Reader (but not closely) Dave suggests we try Floyd, a Brooklyn bar with an indoor Bocce Ball lawn and cheap beer. Although those of us heading to Brian's show at 11pm will be unable to make the trek tonight, I think it sounds like the perfect destination for a lazy Saturday. I will plan something laterish.
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Floyd is located at 131 Atlantic Ave. between Henry and Clinton streets in Brooklyn Heights.
"Nearby, on a formerly empty stretch of Atlantic Avenue, the afternoon crawl took me to Floyd, a low-key pub decorated in a sort of Victorian cast-off meets decaying library theme that may be able to claim the unusual distinction of housing Brooklyn's only indoor lawn-bowling court. 'Bocce,' an Italian lawn bowling game played since at least 5000 B.C. and enjoyed enthusiastically by historical figures ranging from the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates to Sir Francis Drake, according to the American Bocce Ball Association, is enjoying a mini-resurgence among the drinking crowd at Floyd.
The bocce court takes up nearly half the bar and it is undeniably fun to throw back a few cans of cheap beer (including $3 cans of Old Milwaukee, and the "Crap-a-copia," a rotating selection of six cans of swill served in a bucket of ice for 12 bucks) and watch barflies toss a stone bowling ball around a stretch of packed clay. Floyd has a full selection of liquor and bottled beer, including Guinness on tap, and serves up fun with the "45 and a Bullet" special (a shot of whiskey and a can of cheap beer for $6). The patrons are as varied as the entertainment, but lean toward the young and outgoing. Like every bar in the area, the weeknight crowd is generally made up of people affiliated with the courts in one way or another."
