San Diego CityBeat - Bars & clubs http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/articles.sec-36-1-bars-clubs.html <![CDATA[San Diego Bars & Clubs FTW - Raise a glass for San Diego’s watering-hole champions]]> In this, the 2011 edition of our annual Bars & Clubs issue, we salute the wizards of the watering holes, the stars of the saloons, the conquerors of the canteens, the tops of the taverns.]]> <![CDATA[Power player - Eddie “KON” Castro can’t get enough of pinball ]]> Eddie “KON” Castro is crazy about pinball, and he’s not afraid to show it. ]]> <![CDATA[About Schmidt - Noble Experiment cocktail maker hopes to defend his title ]]> When the final secret ingredient of the night was revealed to the last two survivors, Anthony Schmidt knew immediately what cocktail he’d make.]]> <![CDATA[Trivial matters - The Shakespeare Internationals know more than you ]]> John Evans will tell you he’s a piano technician. Do not believe him. He is a British MI6 super-agent who’s been sent to San Diego to slowly undermine our social infrastructure—one quiz night at a time.]]> <![CDATA[Lethal weapon - An amateur street fighter cleans up at Soda Bar ]]> At first glance, you wouldn’t guess that Todd Cutler is dangerous with a joystick. ]]> <![CDATA[A guide to San Diego bars and clubs - 2011 CityBeat Bars & Clubs listings]]> From the beaches to the Mesas, CityBeat staff and freelancers set out to write one sentence about hundreds of bars. The result is this seriously long-but-useful list of bars and clubs across San Diego County. ]]> <![CDATA[Conqueror of cups - Practice, confidence and a nice buzz are the secrets of his success ]]> As much as natural ability has been key to his success, Kreutzer says that practice has indeed made perfect.]]> <![CDATA[Fishing for a win - At Worldcup Goldfish Racing, it’s up to you to catch the champ ]]> The jockeys line up and, one by one, carefully choose their fish from a tank of about two dozen. This one small choice will ultimately decide the outcome of the night. ]]> <![CDATA[Best bathrooms in town - Currant is where it’s at]]> The best thing about a hotel bar is the bathroom. Elaborately folded-over toilette paper ensures freshness. Polished marble. Automated everything. Yeah, hotel-bar bathrooms are the best, I decide as I walk through the lobby of the Sofia Hotel back toward Currant, the Downtown restaurant that boasts a bar shaped like a rounded diamond (or a pointy oblong, depending on how you look at it).]]> <![CDATA[Odysea and Ora girl - A review of Odysea in San Diego]]>

I didn’t want to tell Ora the name of the bar.

“Odysea, a Liquid Adventure” wouldn’t sound cool to a chick who, last time I saw her, was cleaning up a spilled tube of cadmium red oil paint from the dirty floor of her City Heights shack by smearing it onto her hands and slapping bloody prints all over the walls.

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]]> <![CDATA[Thar she drinks - Our take on the Whaling Bar in La Jolla]]> But the Whaling Bar’s mural’s where it’s at. Stretching the full length of the area behind the bar and painted on the wall (then framed to make it look like a hanged painting), the mural depicts a fleet of 18th-century New England whalers who’ve launched from their ship in smaller boats to descend on a pod of whales.]]> <![CDATA[The down Loews - Our take on Cays Lounge]]> Our take on Cays Lounge
]]> <![CDATA[Jersey-made - The Inn at the Park’s bartender pours a good drink]]> Yes, expect the unexpected when entering the unpretentious, quirky, old-world universe that is the Inn at the Park, nestled comfortably on the ground floor of the historic Park Manor Suites hotel on the corner of Spruce Street and Fifth Avenue in Bankers Hill.]]> <![CDATA[Like a fish - Our annual guide to bars and clubs shows you how to drink]]> Our annual guide to bars and clubs shows you how to drink]]> <![CDATA[The little things - Syrah’s décor is all about details]]> Syrah’s décor is all about details]]> <![CDATA[Take it easy - Tin Can Alehouse asks you to leave the ’tude at the door]]> Tin Can Alehouse asks you to leave the ’tude at the door]]> <![CDATA[See me, feel me - Voyeur doesn’t hear the death knell signaling the demise of nightclub excess]]> Voyeur doesn’t hear the death knell signaling the demise of nightclub excess]]> <![CDATA[(Not so) extreme makeover - Thankfully, The Salty Frog retains some of its colorful past]]> Thankfully, The Salty Frog retains some of its colorful past]]> <![CDATA[Pop life - How a once notorious dive transformed into one of the best music clubs in town]]> How a once notorious dive transformed into one of the best music clubs in town]]>