I hate to say it, but I visited Weegee's a few weeks before Christmas and was....disappointed. The first thing that struck me was the dark and cozy atmosphere, which was great. The second thing that struck me was the smell. It was a pungent mildewy smell, like their basement had flooded and it hadn't been properly dealt with. Maybe this has been addressed in the weeks since, but it was very unpleasant.
I ordered a cocktail from the menu and tasted several of my friends' cocktails and wasn't blown away. In fact, all of the cocktails pretty much tasted the same to me. I'm not the type of girl who orders chocolatinis, but I went in expecting something different/yet on par with a cocktail I'd get at the Whister or L&E. Is there something I'm missing? Did we all just order the wrong thing? I'm sorry to say I can't remember exactly what I ordered, but that tells you how memorable it was.
Overall, I felt a cool response from the bartenders, which is not a dealbreaker for me, but it went a little beyond that. My drinking buddy asked the bartender for a Moscow Mule and he refused. She laughed thinking he was joking, but he was not, and gave no explanation. It's possible that we were their on an "off" night, but I just can't see myself making a special trip to go back.