Is there a difference between a pub and a bar?

[OddBeMe]

Seems like a pub can be a bar, but a bar can’t be a pub.

[purplepoppy]

Pub is short for "public house". Bar is the bit inside where you get served.
Sometimes pubs are split into bars and lounges. The lounge is more relaxed, sofas tables etc while the bar is often more for hardcore drinkers sitting on stools against the serving bench.

Then there's taverns too just to confuse things

[Joker_]

what's a tavern

[purplepoppy]

Technically speaking it's a pub that has a few rooms to let for travellers.

[Joker_]

thanks

[Jamie05rhs]

@purplepoppy Thank you for this. You have answered all of my deepest questions.

[Jamie05rhs]

by the way, good luck tomorrow! (I mean bad luck. But I'm saying good luck just to be polite. Lol)

[Joker_]

@purplepoppy revert to your previous profile picture

[purplepoppy]

But I like this one

[Joker_]

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[Guy13]

To me a Bar means a dive bar with bad and good local music, character, rough but clean, at least 3 bouncers, given some blades but no guns, few Harley/Suz, and college kids who behave like Rave trip acid types.

Pub means railings along the bottom of bar, mahogany, concrete or brick walls, cobblestone streets.

Food/Bar: tin topped, wood front, and no telling the rest

Martini bars: formal country club mahogany with historic brick walls, silver/pewter, Stylish from Feminazi to Main floor high rise reception girl skirts, politicians, Business... And, of course Sugar Babies

[jshm2]

Like the difference between being in the army or navy. There can be some mix between the two, but they are two very different things.

A bar is run by a barman who is licenced and can be a qualified and capable mixologist. But the important thing is the cocktail menu.

A pub on the other hand has a licenced landlord. But the draught, brew and pints as well as the grub are supposed to be distinct.

[Lowiu]

So here in germany bars are more American style pubs more British and kneipen more german

[integrale77]

A pub usually has a small bar where you order your drinks from but has seating areas away from the bar to socialize. Some places you can get a meal or at least snacks... If there are peanuts out eat at your own risk!

A bar is more American the establishment is filled by the bar area and you generally sit at the bar there is little seating otherwise in the UK your probably going to be standing though.

[OfDeath]

Yes and no. There are places called pubs and bars which are exactly the same thing. There might be some differences. For example a pub isn't a nightclub but a bar can be. I don't say that with much confidence though. I'm sure someone will say they've been to one which is.

[Chazmatazz269]

Not really. “Pub” is short for public. Pubs are for commoners to do things that wealthy people would join clubs to do. Clubs keep the riffraff out. Pubs bring them in! Ell oh ell!

[dustybiker]

A pub is so much better than a bar. It's homey. Different community entirely. Different country makes all the difference.

[BlurryHaze]

100%

[dustybiker]

@BlurryHaze 😎

[nolabels]

The term pub seems to me to be the British equivalent of the term bar.

Same thing, different locale.

[Sevenpointfive]

isn't pub an English term and bar an American? they both have the same function

[boredgal]

I don't know, can someone answer this right, I wanna know too

[Smoothing]

@purplepoppy has answered it precisely. Look at her comment

[AngryCarl]

A pub is in the UK. A bar is in America. Sadly the English pub has all but disappeared in the modern age of internet and coronavirus.

[dragoblack]

Pub is a public bar for all ages, bar is a bar ment for adults.

[Anonymous]

Nice to see you branching out and posting things besides your usual political hate topics.

[spartan55]

Isn't the difference pubs can serve food?
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[Miristheiss]

Doesn't a pub serve food too?

[Revvl]

The spelling.

[Smoothing]

A pub has a bar