Daley Double Saloon

 

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James G.

Cardiff by the Sea, CA

This place has been here forever and a day, and you should respect it just for that. Despite what some other yelpers have said, the ambience is classic...murals of early Encinitas, the Wild West...tile floors...mahogany walls that've seen better days...something historic in a town with little history.

I watched it go from a dive bar in the 80's frequented by hippies, surfers, weirdos, and hard-boiled reporters, to the place we all hung out after high school in the 90's, to its current incarnation--a flashy dive, but with all kinds of kooks still in the mix.

The only downside is there's a lot of fights, this town's major flaw.  Everyone is so mellow by day, but they're repressing something.  Like that Seinfeld episode, "serenity now leads to insanity later..."

Full-on fights with fists flying can break out any moment, the later and drunker the better. Maybe I'm exaggerating, maybe not, depends on what night you go...but it does give it an element of danger, and that's what u want in a dive.

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mande b.

Lake Forest, CA

the death of a great bar is a sad day... you know that place where the drinks are flowing and they are almost always playing your favorite song... a place where you've been a million times and feel like it's your place... well the new saloon is NOT that place anymore and that's sad.

the new "owners" as they so smuggly introduce themselves have completely wrecked the place... the people that they bring in are the worst crowd ever, unless you like 45 year old women on a girls nights out without their husbands.  or the jerk that will sit at your seat when there are plenty of others available when you go outside to smoke.  if you can get past the guy missing teeth out on the patio then go right ahead and this is just the place for you.  otherwise from one local to another this is not the place it used to be.

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