A termite walks into a bar and asks is the bar tender here?
The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.
The Gold Dust, which is considered by most as a Union Square institution, is facing it last bars on the rinky-dink piano. Read more at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/17/BAC01NM165.DTL&tsp=1
The Irish Coffee is safe for now reports the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/17/MN721KB05O.DTL&ao=3.
At The Pub in Lusk, WY, play Shake a Shift. Three rolls for $1. Lose and the money goes into a lock box. One of the five die has a black face on one side. Black side up: free drink. Five of a kind wins the pot.
When in Buenos Aires, have a chopp (draft) of Quilmes, the national beer. Delicious, and perfect to wash down the complemetary nuts and chips you will get with your drink order.
The Tiki Bar is back, and one of the best is in Oakland on College Avenue. Go upstairs to the Conga Lounge and escape.
At DD’s Corner at Mockingbird and Maple in Dallas, Friday and Saturday night are Carry-Okie nights. Very funny.
The new Neighborhood Services on Lovers Lane in Dallas has a 7 oz. Miller High Life and shot of bourbon called the Long, Hot and Dusty Day special on the drink menu, and finishes off your meal with a package of four Junior Mints. Sweet.
The Club 544 in New Orleans is now Funky 544. No more Gary Brown, but still a funky good time.
Denver’s 16th Street Mall is loaded with bars and resturants to sample, but a Hybrid Bus that stops at each corner makes it the easy and safe way to bar hop. Try Marlowe’s.
At Tom Bergin’s in L.A., happy hour food consists of wedges of corned beef on rye. Nice.
The national drinking age in 21 years of age everywhere but apparently in Hollywood, where newspapers and magazines keep reporting on overexposed young starlets partying at clubs and sometimes binge drinking. Where is the law enforcement?
There is a popular drink in Scotland called the Whisky Mac: a shot of blended scotch and a shot of Green Ginger Wine over ice. Reminiscent of a Stinger. Delicious before or after dinner.
Getting gassed (or lit) in the Gaslamp is not the point here. San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter is fast becoming one of America’s great drinking and dining districts.
Look for GreatJoints the TV show coming soon.
Harry Caray’s in Chicago has complementary homemade kettle chips at the bar, which is exactly 60′ 6″ long. The distance between the pitcher’s mound and home plate. Holy Cow!
At B.E.D. in South Beach Miami, you have to take off your shoes and lay in bed to eat. No breakfast, but you can have a nightcap.
The best Bloody Mary mix comes with an asparagus swizzle stick; Ben Jack Larado’s Mix out of Stidham, OK.
Leave it to Al the Bartender: Monopolowa Vodka is the best 1.75 liter of Vodka to keep around the house. No plastic pour spout to impede the Vodka’s progress into the glass.
Two guys walk into a bar. You would have thought that one of them would have seen it.
With its recent introduction, will bars have a Midnight Special? Shiner Light on me.
A guy walks into a bar with a set of jumper cables under his arm. The bartender walks up and says “Hey! Don’t start anything in here.”
A guy walks into a bar with a piece of asphalt under his arm. Bartender says ” What’ll you have?” Guy says “Give me one and one for the road.”
Looking for a small fish in the Big Apple? Try the Kettle.
The search for the best Margarita ends at Primo’s on McKinney Avenue in Dallas. “Top shelf up with salt, please.” Muy bueno!
Hop on the Bloody Mary at The Bus Stop on Union Street in San Francisco.