This is a list of notable bars, public houses and taverns. A bar is a retail business and drinking establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks and often sell snack foods such as crisps or peanuts, for consumption on premises.Cocktail Lounge definition from The Free Dictionary

Bars

21 Club Abbey Lounge Booches Britannia Pub Cafe D'Mongo's Speakeasy Costello's The Chatham Friar's Inn The Fours KGB Krazy Kat Klub Lucky Lou's Marie's Rip Tide Lounge The Queen's Head Tobacco Road Vesuvio Cafe

Biker bars

A biker bar is a bar that is frequented by motorcyclists (bikers). Some are owned or managed by people who are friendly toward motorcyclists.Biker Gangs and Organized Crime - Thomas Barker.. p. 64. Biker bars are patronized by people from all walks of life, including bikers, non-bikers, and motorcycle club adherents, including outlaw motorcycle clubs.Traveling with Philosophes - Ken Ewell. p. 493. Ace Cafe Cook's Corner Full Throttle Saloon Hogs and Heifers Hurley Mountain Inn Neptune's Net Strokers Dallas

Gastropubs A gastropub is a bar and restaurant that serves high-end beer and food.

England

The Hand & Flowers The Hinds Head The Old Bull and Bush Sir Charles Napier Inn

Taiwan TKK Fried Chicken – also has a location in China

United States The Spotted Pig

California Auburn Alehouse Father's Office

Ice bars

An ice bar, sometimes associated with an ice hotel is a drinking establishment primarily made of ice. The bars usually contain ice sculptures and other formations and are kept at low temperatures (generally about -5 °C) to hinder melting. The walls and seating are also usually made of ice. Mostly a novelty, the ice bar is often considered a tourist destination. Icebar Orlando Icehotel

Public houses

A pub, also referred to as "public house", is a house licensed to sell alcohol to the general public. It is a drinking establishment in Britain,Public House Britannica.com; Subscription Required. Retrieved 3 July 2008. Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia.Australian Drinking Culture Convict Creations. Retrieved 24 April 2011. In many places, especially in villages, a pub is the focal point of the community. Samuel Pepys described the pub as the heart of England.

By location Afghanistan Irish Pub, Kabul

Australia

Brisbane

Breakfast Creek Hotel Empire Hotel, Fortitude Valley Gambaro Group Grand View Hotel Jubilee Hotel Norman Hotel Normanby Hotel Orient Hotel, Brisbane Plough Inn Regatta Hotel Royal Exchange Hotel, Brisbane Transcontinental Hotel Victory Hotel Wickham Hotel

Melbourne

Corner Hotel Devonshire Arms, Fitzroy Empress Hotel, Fitzroy North Esplanade Hotel Punters Club The Tote Hotel Young and Jackson Hotel

Sydney

Albion Hotel Bald Rock Hotel Beach Hotel Bowlers' Club of New South Wales Dick's Hotel Dry Dock Hotel Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club Exchange Hotel (Balmain) Forth & Clyde Hotel Grand Hotel – Broadway Kent Hotel Newport Arms Hotel North Sydney Leagues Club The Oriental Hotel Phoenician Club The Riverview Hotel, Balmain Royal Oak Hotel The Rugby Club Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Shipwright's Arms Hotel Sir William Wallace Hotel Star Hotel, Balmain UNSW Venues Volunteer Hotel White Bay Hotel White Horse Hotel, Surry Hills

Ireland List of pubs in Dublin

United Kingdom

List of pubs in the United Kingdom List of pubs in London List of award-winning pubs in London

United States The Cat & Fiddle Pig 'n Whistle

Former pubs

Adam & Eve, Birmingham The Alexandra, New Barnet Bull and Crown, Chingford Fishmongers Arms Fleece Hotel Flying Horse Inn The Antelope Public House Lord High Admiral, Pimlico Lamb Hotel, Nantwich Neary's Queen's Head Tavern / Apollo Tavern

Micropubs

A micropub is a very small, one room public house. The concept is attributed to publican Martyn Hillier and his pub, The Butchers Arms, in Herne, Kent, England.

Pub chains A pub chain is a group of pubs or bars with a brand image. The brand may be owned outright by one company, or there may be multiple financiers; the chain may be a division within a larger company, or may be a single operation.

Antic Collective Bay Restaurant Group Belushi's Brewers Fayre Chef & Brewer Chicago Rock Cafe Eerie Pub Company Ettamogah Pub Firkin Brewery Inventive Leisure Mana Bar O'Neill's Punch Taverns Revolution Bar Scream Pubs Slug and Lettuce Spirit Group Spirit Pub Company Steamin' Billy Stonegate Pub Company Tynemill Varsity Walkabout Wetherspoons Yates's Young's

Mitchells & Butlers pub chains Mitchells & Butlers runs around 1,600 managed public house, bars and restaurants throughout the United Kingdom.

All Bar One Bass Brewery Harvester Innkeeper's Lodge Miller & Carter Mitchells & Butlers Mitchells & Butlers Brewery Mitchells & Butlers' Ground Nicholson's O'Neill's Phil Urban Toby Carvery

Saloons

Speakeasies A speakeasy is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states). Speakeasies largely disappeared after Prohibition was ended in 1933, and the term is now used to describe some retro style bars. Some former speakeasies continue to operate as bars.

The Blind Pig, Michigan Delmonico's, New York Gallagher's Steakhouse, New York J.G. Melon, New York KGB, New York Light Horse Tavern, New Jersey Mystery Room, Arizona

Closed

Arlington Steak House (formerly the Triangle Inn) Chumley's Dill Pickle Club Krazy Kat Klub Tobacco Road Top O' Hill Terrace

Taverns A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, and in most cases, where travelers receive lodging. An inn is a tavern which has a license to put up guests as lodgers. The word derives from the Latin taberna whose original meaning was a shed, workshop, stall, or pub.

England Upper Flask

United States

McGillin's Olde Ale House Nick's Original Big Train Bar Old Tavern Tun Tavern Brewery

Taverns in the American Revolution

Alden Tavern Site Buckman Tavern Burnham Tavern Cedar Bridge Tavern City Tavern Clifton House Fraunces Tavern French Arms Tavern Gabreil Daveis Tavern House Golden Plough Tavern Green Dragon Tavern Hartwell Tavern Indian King Tavern Mosby Tavern Munroe Tavern The Old 76 House Peleg Arnold Tavern Putnam Cottage Raleigh Tavern Red Lion Inn Rising Sun Tavern Rose and Crown Tavern Smith Tavern Three Pigeons Tun Tavern Warren Tavern White Horse Tavern Wright's Tavern

Themed bars

A theme bar is an establishment centered around a specific concept, style, or subject, which influences its decor, ambiance, and sometimes its menu and drinks (similar to a theme restaurant). Examples are: Britannia Pub in Santa Monica, California (United States): A British-themed bar Coffin Club in Portland, Oregon (United States): A horror-themed bar Giger Bar in Chur/Gruyères (Switzerland): Interior designed by H.R. Giger, creater of the original Alien Storm Crow Manor in Toronto (Canada): A science fiction-themed restaurant and bar

Tiki bars

A tiki bar is an exotic–themed drinking establishment that serves elaborate cocktails, especially rum-based mixed drinks such as the mai tai and zombie cocktail. These bars are aesthetically defined by their tiki culture décor which is based upon a romanticized conception of tropical cultures, most commonly Polynesian. Bahooka Bali Hai (Shelter Island) Jardin Tiki Kahiki Supper Club Mai-Kai Restaurant Sip 'n Dip Lounge The Hawaiian Inn Tiki Boyd's Tiki Ti Tonga Room Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar Trader Vic's

Wine bars

A wine bar, sometimes called a bodega, is a bar that principally or exclusively serves wine. El Vino (London, UK) Giant Cask (Bad Dürkheim, Germany) Ordinaire (Oakland, California) Vino Volo (San Francisco, California) Zum Weinberg (Wismar, Germany)

See also

List of dive bars List of microbreweries Types of drinking establishments The World's 50 Best Bars

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