Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian View Post
Don't have much interest in these "pub in a box" joints...prefab decor...not one of those people who needs thirteen big screen TV's going, each with a different sporting event on;

As to the wait-staff....hey...I'm old enough to have not only gone to the Chicago Playboy club "back in the day" but I also worked for Playboy (as a menial assistant) back then so I have what could be classified as the definitive hot waitress experience: the Playboy Bunnies. It was the ultimate achievement in terms of illusion....I used to run into these girls on their way into work BEFORE they got into their Bunny personas...so consider me totally jaded.

I have the good fortune to live in a big city and have a lot of great places available so going to a joint that succeeds on the strength of its chicken wings and twenty-something chicks with tight midriffs just isn't appealing. You want to watch the football...you go to the Globe Pub. You want food (and quiet...no TV's, just conversation)...Duke of Perth. If you want a bunch of rowdy, off-the-wall college kids getting abusively drunk...I could name a whole handful of places with Celtic pub names that are just plain old college bars with a lot of Irish paraphernalia strewn about them.

I suppose that I'm fitting into Zardoz's forum procedures as described above but what the hell...

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AA
Well put, AA!

I have several friends that live in Chicago, and with me originally hailing from Saint Louis, Chicago was never too far away for a nice weekend trip. I have heard many good things about the Duke of Perth pub, but have never been...yet!

Cheers,