I'm trying to think of a name for a pub, something a little different but not so different that it just sounds too fictional, along with a very little story behind the name. It's a traditional pub, just your average friendly local where everybody knows everybody. Its clean and fairly modern on the inside, other than that the imagination can still run free.
I'd try to tie it in with the setting of whatever you're writing. "The ___ and ____" automatically sounds pubby, so maybe use that as your basis
That's the basis I'm wanting to use. I've googled some, I don't want it to be one that you hear of all of the time yet I dont want it to be something too fantasy/fictional.
The Buxom Blonde! Seriously though (), just google "list of British pub names" and get some inspiration. You may actually copy one from there or change it slightly so it becomes your own.
If I use a name that already exists its not going to cause difficulties is it? There a lots of pubs that have the same name.
Ok, these are my local ones: Rose and Crown, The Australian Arms, The Red Lion, Suffolk Punch, The Bull, The Cock Inn, The Harvester, The Queens Head, The Royal Exchange, The Rose Tavern, Fox and Hound. You get the idea
Maybe these will help, again pubs local to me: The Salthouse The Harp The Crab Apple The Moon & Sixpence The Bristol The Wagon & Horses The Bristol Bridge Inn H & W The Royal The Royal Oak The Star Inn Hope they help.
The Dive with an old scuba helmet for a logo has always amused me. A dive pub...a dive...The Dive..lol
The ______ Lounge. Insert name of town. Then characters can just call it "the Lounge". Or something like that. Don't give it a name that's a mouthful of words every time a character has to say it.
If you can tie it in with something to do with your location ...a historical tidbit, or something relating to the industry nearby, that also works. My husband's local, here in Scotland, is called The Auld Hoose. We have The Bay Horse across from the racetrack. There is one up north called The Seaforth Inn, which is—interestingly—not related to its proximity to the water, but to the name of an important historical family. Glasgow's east end has The Saracen's Head (known locally as the Sorry Heid) Babbity Bowster's, Heilan Jessie's, The Tolbooth, The Victoria Bar. Then there are the ones named after the people who run, or ran them. Carrigan's. Or a feature of the pub itself: The Horseshoe Bar—because the bar is shaped like...yagoddit inwun.
Slug and Lettuce Cat and Bagpipes The Bilge Rat The Firkin Knot The Honest Politician The Shovel Inn Crab and Nadgers
Maggie's pub and the owner is named Maggie and she is a sexy red head and all the male customers in the pub love her.
If I used this idea any inspiration as to why it would be called the dive? History? Something near by that it is linked to?
that one always reminds me of a trainer at work whose chat up line was 'Oi, Slug, Want some lettuce?' cause his local at Uni was The Slug and Lettuce
Call it the "Adjective Noun". No, I don't mean to suggest that you use an adjective then a noun. I mean you actually call the pub "the Adjective Noun", to mock other pub names. But if you're really lazy, then just call it something horse-, royal- or flower- related.
