Design Your Perfect Bar

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.

 

Sounds like Booches without the snooker tables.

 

Love that place.

 

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 fucking word.

 

Got tossed out of there.

 

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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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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