# Post the coolest/wierdest pub/bar names you've come across here: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876 "2001-11-06T22:09:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/1 "2001-11-06T22:09:12Z")
I’ll kick off with: The Fiddler’s Elbow. Not that great, so I was hoping some of us could improve upon it. What about names you’d like to see as well… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/2 "2001-11-06T22:12:03Z")
“He’s Not Here”, Chapel Hill, NC. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/3 "2001-11-06T22:13:53Z")
I used to frequent an establishment called “The Pub at the End of the Universe”. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/4 "2001-11-06T22:14:34Z")
“Wee Blew Inn” in Venice, FL. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/5 "2001-11-06T22:27:21Z")
I thought the Slug and Lettuce in London was rather amusing. And they make the BEST mushroom burger ever - it’s a MUSHROOM! A big fat fried Portobello mushroom! It was very yummy. \ I miss London - I think my mom and I are going to go back next year. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/6 "2001-11-06T22:27:48Z")
There was a cool place in Paris off the Rue st. Germain called _Le Formidiable_. I liked the name and the cool bartender took pity on my poor carrying all my bags around due to Desert Storm security measures ass and plied me with espresso to keep me awake for the 14 hour layover I had 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/7 "2001-11-06T22:28:40Z")
My favourite pub is called **The Spotted Dick**. Now, being worldly and all, I know that’s the name of an English pudding (and quite good too). However, I always snicker when I see tourists take a picture of its sign. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/8 "2001-11-06T22:40:41Z")
**The Tune Inn** is the best name I can think of right now. It used to be the big punk/hardcore bar in the area. Its still open, but has a more mellow crowd now. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/9 "2001-11-06T22:50:09Z")
My favorite here in Panama is _El Túnel de Tiempo_ (The Time Tunnel). I always wonder whether it’s supposed to make you travel backwards or forwards in time. Before for the U.S. bases closed, _The Foxhole_ was a well-known pick-up bar catering to the GIs. I’m sure the double entendre was intentional. In my neighborhood in the Bronx, the _Dew Drop Inn_ was even worse than the pun in its name. ---
**Author:** ![Rmat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rmat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rmat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/10 "2001-11-06T22:50:31Z")
\*\* Group Therapy \*\* in Columbia, South Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/11 "2001-11-06T22:51:01Z")
The Office I’ve seen two bars named this, one of them in Maine. Pretty cool idea. “Bye, Honey. I’m going to The Office” “No, really Hon, I swear. I was out at The Office all night” etc. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/12 "2001-11-06T22:51:32Z")
There’s a fairly average pub in Ashtead, Surrey (UK) called **The Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower**. My favourites, though, are two very cool pub/bars in London – the oddly-named **Positively Fourth Street** near Warren Street tube, and the outstanding **Monkey Chews** at Chalk Farm. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/13 "2001-11-06T22:52:40Z")
There’s a Cannibal Bar here. Best not to examine the happy hour nibbles too closely, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/14 "2001-11-06T22:56:26Z")
I stayed at this pub/B&B when vacationing in Wales: The Black Bouy Inn. Or the Black Boy Inn. It had two signs, one with a bouy, and one with a black sailor. ---
**Author:** ![Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smashed_Ice_Cream)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/15 "2001-11-06T22:58:41Z")
we have a **Hung Far Low** here in Portland, OR. really. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/16 "2001-11-06T23:06:28Z")
Here in Toronto (as is **Globe-trotter** ’s hang-out), we have: Fred’s Not Here (upstairs)/The Red Tomato (downstairs) Bovine Sex Club (or did this close?) Ted’s Wrecking Yard Savage Garden Lava Lounge Toad in the Hole I’m sure I can think of a zillion more with a little time. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/17 "2001-11-06T23:11:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crusoe \* > \*\*My favourites, though, are two very cool pub/bars in London – the oddly-named **Positively Fourth Street** near Warren Street tube, and the outstanding **Monkey Chews** at Chalk Farm. \*\* Monkey Chews? I live in Chalk Farm. Is it still around, and where is/was it? Surely ‘Monkey Cheese’ would be more humerous and memorable. But then, who frequent it? Our local is called The Enterprise. Pretty cool until Star Trek starting producing an overly sentimental version called the same thing. Ther’s a pub up the road in Camden Town called The Purple Turtle as well. Haven’t been in there yet, but The Enterprise rules! ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/18 "2001-11-06T23:15:21Z")
I’ve seen bars in college towns named **The Library**. Same thing as The Office. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/19 "2001-11-06T23:21:22Z")
**The Pickled Trout** , \*\*Dew Drop Inn \*\*, and **Jocko’s Rocketship** are 3 (somewhat) local watering holes around here. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/20 "2001-11-06T23:41:10Z")
**The Last Drop** in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh. Just next to where the public hangings took place (I think the name goes back at least 200 years.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876.md?page=2)