The very bestest bar in the whole wide world ?
Feb 13, 2007, 9:19 pm
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If you're up in YQB, please PM me and I'll buy you a drink there !
Feb 14, 2007, 12:36 am
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Although I have not been there in years, the Buckaroo in Seattle used to be my local. A great place in a fantastic neighborhood: Fremont - center of the universe.
http://www.buckarootavern.com/
http://www.buckarootavern.com/
Feb 14, 2007, 2:44 am
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a subjective thread indeed, but I would have to go with:
http://www.matterhornbar.com
-Apres ski (means it's great cuz it's snowing!)
-brick oven pizza (means it's great cuz there's food)
-VT beers (great because they are beers from vermont!)
I dunno. I am there always and the music's really good too!
MM
Some runners up for me include:
-Refo's, Airlee Beach Australia
-Mr Dooley's Pub, Boston, MA
-whatever bar I one day open
http://www.matterhornbar.com
-Apres ski (means it's great cuz it's snowing!)
-brick oven pizza (means it's great cuz there's food)
-VT beers (great because they are beers from vermont!)
I dunno. I am there always and the music's really good too!
MMSome runners up for me include:
-Refo's, Airlee Beach Australia
-Mr Dooley's Pub, Boston, MA
-whatever bar I one day open
Feb 14, 2007, 10:09 am
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Especially Mick the cranky owner and Johnny Huds the small brown shagging machine.
Feb 14, 2007, 10:50 am
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Hole in the wall
One that we stumbled across while in NYC:
No Idea
One cool thing that they have is name night. If your first name matches the name, you drink free. Right near Union Square.
No Idea
One cool thing that they have is name night. If your first name matches the name, you drink free. Right near Union Square.
Feb 14, 2007, 11:39 am
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Don't get to YQB as often as years past....especially when my daughter was going to school at Laval in Ste Foy. This was probably "back in the day" before your brother-in-law worked at the Chateau.
(And I'll also grant that the service may well have improved since the change from CP to Fairmont...but I doubt that the drink prices have gotten any lower
)!
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Feb 14, 2007, 10:03 pm
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Thanks!
Don't get to YQB as often as years past....especially when my daughter was going to school at Laval in Ste Foy. This was probably "back in the day" before your brother-in-law worked at the Chateau.
(And I'll also grant that the service may well have improved since the change from CP to Fairmont...but I doubt that the drink prices have gotten any lower )!
Don't get to YQB as often as years past....especially when my daughter was going to school at Laval in Ste Foy. This was probably "back in the day" before your brother-in-law worked at the Chateau.
(And I'll also grant that the service may well have improved since the change from CP to Fairmont...but I doubt that the drink prices have gotten any lower
)!Université Laval grad 1988....walked the 25 minutes to school for 3 years.....when and what did your daughter study at UL ?
Brother-in-law's twin has been at the Château Frontenac for over 20 years....
Feb 15, 2007, 3:04 am
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The Yacht Club in P. Williams Chile. Perhaps the most authentically atmospheric bar in the world - everyone there has come a long way.
Any bar that's "the place to be" isn't my kind of bar.
Any bar that's "the place to be" isn't my kind of bar.
Feb 15, 2007, 11:45 am
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Originally Posted by Gaucho100K
Raffles Bar - Singapore
so sure about the Long Bar, though - premixed drinks
are not generally my cup of tea.
Feb 18, 2007, 8:31 am
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Back to the original topic... There was actually a bar in her residence hall, which she says was pretty much ignored by the kids. Then there was another one in the underground passageway connecting the campus to the shopping mall across the road. You know...in case you can't just wait to get to the mall to have a drink!
I forget the name of the area where she and her friends used to hang out. It was just off the main street that connects Laval with Vieux Quebec. She and her friends used to meet lots of hockey players who were in town to play the Nords and have absolutely no idea who any of these guys were!
Feb 19, 2007, 2:50 pm
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Murphy's Pub, Urbana, IL. More personal connection as it was my grad school bar. I miss that place (and its cheap booze.)
Failing that, it's Groove NYC in the ?East Village?. Too expensive, too small, no selection, but great music and the clientèle is always interesting. Plus it was my first NYC bar experience.
Failing that, it's Groove NYC in the ?East Village?. Too expensive, too small, no selection, but great music and the clientèle is always interesting. Plus it was my first NYC bar experience.