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Señor Frogs' New Times Square Restaurant Is The Perfect Place
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Nell Casey
Published Sep 9, 2015
Modified Aug 16, 2016
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Published Sep 9, 2015
Modified Aug 16, 2016
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UPDATE: The Times reports that Señor Frogs has, mysteriously, closed its doors forever in Times Square. Its brief, short life will be fondly remembered by all.
Señor Frogs has unleashed a full-time fiesta on New York City, opening their first outpost not located in a beach destination or that flashy strip of casinos in the desert. Last week, four Gothamist staffers descended into the bowels of 42nd Street to see what a party-starting frog and yard-long cocktails looks like when you're not on Spring Break and discovered that Señor Frogs is the perfect place.

(Nell Casey/Gothamist)
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to drink a frozen cocktail out of a makeshift dildo.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to pay $28 for a frozen cocktail.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to rekindle a love for the flavor of pink amoxicillin as interpreted by a frozen cocktail.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to "Shake It Off" after imbibing a few of those frozen cocktails.

(Nell Casey/Gothamist)
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to test out a new set of earplugs.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to go with someone you don't really want to talk to.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to disconnect and get away from the burden of constant cell phone reception.

(Nell Casey/Gothamist)
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to experience all possible permutations of tortillas, cheese and pico de gallo.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to eat quesadillas out of a sink.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to watch leftover food slowly meld to the plate as it languishes on your table as the hours creep along.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to exercise your environmental conservatism by sharing napkins.

(Nell Casey/Gothamist)
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to get pink liquid squirted into your mouth.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to stage a haunted house for people who fear conga lines.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to drink shots out of test tubes.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to recognize that's not gum on your shoe...

(Ben Yakas/Gothamist)
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to chug virgin frozen drinks on stage in front of strangers.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to uncover your friend's passionate feelings about the proper choreography to the "Cotton Eyed Joe."*
Señor Frogs is the perfect place for casual cultural appropriation.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place if you are incapable of feeling shame.

(Nell Casey)
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to hear white people perform "Baby Got Back" karaoke.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to hear 8-year-olds perform gangsta rap karaoke.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to be discovered by the bar mitzvah circuit.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to launch a budding cover band career.
Happy Birthday at Senor Frogsby Gothamist
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to celebrate your birthday if you fear neither death nor pain.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to test your susceptibility to seizures.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to detect an allergy to latex.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place to explore a crippling fear of balloons.

Señor Frogs is the perfect place to use your parent's credit card and/or receive a comped media dinner, because three appetizers and two rounds of drinks for four will cost you over $250.
Señor Frogs is the perfect place.
Correction: An earlier version of this piece suggested a friend harbored an undying devotion to the "Chicken Dance." It was actually "Cotton Eyed Joe." We regret the error.
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