Since Congress rarely does anything useful or important, I’m not sure the petition would get that far but this being an election year, you never know.

As for us at Dive In NYC, we’re kind of surprised since we always thought St. Patty’s Day was a holiday. We don’t work and we spend the day getting blotto so all the hubbub is news to us.

I don’t know Ken Friedman and I don’t know anybody that’s eaten at his over-hyped “gastro pub” Spotted Pig but I do know that Rusty Knot has as much in common with a real dive as White Castle does with Per Se. That being said, I don’t mind educating Mr. Friedman on what a dive bar actually is.

Here’s the deal. If someone out there knows Ken Friedman, let him know that I’ll be happy to treat him to a night of boozing it up at several of Brooklyn’s best dives like Timboos, Smith’s, Smolen, Rainbow Café, the Green Isle, and even Montero’s so he can see that real dives don’t have velvet ropes nor do they serve food to patrons who get off on the novelty of eating out of plastic baskets.