Best Pub Names Ever
 

Doesn't have to be just pubs, it can be any type of drinking establishment or restaurant with an odd or quirky name.

Most pubs around the Midlands seem to have pretty crap names, but I still remember one of my favourites from a trip to Somerset last year, The Rat and Trumpet. I guess the owners just put two random objects together and said 'that'll do'. I hear the manager's planning on opening another bar called The Screwdriver and Hitler. And of course there's the classic 'The Jury's Inn'.

Yates Wine Lodge. Not really that funny on its own, but the name suggests a classy bar with a pleasant atmosphere... instead its chav central with wall to wall piss-weak-beer drinkers.

The Funky Winker Bean Pub in Vancouver has by far the best name I've ever seen for a pub. Problem is it's an absolute dump and junkies use their bathroom as a shooting gallery.

Divot's Bar & Grill

It's called "Divots" because there's a golf course across the two-lane back top. Mind, this is a golf course in one of the poorest counties in Missouri, and it too serves beer, and the locals (my neighbors) usually go there to get wildly drunk, tear around in golf carts, and tell obscene jokes that would make Mel Gibson blush.

....but, I lose myself. This bar is located in a single wide trailer, tin roof and all, the pool tables and shuffle board are warped, and all beer costs $1.50 - with selections ranging from Budweiser (high end) to Beer 30 (which is cheaper than Natty), and it has a variety of malt liquor including Camo & this strange **** called "Joose" that turns your vomit the colours of the rainbow.

....so, what's so great about the bars name? The goddamn locals pronounce it "Devo's", and I think that is about as hilarious as it gets.

There's plenty of pubs like that here with completely random names, The Cat and Bagpipes for example, or The Hook and Tackle. I might set up a pub called The Cock and Balls and have a picture of a rooster with two footballs on the front.

The best pub name I've come across is a place called The Deadman's Inn, just outside Dublin on the M6. Badass.

Hook and Tackle is fishing equipment, so I'd guess its near a lake or something yeah?

Ditto, just spotted it passing through a village.

I wanted to try get work in a bar recently and have no experience so I decided to invent a bar I worked in before. I named it The Molehouse. No questions ever!

our pubs have pretty run of the mill names

Chinese shops, on the other hand

there was a street with one shop called "Wee Ken Fatt" on it, and on the opposite, "Soh Ken Wee"

There's a Chinese restaurant in Liverpool called Wok This Way.

I would definitely eat there and give a big tip.

Oh, Chinese restaurants...

I've seen one called Fook Yew before, if that qualifies. On the random subject of them, I once named a story I'd written after a Chinese that's up my local high street.

This one is fictional, but it's the best ever:

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The Hairy Lemon

Like hiphop bunny`s contribution, this pub also has a name that you have to be a local to pronounce with any confidence :

Hautboy Inn, Ockham, Surrey, GU23 6NP - pub details # beerintheevening.comhttp://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs...boy_Inn/Ockham

Well, maybe the name`s not that great, but if you take the trouble of clicking on "Image 2" in the link, you`ll see what a strange pub it was. It was like drinking in a church that had a bar instead of an altar.

I actually know two bars in that francise, and they're both quite close to my house. It seems to be a popular place at the moment, probably due to a bunch of hipster douchebags wanting to be ironic by going to the most revolting sounding pub in town.

The House of the Crazy Hen (Madrid, Spain).

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I've just been reminded of a pub up north called The Moving Stairs. It stands ou no only for having a cool name, but for also having a very nice facade that seemed to have been collaged together from things like tin sheets. The really interesting part was that the facade looked quite similar to the cover of a Death Cab For Cutie album that was released a couple of years after I saw the pub. The name of the album? Narrow Stairs, of all things.

Not the greatest or even great, but this bar is called the Rathskellar. It is only the bottom floor of this building.

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I just think it's funny that it is nicknamed the RapeCellar

One of my favorite bars in Chicago: The Hungry Brain.

Wasn't Funky Winker Bean some kind of comic strip?

I'm pretty sure it means "rat cellar" not "rape cellar". And it's just a German term for a bar that's below street level.

it might mean rat cellar but the patrons have nicknamed it the rape cellar, I think that is what Dirty meant.

There was a Vietnamese butcher nearby with the name

Phouc Dat

:D

There's a pseudo pub establishment in my area called The Iron Horse. An Iron Horse is, for those of you unacquainted with railroads, a train.Pub names are used to identify and differentiate each public house.The Prince of Wales mundane I know but at least I am going to be in for a good time even if I do regret it in the morning!

I've heard of chinese restaurant called Wok 'n' Roll.

There's a gay bar somewhere where I live called The Nutty Buddy.

There should be a bar for Chinese people with speach impediments called Wok the Wine.

Wok 'N' SpringRoll, would be better.

There's a gay bar in Chicago called The Manhole.

the only gay bar in Malaysia has quite a lame name - The Blue Boys Club - after Police Academy, I suppose?

I know one near my school. It's super popular but the name just creeps me out. The visual I get is unsettling every time I think about it.

Clowns
155 Bevois Valley Road, Southampton, United Kingdom - Google Maps

Nasty, nasty place.

That's hilarious. It reminds me of an Arrested Development scene:

VO: In fact, Tobias had intended to come, but had a slight miscommunication with his cab driver...

Cabbie: Where to, mate?
Tobias: The Gothic Castle.
Cabbie: [in thick, cockney accent] The Gothic Asshole?
Tobias: That's what I said.

VO: ...and ended up in the wrong location.

Saw a pub in Brighton, England, back in the 90's, called 'The Queen's Head'
The pub sign hanging over the door was a painting of Freddy Mercury's head.
Needless to say, it was a gay bar.

Haha, is that the one where Tobias buys the leather outfit?

And speaking of leather daddies, there's a gay leather bar in Boston called The Ramrod.

Another Brighton pub is The Pub With No Name:

The name reminds me of a tarn in the Lake District that`s marked on the map," Innominate Tarn ".
Q : Does Innominate Tarn have a name or not ?

I saw an interesting one up in Scotland on my way to the ferry: The Doctor's Inn.