Bee Liquors

A standard neighborhood liquor store with a lotto business on the side. Sells mass produced wines of varied quality, often at a discount. Hunt around for a bargain if you know what you like and you’ll do fine. Brisk counter staff, usually courteous.

Let me just say first off, Bee Liquors is THE crown jewel of the East Village; the kind of place that makes you remember why you moved to the City That Never Sleeps!
The staff at Bee is fantastic. The manager, Chip, is a delightful man that gives you a warm verbal greeting once he sees a familiar face browsing the White Zinfandel aisle, and let me tell you, Chip does NOT forget a single customer. Cristian, the checkout man, is always excited to share his expertise and just itching for a friendly conversation.
Further, this place is so so cheap. You can tell that you are getting the right price at a quality liquor establishment. You don’t find that everyday in The Big City.
I can honestly say that you feel like a better person leaving this place than you feel going in.
Seriously, you guys, this place is not to be missed!!!

This place is super low-​key. The staff were super helpful and friendly. I just needed some peppermint schapps and he pointed right where I had to go. The store is clean and really convenient to Stuy Town. I wouldn’t go anywhere else!
Tips:
— $ 10 credit card minimum!
— They don’t have beer– just hope over to Duane Reed’s on 1^st for that

Best prices in the area. Also wine sales — look for them on the counter near the register and to the right of it. Very friendly owner/​workers. Give it a try when you are dry!

Best liquor store in the village. They have everything, plus some. If you want to try something weird, it’s a good place.
They have great prices. And ever better hours. Actually stay open really late!

Everyone says it’s cheap, I don’t think so. I mean it’s definitely not expensive, but wouldn’t say is cheap. Maybe I got spoiled by all cheaper, bigger liquor stores in Astoria. But I guess that’s OK for Manhattan!
Store is nice, clean and bright. They deliver really fast.

I recommend Bee Liquors. They’re well stocked and clean. Not a hobo joint that you may expect from an Alphabet City liquor store. Plus they have lotto in case you’re into that kind of thing, which I am.

Definitely the best prices in Alphabet City. Friendly staff, good selection, and no leave your purse with us policy; which is good because, no boo, I don’t do that.

This place has cheap bottles of almost everything and is right by my apartment.
The only thing I don’t like is that they only do cash for deliveries and have a minimum in-​store if paying by credit card (only $ 10). Kind of aggravating considering I’m in there all the time. Give the regulars a break already.
Also the place down the street is also open till midnight on the weekends, so you’d think they’d extend their hours consider the location of East Village and Stuytown residents.
I still like coming in here to grab a cheap bottle of booze when I want to relax.

Bee Liquors is as good as it gets when it comes to liquor stores. What do you want when you enter a liquor store? You want to get drunk cheaply? Bee’s a couple of bucks cheaper than many liquor stores in the neighborhood. You want that obscure honey liqueur or the premium Jim Beam? Bee’s got it. You want to be able to see what you’re getting? Bee’s bright fluorescent lights and well-​maintained stock ensures that.
Plus the cashier regales tales of deviant fake ID users and how he calls the police on them.

Bee is every bit as cheap and shitty as previous reviewers have suggested. So far everything I’ve bought there has inebriated me, to one degree or another. My credit cards always work in their machine, and there are never any smashed bottles lying around on the ground. Wine that comes out of the fridge is cold. Just don’t go to Bee’s looking for beer: it’s not that their beer is old and skunky or that the beer comes in cracked, leaking bottles; it’s that they don’t have beer.
There’s a pretty cool neon sign in the front window that says «Dewar’s Rocks.» I like the ambiguity of it. Does it mean that Dewar’s is great — that it «rocks»? Or is it referencing the «rocks» of Dewar’s — its nuts, cojones? The graphic is actually a pirate (or something) holding a guitar, which suggests a third, really stupid meaning: that Dewar’s plays rock music (?).
Incidentally, if you go to the Dewar’s website — which I just did, looking for a reproduction of the neon sign to show you — you are asked on the front page to enter your date of birth. You have to at least claim to be 21 before you’re given access to any of the site’s content. This got me pretty excited. I was expecting that the Dewar’s site would feature pictures of – at minimum — topless women drinking whisky. No, though. It just has pictures of Dewar’s in closed bottles. You have to be 21 to look at pictures of alcohol? And read about the distilling process? As a father of a 5-​year-​old: Thank god.
Anyway, there’s absolutely no reason not to head to Bee Liquors right now. Don’t bother if you’re after beer.
(Only Chris has been to Bee Liquors, but he thinks the other guys would agree with his frustration about the lack of boobs on the Dewar’s website.)

I love this place. I am oh so blessed it is a mere block away from where i live. Cheaper than other liquor stores. Trust me. i’ve stopped by so many on my way home. compared the prices. and just decided to go to Bee Liquors. Humongo selection of wine. plenty selections of wine ranging from $ 6 – 11 too!

Bee Liquors is pretty much heaven to my alcoholic soul. They carry a lot of shitty ass, cheap brands, which is perfect and doesn’t break my bank at all. Actually, right now, I am drinking their 8.99 grape flavored vodka and getting ready to sing karaōke. Perfect!

This is the liquor store I go to whenever I need to get drunk. It’s pretty much the best liquor store in my area (around 10^th and B), when you consider the selection and the prices.
They have pretty much any kind of liquor that you can think of, sitting on shelves covering every inch of the side wall. Stockpiled throughout the rest of the room are wines from various parts of the world. The selection is pretty diverse and the quality above average.
Prices are not as cheap as some discount or warehouse wine stores, but cheaper than most other similar liqour stores in the city. The staff is always friendly and if you’re lucky, they put on a show, throwing bottles to each other as they are passed to the cash register.

Alright, another first for me. From the outside it looks like your average ghetto Liquor store. Inside is a different story. Well kind of. By no means is this as nice as Astor Wines or as cheap as Trader Joes, but it’s surprisingly big and has a great selection. You can find your 2 buck chuck there (now a days it’s more like an 8 buck chuck) but they also have some good vineyards on hand that could satisfy the snobbiest of connoisseurs. They accept credit cards and their right down the block. The Chinese guy that’s normally running the show there is pretty nice too.