Favorite Bar or Pub Names?

thurlowe · Post by **thurlowe** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 10:18 am

I was inspired to ask this question by rbm's post, where he said he'd be spending part of St. Patrick's at a pub called "The Crossed Keys." What a great name.

It's my impression that British Isles drinking establishments have, hands-down, the best monikers. Some of the local bars in my American town are "The Union," "Southtown," "Corner Bar." BOH-ring!

What are some of your favorite bar or pub names? Beyond that, do you have a place to go where "everybody knows your name?" (Doesn't have to be a bar).

Mine would be a place called "Arie's Singapore," where Arie is the Dutch owner and Singapore refers to the mix of British and Asian pub fare.

Hope to hear some great pub names!

Cara

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 10:24 am

A famous parisian pub name just across from the entrance of the main city prison:

The "Ici mieux qu'en face"
(i.e. the Better Here Than Across)

PS: no, it's not my "everybody knows your name" hangout. They had all time to forget me...

thurlowe · Post by **thurlowe** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 10:41 am

How colorful! I mean, colourful. I doubt that can be topped.

Aodhan · Post by **Aodhan** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 10:57 am

I suppose the most colorful one would be where I go for Wed session, the "Bandersnatch" (From the Lewis Carrol poem, Jabberwocky)

Other than that, the Rula Bula is a good one as well.

Aodhan

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 11:11 am

I can't think of a bar name yet but I love to tell this one about a café.

In downtown Berkeley, near a rapid transit station, is/was (haven't been there in years) a little breakfast place known as "The Terminal Café."

Whilst awaiting breakfast, I just could not stop thinking of possible slogans, like, "You'll eat your last meal, at the Terminal Café!"

SteveK · Post by **SteveK** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 11:16 am

This is not a pub name but I just read about a mandolin workshop that's going to take place at a B&B called The Artful Lodger.

Steve

Hallatauer · Post by **Hallatauer** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:18 pm

I just came back from a week in the Carribean and hit some of the bars on the US and British Virgin Islands. The simple ones were Foxy's (a big raggae hangout) and Ivans, to the more fun Billy Bones and the classic Soggy Dollar Bar. Named such because to get there you moor your boat off shore and swim in so, everyones money comes over the bar wet. Then there is Duffy's Love Shack.

Locally, as in Long Island New York, alot of bars call themselves by Irish names but have no relation to anything Irish except the name. The closest is the Irish Coffee Pub which is owned, operated and bartended by Irish. And the fellow who plays guitar on weekends has a real brough.

<sniffle> I miss Ireland... I need to go back soon.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:40 pm

There is a disco-bar here simply called "BAR". No "The" or anything else, just "BAR".
Not all too creative but leaves little to doubt.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:18 pm

In Minneapolis on Washington avenue is Grumpy's, a bar into which I have not yet stumbled. Annoyingly amusing TV ads, too, with three odd rubbery geezer lush puppets rasping at each other and leering about the premises to the strains of something tremulous and edgy that passes for music. The ads alone make me feel as if I'd already had too much for one night.

Then there's Café Wyrd (now closed, I believe), a hangout for the Gothic set, the selfconsciously bookish, and those of confused sexual orientation. Rumor has it that black attire, at least, was de rigueur. I haven't been there either.

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:32 pm

There is a cafe/restaruant at the edge of Cleveland called the Borderline Cafe. The name ostensibly refers to the near-by border between Cleveland and a suburb but it could also easily refer to the customers who frequent the place. Open 24 hours/day.
Mike

chattiekathy · Post by **chattiekathy** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:47 pm

There is the "Dew Drop Inn" about 30 miles from here out in the boonies. I haven't got a clue as to where their name came from but it always makes me think of the Whitetail deer that are plentiful around here!

Cheers,
Kathy

Kenith · Post by **Kenith** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 2:13 pm

My favorite is the Blind Tiger in Charleston, SC. It was an old speakeasy from the '20s and pours a great pint of Guiness.

Ken

DanD · Post by **DanD** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 3:01 pm

Used to go to a bar in Bloomington, IL called "The Office". I was young and single then, so I never had reason to call home and say "I'm staying late at "The Office" tonight."

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 3:21 pm

The most common Irish pub name of which I am aware is Fiddler's Green. I've seen four of them, all separately owned.

OutOfBreath · Post by **OutOfBreath** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 3:51 pm

I've always liked the sound of "The Nymph Lode" (for a bar in a hospital district)...

John