Barcade

Barcade® is the Original Arcade Bar: a combination bar and arcade with a focus on classic arcade games and American craft beer. There are currently eight locations in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and California. All locations are owned and operated by four of the company founders; Paul Kermizian, Pete Langway, and brothers Kevin... and Scott Beard along with a small group of private investors. The original Barcade opened in 2004 in a former metal shop on Union Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. At the time, Kevin and Scott were working in graphic design, Paul in film and television, and Pete in advertising. Paul had just completed directing the feature film "American Beer", a road trip documentary profiling the American craft beer industry, and the friends were spending time drinking craft beer and playing the classic 1980's video games that lined the walls of Paul's Williamsburg loft. Those beer and game filled nights inspired the group to open a neighborhood bar focused on American craft beer and classic video games. They quit their day jobs, maxed out their credit cards, and began work on Barcade. The friends did most of the construction themselves, keeping the look of the warehouse and garage that the space had previously been, and the bar opened in the fall of 2004 to immediate acclaim. Looking ahead with plans for expansion, the company registered a federal trademark in 2007 for the name Barcade. In 2011 two new locations opened; one in downtown Jersey City and another in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia. Barcade opened two more locations in 2014, both in Manhattan: on West 24th Street in Chelsea, and on St. Mark's Place in the East Village. The sixth location, in New Haven, Connecticut opened in 2016, the seventh location opened in Newark, New Jersey in 2017, and the eighth opened in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2019. There are currently plans for a location in Detroit, and additional locations in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles. Barcade began ...Read More