30-33 of 52 George Street

This week I was sent to Newfoundland to work and complete some training and funny thing , this is the same week of the George Street Festival and Great Big Sea was kicking it off so what a better place to blog.

http://www.georgestreetlive.ca/events/george-street-festival/

If you have never been to St-John's you must try and get there at least once, it's beautiful and after a week you actually might understand what the locals are talking about..."by"

If you don't know or haven't ever heard of George St, it's basically one street with nothing but pubs and you have the opportunity to be "screeched in" as a local Newfoundlander all you need to do is :
1) drink screech
2) sing the proud to be a Newfoundlander song
3) kiss ...basically make out with a cod



I completed 3 blogs this week all on George Street , if you get my drift , I think I am still hungover to be honest with you.

The first place was at a Green sleeves , two of my colleagues joined my friend Shelley and I . We had some delicious Seafood and sat on a deck listening to a bad singer trying to be the next Keith Urban .. sorry about your luck pal.. he sucked. We asked the waitress and funny even over in Newfoundland , the girl had zero opinion .. so .. Stella is was.

Two nights later Shelley and I made our way to Yellow Belly Brewery and this place was AWESOME, it had great food , jammed packed and the bartender offered us up some homemade brew as a suggestion and I ended up with a pale ale and my girl Shelley had a Red Ale, then a Pale Ale , then a glass of Merlot... needless to say we were there a bit.

The next night was the cream of the crop , we started at a BBQ and then off to George Street where we ended up at Green sleeves again but this time accompanied by the Fantastic music of great big see.  This Festival is basically 4 nights of concerts and once you get through the gates you have access to all the bars on the street , there is music a bunch of people once of the best times ever.

It's well worth the trip to the ROCK ... what are you at?

3 out of 3 , next stop plan B....

29 of 52 Nita's Bar and Grill

This pub is on Mountain Road right after the Gorge Road lights, it's connected to a home cooking dinner.

the bartender actually didn't drink and offered zero opinion so bud light for me , Nat had a Coors light.

Wowza , this bar is the biggest frenzy of Karaoke I have ever seen in my life. We (Nat and I ) were almost rejects simply because of our lack of "love" for the new fad.

it's 10pm and it is time to sign at this club , packed to sing , whether your are the best or worst on the planet people will sing with you and clap when you are done.

my mom and dad decided to join in the fun and well I tried so hard to get my mom up , without any luck .

this will likely be the last time I go there , not because it was bad , but too much singing (bad singing) for my ears

1/3 here's to hoping next week's bar is not hosting karaoke....

28 of 52 Old Cosmo

The old Cosmo is on tonight , swapped out the Dog House pub for this one when we found out that the Thirsty Rangers were planning.

http://www.reverbnation.com/thirstyrangers

This pub is on Main street, we have been at this club tons of times in our lives it was the place growing up. It is dance bar upstairs and a nice basement where bands hand a great stage to plan for a good size crowd.

We got there at 11pm and the band was on a break , we asked the bartender what he recommended and to no surprise , no opinion as usual .. weird, you would think bartenders would actually offer something.

I ended up with a Bud light and Nat cranberry and vodka, grabbed a seat and waiting for the band. There were a lot of of our friends that we haven't seen in a while like my great friend Sean , Tracey M, and of course the girls we were meeting , Karen and Jill.

Rating 2/3 this place is aways great where there is a good band and good friends..

27 of 52 Bo Diddley's Lounge

Yep ,,, that really is the name of the bar, it can be found on Collishaw street and is actually attached to a garage which explains why all the cars are parked in the lot all day. I actually thought is was really that busy all the time ...NOPE ...

Anyway around 10:30 we get there and there is about 10 people and Karaoke going on .. AWESOME ...

All of the people are frequent flyer's and we of course stick out like a sore thumb .. the waitress has no opinion of what we should have so I have a bud light and Nat has a Coors. The lines up for Karaoke is never ending even if there are few involved, in fact it was like live idol in front of our faces....

 The bad thing was the kind of music that the folks were looking to sign was more along the lines of Pasty Cline ...yep without missing a howl..

 When I think about it the atmosphere and people around really reminded me of being at a wedding reception more than a bar ..

So if you are into the scene of showing off your great voice to old school country Friday night's at BoD's is the place for you . I am not a big fan of signing tunes off a screen and I am even less of a fan of depressing music .. So for me , this will be my last time at this place especially on Friday..

1/3 for me

26 of 52 Pump House

This was the easiest pub to go to all year. This pub is on Orange lane and is one of my favorites, good food , good beer. There is a huge patio usually packed all summer and this place is known for it's famous blueberry beer.

Nat and I went out about 11pm , the place was completely empty .. weird I guess everyone was partied out from the April Wine concert on Canada day. 

We sat down and the waitress described all of the beer , there is a beer menu and food menu of course. (Pizza at this place is wicked). When I couldn't decide , another waiter took a minute and got us a FREE tester tray AWESOME.

I ended up with Pale Ale , Nat had the blueberry , we drank the yummy stuff and off we went.

love it would go there any time 3/3 for me....