A team of nightlife veterans open Danger Danger, a new rock bar in Bushwick.
). Scott wanted to do something “fun and fast-paced” so, as Ross puts it, “We agreed on a harebrained scheme of doing a rock club in Bushwick, with a huge tequila and mezcal situation, cheap beers and shots, and loud music that goes until 4 a.m.”
Scott’s pitch, over beers, got a fast yes. He imagined Danger Danger as something of a spiritual successor to Frankie’s Pizza, a late-night music bar that he owned in Sydney. As Australians, Ross and McIlroy knew it well. “It was a little grungy, a little grimy, it served slices of pizza — and was hugely popular,” Ross explains.
Co-owner Jason Scott wanted to model the bar after Frankie’s Pizza, a bar he previously ran in Sydney.The soundtrack is more New Wave than classic rock.The handshake door handle comes from Gran Tivoli restaurant. Co-owner Jason Scott wanted to model the bar after Frankie’s Pizza, a bar he previously ran in Sydney.Other, more concrete details have been pulled from the group’s old establishments, too, like a brass “handshake” door handle that Scott rescued from a restaurant that closed during the pandemic and the Frozen Agave Penichillin, a reincarnation of the frozen, Scotch-based Penichillin that Ross and McIlroy served at their Atlantic Avenue bar, Diamond Reef .
Mixology is not the point at Danger Danger; music is. The soundtrack skews toward New Wave and 1980s Euro pop — more Tom Tom Club and Duran Duran than you’d find on the bill at
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