Design Your Perfect Bar

[ColdCat]

As wide a selection of craft beers as I could get my hands on and a staff that knows them. My regular neighborhood pub has a pair of bartenders whose tastes I trust and I can ask "you have anything new?" and they can tell me in great detail what's on tap.
Also a wide sports selection. I was in a Tilted Kilt in Clearwater, FL once and they put the CCHA final on when I asked. That was impressive. A part of that is also enough TVs that when someone wants to watch hockey while everyone else is watching basketball, you can put one screen on that and the rest of the place won't be up in arms.
And something to bring in the slutty girls 'cuz that's how I roll.

 

[joe]

The bar I want to own would be small. Maybe 50 seats in the whole place, with 10 or so at the bar itself. Dark wood in a vaguely Irish pub sort of way. No smoking inside. But we've got a courtyard out back for that. Also, maybe a couple of tables on the sidewalk when it's nice.

There'd be one TV over the bar and that's it. Most of the time, the sound would be turned off.

I like the new Internet connected jukeboxes, but I hate how some bars block out certain artists. By gosh, if my patrons want to a trifecta of Sinatra, Hank Williams and the Black Watch's pipe and drums then so be it. But the volume will be kept low enough that it's easy to have a conversation over it.

We'd serve beer and hard liquor. Want a frozen strawberry margarita? Sorry, how about a Guinness? Burgers and sandwiches too. In the winter, chili or a stew. If you want to order takeout from a place down the street, that's fine. We've got their menus right here. Just be sure to ask if anybody else wants to place an order too.

Drink discounts for members of the media and cops.

Obviously, I'd have to be independently wealthy to own such a place. Because it'd never make much money.

Sounds like Booches without the snooker tables.

 

[ifilus]

 

[Huggy]

Love that place.

 

[User 1019]

When I first visited Nashville in 2005, I asked for advice here. The best I got was from HejiraHenry: It's a dump, but it's a world class dump.

 

[Huggy]

When I first visited Nashville in 2005, I asked for advice here. The best I got was from HejiraHenry: It's a dump, but it's a world class dump.

Word for forking word.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Got tossed out of there.

 

[YankeeFan]

Got tossed out of there.

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Reading the New Yorker at the bar?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Got tossed out of there.

'

Reading the New Yorker at the bar?

Just for being too wasted. I wasn't belligerent or anything. Just too many shots, too quick. Trying to top Hank on the first try.

 

[heyabbott]

There's an Ale House near me that is owned by a nearby micro brewery, unfortunately it's merely a good micro brewery nothing more. They have 20-30 guest beers on tap, I had an Allagash Saison-rye last night. Another 30 or so great bottled beers. TVs all over with nothing but sports, unobtrusively placed in the dining room, multiple big screens a in back room for standing crowds and huge l shaped bar, 30 by 20 stools.

Food is very good, 4 different broths for mussels, jalapeño calamari, very good burgers. Standard bar food but done well. Not a steak place or a raw bar.
Not a music bar, sports alcohol and very good casual dining.

It's everything you would want but it's huge.

The perfect bar can't be too intimate and dark, but can't be the size of an Applebee's

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The bar I want to own would be small. Maybe 50 seats in the whole place, with 10 or so at the bar itself. Dark wood in a vaguely Irish pub sort of way. No smoking inside. But we've got a courtyard out back for that. Also, maybe a couple of tables on the sidewalk when it's nice.

There'd be one TV over the bar and that's it. Most of the time, the sound would be turned off.

I like the new Internet connected jukeboxes, but I hate how some bars block out certain artists. By gosh, if my patrons want to a trifecta of Sinatra, Hank Williams and the Black Watch's pipe and drums then so be it. But the volume will be kept low enough that it's easy to have a conversation over it.

We'd serve beer and hard liquor. Want a frozen strawberry margarita? Sorry, how about a Guinness? Burgers and sandwiches too. In the winter, chili or a stew. If you want to order takeout from a place down the street, that's fine. We've got their menus right here. Just be sure to ask if anybody else wants to place an order too.

Drink discounts for members of the media and cops.

Obviously, I'd have to be independently wealthy to own such a place. Because it'd never make much money.

Sounds like Booches without the snooker tables.

A bit, I guess.

The closest real world example a lot of people might know - though I'm sure most bar goers have stumbled upon something like in every city - is the bar area of PJ Clarke's on Third. Minus the oyster bar, of course. I'd put a couple more high-top tables there instead.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Got tossed out of there.

Now you're my guy.
All you need ever to have said.
Shalom.