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Greenwich Village Country Club: If there’s one thing this place is not, it’s a country club. It is, however, a pleasantly campy year-round cure for the summertime blues, offering warm-weather suburban pastimes like bocce ball, shuffleboard and a mini-golf course laden with life-size plastic zoo animals. Sure, it’s great for a kid's birthday party, but when the sun goes down, the booze comes out—be that a John Daly (sweet tea vodka, lemonade, $10), a can of PBR ($7) or bottles ($250+) in the sleek, polo-styled “Clubhouse” (wordplay!). Snag classic bites from David Burke like Bowlmor Bob Sliders ($10 for three) and chill on the veranda while watching films like Happy Gilmore projected above or, for a planned soiree, select one of their Par-tee packages in advance. Like Bowlmor below, this fifth-story venue projects a perfect level of kitsch—New Yorkers will wink, wink while Midwestern tourists sigh, "there’s no place like home." On a February afternoon when you've got to get out of the house and can't stand one more day of winter, you’ll be glad that the GVCC’s entrance policy is less strict than the true country clubs in the Hamptons—here, “everybody belongs."
Reviewed 11/3/2011
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