In Britain we have a load of royal named things, e.g “The King’s Head,” “The Prince Henry,” or animal themed pubs like “The Three Pikes,” The Red Lion (most common oub name) or something gorey like “The Hanged Man,” “The Village Chopping Block.” On that note, we also have pubs named after landmarks, e.g “The Old Oak,” “The Anvil.”

Any more modern establishment like a bar can have posher or more postmodern names. Sometimes jokey names.

I was struck by a realisation thst i don’t know how other countries name their pubs amd bars. Would be helpful to know, for understanding other cultures. I even don’t know for places like the USA, which also speak English. Excited to hear your responses!

  • M137@lemmy.today
    5·
    2 days ago

    Sweden also has many old English pub names but also many others, very mixed overall.
    The street in my city (Gothenburg) I go to most has these bars:
    Kelly’s, Sejdeln (beer stein), King’s Head, Queen’s Head, Dansken (the danish), Republik, Down Under (Australian themed), Hops, The Abyss (heavy metal bar), Holy Moly, Bar Solo, Bongo, BIVAC, Haket (kinda “the place”, a slang word), SoHo, Ölstugan (the beer cabin), Street Life, Brewers, Le Pub, The Northern Quarter, 9:ans (the 9’s), Dirty Records, The Burger, Brygghuset (the brew house) and some more.
    Yes, this is one street (both sides and some on corners and a bit up the perpendicular streets for a few).
    Here’s the map (street in question is the red line):

    There are about as many on the lower and upper parallel streets (combined). And that’s like 1/10th of the bars in that area, the whole city and outer areas has a total of over 1000 bars.

      • M137@lemmy.today
        21·
        2 days ago

        Agree! Here’s some other random ones from around the city:
        Silverkällan “the silver spring/well”
        Henriksberg
        Oceanen
        Gröna brunnen (the green well)
        Pustervik
        Lilla London (little London, which is a nickname for the city)
        Red Lion (That covers several of the ones you mentioned in the post text, haha!)
        BARNET (directly translated it’s “the child/kid” but it’s also Bar + Net)
        Röda Sten (the red stone)
        Karl IX
        Pitchers
        Suggan (the sow)
        The Old Beefeater Inn
        Bar Robusta
        Steampunk Bar
        Botanico
        Stranger
        Golden-I
        Mr P
        Smöriga Bröd (buttery bread)
        Izakaya by KOMO
        Ölrepubliken (the beer republic)
        Havsbaren Tyska Bron (the ocean bar German bridge)
        Noot Nordik
        Werners
        Jinx Empire
        Eli’s Corner
        Stage Door
        Holy Cow

        Man, I could go on forever from just my memory, haha. ^^