Downtown Archive

#1493: Enoteca

Posted on July 2021 | No Comments
(Downtown, Crescent City, CA) Scooter’s 1493rd bar, first visited in 2021. We thought this was a cocktail bar based on pictures we saw in Google reviews, but beer and wine...
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Welcome!
Some people collect autographs, some collect antiques, others collect stamps. My hobby is a little different, I collect bars. This site represents my collection, documenting each bar I visit.

This is not a review site, there's plenty of those already. Most posts in this bar diary are slice-of-life recaps of the half hour or so I spent having a beer. I hope you enjoy browsing through my collection!

--ScooterJ
A Few Random Favorites
- Village Lounge
  27 May 2006
  (South Waldo, Kansas City, MO) Closed, but a new bar has opened in the same location. Now Swagger Scooter’s 55th bar, first visited in 2006. The movie “First Knight” was...
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- Boiler Brewing Company
  21 November 2018
  (Downtown, Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1301st bar, first visited in 2018. Spectacular brewery in the basement of the Grand Manse building, a former courthouse. Accessed from a stairwell in an alley....
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- Kap’s Tavern
  24 August 2013
  (Downtown, Shenandoah, IA) Scooter’s 987th bar, first visited in 2013. Walking in from the bright sunshine outside, we stumbled a bit in what initially seemed like complete blackness. It took...
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