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Bonus points for including a picture of a beer you like.

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― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

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― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

The outside of the Kitsch Bar is rather anonymous, seeing as it is in a minimall. So an inside shot:

http://www.kitschbar.com/img/IMG_8534.JPG

Only bottles, nothing on tap, so a fave standby:

http://www.euroricette.it/immagini/prodotti_upl/newcastle_brown_ale.jpg

There are others.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

ominous!

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pub-explorer.com/syorks/photo/broadfieldsheffield.jpg

im not particularly enamoured.

http://www.timothy-taylor.co.uk/cards/landlord.jpg

i am particularly enamoured

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

this is my most local local, but it's kinda lame:

http://www.montaguebid.com/businesses/images/centro.jpg

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/_images/db/11/93/Wales2.119378.full.jpg

I used to hate it, now I go there all the time it's starting to grow on me. Dreadful in the height of summer though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Teh Boat Bar

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/nightlife/barbuzz/boat_175.jpg

Teh Elixir of Teh Gods

http://www.phillyburbs.com/beer/images/yuengling.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.elvisthefish.com/images/pencam/042104-manhattan01.jpg

Two in one

― emilys. (emilys.), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.barpilar.com/Images/pic-m1.gif

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

yay boat bar!

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

http://img25.exs.cx/img25/5585/vino1125.jpg
http://vinosbrewpub.com/images/vino_gatewayanim2.gif

There are better examples of locals around here, but they're either not displayed anywhere online or they don't cotton much to crowds. In some cases, both.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Capone's, Brooklyn, NY. Not sure what's up with the photoshopped lights.

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

oh, i was looking for a picture of that place too but google image search was no help

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a dry county now, but when I lived in Oxford I spent a lot of time at Proud Larry's. But I can't find a picture of the place.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.roundamerica.com/images/July/2003-07-06/trip-2003-07-06-AK-Anchorage-Chili
kidding.

i guess i'm not that surprised, pleasant plains, that no picture of white water tavern seems to exist in cyberspace.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

I think that it only exists in our heads, andrew.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

i might be at boat saturday, maybe.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

of course you may have another local in mind,PP, since you live waaaaaay across the river over there. xpost

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/32/47826069_ff2d6cdc64.jpg

RIP my old local

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I wan't to publicise any of the pubs near me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Teh Boat Bar

in New York? Like Carroll Gardens?

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy, is that teh Boat on Smith Street? I can't tell.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

xpost

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/100/3302/400/IMG_0646.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Or sometimes...

http://a1260.g.akamaitech.net/7/1260/33/db342c298c7aee/images.citysearch.com/advertorial_profile/12/cf/V-SFOCA-00053064_ID31485_guide_inclusion.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

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― andy --, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

rosemary and i had our birthday fap at boat! (our birthdays are a week apart.) we should do that again.

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

OR:

http://a1660.g.akamaitech.net/7/1660/33/89d65251fb98c8/images.citysearch.com/profile/91/9b/11576820p1.jpg

― andy --, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

i have a pic of myself in my (fake) local (fake because it's my favorite bar but i don't live near it) but not of my local itself.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

I like Boat, but there is somebody around here who doesn't, and that somebody is - Morbius!

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

fine, then morbius isn't invited! nyeh.

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

(i kid, i kid)

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

he's on vacation this week i think.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

of course you may have another local in mind,PP, since you live waaaaaay across the river over there.

http://www.mainstreetargenta.org/grf/bus_profile/arena_02.jpg

ai lien actually introduced me to this place.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

pleasant plains, i thought this was our local:

http://www.mainstreetargenta.org/grf/bus_profile/arena_02.jpg

my choice of drink:

http://www.gdoshop.com/gdoshop/Assets/sake_images/641241_1.jpg + http://www.bkmarcus.com/blog/images/food/Coke.gif

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

What's up, xpost?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/26/47835962_59426a702d.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/27/47836409_804354f065.jpg

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

what the hell! that was freaky.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

How many Little Rockaz are there up in this beotch anyway?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully this in a week or so:

http://www.geronimo-inns.co.uk/portalimages/032334-ABC-032334-BEN-000000/the%20morgan/Morgan-outside-v2.gif

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

http://callerealcenter.com/Stores/5767/5767main.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

yeah! we need to have another joint birthday!

and this year maybe ilx won't go down for three days when we have it.

and we could actually have non crap weather.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

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St Joe's, New Orleans. Not my local at the moment, obviously, but as my neighborhood is relatively undamaged it will be again. Eventually. Oh, and:

http://www.2ndcitygrill.com/beverage_files/miller_lite_bottle.gif

― adam (adam), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

How many Little Rockaz are there up in this beotch anyway?

Four, by my count, though technically, sunny and I are North Little Rockaz.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.topanga-maliburealestate.com/images/froggysfrontbest.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

so M White is in SF?

― emilys. (emilys.), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

It took me a second to realize that the frog isn't actually blocking the door.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Instead of the outside, I shall give you the inside plus favorite bartender: http://www.tombergins.com/chris.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Don't really go to the "locals" regularly. Went out the most here for the last few months, but I'm looking for something new (especially when it gets colder).
http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/083005.6c.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

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http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pubpics/pic2750.jpg

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Swimmer good, Nambuca bad (granted I've only been to Nambuca once, and we got kicked out (at 11.10) cos my mate was being cheeky to the bouncer).

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

I've also been drinking the wine in the middle here:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/dining/20050727_TASTING_FEATURE/din_TASTING_promo.jpg
It's cheap (like REALLY cheap) at Trader Joe's but the NY Times gave it 3 stars!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.search.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/content/images/3/8/Resource/5926-0.jpg

http://www.red-deer-sheffield.co.uk/images/ttland.gif

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

(the photo was taken 70 years ago, hasn't changed much though!)

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

is that in topanga, walter? do you live there?

Yep

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Elvis is in Santa Barbara?

I'm in Laguna Beach, but I couldn't find a picture of the Newport Coast Trader Joe's (which is the one closest to home).

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

a9.com?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

i've only lived in my new 'hood for a couple months, but there's a good place right near me called 'Sweaty Betty's'
http://www.sweatybettysbar.com/images/05_interior_composite_2.jpg
http://www.sweatybettysbar.com/images/08_interiorRear_sm.jpg

they serve toast with either marmite, nutella, or cheez whiz!

my poison remains
http://www.riverviewendo.com.au/beer/CreemoreSpringsPremium.jpg
or if i feel like a cocktail
http://www.wishlist.com.au/images/Products/DI01/DI01PGNBOMS7_l.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.stravaigin.com/images/liquid/liqcontact.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.trilogymanagement.com/pokez.gif
http://www.beerotopia.com/beers/ballastpoint_wahoo.jpg

― origami snail (origami snail), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.in-nyc.com/in-bars/images/night-cafe.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

ORIGAMI SNAIL you beat me to it! sort of. i was looking for a picture of the roseary room, but couldn't find anything. glad to know we both consider that our primary "local." we'd do well at the newlywed game.

― ath (ath), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

http://img25.exs.cx/img25/5585/vino1125.jpg

I've drank there. Not only that, I had a very fine tomato and onion pizza there, too. Little Rock is nice. I also drank cans of beer at some suburban speakeasy late Sunday night.

― ath (ath), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.shadowpub.com/ns/images/main_page/wtg_new.jpg
the mountain shadow, which i no longer live near, but it's the only pub that i've consistently been to for over 2 1/2 years, now.

i will often get, on tap http://www.koff.fi/stc/images/docs/kilkenny.jpg
and sometimes a http://louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/94e/61a/94e61ab7-6215-4f39-b336-4a60b221793c.medium
with, if possible, http://www.brot-und-butter.de/mb3_media/7/560/d/b/c/65320.jpg

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/photos/taiwan200207/Images/24.jpg

http://www.teagree.de/uploads/pics/00-MILK_TEA_1.JPG

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

nabisco, do you really prefer night caf to the ding dong?
night cafe = u r a socialist.

― carly (carly), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

I also drank cans of beer at some suburban speakeasy late Sunday night.

(Pssst, ixnay on the eakeasyspay!)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 30 September 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

bombay sapphire is the only gin i frink. i mean drink, now. rob, u must be a high roller. u r rock.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 30 September 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

This is my old local, before it changed hands and I moved house:

ihttp://www.bestpubs.co.uk/data/images/105974o.jpg

According to Starry, it is a GOFF PUB.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 30 September 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pubpics/pic2438.jpg
Serves a rather tasty salt beef sandwich.

― robster (robster), Friday, 30 September 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.citikey.com/static/images/business/10058750.jpg

The Chester Arms. My local for the last month and a bit. A couple of weeks ago my mates and I managed to do rather well at the quiz, where, bizarrely, the jackpot round consisted of a game of Play Your Cards Right followed by pontoon.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 30 September 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

This is the Cayo in Cardiff. It's pretty good although the chilli in there is the worst I've ever eaten, and the landlord once ripped the piss out of me on England v Wales match day for stumbling over the pronounciation of this (fine) beer:

http://www.cardiff.ukpub.net/photos/cayo-arms.jpg

http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/15285.jpg

This is my actual local, The Robin Hood, which you may have seen in the papers occasionally. It's Charlotte Church's folks' pub. For some reason I've never been in there despite it being 90 seconds' walk from my house

http://www.cardiff.ukpub.net/photos/robin.jpg

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 September 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

http://img01.beerintheevening.com/e8/e88dfcc68b29dca3a63f70506ca2a98a.jpg

NB: don't google image search for "Arab Boy" when your boss is walking past.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 September 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

And:

http://www.dezwaan.sk/listok0302/napoje/leffe_blonde.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 September 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

Okay, technically this is my local, but as it's part of a chain (Jim Thompson's) I don't count it:

http://www.riverthames.co.uk/cms/userdata/rtgads/THAI_PAD_INTERIOR_PUTNEY.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 September 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

You cannot get much more local than this:

http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pubpics/pic1340.jpg

but I prefer another bar close by which is private and therefore secret.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 30 September 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

Favorite spot in Wormtown...is Brew City or Funky Murphys. No picture of either.

Favorite brews on tap.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 30 September 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

Wachusetts Octoberfest for the Autumn months, Wachusett Summer Breeze for Summer.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 30 September 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.britishpubguide.com/media-pub/66.jpg

Closest to me, but not where I tend to go most often. I'm sad to say also that when I'm in there I drink Generic Cheap Lager because their bitter isn't up to much.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 30 September 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

simon's in chicago is awesome
xxx

― foxy boxer (stevie), Friday, 30 September 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

I have probably about twenty or thirty pubs closer to me than this, but this is only 10 minutes away and is where I spend most of my pub time in, and so is technically my local;

http://www.eveningstarbrighton.co.uk/photos/esfront.jpg

Which is the brewery tap for this excellent local microbrewery:

http://www.darkstarbrewing.co.uk/images/dsbc_comp.jpg

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 30 September 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

In terms of closeness, however, this is the closest being about fifty footsteps away:

ihttp://www.picturehouses.co.uk/site/cinemas/Brighton/img/P9090021.JPG

ihttp://www.picturehouses.co.uk/site/cinemas/Brighton/img/P9090025.JPG

It is the bar inside The Duke Of Yorks, the oldest working cinema in the UK and even allows you to buy beer and drink it in the theatre.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 30 September 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

The duke of york is a lovely cinema

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

in the 8 years of living where i am i've never been in the pub which sits across the street. i think it was the nickname of the place 'Star Wars Bar' that put me off.

(and sorry no pics)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brew-city.com/

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

I have lots of locals but we seem to often end up here:
http://www.planet99.com/pix/207_1.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Kim, I would like to be a high-roller. In fact, my rolling is pretty mediocre.

Robster - that place does indeed have some pretty wicked sandwiches. And the BIGGEST PUB BURGER I HAVE SEEN.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 30 September 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Yep, the burgers are freakin' HUGE.

― robster (robster), Friday, 30 September 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Aaaw, I can remember when The Foundry was my local. Now it's:

http://www.windmillbrixton.co.uk/images/Gallery/CrowdOutside.jpg

and of course, the pub dog:

http://www.windmillbrixton.co.uk/images/Gallery/BrandDog.jpg

(I like pubs that not just allow dogs, but have dogs.)

Though ha ha, if you image google "Windmill Brixton" this is one of the first things that come up:

http://www.underexposed.org.uk/lollies/lol1.jpg

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I've drank there. Not only that, I had a very fine tomato and onion pizza there, too. Little Rock is nice. I also drank cans of beer at some suburban speakeasy late Sunday night.

-- ath (klintved...), October 1st, 2005.

i know of one semi-regular speakeasy, but it's certainly not suburban. my fave drink there: the huey lewis. 2 cans of pabst stacked.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 30 September 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

(He was from out of town. Surburban by 1892 standards...)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 30 September 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

or maybe sub urban as it exists down in that hole near the tracks.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

And the regular poker night is right up the hill from there. I can lose all my money, crawl into a barrel, and just roll right down to those Hueys.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Jeff-PTTL and I live in the same hood, so his locals are my locals.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

he's on vacation this week i think.
Does he take vacation so he can go to all the movies at the film festival?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/1171/local1ez.th.jpg

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 30 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

foundry is only acceptable bar in shoreditch. cvery easy to put on a night there too. tuesday is piano nigfht!

the swimmer - gosh it looks pretty nice.

at 2 votes, looks like timothy taylors landlord will win the favourite beer poll.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 30 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Haven't been to the Foundry for ages. Have they still got dismembered dolls hanging from the ceiling? Does the barman with the electric blue fu-manchu beard still work there?

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Friday, 30 September 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pubpics/pic2336.jpg

but really, upstairs at the lumin4ire is the second home: http://www.thekilburn.com/theluminaire/gfx/venuepics_thebar2_large.jpg

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 30 September 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

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