Great Bars of the World
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
The Library Bar, on the corner of Avenue A and East Houston St, New York.
A proper NYC dive bar.
A proper NYC dive bar.
aqua
made of cheese and gin
Apparently I was there tooThe Library Bar, on the corner of Avenue A and East Houston St, New York.
A proper NYC dive bar.
I don't remember. I blame the $5 for any cocktail when the exchange rate made it £2.60 or something insane. There were many, with my final one ordered by colour. I think I had fun anyway.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Kulminator in Antwerp. Fantastic bar, brilliant beer. Amazing selection. Plus plates of cheese and ham to buy if you get peckish!
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QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Wodka in Krakow. I have been drunk in here so many times, the perfect "just one more vodka for the road" place 
The Cafe-Tabac behind the square in St Vaast La Hougue, France - full of excellent Frenchmen necking pression bières, coffee, Pernod and Gauloise for breakfast before work 
Run by a fantastic and formidable French lady
I can think of loads now
Run by a fantastic and formidable French ladyI can think of loads now
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Apparently I was there too
I think I had fun anyway.
Nope, not quite. There were cocktails first by choice, then colour, finally mood. I believe I ordered "melancholy", you had "happy tinged with regret". They were both spot on.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Propaganda in Krakow. Just the once but several tipples. And then some.
not-bono-ever
meh
The drovers, on the LH side of Loch Lomond, before Luss
always a stop for a pint and a spliff before driving up to the highlands to ( not catch any ) fish
always a stop for a pint and a spliff before driving up to the highlands to ( not catch any ) fish
not-bono-ever
meh
^^^^^ ha
fuckin hell
was just about to post that
last time I was before a pre dive drinkie/ early morning heart starter, an up all night drinking geordie squaddie wanker with an NUFC tattoo wanted to assail me with a bottle of Beliken
fuckin hell
was just about to post that
last time I was before a pre dive drinkie/ early morning heart starter, an up all night drinking geordie squaddie wanker with an NUFC tattoo wanted to assail me with a bottle of Beliken
Voley
🐀
Yep that sounds about par for the course.
Belikin Stout was my beer of choice for breakfast back then, too.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
this is the only one i've been to so far and it's really not that great. it's in the most obvious place to gather and is really not that charming considering what else Barcelona has to offer. I wish I could remember the name of my favourite bar in Barcelona but I'm not even sure I ever knew it. I know where it is though,Café Zurich, Placa de Catalunya, Barcelona. Less a great bar but, situated at the top of the Ramblas, it is a good / easy place to meet up with people.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
El Garlochi in Seville is quite an experience, esp if you like Catholic tat:
you must drink a 'sangre de cristo' (blood of christ) though - i think it has champagne, grenadine, and perhaps something stronger in it:
you must drink a 'sangre de cristo' (blood of christ) though - i think it has champagne, grenadine, and perhaps something stronger in it:
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
He got fucked out of the Beaumount house lately, had to leg it out the back, the Drumcondra mafia isn't what it used to be, used to frequent the Goose (Pilot), sit on the bin talking to Blair and such back in the day but now he gets grief at funerals and potters about the Malahide estuary allotments. He's got nowhere to go and everyone hates him, he's a pathetic figure.
gosub
~#
Gravediggers.
Kehoes
First bar in Dublin my Mrs ever took me to, well second if you count her local the Galloping Green
wtfftw
melting like a toastie
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attrac...Whiskey_Bar-Reykjavik_Capital_Region.htmlhtml
Dillon Whiskey Bar in Reykjavik. Cool and friendly.
Dillon Whiskey Bar in Reykjavik. Cool and friendly.
gosub
~#
Quiet night, only one person dancing on the bar
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Kehoes
Kehoes is ace. The Galloping Green seemed to be an old man's pub when I was last there. Mind you, that was back in the 90s...
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Inn of Olde, Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland
No particular opening hours. Run by the famous Linda, she of the obsession with Coronation Street and that mad part Irish accent the older Newfoundlanders have.
Outside
Inside, with Linda
Beer garden
Brilliant, brilliant pub - somewhere to drink and maybe eat if the time is right/they can be bothered/there's enough of you.
No particular opening hours. Run by the famous Linda, she of the obsession with Coronation Street and that mad part Irish accent the older Newfoundlanders have.
Outside
Inside, with Linda
Beer garden
Brilliant, brilliant pub - somewhere to drink and maybe eat if the time is right/they can be bothered/there's enough of you.
hammerntongues
Well-Known Member
yes its definitely got its share of tourists but still a fine place to spend a few hours in NYC , cheese and crackers , light or dark . simple
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
To be honest if I knew any really great bars I wouldn't post them anywhere on the internet. But here's one from the past: the old Bebop bar in Pai, Thailand, before the airport was built when the town was still too far off the track for most sex tourists. It was an absolute classic travellers bar with live music, meaning also thai drinkers of an alternative persuasion. Fairly basic bamboo huts and tables (which were huge - one of my favourite things in a bar is big tables as it tends to make strangers become friends after only a few sangsoms). Then they moved the bar to a bigger crappy modern building and screwed it all. Which saved it from being screwed by the opening of the airport a few years later.
Edit: just seen that another classic travellers bar I had good memories of had to shut: http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item/1842/bird_bar_in_dali_to_shut_doors_after_10_years
Edit: just seen that another classic travellers bar I had good memories of had to shut: http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item/1842/bird_bar_in_dali_to_shut_doors_after_10_years
gosub
~#
Still is really, but its nearest my mother in law's
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Great thread.
Bar Turrisi - Castelmola, Sicily: Up a mountain but worth the visit. A special theme here!
O' Hanlon's - Mullaghbawn, South Armagh: Proper spit and sawdust. Don't go in here without a local.
Blanco Cerrillo - Seville: Cheap tapas, beer, locals.
Bar Ca'n Topa - Outside Soller, Majorca: Booze, jazz, food, and a fantastic setting high up in the Tramuntana mountains.
Bar Turrisi - Castelmola, Sicily: Up a mountain but worth the visit. A special theme here!
O' Hanlon's - Mullaghbawn, South Armagh: Proper spit and sawdust. Don't go in here without a local.
Blanco Cerrillo - Seville: Cheap tapas, beer, locals.
Bar Ca'n Topa - Outside Soller, Majorca: Booze, jazz, food, and a fantastic setting high up in the Tramuntana mountains.
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