So loud you can't even hear the person next to you! Although I did get a nice tall gin and tonic with lime. Typical cramped, trendy bar.

Considering the other bars in the neighborhood: they accept credit cards, have a nice variety of bottled beers and an interesting decor. I remember the music being loud but less loud that other bars in the area, I could hear the bartender, but he did have to shout a little. read more

One of the greatest "Real" and un-contriver bars in New York. It's just cool, great bartenders, nice ladied back ambiance, nothing great or fancy, "It just feels right." And one of the Biggest Pluses of All and one of the elements that make this place so great is the Music, NO CRAP RAP or METAL, mainly "THANK GOD" great Classic Rock, R&B, and Pop. You gotta love it in this day and age of "SH_T MUSIC" !!! read more

One of my favorite bars with the cheapest happy hour prices in the west village. Even though it's a small bar, it has a great crowd almost every friday and sat nights. read more

My friends and I LOVE this place. We usually go around 5-6pm on weekdays. Always a great bartender working the bar and service area, always a packed bar! Very inexpensive and food is pretty good! read more

Used to love this place when Kent was the bartender. Came in all the time and have tried to recently. I've never seen a place go downhill as much. The bartenders seem completely clueless. The most recent time I came in for happy hour drinks. Ordered 2 well drinks during happy hour and 2 about 10 minutes after happy hour was over. The well drinks are $5 each. Somehow they charged $42. I was on a date so couldn't even argue, but I called shortly after and they gave me a very unclear explanation. I also didn't leave a tip and yet they charged a $5 tip on my card. Will be disputing the charge and advising my fellow West Village residents to stay clear of this place now. Shame too because my friends and I are all locals and go out a lot and used to really like this place. read more

We stopped in with friends late on a Friday to get a quick meal. The food was pretty terrible. Can't really comment on the bar scene, as we didn't really take part. I had the lime/cilantro grilled chicken with spinach and mashed potatoes. It was inedible. My boyfriend had the burger and fries. He seemed fine with it. But, I stole a couple of fries and they were tasteless and soggy. Stick with what's on tap. Safest bet. read more

If there were 3.5s I would give it this. It is what it is. Buck fratastic pickup spot in the west village. You come here to run numbers. Period. Bartender is overworked and aloof. The DJ plays top 40 plus Madonna and the drinks are average priced for NYC. read more

Great food. The pork tacos and beef fajitas were very fresh. The prices are the best in the west village and the bartender friendly. Highly recommended read more

Small place, but pretty fun. Almost turns into a dance party late nights, but not quite. But it's pretty festive and good for meeting people. read more

Thursdays - the anonymous, 80's imbued drink-fest I adore!! Seriously, the barmaid's a hottie, the crowd's supah kewl & you musn't forgo the opp to drink cheaply in one of the hottest 'hoods this side o Gramercy! Viva Happy Hour. Try Aimee on a Thursday. You'll be glad you did! read more

Good and inexpensive food. Nachos were tasty, had good consistency and mixture of ingredients. The catfish tacos came with grilled asparagus that was just right. Pleasant atmosphere, a bit loud. Fun crowd to watch, even if you don't know them. read more

Love this place! Every time I visit NYC I come here. The atmosphere is unpretentious and very "neighborhood-y". They have a fantastic happy hour from 6-9pm with superb happy hour bar snacks; an order of the tacos (their chorizo tacos are amazing) and maybe something else is definitely enough for dinner, for an extremely good price! $6 per. Actually, the tacos are much better than the other place I went to this week: Mexicana Mama. The staff is friendly, but the place is often under-staffed and for some reason (non was given at the time), they didn't have their actual dinner menu available. This seemed to be a random thing, like perhaps the cook didn't show up or something. read more

Great divey bar with good music. The place is best when there is not a large crowd. A shame the locals have to share this place with the uptown and B&T crowd, but better than nit having it. read more

The ridiculously rude and unattentive bartender let us sit at the table for OVER 10 minutes until I finally walked over to her asking her f there was any waiters to take our orders or even give us menus .. She blandly told us we had to order at the bar. Our table was directly in front of where she was performing the very important task of cuting limes the entire time. We decided to leave immediately after that. NEVER AGAIN will I step foot in there. For the neighborhood in there are HUNDREDS of other bars/restaurants you can go to and be given stellar service. And also they Have a B rating that I hadn't notice until we decided to leave. read more

I bought a restauraunt.com deal early in the summer and keep popping over hoping to try this place out. Usually it's packed with people, or it's closed. I called ahead tonight and made sure they were open. They said kitchen is open until 11:30 on the phone. I live a bout a10 min walk away and was there around 8:00. We find a seat. I spend ten minutes at the bar trying to get the bartender's attention and show him the printout and go to order and he walks away. Okay, he's busy. Deep breath. He takes the entire bar left to right (me)'s order and then grabs a group that just walked in's food order, then is finally ready for me.I rattle off what we want and ask if that's enough because I did the math but wasn't sure. He looks at the deal and says, yeah, it's okay. We get two orders of chorizo soft tacos. ($6+$6), citrus beef fajita ($6), and lime cilantro chicken entree ($12) - total $30 + 2 jack & gingers. Restaurant.com deal is for $25 off if you spend $35, but alcohol is included. Food comes 20 mins later.... Other reviews explain the place is skeleton bones staff and shotty service. I get it, it's seriously one guy in the place and someone downstairs cooking that he keeps running and getting food from. I don't love the taco, but I'm starving. My date is loving his chorizo taco. I thought the fajita was good, but cold, and the lime and cilantro are strong but good on the chicken. The mashed potatoes are like a mountain and the asparagus is the best I've ever had. So I finish and go back up to the bar, try to get the guys attention for a while, finally do, ask if I can pay. He gets the check and tells me I have to spend $15 more for my coupon. Uhhh okay. Would have been ideal if he mentioned that when I originally asked him, but okay, we're still hungry, it kind of sucks, but it's okay. Honest mistake. He says I can order two more mixed drinks and it'll be fine. I decide on settling for crappy beer and getting a side of the asparagus. No prob he says. He puts it all on my card. I know there's 18% included already, but I feel bad for the guy and I tip him an extra $10... on $41, after it's originally $66, for some appetizers and an entree. Geez, so much for saving money with the restaurant deal. I'm not a huge complainer. I have a rather big tolerance for crappy service. I'm extremely patient when it comes to restaurants and social situations. I'm not a diva. I live in the village but I'm not a barbie bitch. I've worked in the service industry and I like to think I have a bigger tolerance than most when it comes to poor service. BUT. Tonight's different. They would have gotten a three or four star from me had I gotten my asparagus. I really really tried to give them a chance. I went up about a half hour after I ordered the side of asparagus to check on it, nothing yet. After 45 minutes, a bouncer came in, a second bartender came in, a bachelorette party came in, lights turned down, music turned up. I went up to the bar and tried to get one of the bartender's attentions. The girl poured herself a glass of water and leaned back watching people before she finally noticed me. I didn't want to seem like a bitch so I asked, "Is the kitchen really backed up?" She said, "No, it's closed." And I gave her a surprised look. I said, "I ordered asparagus almost an hour ago, I just wanted to know if they were almost ready." She walked over to the original bartender (a guy) and said something. He went to the kitchen, came back out, GRABBED A PLATE OF FRIES that had been sitting on the bar SINCE I originally ordered at 8:30 and said, "Here's your order!" with a smile on. I was like... that's not asparagus and it's cold. He said, "Oh, oops. Kitchen closed at 10?" It's 10:05. He already charged my card (around 9 when I ordered it) and the $10 I tipped is gone. He offers me a free drink, on the house, hands me bottom shelf vodka on the rocks. I'm still hungry. I'm super pissed. It's the absolute worst place i've gone in Manhattan in the five years I've lived here. It's door to door brahs watching football and dumb barbie girls. There's not enough room to breathe. It's loud. The food's okay but not worth dealing with the imbeciles. I felt bad for the staff, until the guy tried to pass off three hour old fries as asparagus. I am not only NEVER going here again, I am going to make sure no ONE I know ever does either. This place sucks. read more

Ok..if you are looking for a quirky fun bar..kinda dive bar meets west village dance party..best BARTENDER EVER (Kent) this is it. IT's a gem in the west village and I recommend having your birthday here if you just want a place to dance and be wild and down to earth. LOVE this place. read more

The first time I came to this bar I very much enjoyed my time. The second time however was a much different experience. I and my classmates had been there for an hour already and I had decided to order tacos. Twenty minutes pass and no tacos. I had to go to a meeting and decided to cancel my order, and by then the bar was hopping. I approached the manager/bartender and asked if I could cancel the order and was surprised when he said,"well you better pay for the order." When I told him that I had to go to a meeting and that I had been waiting for over 20 minutes for the order he said that it was my fault for not ordering sooner and that i had only been there for 30 minutes.he then proceeded to show me the door. Now I understand being in a pinch when a restaurant is busy (I worked in food service for over 5 years) but I never responded to a customer in such a rude and unprofessional manner. They lost a customer who was nothing but patient and polite. Try elsewhere if you don't like to argue with immature/unprofessional bar owners. read more

Rude bouncer , heater was on high about 80 degrees , management was terrible. Never go here !

I love this place. DJ is always great, you will run into someone that you know, and the food is actually not bad (although I don't want to see what it looks like). Try to not use the bathrooms if at all avoidable though....they are amongst the worst I have seen. read more

This place is right around the corner from me, and although I have lived in the neighborhood for a while, I had never made it to "slims." That all changed last week. A friend of a friend was bartending and I decided to take the plunge and enter into the "sea of douchebaggery" (according to the other yelp reviews) and I actually had a great time. It was definitely cramped when I first arrived (I think around midnight), but I managed to carve out a place at the bar next to my friend. I enjoyed the eclectic 80's music rotation... GNR, Toto, Foreigner, etc... and the scene/crowd seemed to change as the evening progressed, but didn't pick up on the douche vibe too much unless I was the one bringing down the street cred of the whole bar... but then again, I have only been once. Either way, I thought it was a nice little hole in the wall in the West Village that I should have not neglected for so long... live and learn, I guess? read more

Go there during the week when three very amazing bartendenders (all female) are at work. The couple who work on Saturday night are particularly rude. There were 11...count 11 people at the bar tonight...after the male acknowledged my friend and I, he then turned to his female counterpart and started to flirt. I had to call their attention to the fact that we had been standing there for some time simply wanting some service. The female bartender walked up and yelled at me saying "Are you having a bad day?" After the male bartender finally gave us our drinks, another person at the bar came up to us and commented on the lack of service we received and the behavior of the barstaff. As a West Village resident, I usually enjoy coing here during the early hours before it gets really busy...but if I see these two people working the bar again, I will not give this place my business. read more

Go early if you are not looking for a scene and love cheap drinks and good food. The tequila lime chicken is great , the burgers are too, and anything with the fried catfish is amazing. The catfish fingers and the catfish po boy. What an amazing value for the West Village! Great dive. Love this place. The music is great too especially if you are a boomer. Even the early scene is pretty interesting actually if you like to study characters. I don't even know what it's like later, but I'm sure if you're twent y something, it's a blast. Just don't disregard the food. Not everything is great, but what they do well, they do great! Just don't be surprised by an occasional cockroach on the table. read more

Went to the Whitney today to see an exhibit, stumbled across Automatic Slim's...stopped for a drink and stayed for a few...what a great neighborhood bar. Prices were very reasonable for NYC. We met Kent the bartender, what a cool guy...the place was empty because it was in the middle of the day..but we felt so at home and had great conversation with Kent..we will return. read more

My husband and I were in New York for 3 days and came upon this bar on our last night, last Sunday. Even though the night was quiet you treated us like royalty and we had the most gratifying conversation and experience of many years. Thank you Kent and Greg for making our time in your city unforgettable. Your generosity, trust and kindness are truly deep and appreciated. read more

I live in the neighborhood and have been going to Automatic Slims for cheap drinks, great music & a good time for years. With that said, over the past year I have noticed some beyond shady activity happening at this wv bar. The 1st incident happened when a group of us came in for a birthday party. Our friend reached into her bag half way through the evening & noticed her iPhone was missing. She used it a couple times earlier in the bar so she knew when she reached back into her bag & it was no longer there she immediately started to speculate if it was stolen. This incident should have been enough for me to write the place off but I was willing to give A.S. the benefit of the doubt & returned around midnight on a random Saturday. The place was packed like sardines, as always, and for some reason the bouncer (& his shady crew) hanging outside made my boyfriend pay to get in. The rest of our group was already inside so he had no choice but to give this guy $20!! I would like to remind everyone this is a tiny bar with about 8 tables, not a tacky Chelsea club! The final straw was when my BF & I were meeting friends there a couple weeks ago(not our choice on venue) so we decided to go late thinking we wouldn't have to spend too much time there. The bouncer & his 2 buddies were sitting outside & made a joke to us about paying a cover charge. This time we laughed it off & just walked in. It was around 1am and the crowd of drunk kids started to disperse. Thinking it was late & the place was clearing out I hung my jacket on the coat rack. Definitely a stupid decision based on the past I've had at this place. I checked on the jacket a couple times throughout my hour or so stay & it was still on the rack. As we were leaving the bar my leather jacket was gone! It just vanished into thin air. To make matters worse my BFs Paul Smith jacket was also "missing". He folded his up on a chair across the room from where my jacket was hanging. When I called that following Tuesday to see if either one of our jackets were found the women on the phone acted like this happens all the time. She had said people leave the bar wasted all the time with other peoples coats, sometimes returning them back to the bar. I find it hard to believe the token drunk kid of the evening did a couple laps around the bar before stumbling home to pick up a designer jackets, mens & women's XS & Large. I'm not sure if it's new management or a couple dishonest employees but I will never go back to this place!!! My main reason for writing this is so these awful things don't continue happening to unsuspecting patrons. I guess those cheap drinks do come with a price after all. It really is a shame because I did have some great times at this place which is now a distant memory. read more