5/29/2012 Update – 3 Years In!



As of April 30, I’ve been chronicling the bars I’ve gone to in the Quad Cities for three years, and almost two years through this forum.  As that date approached I was hustling, trying to attain my goals of 300 bars in three years and 450 overall.  The first goal I accomplished, by hitting the Rusty Nail, The Torchlight, and The Triangle in the final days, but I fell woefully short of the other at 431.
 
I thought about (semi) retirement, or at least a little rest.  After all, during that time I visited 300 bars, a total of 1429 times.  I also went to 111 bars not in the Quad Cities, a total of 161 times.  That adds up to 1590 times at the pub.  Let’s see… 365 days in a year, plus 1 for Leap Year:  that’s 1590 in 1096 days.  So I thought maybe a little break might be a good thing. 

But…

4 Play in the District of Rock Island and the second Bent River Brewery location (also in Rock Island) opened, and now I’m at 433.  Due to open any day is the Freight House location for Front Street Brewery, which is one of the 14 on my What’s Left list.  With 67 to go, I’ll be hitting golf courses, restaurants, bowling alleys – pretty much anything where I can belly up and buy a Miller Lite, to reach my new goal of 500 by the end of the year.

Okay, maybe I’ll stretch this out to 4 years.

I’ve updated my Favorite Bartenders list with the addition of Destiney – hadn’t seen her for years; then she waited on us at Belgrade on Wednesday and Torchlight on Saturday.  I think she may be the only bartender to have waited on us at five different places (Poor Boy’s, QC Hammertime, and Cabana’s were the others).

Not much else of note to report; the old Double Deuce on 4th St in Davenport looks like it’s remodeling, but looking more like office space – I said the same thing about 4 Play in the district, though.

Out of the 300 bars I’ve been to in the QCA over the last three years, there are only 51 that I’ve been to more than three times, and 184 that I’ve only been to once.  Here’s a list of the 20 bars I’ve been to the most last three years:

   Bar                                         #

It's On The River
174
Rick & Kathy's
146
Harley's
123
Bon Air
62
G's Riverfront Café
58
Governor's (Bettendorf)
51
Fargo
44
Duey's
32
P. K. Dugan's
33
Poor Boy's
26
Caddy's
21
Parkside
21
Paddlewheel
19
Yankee Doodle
18
Mulligan's Valley Pub
17
Rosy's Watering Hole
15
Bierstube Leclaire
13
Duck City
13
Bad Boy'z
12
North Shore Inn
12

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