Rocka Rolla

Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Greenpoint & Bushwick


Named for Judas Priest's first album, this bar reels in rockers with its Misfits logos, taxidermied buffalo heads and, of course, neon Judas Priest sign. It keeps them around with cheap drinks and a guitar-heavy, old-school soundtrack. It's the best kind of dive bar: grungy and loud but friendly enough to be accessible to timid first-timers.

Order a rum and coke, attack the juke box and let some early '80s rock anthems wash over you. The location beneath the Brooklyn–Queens Expwy is suitably gritty, too.