This will be like a singles bar only nothing like a singles bar and certainly not marketed towards singles at all, though potentially useful for those of you are singles out there.
I want to design a bar that is specifically made to aid conversation. This means first and foremost no music so loud that people can’t auiblize their dislike for it at a reasonable level. This will have to be factored into whatever factors effect the “din” of a place as well. So no caverns for sure.
Also there should be a range of table and booths that are suited to a variety of different parties. The one on one facing table is great for two. A round table for a larger group. A tucked away booth for an intimate group of conspirators. And a big tucked away round booth for conspirators of greater notoriety.
I also expect the lighting to allow people to see each other, but not so much that they might want to stop talking to each other.
In some sense or another I am outlining a bar that is like a café. But I really feel like you could market this as a new type of hang out. Obviously there are no noise ordinances that will be enforced. But there will also be a conspicuous effort made for conversation to feel welcome, boisterous or not, and somewhat private, at least not completely discernable.
I would even love to see (and this is me acting like an old person) the incorporation of live music that was suited to the volume of the place.
Back to the point I was making before tho’, I feel like this is the sort of idea that parades around as an idea, fashionably courting each new would-be bar owner to consider going the way of the “conversation bar.” (E.G. Manhattan would see a quick vogue of establishments that were made with discussion in mind.) I even feel like this could facilitate an increase in the sort of public house dialogue that can really get a people worked up about all of the events of the day, can bring a culture out of apathy through participation in discussion. Not that this is what I have in mind, I’d just like to be able to talk with my friends at bar. God knows I don’t care for the events of the day.
I could also see this bringing events like readings and public lectures to the bar scene. Maybe high-browing up the drinking culture of this country a bit.
What can I say, I am a prophet of better times.
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Pertinent notes from my perspective. Manhattan will never have that happen, have you ever interacted with the people who live in downtown Manhattan? Yeah, neither have I, I try to avoid it cause they're on the whole not the 'conversation' type. Brooklyn though, Brooklyn could do it. Also of note, many of Portland's bar are still known/called Public Houses. In fact there is one down the street from me that is just called Public House. Outside seating, one-on-one tables and booths, so they're kind of heading in the right direction.
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