OT: Best bar in CT

[Waquoit]

Le Tub is right across the street. I combined this with a work trip. I may hit Marlins opening day Thursday. I hit Dania Beach Jai Alai on Sunday.

Not the best food choices there, but I like the Korean Short Rib at the Taco Spot as well.

 

[UconnU]

Stonebridge in Milford.

 

[CAHUSKY]

I’m in Hollywood Beach right now. Anywhere good?

My favorite, Laura’s Cuban closed. Loved that joint and the owners.

 

[uconnell]

Wasn’t really noted as a bar but more a restaurant ...Mario’s in Westport across the street from the train station. Was interesting to see some of NYs noted tv reporters stumble from the train to Mario’s. They had the biggest porterhouse steak ( hanging over a really big plate served with popovers ...yum.

 

[sledog]

It's just "Dutch Tavern," not "Dutch's." Great bar. I love the room. Peter the owner is a great guy, and he makes a very good, basic burger, among other things. Also a proper pour of Guinness, and one of very few bars where you can still play pinball.

It was called The Oak in the pre-prohibition days when Eugene O'Neil hung out there, but it's the same room with the same tin ceiling I believe. Green Street is one of very few blocks in downtown New London that was not burned when Benedict Arnold ordered the raid on New London, so it's cool that those buildings were there then.

Peter was a guitarist for the Reducers who used to play regularly at the El & Gee Club (NL's verion of CBGB) around the corner.

 

[8893]

Peter was a guitarist for the Reducers who used to play regularly at the El & Gee Club (NL's verion of CBGB) around the corner.

Yep. Only got to see them once or twice. Great fun. Great club, too.

 

[storrsroars]

Wasn’t really noted as a bar but more a restaurant ...Mario’s in Westport across the street from the train station. Was interesting to see some of NYs noted tv reporters stumble from the train to Mario’s. They had the biggest porterhouse steak ( hanging over a really big plate served with popovers ...yum.

Mario's was a GREAT bar if you were late 30s-60ish. And lots of folks went just for the bar. Great martinis, although that wasn't my thing. Good pours, fair prices for Westport.

I only ate there twice. Oddly, for an "Italian" restaurant, their Italian wasn't all that good. It was all about the meat. The last time I ate there, my gf at the time (now wife) loved prime rib so she ordered one, medium rare. It was so big (as you said, hanging over the plate) and bloody, she got queasy. She hasn't ordered prime rib anywhere in the 22 years since.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

the place named after what the well dressed equine wears on its' feet. Southport.
(not being witty here, but after 5 trys, the word is not recognizable in the post...ugh.)
food's lame, everyone's a jerk, some weird soccer vibe recently, ...perfect. its where the Ophelias (beekman tower, nyc) crowd can sometimes be found when they want to be schnockered close to home.

 

[husky8273]

You youngsters never had the pleasure of Rapp's. Now that was a dump. If the bathroom wasn't under an inch of water you wondered what was wrong, It was a two-holer, the toilet and the sink. Then again, 99-cent pitchers.

.......if you paid for them

 

[August_West]

36 Lewis Street

Dagny’s

 

[Bezzz]

Anybody remember the Brickyard on Allyn Street? I designed that place back around '94. Three level bar with a jazz bar, dance club and top level sports bar.

Soft opening on a Friday night. The owners were freaked when they left for home at 2AM with $25,000 cash in their pockets. Had a nice run.

 

[8893]

Dagny’s

Demery's

 

[mauconnfan]

I started this thread waiting for the Mau response. I have a feeling this list is REAL light.....

Yeah it's light a bit, mostly because I can't remember them all now.

But since it was titled the "Best Bar" and not bars I will throw out mine:

Seacrets - Ocean City MD
Photos | Seacrets Ocean City MD | Waterfront Dining

 

[Deepster]

Anybody remember the Brickyard on Allyn Street? I designed that place back around '94. Three level bar with a jazz bar, dance club and top level sports bar.

Soft opening on a Friday night. The owners were freaked when they left for home at 2AM with $25,000 cash in their pockets. Had a nice run.

I absolutely remember it. That corner had a great run with Challenges, Standing Stone, Brickyard and Russian Lady back then. Lines every Thursday, Friday and Saturday for all of them.

 

[uconnell]

The Windjammer Misquamicut,RI. Love this place, oceanfront with live music and good food and drinks

 

[August_West]

Demery's

Poco Loco

 

[Bezzz]

I absolutely remember it. That corner had a great run with Challenges, Standing Stone, Brickyard and Russian Lady back then. Lines every Thursday, Friday and Saturday for all of them.

I had quite a run in that part of town. Designed Pastis (former Challenges), Standing Stone, the Brickyard, Coach's, Hot Tomatos and Black Eyed Sally's.

Place is a ghost town now, Front Street sucked the life out of it.

 

[August_West]

The Muni'

(The Municipal)

Best bar Hartford has seen in the last 40 years.

 

[August_West]

The Cape Codder

 

[8893]

The Cape Codder

That building has had some tough luck.

Since we're focusing on great defunct bars, Delaney's also deserves a mention (same building as Cape Codder), as do Richter's, the OG Rudy's, the Keghouse, Clancy's and Anna Liffey's. And my old-time favorite, the Windmill in Stratford.

 

[August_West]

That building has had some tough luck.

Since we're focusing on great defunct bars, Delaney's also deserves a mention (same building as Cape Codder), as do Richter's, the OG Rudy's, the Keghouse, Clancy's and Anna Liffey's. And my old-time favorite, the Windmill in Stratford.

The Moon.

Ray Kelly's

 

[mauconnfan]

That building has had some tough luck.

Since we're focusing on great defunct bars, Delaney's also deserves a mention (same building as Cape Codder), as do Richter's, the OG Rudy's, the Keghouse, Clancy's and Anna Liffey's. And my old-time favorite, the Windmill in Stratford.

Oh damn Richters forgot and the yards, Anna Liffey's basement Irish pub good call too.

 

[DogBoy]

I started this thread waiting for the Mau response. I have a feeling this list is REAL light.....

You are correct Deep. The places Mauser listed were the ones he stopped at before lunch back in the day.

 

[bristol rises]

Al's Place, Fairfield

 

[Robertelamin]

The Muni'

(The Municipal)

Best bar Hartford has seen in the last 40 years.

Agora Ballroom? Al Sharpton?