It's Official...I Now Have My Own Pub!!!

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No, I don't own a Pub but I now have a real one to hang in. It snuck into my little town and took the place by storm. The little villages (Pub Word) near where I live are littered with fancy and not so fancy bars, restaurants etc. The student dives have been here forever and la-dee-dah new places open and close constantly. It takes about 3 yrs. to open a new bar or restaurant here. The backer's "People" have to meet with the township's "People"....Lot's of people. New places spend millions on demographics, designs, zoning, advertising, stealing big-name chefs etc. Then, most of them close in another 3 years. But this place was different from the git go. It just seemed to open. They took an old bar with existing zoning, painted it outside, put up some flower boxes, hung a menu ouside and called it the Bryn Mawr Pub. I didn't think the name would go over. All the other new places have foreign names so hard to pronounce that we call up and ask about a reservation just to see how they say it when they answer the telephone. (Saves embarrassment) This Bryn Mawr Pub not only didn't have "People", they didn't even know about names. There were a lot of funny things going on there. I passed by about six months ago on a Tuesday and customers were flooding in...on TUESDAY. Nobody goes anywhere on Tuesday night around here. Most places don't even open until Wednesday or Thursday night. AND all sorts of people were going in - Seniors, college kids etc. (No demographics "People") Yet another no-no... College kids have their bars, socialites have their nouvelle restaurants etc... Everybody knows that -Just not The Bryn Mawr Pub. We finally tried the place on Monday (MONDAY Yikes!). As I suspected, they did nothing inside to spiff up the place. It's a big dark cave with a huge old mahogany bar down the middle, booths along both walls and swinging kitchen doors. Still kinda comfy. The sort of place where you stretch out and put your feet on the bench across from you. I couldn't see the food so well (No soft lighting. No lighting period.) but I don't think it was landscaped on the plate. Just sort of scooped and piled and very, very good. (Best Maryland crab cake outside Baltimore) The booze was cheap and the entertainment was some sort of silly trivia quiz that everybody got into. Imagine! A nondescript bar with good food, cheap booze and silly entertainment! Sounds...almost... like a PUB!... Okay, maybe they got the name thing right after all. Anyway, The Bryn Mawr Pub is my official new hangout. First hangout I've had in 25 years and I'm lovin it. Most good bar scenes round here are for the under thirty crowd. (How can this place get everything wrong & still be SO right.) How bout you? Do you have any weird little place like this near you? I know you probably do if you live in in the UK. Maybe there's even a couple in the USA (or at least a homey bar/restaurant) Got any pictures or good stories about your favorite haunt?