Will All The Fat Girls Please Stand Up?

Editor’s Note: Local Rumor has it that Park City closed down following an, all-night,$5 open-bar party. Stay tuned for details…

Park City is the place to go for live music – the kind of place where you have to shove your way through the crowds to get yourself another bottle of Bud Light – since the last one spilled while you were jumping up and down with the crowd during a performance by The Benjamins, Bitter X, or The Nerds.

Weekly drink specials (like Thursday night’s $2.50 Bud Lights and $2.00 SoCo and lime shots) make it affordable to Rock Out on Thursday, Friday or Saturday nights, when the bar features local bands. The music here can be a little hard, but the crowd at Park City tends to be a bit too chill for mosh pits, and the bands are far too upbeat to garner that group sway you might find at a Peter Gabriel concert.

The bar is usually dark, loud and crowded - perfect for a night out with friends or for a low-grade hookup after a long dry spell. The hairy-scary biker-looking regulars are usually hanging by the main bar – and the fat girls are generally moping on stools and in the booths surrounding it. My suggestion is to hang near the back bar and stage.

Editor’s Note: To my chubby sisters – Don’t sit down when you’re out at a lively club. First, you look like you’re having no fun and nobody wants to talk to a Mopey-Mary. Second, you gain ten pounds just by parking your ass on a chair. The muffin-top/FUPA/dunlap (whatever you like to call it), is far more noticeable in that position. Get off your butt and move around. Work off those beers you’ve been knocking back all night and show some pride in your curves!

No – I’m not anti-fat chick. I yo-yo between 150 and 180 pounds. I feel you. I just don’t condone Friday night pity parties. Look on the bright side, this is America – there will always be someone fatter than you!

If there is a band, there is usually a cover – about $5. Park City also has a coat-check (free but tip the coat-checker!).

Note:Be prepared to look for on-street parking. Their lot is small and fills up quickly. Even if you find a spot, the tight spaces and angled parking may make it difficult to get out if you’ve had a few before hitting the road. (Not that you would. Don’t drink and drive.)

Park City Bar & Grille
125 Park Avenue
East Rutherford
(201) 933-3308

— by Ali Hanford
Ali is managing editor and a co-founder of GoOutJersey and lives in Essex County. She has lived in NJ her whole life.

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