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Personal Expectations: What ALSO Makes a Bar Crappy
Your own personal expectations will absolutely color your visit to any bar. I know this from experience. Like everyone, I’ve…
Crappy Bars: What Makes Them So Crappy?
Crappy bars: they’re an assault to the senses and the soul. And it’s so easy for a bar not to…
Dale DeGroff on Hospitality in Bars
Dale DeGroff on hospitality: what he knows could fill the Grand Canyon. Or at least a very, very large Grand Canyonish…
The Best Time to Visit a Bar
The best time to visit a bar depends on you and your preferences. Don’t base your decision on whether a…
Going to a Bar Should Be FUN
WHEN GOING TO A BAR STINKS I’m going to a bar, one of my favorite places in Brooklyn, and there’s a…
Drinking in San Francisco: a Few Great Places to Tipple
I lived in San Francisco for a couple of years in the early days of the dot-com boom, back when rents…
I’ll Be Drawing 14 More Great New York Bars. What Are YOUR Favorites?
There are eight million stories in the naked city, and almost as many opinions on any subject you can name.…
Local Bars We Love: Punch Articles by John & Colleen, Featuring Ann Arbor’s Dominick’s and Parasol’s of New Orleans
Ebola, mid-term elections, Mid-East brutality and whatever that thing is about Honey Boo Boo…. The world, she is—how you say?—kooky.…