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Otta Wrote:

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> Baa Bar in Liverpool circa 2000. Used to be the

> Friday after work place of choice. ?1.50 for a

> bottle of beer and a shot. ?15 later you'd be very

> nicely oiled.



Yes! Also Dry Bar in Manchester....clubtastic :)

Yeah, think it was Wood Street or Hardman Street. Defo that area. I never went there as a student funnily enough, it was only when I was working and we'd go mob handed for the cheap booze, but I ended up loving the place. Not clubby really.


It did have weird shared toilets though which felt wrong when you were pissed and confused.

This thread is getting a bit like 'what is your favourite album'. It tends to be one that defines a memorable time in one's life, all very retrospective thru rose tinted glasses, rather than the bar/album actually being any good. I very much doubt I would go into a Baa Bar now (it's since become a small chain of bars), a case of right time, right place...

Dry Bar (now called 'Fizz' I think) on Sairee Beach, Koh Tao, Thailand.


Beach bar built into a couple of big trees- cushions and seats on decking on the beach, holes dug into the sand with lanterns in for lighting, facing west for the most amazing sunsets, chilled music for sunset, party bar after dark.


Best place i've ever been (2003 for a couple of months). Heard Koh Tao has become a full on party island now, but 10 years ago it was just a few diving schools and small bars, and parties in the hills.


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dry+bar+sairee+beach&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=6_ANUtLyM8jG7Aaz9YG4Dg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1337&bih=619

I would most definitely look a right prat if I got all dressed up in day-glo, slapped Vicks vapo-rub all over me and hugged strangers whilst saying 'what's your name where you from what you on' ad naseum to cheesy rave.

Actually we all did back then but noone cared.


OK, back to the real world, Pearl on the Peak leaning out atop Victoria peak is hard to beat for jaw dropping views. Pretty good restaurant there too.


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4070/4430205055_cf0dcd105a.jpg

Pearl on the Peak, a restaurant with a magnificent view. Victoria Peak, Hong Kong by Fred @ SG, on Flickr

Otta Wrote:

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> What's that little Spanish bar just off Oxford

> Street in a basement? That's pretty cool.


Oh yes, I know the one but can't recall its name - it's down the Tottenham Court Rd end isn't it?. We used to go years ago, glad it's still there (if it is?).

El Pibe Wrote:

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> Bradley's Bar. My dad used to take me there when I

> was young, weirdly.


That's the one, great little place.


http://www.whatsoninlondon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bar-2-594x343.jpg

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I'm sure there are at least three spansish bars

> along Hanway St...


There must be, the Spanish bar I often ended up in with work mates looked a lot less plush, had live Flamenco dancing...ole!

More of a boozer than a bar, the Golden Heart on Commercial Street always has and hopefully always will be a great place for a drink. If it can survive the YBA's it can survive the Hipsters... http://www.timeout.com/london/bars-and-pubs/the-golden-heart

Otta Wrote:

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> What's that little Spanish bar just off Oxford

> Street in a basement? That's pretty cool.


What was the name of the tiny basement bar in the same area...Dive Bar?

Talking of West End basement bars - in the worst bars etc. etc. category: the San Moritz Club, nominated for a terrible New Year's Eve in the mid 80s - four of us getting drunk on a pear liquer at the bar (no, I can't remember why) and watching three girls dance around a squat, fat, indoor firework - when it went off 'gifts' of boxer shorts and the like flopped out of it.


For a sweaty basement night The (tiny) Toucan used to be a laugh - all guinness-glass stools and the barman telling you how Hendrix once played the place.

Aah - Hog & Heifers..... MickMac - you've just brought back the memory of a wild night out in New York, many moons ago.... I seem to have recollections of being hauled onto that bar and dancing my ass off to (embarrassingly..) the Sheryl Crow track 'That Don't Impress Me Much' (!!!) - thankfully I wasn't made to pour jugs of water over myself - unlike the girls that worked there!

red devil Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > What's that little Spanish bar just off Oxford

> > Street in a basement? That's pretty cool.

>

> What was the name of the tiny basement bar in the

> same area...Dive Bar?


That street also had the Troy bar so was a a good 'bar alley'

Hanley's in Strokestown, Co.Roscommon. One side was the bar where I might have had a club orange and the other side the shop. Only ever went there because they were related but there was something charming about it and places like it.

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