My friends are getting together to start a bar business but they can’t decide on a name yet.
A short description - it’s a three level space in an arty part of town. Clientle will be a mixed bunch - art students, young professionals.
The ground floor is where the main bar is. Standing room only with a stage at the back. The basement will be a ‘loungey’ chill-out space. And the top floor’s an open-air space with seats for smokers.
Decor will be stone and wood. And I think they’ll be asking some of the students to contribute prints and paintings for the walls.
Music will mainly be a mix of alternative rock, blues and jazz. With a little trip-hop and ambient thrown in on some nights. Nothing pop or Top 40.
I always wanted to open a bar and call it Dante’s. Three stories to simplify thing: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell, decorated in appropriate colors and wall murals.
IIRC, I belive there is a club in Miami with that theme. There are three levels to the club. Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell. I am fairly certain it is Miami but I could be wrong. Cool idea.
Bardacious: adj. [1920’s] excellent, wonderful, the very best. [var. on bodacious].
When I find this word Bardacious, I see the following:
Barse: [1990’s] the portion of flesh between the underside of the testes and the anus.
I never know this until now, which only goes to show that a dictionary is a wonderful book for educational purposes.
Two ideas that aren’t original with me, but I really wish they were:
1) When I was in college, a friend told me this story about a shirt he had. A bunch of his mates were sitting around one night wishing there was a cool place for them to go. They came up with a name and actually had some T-shirts printed up with a logo and everything. The name of the place? Hank’s Opium Farm and Grill.
2) I’ve heard that Dick Cavett has always wanted to open a little bistro and call it the Persona Non Grotto.
I think the latter would be a better name for the place you describe.
My friends and I always wanted to get a bar and call it “The Occasional Nipple,” but I don’t suppose that’ll work for your neighbourhood. You can always try picking a name out of your favorite (public domain) piece of literature, though … that’s how I named my cats.
Hmmm…well, looking about my room you could call it…
The Cat Microwave
The Exhaust Fan
The Gamepad
The Toolbox (hmm…is it just me, or does that sound like a name for a gay bar?)
Round September
Master Ninja Theme Bar
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