![]() ![]() Longtime friends Elderton and Garribo started looking for a restaurant to open together in February 2020 and kept their dream alive during the pandemic. Together, they have converted the former dive bar into a laidback queer hangout - one of the few explicitly LGBTQ+ businesses in the area, joined by Escape Bar & Grill and the gay strip club Fuzzy Navels - despite homophobic backlash online. Misfits Bar & Lounge, lettered robin’s egg blue over the emblematic Progress Pride flag, opened quietly after a slow transition over the course of a few months, starting when Misfits owners David Elderton and Sophie Garibbo purchased the Eastside Bar & Grill last September. The stage once home to rock and punk bands now hosts drag and burlesque performers. The bar that has opened in its place sits in stark contrast to its predecessor. It hosted live music in the corner, poured stiff drinks, churned out serviceable bar food, and offered a few video poker machines. For years, the bar at 2530 Northeast 82nd Avenue lived in the amorphous zone between a dive and a music venue.
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