Friend's Tavern

Patio is kind of nice and the place is clean, but don't count on getting a drink from the bartender if you're a white guy unless you want to wait 20 minutes while he waits on everyone else in the bar, washes some glasses, moves some boxes, plays with his computer and then finally decides he might want to take some of your money in exchange for a cocktail.

Effortlessly blends two cultures without missing a beat.

There are more than a few bars on Roosevelt that cater to the Latin LGBT community.  Friends has a strong following in this community and it's a rare night that it isn't full. It's not hard to tell why. Friends packs all the elements of both a boy bar and a latin bar in a relatively small space.

As a gay bar, Friends has the requisite topless bartenders, cross dressing singers and erotica on the walls. As a latin bar, it offers salsa and meringue music, intricate dancing, Shakira concert footage in heavy rotation on the TV screens, and the older ladies who always sit in the corner like somebody's aunt being treated like royalty by the staff. If Cubby Hole and Copacabana had a love child in Queens, it woild probably be Friends.

If you need a good latin boy bar in Jackson Heights, go to Friends. If you just need a good bar in Jackson Heights you should still go to Friends, but only if you like salsa music.

Have fun.
G

My favorite neighborhood bar hands down. My friend and I stop by here all the time and always have such a blast good music good people good booze great time for this faghag :)