July 10, 2017 Staff Report
Sidetracks, the popular Irish bar/restaurant, closed for renovations yesterday and is scheduled to reopen in mid August, according to a notice on the door.
The establishment, which has been located at 45-08 Queens Blvd for nearly 30 years, has undergone some significant changes over the years.
About 15 years ago Sidetracks offered residents a place to bet, doubling as an Off-Track Betting outpost. The owners got rid of its OTB concept about 10 years ago when the establishment underwent its last major overhaul.
The restaurant today serves as a higher-end Irish restaurant/sports bar. It is also a party venue.
The owner(s) of the bar/restaurant could not be reached for comment.
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You all, stop dreaming, Side Tracks will not return, they gone for good
Love this place 5 stars!!!!!!
Better in OLD days when it was a green bean patch. Miss the old barn where they kept all the animals too. Miss the good old fashion time in Queens.
Not like the good times when the days of old where around. TV was black and white and we didn’t wear any seatbelt. Most people probably don’t even know a good Queens style creem egg. 3 raw eggs in a can of doc zippers soda pop. Yummy!
Was there once hated it.
Terrible food. Small portions.
Cholly big fan of you
What ever happened to the good old fashion milkman ?
What ever happen to predictability?
What about evening TV. Better in olden days time.
Renovation yes but please keep it an Irish restaurant.
They should renovate the kettle ;get rid of lousy music, drunk Saturday night crowd and lousy furniture
Has gone way down
Watch your mouth you donkey
I liked it years ago before it became a guido hangout.
Was better in the good old days?
Mike and Yes – A renovation every 10:years seems like a lot to you? You 2 need to raise your standards.
Hey Goose
What happened did I strike your cord? You must be an owner of the dump.
Use your real name.
You cut my chord real good, genius. You must be the owner of jack and shit.
Hey Mike: it looks like its goose who struck your cord.
I got stiked over the head with a chord of wood once. Ouch!
How often does this place need to be renovated?
Hey Si (yes in Spanish)
Is it your money? Why do you care?
The place has to renovate so often because something is definitely wrong. Here’s an idea close for good and let someone else that knows the business come in or better yet demolish the whole shit block.
Why don’t you buy it then if you are so wise in the ways of business??? Loser
Sometimes you want to go where everyone knows your name, and their always glad you came. That was Sidetracks.
You bet my email won’t be published cause i ain’t givin it.
I know who you are and I’m putting you on the news.
Hi Roxy – Remember the fights that you used to go to at the old Sunnyside Gardens? The food isn’t very good but Sidetracks is a Sunnyside institution.
Stop fake names!
LOL. Miss the good old fashion days when movies and a bucket of suds cost a shiny nickel. Today, everyone is just watching TV on their phones. Sad
Cool now I’ll bring a 6 pack into alpha donuts and dine in there. Nice
Have always enjoyed eating & drinking @ Sidetracks – we’ll be back!
Long overdue. Good luck.
this place is just horrible –
You should back up that statement…
they should bring back those thirsty Thursdays where for 20$ all you can drink from like 11-1am it was FIREEEE
And all the thugs and ghetto trash that the $20 brings
Hopefully they renovate the staff to be friendlier, the food to taste better, the prices to come down, and the doors to never open again. This place is a dump!!
Shut up ya lil dope! one of the best spots in the area, with great staff and lovely food! keyboard warrior?
Seriously where are you hanging out if this is a “dump” get a grip it’s far from a dump you probably just got barred like an idiot and are still sour…don’t come back there!!!!
David is the best bartender here. He’s very handsome.
Wish they could bring it back to the way it was in the early 90’s…great bar, great times!
Absolutely! The back party room was so attractive with its own bar and windows. The main bar with a train car. Lost its character and one of the waiters is rude and doesn’t even look at you as he talks and walks away mid sentence.
Was much better in olden times when you could park your horse out front and come in for a bottle of 87 and take a bath with your boots on.
I got a beer there once and it was ICE cold. Kudos.