best bars in america

The CI = a bunch of bratty frat boys when I was there. Bleech.

And the Greenery ruled, despite what everybody likes to claim now.

 

CI kicked ass, and I was NOT greek.

 

The CI SUCKED, and you hung out with Greeks. You've admitted to that.

 

I said it earlier, and I have no problem repeating it. The berg has zero of the ambiance it had before. Maybe that's changed since I was there last year, but I doubt it.
Knowing Simon's luck, they probably don't serve under-agers anymore.

 

For me, F&M's is usually a last stop kinda bar, not that there's anything wrong with that. I like to see the drunk girls dancing on the pool tables, and their cheese fries (the bar's ... never got to sample a girl's cheese fries ) are stellar. Another NOLA haunt I love is Cooter Brown's. Truly impressive beer collection, bottle and draft. They've really improved their sports pub cred in the past five years by upgrading the TVs and expanding the dining area. Also a big fan of Fat Harry's (great Tulane waitstaff/bartenders/hotties) and The Kingpin.

 

Ragu -- that place is awful in a good way. It is on my walk to work and there are always some 8:00 a.m. alkies knocking back a couple.

 

Concur on Captain Tony's over Sloppy Joe's.

I'm somewhat embarrassed I didn't even get into Madison (Wis.) bars, but I really didn't want to just say "State Street," and it was hard to focus on a single one. There are old places (Kollege Klub, just off State Street but close enough; the Pub) and new (State Bar and Grill almost at the Capitol.) And countless great neighborhood places all over town, although the new anti-smoking law is killing a lot of them right now.

Kollege Klub might be the most insane from a campus standpoint. When you read about UW athletes getting into trouble, their nights often started at the KK, as it was mostly known.

 

I never knew that place had a name. You were supposed to have a membership card key to get the door to open, but a credit card would work. The first time I went there I asked for directions and a woman on the desk said, "Take a left at the first group of hookers on Biscayne Boulevard." I thought she was joking, but she wasn't.

 

jones wrote:

reminds me of a bumper sticker i saw behind the bar at the last dollar saloon in telluride while knocking a few back:
"call a place paradise and ruin it forever."

 

Oddly enough, this was the second one in a chain that started in Jacksonville, Ala. No idea what prompted the Kansas location.

They opened up a third Jefferson's a couple of years ago in Rome, Ga. It's mostly notable for taking a biblical epoch or two before serving your food.

 

No, Nick's is known for Sink the Biz, a drinking game guaranteed to get you hammered. Most people have a story about how many pitchers they went through playing that game. Personally, seven of us went through 17 pitchers...Let me tell you a little story about a hangover the next day...