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post #46 of 59
5/22/08 at 4:15pm
The best bar is the one where everybody knows your name.
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post #47 of 59
5/22/08 at 4:22pm
Glacken's, South Bronx.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...5AC0A9669C8B63
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post #48 of 59
5/22/08 at 8:23pm
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How is there only one bar for Oregon? And it's in EUGENE???

i asked myself this exact question. i lived in eugene for 10 years and went to sam bond's maybe twice. Soriah is easily the best bar in eugene.

of course almost every bar in portland is better than any bar in eugene. my personal favorites (not counting strip clubs..ahem...the dolphin.....)are The Space Room and Huber's
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post #49 of 59
5/22/08 at 10:20pm
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i asked myself this exact question. i lived in eugene for 10 years and went to sam bond's maybe twice. Soriah is easily the best bar in eugene.

of course almost every bar in portland is better than any bar in eugene. my personal favorites (not counting strip clubs..ahem...the dolphin.....)are The Space Room and Huber's
Space Room Longue isn't bad. Personally, I'm more of a brew pub guy. Really enjoyed drinking in the principal's office at the Kennedy School among the loads of other McMenamins like the Ram's Head. The old Hung Far Low wasn't bad, either.
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post #50 of 59
5/23/08 at 11:50am
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I started the thread, I guess I should throw down a few of my favorites: Nancy Whiskey (TriBeCa) Stanley's Kitchen and Tap, Murphy's Bleachers, The Green Mill, The Signature Room on the 96th, The Lodge (Chicago) The Round Bar at the Hard Rock Hotel (Las Vegas) The Mons Venus (Tampa, FL) - favorite juice bar
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post #51 of 59
5/23/08 at 5:09pm
Shite.
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post #52 of 59
5/23/08 at 8:51pm
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i asked myself this exact question. i lived in eugene for 10 years and went to sam bond's maybe twice. Soriah is easily the best bar in eugene.

of course almost every bar in portland is better than any bar in eugene. my personal favorites (not counting strip clubs..ahem...the dolphin.....)are The Space Room and Huber's

In Portland the terms 'bar' and 'strip club' are practically synonymous.

I do have a hard time accepting Eugene representing in this category, but like others have said maybe it's better to just keep the goods in Portland under wraps.
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post #53 of 59
5/24/08 at 12:57pm
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The best bar is the one where everybody knows your name.

Just as I suspected for some time now. Cliff?
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post #54 of 59
5/24/08 at 1:10pm
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The best bar is a bar that allows smoking, full of unwholesome looking lounge lizards and questionable tycoons.
+1, but I think this is the kind of place that only exists in literature, the past and fantasy.
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post #55 of 59
5/24/08 at 1:40pm
I recognize a bunch of those bars. I worked at one of them for six years back in the day. It's really come down over the last ten to twenty years and now gets ranked on reputation. It's pretty storied.

I also don't see any consistency in the choices. If history has any weight, you'd have to start the list with Fraunces Tavern in New York and Willard's in DC. This looks like a list made drawn up by a bunch of 24-year-old interns nostalgic for their college days.
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post #56 of 59
5/25/08 at 1:58pm
That list is for second rate tourists.
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post #57 of 59
5/28/08 at 6:07am
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+1, but I think this is the kind of place that only exists in literature, the past and fantasy.
I think good decor is also important. Frankly, I don't really think dives are all that interesting unless one has an "idealization of the working-class" fetish--like hipsters. A good bar should be throughly unwholesome but swank.
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post #58 of 59
5/28/08 at 11:43am
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That list is for second rate tourists.

Do you know of one that is good for first rate tourists?

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A good bar should be throughly unwholesome but swank.

If you changed the word "bar" to "casino" I'd be right there with you. For me though a bar is someplace I want to go to relax and be at peace in my surroundings...sort of like a temple, but with cuter waitresses. Therefore I tend to like my bars to skew more toward "swank" and less toward "unwholesome". YMMV.
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post #59 of 59
5/30/08 at 12:05pm
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This looks like a list made drawn up by a bunch of 24-year-old interns nostalgic for their college days.

My sense too. That they picked two bars on Capitol Hill popular for at least 30 years with 22 year old Congressional staffers tells me Esquire hasn't a clue. If you're not a 22 year old Hill staffer there is absolutely no reason to go.

Unless you want to hit on student government types. Who are generally pretty good looking.

(Wall Street, Hollywood, and Capitol Hill have the best looking low-level flunkies on the planet. To the point that when you encounter one who is not attractive, your first assumption should be that he/she is very very VERY capable. On Capitol Hill and in Hollywood, you are also entitled to assume that daddy is a big shot who made some phone calls.)

I routinely write the editors that their best-of lists were pathetic. Utterly lazy journalism by reporters who just phoned it in.
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