What Customers Really Want From The Person Behind The Bar What makes a good bartender from a customer's point of view? After spending a lot of time on the other side of the bar, I've learned that it's often the little things that matter most. Here are 10 bartender etiquette tips that can lead to happier customers, better tips and more regulars. By Kevin Wilkerson, … [Read more...]
Switzerland Nightlife Guide: Why Zurich & Basel Belong On Every Party Traveler’s List
These Swiss Cities Have A Better Party Scene Than Most People Realize When people think about Europe's nightlife, they usually picture Amsterdam, Berlin or the Greek Islands. After several trips to Switzerland, however, I came away convinced that Zurich and Basel deserve a place on that list. Here's why these two cities continue to surprise party travelers. By Kevin … [Read more...]
Bucket List Top 10 Party & Best Nightlife Destinations For 2025
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Here's where I want to go and what I want to do in 2025. If the world were wide open to me, these are the places and events where I would party, for they are part of my all-time Bucket List. Some places I have already been to and want to go to again, while some others are top party targets. The bucket list move would … [Read more...]
Top New Year’s Eve Tips for Bars: Make it a Night to Remember
How Staffing, Champagne, Customer Service & Smiles Can Make Boost A Bar's Long-Term Profit It's New Year's Eve, we want to go to a bar, have some drinks, have fun and meet and mingle with other people in the bar. We understand it's NYE, that things take a bit more patience than usual, that the bar and staff can be overwhelmed and other factors that go into this … [Read more...]
North End is Hermosa Beach’s LA Kings Watching Bar
It's Not The Ol' Harry O's, But This Long-Time Dive Is The Place to be for the Stanley Cup Final in LA's South Bay Beach Cities Oh, for the days of Harry O's. Not just for its status as one of the South Bay's all-time great pick-up bars, but also as a place to watch hockey. Watch hockey? In Los Angeles? In the South Bay Beach Cities!? Well don't adjust your … [Read more...]
Places Other Than Singles Bars To Pick Up Girls
Grocery Stores Are True Meat Markets For Meeting People A male friend and I were sitting in a bar when a girl of ample cleavage – revealed in an eye-popping V-neck dress that plunged down practically to her navel – plopped down next to us and started talking to us. She could immediately tell we were single and – in rapid-fire succession – started telling us places … [Read more...]
Transition Time Is The Best Time To Pick Up Girls In Bars
Singles Life Is A Lot About Timing The best time to pick up girls in bars is when they have their guard down, which is to say off -peak nights and off-peak times. That's why I've had my most success not in a packed bar on a Friday or Saturday night but at what I call "transition time." This is the time when the girls have stopped in a bar for a drink or two after … [Read more...]
A Night In A Los Angeles Tiki Bar With A Big Rum Drink
Curing Island Fever At The Purple Orchid Tiki Lounge In El Segundo Whenever I get island fever and can't get to an island, I go to a tiki bar. And when I go to a tiki bar, I can't help but having the most potent, rum-laced drink on the menu. And when I have the most potent, rum-laced drink on the menu I can't stop having it, at least not until my eyes start acting … [Read more...]
LAVO Las Vegas Offering Super Bowl-Like Viewing For NFL Playoff Games
The $150 Price Is Definitely For High Rollers (Unlike Myself) The flyer immediately caught my attention – open bar! Then I looked at it more closely. Yes, an open bar. For $150. This is not for New Year's Eve or the Super Bowl. It's what LAVO Las Vegas, a restaurant/bar in the Venetian, is offering for the NFL Playoff games. Suddenly, my inner Jim Mora came out, … [Read more...]
Another Hermosa Beach Party Event, Another Night In The Pier Ave. Bars
LA Galaxy Championship Party Provides This Excuse Just when I thought it was safe to stay at home – spend a quiet evening with mindless TV on the background while adding articles to this blog and PubClub.com – then another event comes up that will have me back out on the Hermosa Beach Pier. And the bars. Blame the LA Galaxy! The MLS soccer team won the league … [Read more...]
Sharkeez Newport Beach Hiring Staff For January Re-Opening
Decor To Be Less Beach Shack Like Hermosa And Manhattan Beach Locations Instead of drinking at the bar, why not be behind the bar? You can – if you are hired – at Baja Sharkeez in Newport Beach, CA. The wildly popular and fun bar that is undergoing a remodeling is taking applications for staff. The "new and improved" Sharkeez is due to open in mid-January. It will have … [Read more...]
Kalibar In The Valley Is My Favorite Party Bar In Happening Brisbane
Fun Party Music Makes This One Of The City's Liveliest Nightlife Spots Well that didn't take long. Midway into my first night in this Australian river city, I had identified my favorite bar in Brisbane. It's a small, sweaty, casual, cut-loose of a place called Kalibar. It's one of dozens of bars in the happening part of town called The Valley. My local tour guide – or … [Read more...]
College Football Party: Alabama-Ole Miss Weekend Off To Good Start
Back To School Blog From Tuscaloosa, AL I knew this would be a good trip when I became smitten with an Alabama girl hours before I even arrived in the state. She was on the first leg of my flight from Los Angeles, an absolute DOLL from the tiny dot of Opp, AL, who was in LA shopping for her family's boutique store. She was bubby, chatty, had a wide-eyed look about her and … [Read more...]
America’s Cup Provides A San Francisco Travel Treat
Sailing Race Spectacular Event For Spectators In An Eventful City When I got wind of the America's Cup taking place in San Francisco, I knew I had to be there for it. It's an international sporting event, one that gets worldwide media coverage and involves an interesting and fun (and also somewhat puzzling) sport, sailing. Plus, taking place in a city as dynamic as San … [Read more...]
Touring The Hermosa Beach Pier Ave Bars With The Bud Light Girls
Pub Crawling Through Sharkeez HB, American Junkie, Waterman's, Fenners During NVL Hermosa Beach Open Every now and then, the bars really perk up on Pier Ave., in Southern California's lively Hermosa Beach. When the Bud Light girls make the rounds, it makes having rounds of drinks at the bars that much better. PubClub.com happened to catch up with them on a summer Saturday … [Read more...]
Not Every Night Is A Wild Night For The Party Bar Blogger
Revealing The Secret To Keeping Nightlife Fresh I'm sitting at home watching the Dodgers-Yankees game ( LA wins!) thinking of what I want to post on this blog. There's a few things floating around in m head – the Madison Square Garden company today announced it is investing a whopping $100 million in the Los Angeles Forum to make it a concert venue to rival … [Read more...]
Sharkeez Hermosa Beach Is South Bay’s Top Sunday Night Bar
'The Black Hole' Lives Up To It's Local Nickname With Berry Bly's afternoon rooftop parties at Ocean Bar, the return of afternoon bands on the deck of Chiller's (well, now called On The Rocks) and even monthly bands and BBQs at BALEENkitchen, Sundays are again a good party day in the Los Angeles Beach Cities. But despite all these other tempting options, the king of South … [Read more...]
My March Madness Bracket Strategy: Get Drunk And Make Picks
Forget Over-Analyzing Teams, This Year Is A Toss-Up Tournament I'm going to win our March Madness pool this year. That's because I have the perfect strategy for picking the teams. I'm going to get drunk first! This is no half-court shot buzzer beater attempt. It's as skillful as Syracuse's zone defense, as solid as Florida's three-point shooters. After all, there really … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Bars Should Not Charge Cover On St. Patrick’s Day Weekend
After The Parade It's A Parade To Bars On The Pier, But Not If They Charge Customers Here's a way to turn your face green before you have your first green beer for St. Patrick's Day: Be hit with a cover charge to enter a bar. Yet that's what has happened the past couple of years in Hermosa Beach, as a few of the bars put out cash registers and had customers pay to enter. … [Read more...]
Miss Long Beach Grand Prix Event At American Junkie Hermosa Beach
Girls To Be Judged In After-5 Dresses And Swimwear In Preliminary Round Miss Grand Prix contestants will be in bikins for the Hermosa Beach prelim. Nice-looking girls are nothing new to American Junkie in Hermosa Beach, CA. But how many of them get the chance to go on to be the next Miss Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach? But on Thursday, March 14, four of them will get … [Read more...]
Here Are The Perfect Elements That Make Up A Good Live Music Dive Bar
The Best Live Music Bars Are Dive Bars That Highlights The Music Not Decor There's a small place I went to on occasion that I just learned is closing. It was a live music venue that featured really good local bands, and I'm sad to see it disappear from the scene. It had all the elements that made a perfect live music dive venue, and even had the word "dive" in its … [Read more...]
Stepping Out Of The South Bay Nightlife Bubble Of Hermosa Beach
The Tale Of A Trip Out Of The Beach Cities To Hear Shari Puorto Band At LA's Sagebrush Cantina I love live music and hearing bands, so when the opportunity came up to roll up to LA's famous Sagebrush Cantina to do just that, I jumped at the chance. And jumped in the car with the band leader, Shari "El" Puorto of the Shari Puorto Band. But to do so meant that I had to get … [Read more...]