# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/21 "2001-11-07T00:26:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smashed Ice Cream \* > \*\*we have a **Hung Far Low** here in Portland, OR. > > really. \*\* And then there’s **The Veritable Quandary** or simply **The VQ** in SW Portland. It was one of my favorite watering holes years ago. And east of the city in the town of Boring,Oregon (no I’m not making it up!!) was the infamous **Boring Tavern**! ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/22 "2001-11-07T01:18:09Z")
I’ve posted this before, but one of the coolest names for a bar I’ve ever known of is **Mabel’s Chainsaw Repair & Beauty Parlor** , in Birmingham, Alabama. It’s no longer in existence, but was a hoot while it lasted. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/23 "2001-11-07T01:19:11Z")
**Sydney** The Cat and Fiddle Billy The Pig’s **Brisbane** The Dead Rat Hotel **Thailand** The Dog’s Bollocks ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/24 "2001-11-07T01:20:50Z")
There used to be a place called **The Ruptured Duck** in Poulsbo, WA. (Dunno if it’s still there.) I thought that was the funniest thing I’d ever seen, until later I found out it’s a reference to WWII B-52 bomber crew insignia or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/25 "2001-11-07T01:24:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crusoe \* > \*\*…and the outstanding **Monkey Chews** at Chalk Farm. \*\* Yeah, I happen to like that one too. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiendish Astronaut \* > \*\*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! \*\* The **Monkey Chews** is most certainly still around, and a finer pub you will not find in London. I’ve spent many of the best nights of my life in that pub, chatting with wonderful friends over a pint or two (or eight). The place always has a great atmosphere, cool lighting and funky music. They do great food too. It’s pretty busy on a Friday night, absolutely pumping on a Saturday night, and fairly chilled the rest of the time. I highly recommend heading down there for a quiet pint on a Sunday night. It’s on Queen’s Crescent, off Prince Charles Road. (That’s right innit, **Crusoe**?) Have a cocktail for me. **The Enterprise** is great!! It’s like having a beer in someone’s loungeroom. Love the bookshelves and the mantlepiece. I like the exterior too - it’s certainly hard to miss. **The Purple Turtle** is pretty groovy, but I couldn’t hang out there too often. A little too much fluorescent purple for me. Try heading up Havestock Hill to the **Sir Richard Steele’s**. It’s decorated with fairy lights, antique sewing machines, bizarre knick-knacks, old movie posters, and a million other things that have no place in a pub. It’s great. **Crusoe** – I assume **Positively Fourth Street** is named after the Dylan song. Any Dylan connection, I wonder? Here in Sydney, I find the oddest pub name is **The Bank**. Odd for it’s mundaneness, at least. “I’m going to the Bank” never sounds quite as exciting as it should. ---
**Author:** ![filthy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@filthy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filthy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/26 "2001-11-07T02:26:42Z")
Hunt’s Mill and Mining Co in Burlingtop, VT. A high class joint featuring good bands. The Bucket o’ Blood, a biker hangout since closed down. Hank’s End of the Road, same as above, alas. The Burley House. This one was on E. Main St. in Norfolk, VA. E. Main was wide open in the early '60s and wall to wall Navy. The usual suspects shut 'er down. I’ve seen some more modern ones, but can’t think of them offhand. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/27 "2001-11-07T02:41:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*There used to be a place called **The Ruptured Duck** in Poulsbo, WA. (Dunno if it’s still there.) I thought that was the funniest thing I’d ever seen, until later I found out it’s a reference to WWII B-52 bomber crew insignia or something like that. \*\* “The Ruptured Duck” was an insignia given to servicemen at the end of WWII who were about to be mustered out. It allowed them to wear their uniforms for 30 days after discharge, and told MPs of their status. It consisted of an eagle straddling the ring that surrounded it. Anyway, my nomination is **The Horse You Came In On** down in Fells Point, Baltimore. Very old pub, and also the title of a Martha Grimes’ mystery novel. ---
**Author:** ![sandpiper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@sandpiper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandpiper)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/28 "2001-11-07T02:48:50Z")
A few months back I got a little turned around on one of the little back roads around here and I passed a bar with the coolest name. The sign reads (in huge letters),“Third Base.” Printed under the name, in much smaller letters, are the words “because it’s your last stop before home.” ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/29 "2001-11-07T03:03:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whatmove \* > \*\*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. \*\* There is a bar near here called The Office. My mother went there loking for office supplies. Back whan my father went to college, he went to a bar called **Out of the Universe.** ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/30 "2001-11-07T04:10:49Z")
In Vallejo, California there were two I liked: **My Office** (same idea as “The Office”) - Generic dive. **The Horse and Cow** (later a sister bar of the same name opened in San Diego) - Submariner bar, later turned Biker bar. A veritable museum of submarine artifacts, home to “The Dance Of The Flaming Asshole”, and birthplace of the drink “Nuclear Waste”. Dunno what’s in “Nuclear Waste”, but it’s green, and glows under blacklight. It’ll kick your butt, too. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/31 "2001-11-07T04:21:58Z")
Haven’t been out in the while so the only one I can think of is **The Hairy Canary** , which isn’t really even that good. ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/32 "2001-11-07T04:29:44Z")
**Heretic Harry’s Hades** up in Park City Utah…they had a great ‘get the guy plastered’ game. They had 7 drinks of serious alcohol in flavors called the ‘7 deadly sins’. Some were sweet (lust), some were cruel tasting (sloth being the worst). Any person that could belly up to the bar and toss em back got a “I did all 7 sins, been to Hades, and got a stupid tshirt” tshirt. I hear of one in a college town called “The Library” ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/33 "2001-11-07T04:33:12Z")
Sex Cauldron. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/34 "2001-11-07T14:41:03Z")
If clubs count, then in South Beach there is a **Bed** (“I’m going to Bed”, “Want to go to Bed?”) and it is full of, you guessed it, beds that you lounge on. **$3 Dewey’s** in Portland, ME. All the pints are $3. Don’t know who Dewey is, but he put a hell of a lot of taps in there. [The Church Brew Works](http://www.churchbrew.com) is a brewpub in Lawrenceville, PA converted from a deconsecrated (put under an act of suppression) Catholic Church. Still pisses some people off. ---
**Author:** ![Rmat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rmat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rmat)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/35 "2001-11-07T14:50:49Z")
\*\* Don’s Marching Band Society \*\* Also in Columbia, SC. Technically it is (was?) a “private club”–a ruse to avoid the mandatory 2 am closing law. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/36 "2001-11-07T15:19:26Z")
In Amsterdam, the Netherlands: **It’s A Bar** That’s it. Most other names are pretty boring, really. Usually family names and such. Of which 40% are Irish family names. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/37 "2001-11-07T15:22:09Z")
The Ugly Broad. Cleveland, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/38 "2001-11-07T15:23:34Z")
The Betty Fjord Clinic in Stockholm, Sweden. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/39 "2001-11-07T15:45:05Z")
Ryans 😃 OK OK what about _“Ye Old grinding Young”_ or _“Turks Head”_ Two gay bars called _“The Back Door”_ & _“Out on the Liffey”_ ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876/40 "2001-11-07T16:06:36Z")
I’ve been known to drink at the _Jude the Obscure_ in Oxford… but you wouldn’t know that one. There’s _The One-Eyed Rat_ in Ripon - don’t know what it’s like, but the name stuck in my mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-coolest-wierdest-pub-bar-names-youve-come-across-here/91876.md?page=3)