Big beer, best fried seafood, perfect
Jeremy's is basically a "cavern" of a bar, no frills, that when busy draws a young Wall Street crowd -- basically a bunch of semi-recent "frat boys" and the gals that love them.
It has a small chain-link enclosed "patio area" that in fact looks like a white collar prison yard as you walk by.
But anyway, the deal at Jeremy's Ale House is this…they have terrific fried to order seafood baskets, affordably.
A big basket of scallops, shrimp, calamari and fish mixed, for example, either $6.95 or $7.95, as of early 2003, anyway. You can get any of the things alone, too, similarly priced.
Compare that to the "upscale seafood shack" restaurant I last went to in NYC (my friends wouldn't make the trip across town to Jeremy's)...$16.00 for LESS of the same things, and not quite as good...the breading not as perfectly right.
Then the beer -- it's served in 32-oz. styrofoam cups...proportioned just like the little ones, but HUGE. $5 each, I think, fresh and cold.
The atmosphere is totally NON atmosphere…random tables, no waiters (you go up to the bar and order/get your own food), loud or quiet proportionate to the number of people. The only "decor" to speak of are ties and bras on the rafters...the "leftovers" of wild times past.
The location is of course good --at the South Street Seaport , basically under the Bridge.
So that's the deal -- as far as I know the only place to get fried seafood that's as good and cheap is City Island in the Bronx... and that's quite a trip if you're in Manhattan... and the beer is better at Jeremy's.    [30 Jan 2004 16:09:34]

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Recommended Dishes: the fried seafood is all there is, basically

     ­GMurphy, Former New Yorker