environment and dope PB sandwiches xo

Great bar staff, great people, cheap happy hour. Best bar I've been to in years.

Very chill vibes here. The owner and bartenders are really nice and the drinks are great.

Best bar in Ridgewood. Amazing cocktails, reasonable prices and wonderful staff and atmosphere!

Cozy, great hot toddies, comfortable couch and clean. Fun decor, throwback games and excellent music selection. If i were a traveler waiting to check into my airbnb, id stop here first for a beverage.

Good beers on tap at the time idk if they change. Bartender was nice and courteous even with our demands lol. Would definitely recommend for a chill little spot. Keep in mind that it can be a gay bar at times.

This is a great spot! It has this cozy, grungy, but very welcoming atmosphere. My friend’s and I love coming here, and I’d highly recommend it if you’re in the area!

One of my fav low-key spots to grab drinks with friends. Love the kitschy vibe and bartenders are really chill and nice. AND they project rad films major plus for me. :)

Nice little dive bar. Was able to camp out and get some work done on laptop on an early Wednesday night

A truly Great Bar. Once I came here with some friends and it was some wonderful man’s 70th birthday party. We all got cake. Another time I came here and drank some beer. May the Bad Old Days continue to bless our days both good and bad for many moons more.

Great bar with delicious cocktails and fantastic bartenders. Love this place!

Truly one of the most amenable spot with really kind bartenders.

Very moody and retro - love the $10 HH espresso martinis, and they also had a small but interesting wine selection with several Greek options which you don’t often see (plus generous pours!).

Dess Herzfelder

Such an amazing chill eclectic atmosphere to pop an edible, have a delicious drink, hang with friends and journal. I love this place!

Joe Cabrera

Love this spot, great drinks and great vibes. It feels like you are sitting in a chill living room.

Hakeem Reed

Briefly stopped in was a wonderful atmosphere loved it, during a birthday bar crawl!

Matt Abbruzzese

Love this local legend! Great for all types of occasions but especially the casual stop in for drinks and finger foods. Awesome atmosphere, cute and comfy! Welcomes all bar goers with professionalism and quality service. Bartenders are wonderful! Stop in for a drink!

Joanna LC

Super tasty & expertly made cocktails (we had the espresso martini and medicina). Vibe is low-key, cozy and eclectic, with lots of interesting knickknacks to look at. Music was a bit “before our time”, like kinda boomer / hippy, but somehow fitting. Other patrons seem friendly and warm. We really enjoyed it and will come back.

Selina H

Best espresso martini you’ll ever have— and it’s $10! I’ve been going to the Bad Old Days since I moved to Ridgewood 8 years ago. It remains one of the neighborhood’s best bars. The relaxed and cozy vibe is exactly what an anxious nerd needs. The new renovations are much needed to reflect the weekend traffic; sleek booths replaced the antique furniture, but charm remains in the antique tables and decor, chess tabletops replaced with a high top and stools, and larger bathrooms. I hope this spot never goes under, like so many wonderful Ridgewood staples ❤️

Beth Crane

possibly the best espresso martini i’ve ever had

Alvaro Veloso Cabral

Enjoying the vintage decor and warm atmosphere while sipping on these hibiscus margaritas and people watching 🍹🚶‍♂️

Joshua Perez

The Bad Old Days is a throwback to my first arpartment’s living room, oh the good old days. This neighborhood haunt makes me wish this was my neighborhood.

Samantha Anthony

Love this place so much! It's my new favorite bar. I only wished I lived in the area so I could go all the time! It's super cozy, with bookshelves, comfy chairs, and mismatched furniture. Great prices and they have events like bad movie nights and free comedy shows. Love it!!

Boaz Salmi

Great drinks selection very happy vibe my favorite local bar ÷)

+3

Jae Donners

A few months late but finally getting around to this review. This place is great. The ambiance is extremely warm and relaxing. They have a wonderful selection of games and a nice outdoor space. I visited a couple times while I was staying in queens and was pleased with the experience every time. To top it off this place has one of the best bartenders I've encountered in the city. Her drinks are delicious and she is warm and welcoming to all real Americans. The first time I visited I happened to be wearing my all lives matter pin. She noticed it while serving me and pointed it out. I expected the typical nasty response that I get in NYC when people misinterpret my political leanings but instead she commented on how nice it was to see. The bar was somewhat busy so we didn't have a long conversation beyond that but her positive reaction really made my day. If you have a chance to have a drink here on a day the blonde bartender works I 100% recommend you do. The other couple times I visited there was another bartender who I didn't feel comfortable speaking politics with so I can't guarantee they are all as cool as the woman but he did make a decent cocktail so you will have a good time regardless of who is working. If you are in the area and want to a place to drink.. I highly recommend this one.

Paul Haverkamp

Great bartenders, good vibe, fantastic happy hour specials. Keep the Narragansett flowing!

Good times at Bad days!

Quiet laid back. The name seems a bit at odds with the overall vibe.

Good beer selection, never too crowded, nice long happy hour.

Everything In there was retro, which was cool. Bartender was friendly, and the drinks were good.

Great place in Queens, which is a part of the city I don’t visit much. If you’re going on Thursday night, they do a bingo night that, while fun to play and we got two free drinks from it, it wasn’t the low key mood we were looking for that night.

Your friendly, cosy neighborhood bar with a decent collection of drinks. Could go there a second time! Good service also.

Chill neighborhood bar, nice selection of beers on tap, reasonable prices, a few nice food options. Some outdoor seating as well but that's more for killing cigs.

Very good bar , i like their atmosphere is pretty easy to get there and super cool , a lot of beautiful women

Good solid dive. Prices for drafts pricey but nice atmosphere.

Excellent vibe. Somewhat of that hipster nostalgia living room decor, but done well. Enjoyed the conversation with the bartender and a took home a koozie as a momento.

This is a Cool Place Great bartender. Very friendly staff. Good music. Cool atmosphere

Asad Richardson (LionOnTheWeb)

Chill vibe, great prices. Great place to come to with a group of friends as everyone here is pretty familiar with each other and pretty cliquish — all in all, highly recommend; board games and all.

+1

Christian Santos (CS D)

If you like reading within a “hippie neighborhood,” this would be the bar for you. however, I’m only giving up four stars for now, because while I do want to go into this bar more often, I’m on medication to get over many traumas, including getting over a ban from a different bar. This bar has my respect for now :-) - Zabar’s Employee

Blake Rasmussen

A nice little bar with a really fun vibe, friendly staff. Super enjoyable place to sit and relax. I didn’t love the cocktail I ordered (espresso martini), but I think I would absolutely come back and order a house special drink. Definitely somewhere I’d revisit!

Destiny Chambers

Really eclectic feel, with great service, a great beer selection and cocktails. Nice pre-game or date night spot. They didn’t have food, but you can have food delivered. Nice touch.

+5

Jessica A

A hidden gem. It has a casual oldies feel. It's a great place to go with a group of friends if you just want to relax and catch up. The bartenders are very friendly. The drinks are decently priced. I would definitely suggest a visit here.

Oscar Leon

Loved this bar. The decor and the ambience is great. It's perfect for drinks with your special someone. The drinks are strong and good. They have bar seating and comfy chairs which I believe u can even play some board games on. Only downside is they dont sell food but u can order to deliver there. Overall nice bar with sort of a hipster style to it. Will deff come back.

i like the drinks. they cheap but the crowd idk not my thing

Good food and drinks, crowded, clammy, constant trivia nights

We were excited about checking this place out. Drinks are reasonable but their food was underwhelming

They always have something going on, either movie or bingo. It's annoying, you can never get just a drink.

Can’t speak much to the indoor atmosphere as we drank outside but the drinks were alright, nothing too crazy. Helpful & friendly staff.

Once you get past the old décor, a pretty standard drinking establishment for the area, definitely not bad

Great bar, great prices. But fix your AC! It's like hot soup in here!

The draft beers are the best, the atmosphere is so good too. I was here at 7:00 pm and was disappointed about the quite arrogant attitude of the bartender. Shame as I used to enjoy coming here

I never post reviews but Completely rude and disrespectful staff. Would rather drink at home.

I am very disappointed with the service. I do not recommend this place and the staff is rude.

Lazy bartender rip off couldn’t make a cocktail if they tried…. I would rather drag myself through a field of barbed wire into the flames of hell then walk into this place

Barman was very arrogant and rude! His atitude destroyed all frist nice opinion about place. I will not recommended this place!I had valid ID but he didnt want to check and I am 42 so there is no reason to ask for ID. I was coming all summer and nobody ever asked me for ID.

Very arrogant owner . I am 34 years old , my friend was 45 and my wife is 28 . We went there for a drink . We showed IDs . My wife got with here only the NYC id education card with her , me and my friend we got our drivers license with us . And the owner didn't give us to drink . She was so rude ! Never gonna step back there . There is so much more and new joints in ridgewood to explore !

It smelled like a dirty mop, the service was subpar, and if that wasn’t enough there was a huge dead roach as soon as you walked in the doorway. I wish I could give it zero stars.

Jose Loveras

only reason its a 1 star its because the drinks were good but the bartender really embarrassed me and my friend into giving her a tip not knowing it we was in a bad situation or anything. super rude & ill be refunding her tip because it was just soooo rude to put us on the spot when we just wanted to have a nice thursday night to catch up, hope that girl gets fired