Favorite bar/pub?

[fearofnormalcy]

So we're enjoying our new booze sub-forum, and I was wondering if y'all had a favorite place to imbibe said elixirs. These can be local, or places you've visited and have fond memories crawling out of.

I'll start:

Shim-Sham Club (now One Eyed Jack's) - New Orleans, LA
Korovo Milk Bar - New York City, NY
Mastry's - St. Petersburg, FL (Met my wife there.)
The Emerald Cocktail Lounge - St. Petersburg, FL (Kerouac drank there...me too.)
The Abbey - New Orleans, LA
Bukowski Tavern - Boston, MA
The Castle - Tampa, FL (mainline knows what's up...)
The Orpheum - Tampa, FL

Where YOU get crunk at, yo?

[Disconnect]

there's a little bar in Nashville called the Corner Bar, not to be confused with the Corner Pub!
it's a small place but the poker there is awesome and the people who run it are cool as fuck.
and they mix strong too. that always helps.
I miss that damn place. :[

[chemboy7]

I like to frequent The Loft. Cool scene, it's got a dark upstairs section that the management really doesn't give a shit about the goings on in. Got couches and shit up there. Good place to blow a little coke or get a blowjob. Plus now that it is illegal to smoke in bars it's a damn good place to have a cigarette while staying out of the cold.

[nick]

In time I started to really dislike bars.I got tired of the other drinkers and was much happier drinking alone at home-it's cheaper and if I wanna drink naked or sing the national anthem......no problem.

[iriewon]

mcsorley's old ale house ny
route 36 in la paz bolivia ~ cocaine bar...alcohol too
the flying pig in amsterdam...has a pillow lounge and a few "coffee shops" right across the street incase you run out of top notch herb
gotta throw in a few local ones...ocean mist in matunuck rhode island. awsome live shows all the time and beautiful southern ri beach scene. snooker's, trinity brewhouse, and mews tavern also awsome places in r.i.

[danny]

the old school british local pub, a dying institution....im not gonna name my favourites cause some bright spark might put two and two together and make four, various hostels of ill repute across the west country and west midlands...

[Spork]

How do you find out where route 36 is?

[danny]

In time I started to really dislike bars.I got tired of the other drinkers and was much happier drinking alone at home-it's cheaper and if I wanna drink naked or sing the national anthem......no problem.

nick when you say bar dyou mean pub or what? where is the line drawn?

[iriewon]

when i was down there i met some locals and went. i heard it moves all the time to stay under the radar since coke is still illegal. i'd just ask a chill looking local or the backpacking crowd usually knows whats up too. good luck ; )

[Spork]

Was it pure hygroscopic flake?

[nick]

nick when you say bar dyou mean pub or what? where is the line drawn?

Either or.bro-I was just happier drinking alone........yeah,I
guess I had a problem.

[iriewon]

they had 2 dif. kinds when i went. 1 was decent quality and one was that fish scale strait off the key disco shit lol the decent was going for 100 and 150 for the raw a gram in bolivin $ which was about $12 normal shit and $17usc raw a gram

[Count Zero]

I just got back from 5 great days in Key West so I'm down with the Green Parrot (favorite of HST and John Goodman), Sloppy Joe's (Hemingway), Eat it Raw, Turtle Kralls etc-that place has some of the best bars on earth. In NYC, the Ear Inn on Spring St., the legendary Chumley's on Grove, sadly all the good locals I knew in Brooklyn are now yupped out Italian restaurants.
DC has some decent bars but most change names/ownership too often or start catering to the transplant yuppie crowd, people here are more into the *new bar that just opened* as opposed to a real bar that's been around for generations-which is why there ain't many of them I suppose. The Corner Pub and the Quarry Room in Silver Spring MD are true locals in every sense of the word.

[upstate_007]

I'm not a drinker, never really have been. I do enjoy a pint once in a while though.

When I do, I prefer dive bars. Nothing fancy. And not the dive bars that were made up to be that way to attract a young hipster clientele. I like the places nobody wants to go. Cheap beer. Old guys nursing a drink. No music. Its relaxing in a way.

[thatoneguy]

I'm not a drinker, never really have been. I do enjoy a pint once in a while though.

When I do, I prefer dive bars. Nothing fancy. And not the dive bars that were made up to be that way to attract a young hipster clientele. I like the places nobody wants to go. Cheap beer. Old guys nursing a drink. No music. Its relaxing in a way.

that's how I like my bars too couple pool tables maybe a jukebox stiff drinks and wornout whores lol

[Flowergirl]

I much prefer smallish pub/bar type places. Fancy is fun one in a while, like on vacation, but I really enjoy the little joints that serve typical bar fare.

Ram's Head in Annapolis, MD
Annabelle Lee in Baltimore, MD
Sean Bolan's in Bel Air, MD
Jacoby's in Detroit, MI
The outdoor dive-looking bar outside Harrah's in Las Vegas - bartenders do all those crazy 'Cocktail' tricks. It's fascinating!
PJ Whelihan's just outside of Haddonfield, NJ - I used to go there when there was just that one location in NJ

My favorite, favorite places I can almost guarantee no one has heard of include:
Port Hope Hotel in Port Hope, MI
Farmer's Tavern in Ruth, MI
Stone Lodge in Port Sanilac, MI
Manor Tavern in Baldwin, MD

[fauxflavored]

the tap room and the elbow room were ones i frequented when i lived in Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor, MI.
the elbow room would have local bands play and Ypsi/AA has pretty good local musicians.
both also made wicked long islands, so after they cut you off after 2-3 you could just walk over to the next one since they were practically connected.

[danny]

Either or.bro-I was just happier drinking alone........yeah,I
guess I had a problem.

no mate, nothing wrong with that, everyone drinks at home now, thats why so many pubs are going to the wall - the booze is loads cheaper, you can smoke indoors, whatever music or tv is on cause YOU wanna watch it, and if any pricks are there its cause YOU invited them.

[OxyBlowBall2]

snooker's, trinity brewhouse, and mews tavern also awsome places in r.i.

hell yeah trinity and snookers!

also i usually go to sullivan's rhode in prov. a lot of my buddies go there a lot.

[iriewon]

hell yeah trinity and snookers!

also i usually go to sullivan's rhode in prov. a lot of my buddies go there a lot.

SULLYS!!! hahaaa me too!!! i havent been there in a while though

[People Stew]

Holman's in Portland is one of my favorite bars. Old, kind of a dive, but a neighborhood place for sure.
The Tugboat is also pretty cool. Dark, kind of out-of-the-way and usually quiet except for the occasional jazz combo
Shanghai tunnel as well. Damn Portland has a lot of good places to drink now that I think of it.

When I lived in MI I used to go to/play at the Old Miami on Cass Ave in Detroit. I miss that place.

[Miss M]

Holman's in Portland is one of my favorite bars. Old, kind of a dive, but a neighborhood place for sure.
The Tugboat is also pretty cool. Dark, kind of out-of-the-way and usually quiet except for the occasional jazz combo
Shanghai tunnel as well. Damn Portland has a lot of good places to drink now that I think of it.

When I lived in MI I used to go to/play at the Old Miami on Cass Ave in Detroit. I miss that place.

Holman's is just....good. Nothing fancy, been there forever, awesome breakfast......

[JuStOnEmOrE?]

The bar I really used to like going to changed ownership, and now it's a strip club. And not even a good one.

It used to be
Cheers To You on Holgate. They had the best bartender ever, Marcus. Fucker was so short he couldn't reach the highest shelf, so he'd jump up on the back of the bar and do a split when getting a bottle down. I knew him personally for 2 years before I even went there.

The best dirty strip club is of course: DV8 in SE... Awesome drink specials, and mixed strong if I remember...

The other good strip club is Devil's Point, also in SE... Who doesnt love fire breathing strippers on a Sunday night?!?!?!?!

[fearofnormalcy]

I totally forgot to mention Great Lakes in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Cheap stiff drinks, completely devoid of atmosphere, and the single greatest jukebox on the planet.

Where else can you hear Wilco, Jawbreaker and The Smiths over a frosty Brooklyn Lager? Also one of the few bars that knows what the Brooklyn buy-back is, and honors it regularly.

[Inside_out]

Drake's, it's a part of Malone's and it's nice! They make the BEST pixie stix martinis! They taste just like pixie stix and instead of sugar around the rim there's pixie stix! I'd just go there for a drink after summer class exams or labs! Get a drink, read my nook, maybe eat something (beer cheese burger 'nuff said) and just chill! Cute bartenders too!

Haha I always get people asking my servers what drinks i'm having!

I also love Copper River Canyon Grill, it's a restaurant, but they have a orgasmic Girl Scout Cookie Cocktail! It tastes JUST LIKE thinmints! I actually like the drink more than the cookie haha!

Gahhhh now I want one! Must. Resist. Deliciousness. I have a paper to finish!

[HydroApe]

I used to frequent and really enjoy a place called the Phoenix Underground back in the day when I lived in Seattle.
Great Place.
Quite often we'd go for the music.....and back then there was this great, little known local band we really dug called Nirvana.
It was co-owned by the guy who played the disc jockey on Northern Exposure (can remember his name....John Corben?)

Anyway, that and this great Irish pub in Portland called Kell's were personal favorites.

Another place that sticks out was this slick little Martini Bar in the Haight in San Fran. You had to go in alone, ask for a "martini" (nothing else), stay completely silent and drink or the owner would immediately kick you out. I'm sure there are other members here who can remember the name of the place and whether they were ever successful at getting served.

[chopstix]

Any dive bar with a decent pool table, good music and something tasty on tap (in that order)..

[Count Zero]

I used to frequent and really enjoy a place called the Phoenix Underground back in the day when I lived in Seattle.
Great Place.
Quite often we'd go for the music.....and back then there was this great, little known local band we really dug called Nirvana.
It was co-owned by the guy who played the disc jockey on Northern Exposure (can remember his name....John Corben?)

Anyway, that and this great Irish pub in Portland called Kell's were personal favorites.

Another place that sticks out was this slick little Martini Bar in the Haight in San Fran. You had to go in alone, ask for a "martini" (nothing else), stay completely silent and drink or the owner would immediately kick you out. I'm sure there are other members here who can remember the name of the place and whether they were ever successful at getting served.

I've been there a bunch of times, on Haight just a few blocks from the park. The owner was bald, chunky and a total ahole but the place defo had cachet. I was in there a few times no problem but on about the 3rd or 4th time my buddy-who lived around there and introduced me to the place-was it called Zam Zam's or something?? picked a fight with the guy-well not really-just told the guy to go fuck himself when he was being his usual dbag self. We got kicked out, went and got disguises (mops, shoe polish etc), went back in had another martini and eventually got thrown out again.
Great bar, I haven't thought about that place in years, I have to assume the bartender (a Turk I believe) has long since kicked the bucket.

[HydroApe]

That's pretty spot on Count.
I lived in SF briefly but that place stood in my memory. I totally remember that owner and you pegged him.
Fat Prick with a God Complex, but man, he made a mean Martini. It was more novelty than anything else and we had a lot of fun placing bets on who would get served or kicked out. As I recall it was 50/50 if you followed the rules mentioned previously.

[duck]

Anyone spent time in any of the bars in Lawrence, KS, or Columbia, MO? two big college towns, too many bars to list

[kNOw1]

SULLYS!!! hahaaa me too!!! i havent been there in a while though We all go to the same bars, I also like Ocean Mist too. I'm also partial to Spat's because I used to work for one of the owners and don't have to pay, but it's almost not worth dealing with the crowd sometimes

[AndiPandi]

Burt's Tiki Lounge

The Tavernacle, it's a piano bar and fun as hell.

The Sun, which actually happens to have been my favorite. It was a gay club and if you wanna just go out to dance and not be fucked with by skeeze balls this was my preferred choice. Plus, it was easy to sneak in as an underage fag hag.

Bricks, before all the little yuppie kids started going

Good Times it was a great place to play pool, drink, get in a fight or whatever.

[iriewon]

We all go to the same bars, I also like Ocean Mist too. I'm also partial to Spat's because I used to work for one of the owners and don't have to pay, but it's almost not worth dealing with the crowd sometimes

one of my best friends is a bartender at spats...only time ill go there is if shes bartending n hookin it up!! othewise yup fuck that crowd lol

[clinton]

The only time I even consider going to the bar is while I'm opiated, I don't drink anymore but will people watch while glowing on opiates... I'm the guy in the corner drinking a coke that everyone is pegging as a teetotaler... If they only knew ...

I prefer dive bars myself where one can trade pills for drinks or walk in on folks snorting lines off of tables... Hate sport bars...


Newsroom- Kansas city
Dave's stagecoach - Kansas city
The mutual musicians foundation- ( open till 5:00 am where anyone well versed in jazz can walk on state an try to cut someone elses head off) Kansas city
And as a last resort- buzzard beach- Kansas city

[Larkin]

nashville had some cool bars, i really tried to avoid the country lovin bars on broadway and 2nd.
but a short walk will get you to cool places like the beer cellar and the flying saucer, just outside the city in antioch there are cool bars like larrys (karaoke joint) and surprisingly

restaurant bars are fun if you dont mind drinking a little earlier, goto the right place that is big enough but not super-corporate and you can drink for hours for <$20. being in the industry always helped too (if your tab should be $50 and they only bill you $20, leave a $30 tip, its just polite)

[SHELLEY]

laundry bar in SoBe

[Count Zero]

What I like about this thread is that so many of us have gone to the same bars, I suppose you should expect that but damn HA mentioned Uncle Zam Zam's Martini Palace (or w/e) in SF, which I've been thrown out of at least twice, that's pretty cool.

[Brony]

I don't drink at bars much these days, but when I do, it's usually at a local joint. I'm not into the real popular bars, too many douchebags and hipsters. I prefer a mostly quiet place, with a jukebox and pool table.