Quad Cities Bars

It didn’t start out this way back when I started tracking this in May of 2009, nor even when I started blogging about it in November 2010, but I’m now on a quest to hit 500 Quad Cities Area bars.  When I first started journalizing my bar count, I set up some parameters for what counts as a bar, as well as what counts as the QCA. First, what counts as a bar:  As I defined it in my inaugural post, a restaurant can count as a bar, providing there is an actual bar with stools.  For me to count it, I must physically belly up and have a beer, or other adult beverage.  Same goes for bowling alleys, golf courses, and sports venues.   This rule has cost me counting Huckleberry’s, where over the course of two Parrot Head socials I’ve certainly gotten my Miller Lite on, and more recently, Cool Beanz Coffeehouse (a little more on that below).  This rule is set in stone. Next, what counts as the Quad Cities area:  I originally defined this as eastern...

Though I managed to hit nine new places in Florida, Wisconsin, and Michigan, I only have two more Quad Cities additions since the last post, bringing me up to 452 . In Davenport, Stickman’s apparently reopened last month, with a remodel and under new management (same guy is also running Lumpy’s and McButt’s).  Since I never got to this place before it closed a couple years back, I’m not sure what the remodel entailed, but it seems presentable enough now.  The Quad City Family Entertainment Center in Moline also opened around the end of August.  It includes a bowling alley that has 24 lanes, plus 8 ‘boutique’ lanes (which means couches instead of tables and chairs), a large video game area, laser tag and two bars:  one by the lanes (which will make the list eventually), and Frankie’s, which will be a really nice sports bar when the put in the 10 flat screens that are conspicuously missing.  The huge downside of Frankie’s is the $3.75 (actually it’s 3.50...