"The Riptide, San Francisco"

San Francisco's Outer Sunset District, a streetcar ride away from downtown, is home to The Riptide.  A one-time biker bar, this friendly almost-at-the-beach bar welcomes all for  cocktails, happy hours, music.....and BINGO! But this sureinnahell ain't your Grandma's Church Hall Bingo Parlor!

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"Hair of the Dog"

"You play, you pay", that's what they sometimes say. In this episode, we head out to East Austin to a Mexican market in search for a cure for an amazing (and might I add, well deserved) hangover.

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"The Gold Dust Lounge, San Francisco"

Downtown San Francisco's Union Square has been home to a classic saloon for decades before it's current owners took over in 1966.  This long-time meeting place for locals, tourists, celebrities, working stiffs, and politicians is in jeopardy of losing it's home of over 47 years.  Join me as we visit the Gold Dust Lounge.

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"Louie Mueller's Barbecue, Taylor, TX"

The AA Hour is back, and this time we're heading for one of the legendary joints on the Texas BBQ Trail- Louie Mueller's in Taylor. Since 1940's they've been serving up brisket, sausage, ribs and the like, all slow cooked over oak fires in brick pits. I'll sample some of the most delicious smoked meats I have ever tasted, and of course, wash it down with some ice cold Texas brewed beer. Hope y'all enjoy it!

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"White Horse Tavern, NYC"

New York City's Bohemian culture was born in Lower Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Once a workingman's low-rent neighborhood, it now is gentrified, but the Beat Generation soul lives on. Join me as we visit the legendary White Horse Tavern, once home to poets, folksingers, writers, and more recently, to a fairly-intoxicated AA Hour host (yes, I'm talking about me.)

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"The Pied Piper Bar, SF and The King Cole Bar, NYC"

San Francisco and New York have many things in common.  Not the least of which is both have a historical hotel, each with a lobby bar highlighted by an amazing work of art by the same major artist. Get ready to go bi-coastal, as we visit SF's Palace Hotel's Pied Piper Bar and NYC's St. Regis' Hotel's King Cole Bar.
   

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"Lombardi's Pizza, NYC"

At the turn of the last century, New York City's Lower East Side was the destination for immigrants from all over Europe. On the corner of Spring and Mott Streets, in what is left of Little Italy, you'll find the home of the oldest pizzeria in the United States, Lombardi's. Join me as we dig into an amazing coal-fired pie, and fittingly, have a pint of the oldest beer brewed in America as well.

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