Fat Cat
Bar · Uptown ·
Comfort food, cocktails, and pool table in 1940s-style bar
Comfort food, cocktails, and pool table in 1940s-style bar
"A queer-focused wine club pouring wines at the Fibers of Being Pride event on Saturday, June 7 that showcases queer artists, and also pouring at a Drag King Bingo event at a local floral boutique on Thursday, June 19." - Dianne de Guzman
"Baking up ten enormous stuffed flatbreads the size of a car tire skid mark, Fat Cat’s lineup included curry beef (which I tried) and more unusual fillings like black milk tea and salted egg yolk with pork floss, recalling the loss of Crop Circle but offering far more choices." - Luke Fortney
"So I came to DT's Fat Cat first, and then the year after I used to come to Cubbyhole. Not just because it's mine now, but I always loved Cubbyhole."
"An Uptown neighborhood bar that rushed to outfit its sidewalk patios with propane heaters and fire pits after an early FedEx delivery, investing about $7,000 to extend outdoor service as COVID-19 keeps diners out of indoor spaces. The owner has kept the place open despite no profit in 2020 to pay staff, with front- and back-of-house employees covering multiple duties. The heaters—10 units across two patios, with the option to set up tables on Broadway via the city’s street dining program—are aimed at the bar’s windows so patrons can remain partly sheltered while watching sports on TVs visible from the patio. The venue, in operation since 2007 and normally bolstered by theater crowds, has added reservations to limit loitering, adopted a “safety is the new service” approach, started selling to-go wine and cookie dough, and hopes the outdoor heating will buy another two months of viable business through the fall and early winter." - Ashok Selvam
"Uptown drinking den Fat Cat is offering both boozy and N/A hot apple cider. The boozy ($9) version calls for apple cider, along with cinnamon, candied ginger, clove, orange zest, star anise, pink peppercorns, and Hell-Cat Maggie whiskey. While the drink has been a hit for the last five years, new for 2019 is the “cider sidecar” ($12). Think Cognac aged in oak barrels, orange cream, mulled cider, served up with a lemon peel and kirsch-soaked cherry." - Kat Odell