The house shot was Ass Juice, billed as "a little bit of everything and a whole lot of love," and a notice spelled out the policy: you puke, you clean1. P Moss opened this offshoot of the Vegas punk bar in the East Village in 2006, at 14 Avenue A, in a space whose earlier tenants included Julep and Mekka1, 2, 3. Time Out found it huge, dark and surprisingly clean-smelling, a bar that strove to be a dive and, by God, succeeded1. Our listing singled out the bacon martini, made with real bacon.
It reopened in March 2021 for the first time since March 2020, still pouring bacon martinis and Ass Juice, and EV Grieve welcomed back "the dump (said in a loving way!)"4.
In September 2024 it played Paul's Bar in Caught Stealing, Darren Aronofsky's crime thriller set in the 1990s, starring Austin Butler, and it reopened as itself on October 23, 5. In August 2025 Butler celebrated his 34th birthday there, arriving around 12:30 in the morning with Aronofsky and his co-star Zoë Kravitz6.
Researched October 2026.
