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This is the sort of pool hall that fables are made of--cheap and gritty and cool. There's a communal feel in the low-ceilinged, well-worn basement, in the spacious sprawl of 14 tables, pingpong behind netted...
citysearch.com - expert review - 11/18/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I really like this place. There is so much to do. Ping pong, shuffle board, chess, checkers, listen to live Jazz music, shoot pool, enjoy the scene of good looking guys... I didn't give this place 5…
yelp.com - user review - 07/04/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place is kind of like your basement, but on a larger scale. Ping Pong, Pool, Foosball, Shuffleboard, Chess, Scrabble- you name it, its here. Oh and unlike your basement, its got some jazz…
yelp.com - user review - 07/03/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place, like the crowd, is a little jazzy, a little lo-key mixed in with a little ADD. A night full of simple good times, no additives needed. Week nights will be chill, weekends will get annoying…
yelp.com - user review - 06/25/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I happen to be a really big nerd, so any place where you can play chess AND Scrabble and Ping-Pong while drinking beer is fabulous. On the whole we had a pretty fun experience there. They have a…
yelp.com - user review - 06/20/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Fat Cat. What a cool name. So the place inside looks nice and inviting. For that I like it. But it's pretty dead, or at least was the times I went, and it didn't really feel like there was any…
yelp.com - user review - 06/20/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I wanted to give this place more stars (although 3 isn't too bad). I mean, there are so many cool games around (scrabble, chess, checkers, ping-pong, billiards, air hockey, etc), lots of seating, a…
yelp.com - user review - 06/19/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Games galore! Love it. The games get better after a beer or two.
yelp.com - user review - 06/17/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I went here for the first time a few years ago when I was home for the holidays and realized it used to be a roller rink in the early 80s and we would hang out here and experience puberty (my grade…
yelp.com - user review - 06/16/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Just plain cool. Last night after drinking copious champagne and red wine, eating chicken wings and gorging on mass amounts of female bonding, my girls and I needed to do something drastic to shake the…
yelp.com - user review - 06/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Game nerd heaven. I'm talking serious pong for the die-hards with netting to trap those bangers! Oh, and for the billiard heads there's a dozen pocket pool tables. Ready for more? Spacious red vinyl…
yelp.com - user review - 06/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Great place for reasonably priced billiards, ping pong, chess, scrabble, foozball and shuffleboard. Even better that there is also alcohol involved as well. Good stuff. Even though I got my ass…
yelp.com - user review - 06/01/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
SHUFFLEBOARD rocks!! this place didn't always have shuffleboard did it? i think last time i went which was last year it wasn't there. hrmm.
yelp.com - user review - 05/29/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I waited in line the first time I was to frequent Fat Cat for about twenty minutes; it was in the dead of winter, and I wasn't expecting very much. Well, I was wrong. The dig has a live band (this…
yelp.com - user review - 05/26/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place is fun- I mean, who doesn't love drunk ping pong matches? It's definitely pricey though- a $3 cover, $7 beers, and so on, depending on what you play. We've never had to wait too long for a…
yelp.com - user review - 05/19/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Just ask yourself this: Do you like games (Pool, Ping Pong, Chess, Scrabble, Foosball)? If yes, then go here, especially if you want some place with more personality than a traditional pool hall or…
yelp.com - user review - 05/18/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
My only complaint is that you can't drink anything but beer and wine. Apparently not everyone has gotten my memo about how well a vodka soda goes with Scrabble. I love this place. It's not crowded, you…
yelp.com - user review - 05/14/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
i love this bar! I was just in town visiting some friends and we decided it was important to have rounds of drinking and Scrabble. One of them suggested Fat Cat. How many times have I walked past the…
yelp.com - user review - 05/13/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is one of the coolest places in NYC. Should be a famous institution (like the Strand bookstore, FAO Schwartz, McSorely's and Rainbow Room), but I don't think it's all that well known yet. Hm.…
yelp.com - user review - 05/12/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is the oddest pool hall. Don't come here for high-quality tables, these have been there from the 1950's, and were recovered in the 1970's. What makes this place great, however, is the variety…
yelp.com - user review - 05/12/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Cool dirty spot to drink some cheap beers and play pool, ping pong, or foosball. Live jazz band too. I'd come here with friends.
yelp.com - user review - 04/26/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I discovered Fat Cat on a Friday, and liked it so much that I went back on Saturday and Sunday. I cannot fathom why nobody has franchised Fat Cat into the world-wide drunk/jazzed twenty-something's…
yelp.com - user review - 04/24/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Fat Cat is a rec room for drunken straight people, which sure as hell sounds irritating, but the space has certain things going for it. First of all, its huge for Manhattan, and its full of ping-pong…
yelp.com - user review - 04/23/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
If you are currently dealing with, or if you think you may have ADD or ADHD, Fat Cat is both a wonderland of joy and a sensory overload that will have you double-fisting cans of PBR so fast it will…
yelp.com - user review - 04/15/2008
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The fat cat is a great place to come and relax, any time of the day or night, and any day of the week. I haven't found anywhere else where you can play ping pong or fusball to live jazz, while drinking a great...
citysearch.com - user review - 03/27/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Located in the sublevel, this place is not nearly as classy as Slate. However, it's not as pricey either. For 7 of us it came out to $45 for the night w/ 2 pool tables (1hr) and 1 ping pong table…
yelp.com - user review - 03/19/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Ok, there is a freaking DOG running around eating food off the floor like you're sitting in your house (if your house smells like sweat and has a bunch of pool tables). The bouncer means business,…
yelp.com - user review - 03/09/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
There is something to be said for live jazz music and ping-pong tables. It is not what you would expect if you never been here before. Maybe that's what makes Fat Cat special. Beer, ping-pong, pool,…
yelp.com - user review - 03/08/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Fat Cat is awesome! Yeah, they don't have the alcohol options of a wine bar... or any bar, really, but that's why the place is so chill: The patrons don't come here to get wasted, they come here to…
yelp.com - user review - 03/02/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This place reminds me of sitting in my grandmother's basement on family holidays, scrambling to find enough big cushy chairs to fit around the board games, and trying to locate that last piece. The…
yelp.com - user review - 02/26/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
If you want a dingy, basement dive bar, this is your place. Pool tables, shuffleboard, chess, ping pong, fooseball...you name it. Beer and wine equivelent to Franzia--that is the extent of the…
yelp.com - user review - 02/22/2008
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Cheap beer, dirty but plentiful pool tables, and any board came you could hope for, all with live music to keep you entertained. You might not take your mother here, but you should certainly take your friends!
citysearch.com - user review - 02/19/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I dig this place. I get the dive bar feeling here that I havnt found since I left Michigan, a place where you can go in a hoodie and just chill out. Beer is not too expensive. Who doesnt have a good…
yelp.com - user review - 02/19/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Big space, lots of pool tables, ping pong, live jazz, yadda yadda. I really don't have much else to add. But what I really want to yelp is that they have 4 real shuffleboard tables (none of the coin…
yelp.com - user review - 02/11/2008
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Something for everyone. Pool, ping pong, shuffleboard, etc. Staff is very friendly, good music, but who the hell makes a mean Manhattan? There's no hard liquor in there-just beer and wine-and the beer is on...
citysearch.com - user review - 02/07/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is a great place to go when you're sick of dressing up and not getting into a club because your shoes aren't shiny enough... An assortment of games (ping pong, billiards, shufflepuck, board games)…
yelp.com - user review - 02/06/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Totally divey. Feels like a college games room. There's a cover charge of $3 each. For billiards and pool, you will probably need to get a ticket from the bar tenders and wait for your turn. It can…
yelp.com - user review - 01/29/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
When I first started coming here a few years ago, it was 'cause Smalls had closed down and my friend and I wanted a place to enjoy jazz without having to pay the $20-30 cover charges at the Vanguard…
yelp.com - user review - 01/21/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I love, love, love this place. The atomosphere is awesome- pool tables, ping pong tables, chess, scrabble, backgammon, live music, foosball, beer- you can't go wrong. I loved the mismatched furniture…
yelp.com - user review - 01/19/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
If you wanna pay a cover charge toput down to much for watery beer and try to spend to much to play pool when some drunk dude from the projeccts keeps on keepin on with the shittalk while your tryin…
yelp.com - user review - 01/14/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Okay when going into a bar the LAST thing I want to do is wait in a really long line, or go into the basement of some building to get to said bar. So my trip to fat cat didn't start well, there was a…
yelp.com - user review - 01/11/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Fat Cat is one of the city's most awesome hidden treasures. It's a huge (for Manhattan) underground recreation center with a long list of activities: multiple pool and ping pong tables, 2 foosball…
yelp.com - user review - 01/08/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place really is a hidden gem. I've walked past it a hundred times and never realized what was lurking underground. It's a wonderland of activity. There's, pool tables, chess tables, shuffleboard,…
yelp.com - user review - 01/07/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I first went there 2002 and back then they had the music in a dark, enclosed room. After a recent visit, I come to find that they tore out the back wall, exposing the the billiards and a glaring…
yelp.com - user review - 01/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
shuffleboard scrabble beer = good times for all!
yelp.com - user review - 01/01/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Beer, ping pong and live jazz?! There is a God!! Great place in the west village.
yelp.com - user review - 12/31/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
My new fav!!! Yes there is the $3 cover, which I pretty much forgot about the second I stepped into the joint and heard the awesome live jazz music coupled, no tripled, with the array of games…
yelp.com - user review - 12/25/2007
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Fat Cat Billiards was an amazing experience! I went there on a Sunday night, had to pay a small $3 cover, and got myself a pool table (it was either $5 or $6 an hour). Overall it was a lot of fun and most...
citysearch.com - user review - 12/16/2007
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1.0 of 5 stars.
I hear the cover charge is going up. There's other places.
yelp.com - user review - 11/25/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I'm at the Fat Cat at least once a week. It's one of my top favorite lounge bars in the entire city, and the *perfect* default date location if you're not sure where to go. The whole place is a very…
yelp.com - user review - 11/09/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Last night was the first time I visited Fat Cat's after much hype. Overall it's a pretty cool place. They have lots of games like pool and ping pong. Then throw in some jazz and you have a pretty…
yelp.com - user review - 11/07/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
If you want a casual, cheap dive bar with live music and extracurricular activites, this is the place for you. I don't know of any other bars like this in nyc so it was a treat finding a place like…
yelp.com - user review - 11/06/2007
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Considering we were required to pay a cover to get in, I was sorely disappointed in this Fat Cat. Somehow, for a group of 10, we bargained the cover charge from $30 down to $23, which made up for the…
yelp.com - user review - 09/30/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This bar can't really decide what it is but perhaps that's why I like it. The only reason it got only 3 stars is because they charge cover, then you still have to pay for all the games. Maybe the…
yelp.com - user review - 09/24/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Fat Cat is a billiards joint with a casual feel. It's also blazingly hot in there as it is situated on the basement level and sans windows. If you don't want to play pool, ping-pong, chess or scrabble…
yelp.com - user review - 09/13/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Okay, get air conditioning in this place to please put out a fucking fan. Just do that little bit to amuse me. It doesn't even have to work properly, it can be a jittery fan that falls over. Just show…
yelp.com - user review - 09/09/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I go here when I want to get a sweat on while drinking a beer. There are six ping pong tables, and if you're playing with me, you're gonna be doing a lot of running retrieving my balls (hehe, I just…
yelp.com - user review - 09/01/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This is a nice place to go and just chill or hang with friends. They have board games, Foos ball, ping pong, pool tables, and plenty of space and seating for groups to just enjoy talking to each…
yelp.com - user review - 08/29/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Fat Cat is a huge space with activities. If you're tired of the bar scene (hey everyone, let's hold our glasses and stand around), this is a great alternative. Here, you can hold your glass and play…
yelp.com - user review - 08/24/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
THIS PLACE IS SO FREAKIN AWESOME!!! Checked it out for the first time yesterday afternoon and our group of 9 pretty much had the whole place to ourselves. This place is like the basement of your…
yelp.com - user review - 08/13/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
You know, this place would have garnered the entire 5 stars if it just served something other than beer (or the socially-ostracizing Mike's Hard Lemonade for the non-beer drinkers like myself).…
yelp.com - user review - 08/10/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
It's amazing. It's brilliant. It's nirvana. You get the idea. My friends and I love coming here for pool and other fun and games on nights when sitting around playing my Wii (*insert pun here*) just…
yelp.com - user review - 08/01/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
ping pong, beer, chess, beer, pool, beer, LIVE JAZZ, beer, shuffleboard, beer...this place has it all. we wound up here after a long night of belligerent drinking. in a word it was MAGICAL. 2AM and…
yelp.com - user review - 07/30/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Delirium Tremens by the bottle, pool shark b-boys fronting for las chiquitas, hipster geeks vocab-strutting over scrabble, wash sq wash-ups dueling over chess, ping-pong, foosball, a urinal that's…
yelp.com - user review - 06/04/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
The name should be "Fat Cool Cat". This place provides hours of fun and entertainment. Pool tables, Ping Pong tables, board games, Foosball, live music and my favorite Shuffleboard!!! Never seen…
yelp.com - user review - 05/22/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place is so rad. Rad is a great word to describe it. My friends were debating about where to go, and when we happened on this place, I was like I might not always be in the mood for a shabby…
yelp.com - user review - 04/15/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
i do wish i had known in advance what sort of place it was (i didn't even know it was a billiards hall) as i felt way overdressed just because i was in heels and wearing makeup. but that aside, i'm…
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I love love looooove this place. I once came here 3 times in a 48 hour span. Where else can you find 8000sqft of pool tables, ping pong tables (with nets so you don't have to run far for that stray…
yelp.com - user review - 03/01/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Oooh, I forgot all about coming here. Awesome spot. Chess boards, cheap wine, backgammon, jazz, you name it they got it. Sorry to hear it's closed right now for renovation, belligerence will hopefully…
yelp.com - user review - 03/01/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It has a dive bar feel to it. I was only interested in a place to play billiards nearby though and Fat Cat fufilled that need. I thought it was a nice touch that it had not only billiard tables, but…
yelp.com - user review - 02/28/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This place is always a nice nightlife alternative for those wannabe pool sharks, non-club goers, or even a casual date. The drinks aren't too pricey, but the wait staff is sometimes incredibly slow…
yelp.com - user review - 02/22/2007
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Don't be fooled by the divey atmophere, this place offers a great variety of classy imported bottled beers. I had no problem finding a chess partner while I waited for my friends to arrive. A unique, fun spot...
citysearch.com - user review - 01/20/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place takes me back to my days of being a freshman in college and hanging out at one of the jock houses on a weekday when they're not throwing a party. Either that or at a friend's house where…
yelp.com - user review - 01/17/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The live jazz room is more like a "Live Jazz Living Room". Think couches, armchairs and end tables, and seating right up to the same level performance area, so you can sit back and be a few feet away…
yelp.com - user review - 01/06/2007
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just you guys are great my sister went their she was drunk the door man made sure he put her in a cab and than called to tell she was ok just want thank you his name was timmy just a good guy thank you their...
citysearch.com - user review - 12/19/2006
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3.0 of 5 stars.
pretty cute place. they have a live jazz room, and then they have a room filled with ping pong tables, pool tables, and this other game - i don't remember the name. its a college place (it is in the…
yelp.com - user review - 12/18/2006
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For music there are clubs. For drinks, there are lounges. Throw the two together and a few pool tables, you have Fat Cat. The vibe is quiet, yet chill at the same time. It may not be extraordinarily cheap, but...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/13/2006
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Meet all your friends at the Fat Cat, it's in a great location and they have alright happy hour speci
