at the bar 2023

pimms surely

_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

Hahaha

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

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

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

i’m back

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

Tuesday going on Friday

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

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

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.

$3.75? I’ll have 10

ikr

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).

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

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.

Yup $12 and up

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.

$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.

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

in fact it’s modeled after a Liverpool pub.

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.

I used to live around the corner from that place lol

ok mine doesn't sound so bad then!

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 ;)

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

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

You obviously moved to a bad neighborhood

well, yeah

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

Bartender finally engaging with her friend an hour later

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

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

hell yeah summertime crushin

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.

hell yeah summertime crushin

rock your baby imo.

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

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.

Good time to scope out alternate spots imho

I'm posting up at this joint with my favorite bartender on earth; he lets me nurse a gin and tonic for an hour. I'm killing time before watching Passages around the corner.

How much did you pay for it?

$14. Hendrick's.

At the dive bar I hit on Thursday's it's $7 or *

She left the bar and walked up and down the street a couple of times, then came back in. Had a drink, left again, went to the curb to spit in the street. Had a cigarette, laughed to herself, came back in.

which Dubliners story are you quoting?

This afternoon's office is a friendly dive in the Little Five Points area of Atlanta. Dark wood, relatively cheap beer, crowd of regulars watching the Braves game. I'm doing a few hours work while my wife has a business meeting. They have two boozy slushies, the machines labeled in magic marker on masking tape. I assume they rotate them. Today it's Pink Lemonade and Peach Margarita, but I just went with a beer from a local brewery.

Order me the peach marg I’ll be there in ten

lwe had a tequila tasting at the bar this afternoon and then a booty bounce party begins in half an hour. gonna be lots of drunk young folks getting down in west philly tonight