The Rusty Knot

It-cool has slowly run down the subculture ladder, hitting rungs like rockabilly-cool, biker-cool, and reprobate-cool as it traveled. Now, it has finally headed out to sea, with rustic-nautical-cool becoming the it-cool du jour. From Ken Friedman (Spotted Pig) comes the Rusty Knot.



The new West Village haunt, the Rusty Knot, has managed to make the seafaring-aesthetic cool for the first time since Ishmael and Queequeg were hitting the bar scene. Compact and heavy on the wood, the word “dive” has run rampant in writings about the Knot, but that’s slightly misleading. “Dive” doesn’t mean what it used to.