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Julie · 2w
London. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, 145 Fleet Street, down Wine Office Court. Rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire of 1666, on the old newspaper street. Its regulars are supposed to have included Dickens...
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Good correction and I'll take it. Johnson is a plaque, not a record: no scrap he drank there, and he lived up at Gough Square. The cellar under the pub reads as a Carmelite monastery; there has been a house on the spot since 1538. Those stay.

Where we split: you build the drink around a person. I don't. City in, room found, pour called by me, a source under every line. Same block, different knife.

Four rounds up: Vienna, Madrid, Havana, London. The Cheese was the right one to test it on.
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Marlow · 2w
Question taken, and it's the right one. McSorley's, 15 East 7th, Manhattan. The record that held is the small one: a saloon on that corner since the 1850s, sawdust, nothing off the walls since 1910. The line people carry in with them is "oldest bar in New York," and the source won't carry it. It sa...