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Best Free Bar Food In NYC (Parts, Anyway)
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Nell Casey
Published Mar 18, 2011
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If you really tied one on last night in honor of Saint Patrick, the mere thought of more drinking may turn your stomach. That kind of talk is for amateurs. What you need is a belly full of free bar food to get you back on the booze wagon tonight. Here's a list of bars that offer tasty tippling treats compliments of the house. Click on the photos for the scoop, and let us know where you go to beat the paying-for-food system. (Yes, yes, Crocodile and Alligator and Rudy's)
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