Darn, it looks like you’re going with Daybreak. I was going to suggest something with Hot Water in it. The building is a hot color, and your location has Water in the name. You can get into hot water at a bar, which is also a watering hole, and everybody always wants to go to the hot new place, that sort of thing. How cool would it be to say you’re in HotWater?
But fine, you go with your pretty, ol’ Daybreak. Fiddlesticks-- I wanted to name a bar!
The Deep Watering Hole
The giant font is my doing. ;->
I think you should call it **The Big Gamble **or Cautiously Optimistic, otherwise known as the C O.
If he’s so keen on Daybreak, how about “Dawn Patrol”?
my favorite bar name is still The Stumble Inn
“Okay… so who’s this Dawn and what’s she to you?” 
If it is to be Daybreak, will you be offering some sort of breakfast, on weekends perhaps? Got a specialty?
Motto:
“Who will you be with at Daybreak?”
“Daybreak… the best part of the day.”
Just a thought.
Good luck and keep us posted.
Well, it is a bar, so maybe that motto should be: “Daybreak … the best part of the night.”
How about All Aboard
or
No Place In Particluar
“Where you going?”
“No Place In Particular”.
OMG! No way…LOL…one of the people we pity most in this world is named Dawn. She’s a very annoying girl who has managed to sleep her way through most of our friends and who, the night she got out of rehab she was back doing coke, claiming that now it was ‘under control’. She’s a silly little girl with major self-esteem issues and I can well imagine what would happen if we named the bar that. She’d think it was named after her and would be up there every night!!
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. They’re all really good. Unfortunately it’s still going to be Daybreak.
Have you ever worked in the restaurant biz?
Yes, I do think that is a problem. You need to serve what your customers want, not what you want your customers to want. Fries go with burgers. Period. Plus, deep-frying allows for many other foods like egg-rolls, taquitos, fresh nacho chips, etc.
Deep fryers aren’t that dangerous and you can use better quality oils - and even advertise it “Fries cooked in 100% baby seal fat.”
If this is going to be a place serving food…Are you serious about being the only cook? You need to hire another cook, IMHO. Also, being touristy, drunks love a good burger at 11pm and another one at 4am. You can make a killing being one of the few places around that serves food late at night.
Also, you working days, SO working nights…when will you have time for each other?
I’ve helped start a tourist bar here and know most of the expat restaurant owners around town…it ain’t an easy business. Consistency, supplies, time, advertising, employees, etc can really wear you down.
Lastly, I recommend investors sharing the risk. Most restaurants fail and you have seen 2 fail in that location…cover your ass. Do you know why the other 2 failed?
-Tcat
“End the night at Daybreak”
What ever you do end up calling it, the tag line for the bar should be “The Place to Get 'Faced”. At the very least that should help you sell some T-Shirts.
Maybe it’s just me, but when I looked @ that 1st picture, I heard the words, “I’m having an old friend for dinner”.
The first business name that came to mind: Littoral Libations
Call it “Here”…where else could you possibly be?
'Til daybreak, eh? Call it “Beer Goggles” 
Depends on the investors. A friend of mine dropped out of HS due to arguments with his Dad (pal wanted to become a sports trainer, dad wanted him to be a lawyer; both are genetically related to a ram, so they spent a couple years trying to break each other’s heads in and finally the son left HS and home as soon as he was legally old enough to); later my friend opened a bar; he had about 75% of the money and the other 25% came from his bro, who borrowed it from Dear Old Dad. When he saw that the bar was going real well (my friend’s picture was in the dictionary under “popular”, which helps when you’re a waiter), DOD decided that the business was going to be managed His Way, started dropping by every hour or so. They had a big row, my friend sold his part to DOD, bar went from packed to ghost town in the five minutes it took them to sign the papers.
Other friends of mine have borrowed some of the money from the family, but they either treated it as a loan or made clear it was a “hands off” investment, and they may have put the terms on paper or not but they made sure to have witnesses who could be called in to referee. In these cases, no trouble at all.
I like Daybreak.
If I ever get a bar, I’m calling it the Zelona, but that’s because that comes out to BarZelona and I’ve got somewhere this image of using a very round, solid-looking typeface in dark blue for the other letters and a pink neon, very funky, very curvy Z. If I wasn’t sure I haven’t, I’d swear I saw something like that somewhere 
“Fiddlesticks” is actually a pretty good name for a bar.
Well, what do you expect when the Department of Defense gets involved in a bar?
Sorry.
I really like the names with Deep Water in them. The Deep Watering Hole is great. I love the image I get when I hear names with Deep Water in it.
Signing in with a late entry …
Shirley Ujest might have come up with a doozy, not realizing it:
The Pearly Gates!
The Pearly Gates!
Awesome!
I’m so smart and humble