

We are now offering ping pong in our private party packages for your next NYC corporate party! Call us at 21 to inquire about pricing or reserving your ping pong table today!ĭARTS: We have four dart boards within our venue. PING PONG: Amsterdam Billiards Cafe & Bar is proud to present the new addition of our ping pong tables! You can now rent a ping pong table by the hour! Our pricing is per person per hour. POOL: Let us help your game! Practice makes perfect! We have 25 Brunswick pool tables waiting for you. Stop by the shop - any time of year - to help Robbie make his impact.Amsterdam Billiards Cafe & Bar specializes in FUN: We offer 11,000 square feet of pool, ping pong, darts, foosball and beer pong! We can now include a giant Jenga and Connect Four in your private party area as well with any of our party packages! Robbie’s work at Alphabet Scoop shows the importance of creating strong foundations for young people, as well as how truly influential small businesses can be in their communities. Robbie told us a story of a young woman, for example, who has worked in the shop for close to two years, and who was initially quite difficult to work with - but with patience and persistence from Robbie and other employees, the young woman grew to better understand the mission of Alphabet Scoop, and now even has keys to the shop. The goal of Alphabet Scoop is to encourage maximum involvement from its employees, so they are invited to help make decisions about the business. ” The kids, typically between the ages of 14 and 16, learn all aspects of the business, from hands on skills such as making ice cream to managerial skills like taking inventory.

The mission, transparently, is as stated on the walls: “Justice & Sprinkles for all. While the spritely New Yorkers that work in the shop are paid for their work, Alphabet Scoop is also a non-profit. The “sweet n’ salty” flavor is proof of the potential here, as it was suggested by one of the shop’s younger customers. Alphabet Scoop is also constantly experimenting with new flavors suggested to them by customers, so if you’ve been saving up that million-dollar ice cream flavor idea, Alphabet Scoop might just be the place to make it a reality. Pistachio flavor, a summer 2019 special, comes highly recommended by the Manhattan Sideways team. So, now, rather than seasonal hours, Alphabet Scoop boasts seasonal flavors. He has, in this vein, adjusted the shop’s schedule to keep it open all year previously it was just a summer stop, but Robbie found that being a seasonal location made it more difficult for customers to anticipate when Alphabet Scoop would be in business. From a background of 25 years in retail, Robbie has found that he can learn from anyone’s mistakes - including his own. Under the wishes of his parents, who are still pastors of the church next door, Robbie has taken it upon himself to hold Alphabet Scoop to an uncompromising standard, always ensuring that things are done right. Robbie, for his part, has always believed that if you take care of your employees, your employees will take care of you-in this case, those employees just so happen to be high schoolers from the East Village. The ice cream at Alphabet Scoop is refreshing in more ways than one: Managed by Robbie Vedral, Alphabet Scoop is an extension of Father’s Heart Ministry, which has been focused on empowering the neighborhood youth in the Lower East Side since 2005. The only seating available is at the long bar, and the beautiful flowers and lamps that hang from the ceiling add to the allure of this multifaceted nook on 10th. Inquiring about the name, we found that Hi-Collar is in fact a term that came to be during the Japanese Jazz Age, when Western culture infiltrated Japan and many men were seen wearing Western style high collars. As the afternoon wears on and evening approaches, Hi-Collar becomes a bar complete with wine, sake, and beer. For the non-coffee drinker, there are teas and even a fruit milkshake. Not only is there the opportunity to select the bean varietal, but one can also choose how the coffee is made as well: pour over, aeropress, or siphon-each method drawing out a distinct flavor.


The lady we spoke to at Hi-Collar told us their coffee selection is extensive and that there are a variety of beans to choose from. In the morning the atmosphere is subdued and relaxed like a coffee shop, as customers come to enjoy “kissaten” – a term to describe Japanese-style coffee shops. Serving an interesting but decadent assortment of coffees, hot cakes, desserts, Japanese tapas, sandwiches, pasta, and more, Hi-Collar functions as many things.
