This dive bar is a good hipster litmus test, as it tends to draw the real hipsters as opposed to the poseurs. This place is pretty bare-bones so don’t expect anything special (no draught beers, no foosball, no photo booth). But the drinks are strong, the popcorn is free, and the price is right.

I truly believe that you can divide everybody in the world into two groups: happy drunks and angry drunks. For some reason, The Roost tends to attract the former group in large supply. Expect lots of back slapping and high fiving strangers that come up to you and shower you with unsolicited gestures of camaraderie. Not that it bothers me, unless they do it while I’m in mid drink and make me spill my precious liquor… then, I get angry. And you don’t… want to make me… angry! eyes turning green