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Title: What makes a good bar?
Post by: JimH on June 07, 2003, 05:31:08 pm

Here's the best one in my neighborhood.  I had to go have some fish after reading about KingSparta's dinner plans.

http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/2003/bluepoint/

It's as nice a place as I've ever been, I think.  It's about 50 yards from a big lake.  There are railroad tracks between the restaurant and the lake.  You can see them out the window.

Title: Re: What makes a good bar?
Post by: Galley on June 07, 2003, 08:10:49 pm

Whitey's Wonder Bar in East Grand Forks, MN was the only business in the block next to the Red River to survive the devastating 1997 flood.  I used to spend many a night there while in college.

Here's a nice review:
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/kbrooks/Here/whitey.html

Title: Re: What makes a good bar?
Post by: JimH on June 08, 2003, 04:37:22 am

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Here's a nice review:
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/kbrooks/Here/whitey.html

A really nice story.  Thanks.

And thanks for all your positive comments about MJ and MC in the news groups.  I think zachd knows who we are now.

Title: Re: What makes a good bar?
Post by: KingSparta on June 08, 2003, 05:03:34 am

I Can't go to bars

It was a dark room but you could see a tear drop fall from his right eye.

Title: Re: What makes a good bar?
Post by: MachineHead on June 08, 2003, 06:59:10 am

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I Can't go to bars

There's always salad bars.  ;D

Title: Re: What makes a good bar?
Post by: KingSparta on June 08, 2003, 08:47:13 am

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There's always salad bars.  ;D

Thats where I go, if I did not I would be stuck on a Sand Bar like a beached whale

Title: Re: What makes a good bar?
Post by: Mastiff on June 08, 2003, 09:14:36 am

I prefer the very local and very tastefully decorated bar that you can find here: http://home.powertech.no/mastiff/Zone5-2.htm
This is the only place I haven't been thrown out of yet, even if I demand that they play only my kind of music and even if I tell everybody that I can beat up all the dudes there!

Oh, King, a couple of days ago I tried our new bubble bathtub for the first time, and my children screamed something about "Bastesen" (a rather famous whaler in Norway).  ;D

Title: Re: What makes a good bar?
Post by: lee269 on June 09, 2003, 10:14:54 am

1. Good Beer

2. Nice Staff

3. Good Beer

4. Nice surroundings

5. Good Beer

Sadly lacking where I live, although theres a nice Belgian bar in my local mall (ugh!) which serves some corking pitchers of Leffe. Favourite pub ever - the Fat Cat in Sheffield. A shrine to beer with Timothy Taylors Landlord (best beer EVER) permanently on tap.

In London The George (http://ultimatepubguide.com/pubs/info.phtml?pub_id=74) is a 17th century galleried coaching inn that is well worth a visit.  Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (http://www.pubs.com/chesec4.htm) in Fleet St is also a genuinely historic London pub.

PS. Good Beer