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    #51
    Did anyone here ever drink in The Colony Room Club? It looked sh*t if you weren't part of the Soho set that drank there, but it's one of the few places I can think of I would have liked to experience.

    London: The Good Mixer, The Dublin Castle, The Camden Falcon, The Intrepid Fox and The Ship (Wardour St), The Coach and Horses, all the Sam Smith refurbs, all the Dickens pubs in Wapping.
    Lisbon: Estadio
    Cairo: Cafe Riche, Al Horreya

    I'd rate downtown Cairo as my favourite drinking location in the world. I never had a night out there that wasn't an adventure, there was no such thing as a quiet drink. Cafe Riche is where Nasser plotted the downfall of King Farouk. Naguib Mahfouz was a regular. It was my daytime drinking spot. Al Horreya is where much of the 2011 revolution was plotted from the left-wing, secular activists. Amazingly, still largely untouched by the authorities, despite it being the hub of radical activity in Cairo https://www.mashallahnews.com/el-hor...-freedom-cafe/

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      #52
      The Carlton in Cannes.

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        #53
        Originally posted by steveeeeeeeee View Post
        Lisbon: Estadio
        Forgot about that one! And I was in there with you (not on every occasion you've been there, of course, but on 100% (one) of the occasions I have been).

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          #54
          My wife and I went to the Rainbow Bar and Grill on Sunset Strip but without having heard of it or known it's history (big rock hangout, Lemmy was a regular, Guns n Roses filmed videos there, plus Marilyn Monroe had her first date with Joe Di Maggio). Wished we'd known all that first.

          Other than that, another tick for the Hofbrauhaus, the Philharmonic and a lot of the London ones mentioned. I don't know how many pubs are genuinely world famous though.

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            #55
            It's a while since I drank in this one in Salford, a favourite of Marx and Engels apparently.

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              #56
              I've done the Hemingway-related Havana ones and stayed a night in the Our Man in Havana hotel; Café de Flore and other Sartre/De Beauvoir hangouts on 1st student trip to Paris; did a Marx pub crawl in London, the fancy café in Vienna Trotsky frequented and the bar in Madrid where the Socialist Party was founded.

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                #57
                I know it's difficult to define, but what counts as famous? Having a wiki page doesn't really cut the mustard for me. Appearances in films, multiple mentions in books, places where important historical events occurred,,,or what?

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                  #58
                  All of mine above are in guide books, that'd be one measure

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                    #59
                    Originally posted by Artificial Hipster View Post
                    It's a while since I drank in this one in Salford, a favourite of Marx and Engels apparently.

                    I think it's been a while since anyone did!

                    I was at Salford Uni on day release stuff for 4 years in the 90s. I'm sure it was closed throughout all that time too. It was looking in better nick though then. Not much, mind you.

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                      #60
                      Closed in 2017 apparently. I used to drink there now and again in the mid 90's when my girlfriend at the time was studying there.

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                        #61
                        Originally posted by Foot of Astaire's View Post

                        I think it's been a while since anyone did!

                        I was at Salford Uni on day release stuff for 4 years in the 90s. I'm sure it was closed throughout all that time too. It was looking in better nick though then. Not much, mind you.
                        But at least you saw it, if not the whole of the moon.

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                          #62
                          I've stayed in the Palace Hotel, Broken Hill, New South Wales - where various scenes in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert were filmed. It was completely accidental, I pitched up in Broken Hill looking for somewhere to stay and there it was. It was only after checking in that I twigged exactly where I was.

                          I guess various Outback locations I've been to qualify for this - Daly Waters Pub, Middleton Hotel etc. Middleton is one of those places where the whole town has disappeared apart from the pub and it now exists as a lonely watering hole on the way from nowhere to nowhere

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                            #63
                            The most notable incident I've experienced while drinking in a bar was in Yambio, We witnessed, while drinking at the bar run by Paris, a Greek, a drunk policeman escorting some prisoners from the local jail. The policemen hit (maybe it was accidental, maybe not) one of the prisoners with the rifle; the rifle fired. We all ducked. Someone went to disarm the policeman.

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                              #64
                              "Appearances in films" strikes me as a bizarre qualification, given that very few films use identified locations (at least in the US) and those that don't build sets will often use an accommodating establishment that can make more money from renting itself out than actually operating, which goes against it being notable.

                              We used to frequent the bar in which the events fictionalised in Looking for Mr Goodbar (first the novel, than the film) took place, but no one here would consider it "famous".

                              The "Cheers bar" was created after the series became popular and designed as a tourist trap.

                              As for guide books, I presume we are excluding those devoted exclusively to pubs, bars or cafes.

                              I actually think that the existence of a Wiki page isn't a bad indication of general notoriety.

                              I am told on good authority that Prince Harry has spent the last three nights in Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle, which is another place we used to go, and one that I would include on any list of "iconic" Manhattan bars (along with McSorley's, the White Horse, Fanelli's, the Old Town, the Oak Room, Mars Bar and Siberia)

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                                #65
                                The Fighting Cocks & The Jerusalem
                                La Floridata
                                Raffles
                                The Cambridge pub with the ceiling that the USAF lads autographed with Zippos.
                                The Tan Hill Inn
                                The Freemasons , Covent Garden.
                                The Blind Beggar
                                The (red/green?) Pepper in LA that the spandex rock crowd hung out at in the late 80s. Is that famous?
                                The pub at the end of Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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                                  #66
                                  Originally posted by Sunderporinostesta View Post
                                  The Cambridge pub with the ceiling that the USAF lads autographed with Zippos.
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                                  That's the Eagle mentioned earlier. Probably more famous, however, as the pub in which Crick and Watson announced they had discovered "the secret of life" (ie DNA)

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                                    #67
                                    Originally posted by Sunderporinostesta View Post
                                    The Fighting Cocks & The Jerusalem
                                    La Floridata
                                    Raffles
                                    The Cambridge pub with the ceiling that the USAF lads autographed with Zippos.
                                    The Tan Hill Inn
                                    The Freemasons , Covent Garden.
                                    The Blind Beggar
                                    The (red/green?) Pepper in LA that the spandex rock crowd hung out at in the late 80s. Is that famous?
                                    The pub at the end of Sydney Harbour Bridge.

                                    I checked and, as I suspected, the Freemasons Arms isn't the venue of FA foundation fame. That was the Freemason's Tavern which used to stand where the Connaught Rooms are now, i. e. up the road and opposite the Hercules Pillars.
                                    Last edited by Nocturnal Submission; 27-09-2021, 20:27.

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                                      #68
                                      All sorts of pubs in Dublin, the Temple Bar, McDaids, Mulligans, the Palace, O Donoghues.

                                      Outside Ireland, the only ones I can think of are the Coach and Horses in Soho, the Jacaranda in Liverpool and Seffls in Heidelberg.

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                                        #69
                                        Of these, I've drunk in La Floridita in Havana and the Eagle in Cambridge (which at times was one of my regular haunts) as well as various famous pubs in London. I used to go for lunch in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese when I worked on Chancery Lane. I've also been to The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds (the "smallest pub in England") and Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham.

                                        I've probably been to other famous pubs around the world but can't remember the details. There was a rooftop bar in Ho Chi Minh city that was meant to be famous but I don't know what it's called.

                                        I barely drink these days and have only been to a pub twice in the last two years and had one drink each time. I've basically forgotten what being drunk is like. I haven't drunk more than two drinks in one day in more than nine years now.

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                                          #70
                                          A name in Balderdasha's post rang a bell and on googling I find I once had lunch with an ex in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. I had no idea it was famous (more so than any other Fleet Street pub, at least).

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                                            #71
                                            Despite spending half my life in pubs, the best I can add to the thread is the Platform in Southampton, which is where Leonardo DiCaprio wins his ticket on the Titanic.

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                                              #72
                                              Although it's not one of the scenes everyone remembers from that film, I think 'pub that has featured in one of the biggest five or so films ever made' is pretty good as 'best I can add' claims go.

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                                                #73
                                                Went on a couple of occasions to The Pub in Valetta used regularly by Oliver Reed during the filming of Gladiator and where he apparently died.

                                                Like many have said previously I’ve been in pubs in Dublin and bars in Havana where Joyce and Hemingway respectively are supposed to have frequented. I’ve been to a ‘Hemingway’ bar in several cities. I’m a very cliched traveller.

                                                My son once lived very near the Blind Beggar in Bethnal Green and went a few times. It had a surprising ‘professional people having an after work drink’ vibe, not that I was expecting rooms full of murderous underworld villains.

                                                Madrid has lots of great bars but not many famous ones, probably due to the fact that It’s a city that has always lost out to London, Paris or Rome in terms of film settings. Cafe Central on a live jazz night is very good and is one of the few with an international reputation.



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                                                  #74
                                                  Sam must have been quite taken with the lady in question, as Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is full of promotional material and merch testifying to its notoriety.

                                                  As is periodically the case, this USian is struck by just how many of you have been to Havana, which was effectively off limits to us for the vast majority of my lifetime

                                                  Tony's mention of Paris and Rome leads me to put forth two nominations for each. For Paris, le Procope, the Left Bank cafe that dates back to the 17th c, and Les Deux Magots, the favourite hangout of De Beauvoir and Sartre. For Rome, Harry's Bar, as featured in La Dolce Vita, and Antico Caffé Greco, which has been operating on Via Condotti since before the American Revolution.

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                                                    #75
                                                    Originally posted by Balderdasha View Post
                                                    I barely drink these days and have only been to a pub twice in the last two years and had one drink each time
                                                    One doesn't of course hsve to drink alcohol in a bar. My partner rarely does.

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