at the bar 2023

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calstars, Saturday, 15 July 2023 21:18 (ten months ago) link

wait why did i think you were a brit calstars

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 July 2023 21:37 (ten months ago) link

The teeth probably

calstars, Saturday, 15 July 2023 21:38 (ten months ago) link

aye, well cheers, about to head to the bar myself.

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 July 2023 21:58 (ten months ago) link

Salud!

calstars, Saturday, 15 July 2023 22:08 (ten months ago) link

Bartender has a huge cucumber behind the bar that she keeps cutting into for slices. What could she be making?

calstars, Sunday, 16 July 2023 03:37 (ten months ago) link

pimm's cup?

H in Addis, Sunday, 16 July 2023 04:58 (ten months ago) link

I’ll never know

calstars, Sunday, 16 July 2023 05:04 (ten months ago) link

Bartender has a huge cucumber behind the bar that she keeps cutting into for slices. What could she be making?
You answered yourself in your previous post iirc

kinder, Sunday, 16 July 2023 09:26 (ten months ago) link

pimms surely

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Sunday, 16 July 2023 10:21 (ten months ago) link

_Bartender has a huge cucumber behind the bar that she keeps cutting into for slices. What could she be making?_
You answered yourself in your previous post iirc


this made me lol

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 16 July 2023 11:23 (ten months ago) link

Hahaha

linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 July 2023 12:12 (ten months ago) link

ordered a glass of the jura 16 year and did not expect the pricetag but i have no regrets

here 1st (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 July 2023 17:47 (ten months ago) link

Bartender: “How about a sh0t?”
Client: “Sure!”
B: “what’s your poison?”
sanding ensues

calstars, Saturday, 22 July 2023 04:59 (ten months ago) link

Bartender realized she overcharged me and gave me back the difference
“I wasn’t going to say anything”

calstars, Saturday, 29 July 2023 03:02 (nine months ago) link

i’m back

mh, Thursday, 3 August 2023 01:40 (nine months ago) link

Went to a bunch of bars on a recent trip, including some hotly tipped ones like Shapes for a Name in London. Many were good, a few were great. Our favorite was a place called Brettos in Athens, which is gorgeous for one thing but also kind of funky and laidback. They make their own ouzo, brandy, etc.

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Apparently a year and a half ago there was such a surplus of business that this bouncer felt the need to keep me out of the bar based on how I was unsteadily walking down the street. Now I just ignore him

calstars, Saturday, 5 August 2023 01:10 (nine months ago) link

Tuesday going on Friday

calstars, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 23:03 (nine months ago) link

I like a bartender who will just let a $20 sit on the bar. No hurry

calstars, Thursday, 10 August 2023 00:16 (nine months ago) link

“I’ve seen you here before, at the bar sneaking chips from your shopping bag”

calstars, Friday, 11 August 2023 01:59 (nine months ago) link

I am at the bar I worked at 20 years ago and just noticed they put in a new floor. 2 Hearted Ale is $3.75 now.

underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:15 (nine months ago) link

$3.75? I’ll have 10

calstars, Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:19 (nine months ago) link

ikr

underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:22 (nine months ago) link

How much is a gin and tonic in your bars? I live near a pub but don't drink that often. They're the sort that always give you a premium brand little can of tonic even though it's too much for one gin. Anyway last time I went in it was £7.75 ffs (that's nearly $10).

kinder, Saturday, 12 August 2023 10:08 (nine months ago) link

that sounds pretty normal to me. the price ultimately depends on the type of gin.

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 12 August 2023 10:54 (nine months ago) link

This question piqued my curiosity so I just ordered a Tanqueray & tonic at my local in Brooklyn and it cost $14 (before tip). This is not a fancy bar btw, in fact it’s modeled after a Liverpool pub.

Josefa, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:02 (nine months ago) link

Yup $12 and up

calstars, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:09 (nine months ago) link

I should add that I was surprised by this myself, as I normally order all my drinks without paying and then as I’m leaving the bar I ask the bartender what I owe and simply pay what he says. I would have assumed my g&t’s were more like $9 or $10. For comparison, most of the pints here cost $8.

Josefa, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:14 (nine months ago) link

$6 + tax for well gin (Gordon's) and cheap canned tonic water iirc. We have nice tonic syrup for customers wanting an improved G&T for 8.50 + tax. A lot of our stuff is probably underpriced.

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:14 (nine months ago) link

But yeah with a better gin like Plymouth I would expect over $10

Josefa, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:17 (nine months ago) link

in fact it’s modeled after a Liverpool pub.

Which Liverpool pub, out of interest?

(My kids are in Brooklyn rn, not that they’re old enough to drink in the US!)

Michael Jones, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:30 (nine months ago) link

The Monro in Duke Street. The owner of the Brooklyn place, also called Monro, is a scouser who met his American wife at the Liverpool Monro.

Josefa, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:37 (nine months ago) link

I used to live around the corner from that place lol

calstars, Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:36 (nine months ago) link

ok mine doesn't sound so bad then!

kinder, Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:43 (nine months ago) link

The Monro in Duke Street. The owner of the Brooklyn place, also called Monro, is a scouser who met his American wife at the Liverpool Monro.

Ah, right. I've been past the original Munro many times, but never been in. I see the Park Slope place is an LFC haunt. What a shame ;)

Michael Jones, Saturday, 12 August 2023 21:38 (nine months ago) link

Yeah the place is packed with red jerseyed people on game days. I annoy that crowd by vocally supporting West Ham United

Josefa, Saturday, 12 August 2023 22:01 (nine months ago) link

I’n standing over my seat enjoying my whatever when the bartender asks if she can give my seat to her friend, who has just walked in. Sure. But then they don’t talk at all

calstars, Sunday, 13 August 2023 00:28 (nine months ago) link

You obviously moved to a bad neighborhood

Josefa, Sunday, 13 August 2023 00:32 (nine months ago) link

well, yeah

calstars, Sunday, 13 August 2023 00:38 (nine months ago) link

yeah, a gin gimlet with Bluecoat cost me $10 last night, but this is Philadelphia prices.

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 August 2023 00:42 (nine months ago) link

Bartender finally engaging with her friend an hour later

calstars, Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:36 (nine months ago) link

bar near here has gin and tonic flights at 3 for $25 and each has a fancy garnish

I did not have a flight but a pepper-forward single one had peppercorns and a nice slice of orange

mh, Sunday, 13 August 2023 02:44 (nine months ago) link

Bar paid for two of my four and I had a chance to say hi to my crush, not a bad evening

calstars, Saturday, 19 August 2023 01:23 (nine months ago) link

hell yeah summertime crushin

ian, Saturday, 19 August 2023 01:33 (nine months ago) link

there's very few bars i enjoy going to these days. it's somehow defaulted to [the vaguely rock & roll bar] where the record collectors and musicians i know work now, since the closing of several other bars over the last decade has left few places for the elder hipsters to serve booze.

ian, Saturday, 19 August 2023 01:35 (nine months ago) link

hell yeah summertime crushin


So crushin’

calstars, Saturday, 19 August 2023 01:36 (nine months ago) link

rock your baby imo.

ian, Saturday, 19 August 2023 01:37 (nine months ago) link

Had two brandy old fashioned sours tonight at the bar of the finest supper club in the county, felt like a proper WI evening.

underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 19 August 2023 04:37 (nine months ago) link

Favourite bar with jukebox shut down, do i still go out tonight? would have to dodge and slip around all the manchester footy nobs, but off work for a week so feel i am obliged to have some fun.

Ste, Saturday, 19 August 2023 16:37 (nine months ago) link


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