Pork Slope Extends Weekend Operating Hours

5th Avenue's Pork Slope -- or Park Slope's greatest tribute to Patrick Swayze and his 1989 bad-ass mullet -- has extended their weekend hours of operation. The bar's hours have been extended from 12pm – 4am on Saturdays and Sundays, with the kitchen serving the full menu from 12pm – 2am. 

I don't know of too many places in the neighborhood that serve food until 2AM, so if you're out and about and looking for a tasty late-night snack, I recommend dropping in and sampling one of Dale's simple, yet tasty burgers ($6.50).

Getting Sloshed on a Budget: Here are 18 of BK's Best Dive Bars

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It is important to offset the number of fancy wine joints and artisanal mayonaise stores in Brooklyn by keeping a healthy amount of dive bars up and running.

Our friends at Brokelyn recently put together a list of their top 18 divers in our borough -- the round-up includes info about each bars' operating hours, happy hour times, best drink deals and what they take for payment. 

Of the 18 named, 6 are located in Park Slope:

Commonwealth (All day $4 Yuengling), Buttermilk Bar (All day $3 High Life), South (All day $3 PBR), Lucky 13 Saloon (PBR and a whiskey shot for $6), Freddy's Bar (All day $3 PBR or High Life) and Jackie's 5th Amendment ($4 Budweiser bottle)

Check out the rest of Brokelyn's list HERE.

Do you have a favorite dive bar in the Slope? (note: your grimy kitchen with the fridge full of Natural Ice cans doesn't count)

Local Bartenders Spill Your Dirtiest Secrets!

While I’m about 5 years too young to fully appreciate Cheers [Ed note: The entire series is on Netflix -- get on it!], I do enjoy the idea of the same group of people heading to the same bar night after night to bond, bitch and hook up. For those of us who live in a city with 8 million people, it’s nice to go to a place where everybody knows your name, right? It’s especially nice if that somebody is feeding you alcohol.

As the resident therapist, doctor, security guard, comedian and critic, a bartender is an important fixture in a neighborhood. Over time, every bartender collects a mental Rolodex of juicy stories while working behind the wooden block, and our nosy asses wondered what some of those stories were.

I recently interviewed several bartenders from our favorite Park Slope staples about the craziest and juiciest happenings to take place inside the watering holes of our sweet little Slope.

Here's what we learned about you lushes:

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Congratulations To The Winners of the Pork Slope Boars' Head Contest!

All last week, we ran a lil' contest with the Pork Slope dudes where we asked you, FiPS readers, to come up with the cleverest names possible for two boars heads that'll be hanging up in the soon-to-be-open bar. The Pork Slope dudes have picked their two favorites, and those lucky FiPS readers (& a guest!) will be in attendance at this Wednesday's pre-opening party.

We got a ton of great responses. My personal faves were the pair of "i used to fuck guys like you in prison" and "rick" but I wasn't choosing, so the boars will, from this point on, go by the two winning names:

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[REMINDER]: Name Some Boars! Go to a Pork Slope Party!

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G'day, ladies & germs! Are you PUMPED! I'm pumped. Patrick Swayze's birthday is less than ten days away, which can only mean one thing…PORK SLOPE IS ALMOST A REALITY. In less time than it takes to finish a seven-game NBA series, you'll be able to experience the throat-ripping, piggy awesomeness that has been promised within Pork Slope's doors.

You don’t want to wait that long though, do you? You're an impatient motherfucker, aren’t you? I hear you. If it takes me more than three minutes to fully masturbate or get a fish taco at the Brooklyn Flea, I friggin' lose it. Calm down, citizen. FiPS has your back.

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