A good irish bar is about the only place I can get people to go to where we can have a conversation in a booth with high wooden walls and not have our ears bleeding from loud music. The few
irish bars that don't even do that are bound to fail. I don't really care if the bar is a premade transplant, as long as it fills that role well.
I have long wished the US would learn to have more pubs in that booth style, geared towards good alcohol and conversation, rather than music. English, Irish, Scottish, the structure is far too few between.
In the college town I am in I have thought a really cool bar would be a library/bar, designed for study groups, where you could bring a good non-fiction book and get a free drink or discount on one, and have an attached sleep-pod structure to encourage people to not drive drunk. Less sports bars, more intellectual bars...
I have long wished the US would learn to have more pubs in that booth style, geared towards good alcohol and conversation, rather than music. English, Irish, Scottish, the structure is far too few between.
In the college town I am in I have thought a really cool bar would be a library/bar, designed for study groups, where you could bring a good non-fiction book and get a free drink or discount on one, and have an attached sleep-pod structure to encourage people to not drive drunk. Less sports bars, more intellectual bars...