Video #49: The Great Lost Bear!

The Guys make another stop in Portland, Maine, where folks are VERY serious about their craft brews. This is a Third Place of the finest order. The Great Lost Bear features 65 different taps, a focus on Maine microbrews, and a cribbage board. (Okay, there are a few other things to enjoy as well.) Top ten ratings from folks all over the world, and Gourmet magazine says it's "One of the greatest bars on earth"! AND, Bumper stickers are free! Send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: 

Bumper Sticker, Great Lost Bear

540 Forest Ave

Portland, ME 04101          Cheers!

Video #48: Farewell P&G Cafe'.

The Guys make their way to the Upper West Side of Manhattan to say goodbye to a gem of a bar, family owned since 1942. Rising rents are forcing the P&G to move uptown. Will their patrons follow? We can only hope so. But in the process, the owners will have to take down the oldest neon sign in New York City. Join us for yet another goodbye.

Fair winds and following seas.

Video #47: The earliest Happy Hour...ever. Ruski's.

The Guys make their way back to Maine, and the earliest Happy Hour on record (as far as they've ever seen). Ruski's is also a historic bar, open through prohibition, and is now Portland's oldest pub. It was built in the 1860's and became a beer parlor in 1900. It remained open through Prohibition as a "lunch parlor", but still sold alcohol through the back door. It has remained in business as one name or another since 1900.

The highest price menu item is the surf&turf at 13.95. By far most things are under 10. A burger is still only 4.95, and coffee is 80 cents!

Join Mark and Jimmy as they coffee up, wake up, and then start their 'good night' at Ruski's!

Video #43: Ghost Hunting at the Jameson Tavern!

The Guys try their hand at ghost hunting at one of our favorite places in Maine, right in downtown Freeport. How a property can be so welcoming and creepy at the same time is beyond us; but make no mistake, it is very, very cool. If you are within a hundred miles of this place you must stop in and check it out. Great food, great local brews and spirits (pun somewhat intended) and enough stories to keep you coming back over and over again.  Enjoy! Cheers!