The Barbary Coast

Sarah and I went to Wilmywood this past weekend. We visited what has to be one of the best dive bars in America, The Barbary Coast. Austin’s Carousel and LaLa’s Little Nuggest have some East Coast competition with this one. The sign on the front door says it all: “We’ve upped our Standards… Up yours.” Unlike many well-known dive bars, the Coast wasn’t a mix of lifers and hipsters–it was more a mix of working class heroes and pirates. Appropriately, a huge Anti-Hero Skateboards stickers is plastered across the beer cooler (which incidentally carries an alarming assortment of craft beers). It was a great place to watch the Cats get destroyed by IU.

December 12th, 2005