{"id":385784,"date":"2026-10-28T19:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/385784\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:52:12","slug":"uptown-has-a-new-hitching-post-with-a-5-food-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/385784\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptown Has a New Hitching Post With a $5 Food Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m hooked on Velvet Cowboy<\/a>. The new bar from the team behind Jacob\u2019s Pickles<\/a>, Maison Pickle<\/a>, and Tiki Chick<\/a> takes the former home of Jacob\u2019s Pickles on Amsterdam Avenue and turns it into a psychedelic, maximalist Western fever dream. None of it reads as shtick. Jacob Hadjigeorgis is obviously a seasoned restaurant guy, and here, the native New Yorker has done his research. Easter eggs pay homage to a type of Lone Star State watering hole, and the cocktail program alone, with its obscure ingredients and something-for- everybody menu, is worth a double take. Most notably, every bite on the menu costs just five bucks, without the corners you\u2019d expect to be cut at that price.<\/p>\n

Special care has been taken to updating the space. There\u2019s fringe encircling each turquoise and orange barstool, and a wall of Western vistas in mismatched frames above the decommissioned cigarette machine. In the back, the lounge transitions from the front bar\u2019s sunset orange and gold to a more intimate velvet and lace-adorned vibe. I have a sneaky suspicion this will be prime real estate for birthday buy-outs in the very near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m hooked on Velvet Cowboy. The new bar from the team behind Jacob\u2019s Pickles, Maison Pickle, and Tiki…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17863,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-385784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-dining-reports","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}