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So La fittes is good, but given NOLA's reputation, you can find not-great-publicity actions going on in any of the bars or in the streets....visitors get very uninhibited while breathing the hurricane/daiquiri scented New Orleans evening air.....
I am biased towards the Pub as that's were I met my bf of the last 2+ years....during the foam party no less....very scandellous for me....
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So La fittes is good, but given NOLA's reputation, you can find not-great-publicity actions going on in any of the bars or in the streets....visitors get very uninhibited while breathing the hurricane/daiquiri scented New Orleans evening air.....
Last time I was in Rome, we ended up at this creepy, eerie, obscure little gay bar in Rome in the Trastevere area...NOT the brightly lit one on a main street, but an odd place that evokes Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and has little orange lights and funky old furniture...
alibi? that's a weird area with nightclubs, slaughterhouses, and auto body shops!
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Well I guess I have a few "favs"
The Bourbon Pub is great in NOLA
Oddfellows in Minneapolis is great for a video bar and their restaurant is awesome, 4 stars I'd say
Correction: Oddfellows is only the name of the restaurant. The bar is call BOOM! It's a very nice bar if you like videos and historical buildings. The crowd isn't that great. Try the Saloon next time.
Picking just one is not easy, but the C***ring in Amsterdam usually makes for an interesting evening out. Though I have not been to AMS in almost three years.
(can I say the name, or is that word verboten?)
I am with you on the c-ring in Amsterdam. I enjoy this place but those back stairs are a horror. But this is how stairs are in Amsterdam.
My first trip to Londres I was working with the Royal Festival Ballet, and eventually was deposited at the "Jig" by one of the dancers.
Cornered for an eternity by someone I was *certain* was speaking English, though the accent was SO thick I couldn't really understand ONE WORD of what he was rabbiting on about, all I could do, attempting to be a Good Yank and wishing to make a good impression, was produce the occasional, non-commital "Oh," and "um-hmm."
But the place was lively otherwise, if also a grade A fire-trap.
Well, it's long gone as far as I can tell, but there's no dearth of friendly watering-holes in The Big Limes, though our Friends Across The Pond don't seem to have gotten the word about NOT smoking...
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I have absolutely nothing to contribute to this thread, except to nominate it as a sticky. It may be nice for folks to browse through for the favorite bars of FTers...
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I have absolutely nothing to contribute to this thread, except to nominate it as a sticky. It may be nice for folks to browse through for the favorite bars of FTers...
Yeah lucky for me they figured this thing out after I turned 21.....there was one dreadful night when my friend got yanked out of the club.....good think I had a test and was studying that night....
Ah Big Chicks......what a great ex-dyke bar.....us boyz took over.....and is the Closet still around....great for afterhours drinks.....
The Closet is still around but they unceremoniously dumped their two best bartenders (Lee and Lana). As the place was my regular hang and the bartenders were two good friends of mine there was a lot of "drama". Our crowd abandoned the Closet and we moved up the block (NW corner of Broadway and Roscoe) to Jacqueline's, which is ostensibly straight but is mighty gay - friendly. Oh, and our fave Closet bartender who got canned was hired on at Jacqueline's :-) Business is booming for Jacqueline's, and the Closet is fairly dead...the Closet's owners still think that they can get away with rude service and over - priced drinks I guess...in any case I enjoy walking by the empty Closet on my way to busy Jacqueline's ;-)
Sky, Stock and Campus in Montreal Backstreet and The Armory in Atlanta Badlands in San Francisco Little Jim's in Chicago The Cock in New York, since La Bamba's Olympia Lounge and Stella's are both closed now. Where Stella's was is now some place called Otis? There's also a nice little bistro/bar on 10th Avenue named, appropriately, Xth, IIRC. And the old standbys, The Hangar and Stonewall.
Did I mention Rupert's in London?
The Berlin Connection and Anderes Ufer?
The Hotline Club in Milan The Barn in Toronto Tasca Don Sol in Caracas
and that's just the PG-rated list...
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Sky, Stock and Campus in Montreal Backstreet and The Armory in Atlanta Badlands in San Francisco Little Jim's in Chicago The Cock in New York, since La Bamba's Olympia Lounge and Stella's are both closed now. Where Stella's was is now some place called Otis? There's also a nice little bistro/bar on 10th Avenue named, appropriately, Xth, IIRC. And the old standbys, The Hangar and Stonewall.
Did I mention Rupert's in London?
The Berlin Connection and Anderes Ufer?
The Hotline Club in Milan The Barn in Toronto Tasca Don Sol in Caracas
and that's just the PG-rated list...
The Campus is PG? What happened? My last experience there was more on the other side of R!
Little Jim's? I think we can forget that! (And it didn't used to be PG back in that corner at 3:00 a.m., either!
The Campus is PG? What happened? My last experience there was more on the other side of R!
My Gosh! You really DO get around, ILUVPARIS!!!
Well, technically, Campus is PG. Anything outside dancers who dance fully in the nude for you is verboten - err, c'est interdit. Technically, that is...
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Little Jim's? I think we can forget that! (And it didn't used to be PG back in that corner at 3:00 a.m., either!
Depending on the bartender working it at the time. I could tell you a story about LJ's and bartenders who are overzealous about rules and regulations (and he actually later got fired for his overzealousness), but it's not PG, so we'd have to take it to PM...
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My Gosh! You really DO get around, ILUVPARIS!!!
Well, technically, Campus is PG. Anything outside dancers who dance fully in the nude for you is verboten - err, c'est interdit. Technically, that is...
Depending on the bartender working it at the time. I could tell you a story about LJ's and bartenders who are overzealous about rules and regulations (and he actually later got fired for his overzealousness), but it's not PG, so we'd have to take it to PM...
Oh, I get it, you're just being "circumspect!" Bring it on (PM, of course)!
alibi? that's a weird area with nightclubs, slaughterhouses, and auto body shops!
Hmm, I think that maybe you are thinking of the Testaccio area across the Tiber from Trastevere, where there is a whole complex of nightclubs together...the place I am thinking of is in alley off of another small street in the maze that is Trastevere not far from the Santa Maria in Trastevere and the fabulous Hotel Cisterna...I will have to do some more research! Crazy place...but while we're on the subject, if someone is ever in that area, they should definitely check out the straight bar TRANSYLVANIA, which is built underground and decorated exactly like the catacombs! Gross and wonderful...
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