We went to the BAFlickr meetup again last night, the picture is Lucas, the barman and part owner of the KingsTown bar. It's only nine blocks away from our apartment and Lucas is very keen to make it as much like an English pub as possible.

He's never been to England so his conception of what an english/irish bar should be like is mostly from his time in the US. He's very enthusiastic, asking both me and Liz what he should add, change or get rid of to make his bar more like a 'proper' english bar.

Among the options we could have told him...
-Close the bar at 11 (for a retro English feel)
-Force everyone to drink more
-Turn the volume of the music up until you can't hear
-Serve Tetley's

It's never going to be a perfect copy but we told him that he'd got most of it right... tables and chairs, barstools, chicken in a basket, chips and proper barfood. He has a dartboard, he's got a last orders bell (that he rings at 3am on weekdays and 5am on weekends), he serves Glenfiddich and Jamesons and Guinness. The music is almost all English or Irish... and you have to buy your drinks at the bar, something the porteños find a little 'strange'.

The two suggestions I gave him were to offer some other games, dominoes and the like... and to maybe serve a ploughman's lunch... he liked that one, and he's already planning to serve bitters (from a little Argentine microbrewery).

Any other suggestions?
  ¶ 6:17 PM