Scooter’s 1843rd bar, first visited in 2025.

There are several picnic tables out front, but it was a bit hot so we sat inside. (By the time I left the place was packed including the outdoor picnic tables.)

They share space with FAB Pizza, which looked good but my wife was working on dinner back at the camper.

I had a flight with Demon Bru-en (porter), Celtic Grounds (coffee stout), Barley Knew Her (barleywine), and Turn a New Leaf (brown ale). I also bought a shirt and a couple of bottles to-go.

1005 W Kirkland Ave.
Nashville, TN 37216
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Scooter’s 1049th bar, first visited in 2014.

There’s a small rectangular bar (about 6-8 seats if I remember right) as well as some booths and tables. Music memorabilia lines one of the walls. The place seems a lot smaller inside than it looks outside — the outdoor area almost seems like it might be half of the space.

We ended up getting some to-go appetizers here, all of which turned out to be way too large of portions for us to finish eating.

2695 Lake Rd
Dyersburg, TN 38024
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Scooter’s 945th bar, first visited in 2011.

Tonight there was the standard $5 cover, but as we were about to pay we were informed that the band had just gone on break. We decided to head next door to Mr. Handy’s instead, where a band was playing, and paid the cover there.

Once inside though we discovered the place packed — too crowded to even stand. So we used the connecting door and headed back over to Rum Boogie after all (the cover applies to both places).

Rum Boogie Cafe wasn’t near as busy as it was when we were hear last year, but it still had a decent crowd. The band finally took the stage about 20 minutes after our arrival, so we ended up staying here for a couple of rounds of drinks. We would like to have stayed longer, but the overpowering perfume of an older woman who arrived during our second round told us that it was time to move along.

182 Beale Street
Memphis, TN 38103
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Scooter’s 944th bar, first visited in 2011.

The weather + the economy were hitting Beale Street hard tonight. There were about 30 customers in here, all concentrated on one side of the bar. On the far opposite side, all by themselves, a band was playing that was actually rather good. We ended up sitting at a table near the stage. I felt kind of sorry for the band, I hope business picked up more later in the evening.

197 Beale Street
Memphis, TN 38103
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Scooter’s 943rd bar, first visited in 2011.

I failed to notice that this club actually has 3 levels, though business was slow the night I visited so it’s likely the other floors were closed off.

The bartender was a really nice guy and very helpful, but he kept disappearing. I can’t blame him, though, there were only about 20-30 customers in the whole place. I don’t know if it was the rain, the NBA lockout, or the economy in general but there were fewer than half as many people out an about than there were last year’s Thanksgiving weekend.

152 Beale St.
Memphis, TN 38103
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Scooter’s 942nd bar, first visited in 2011.

There’s also a gigantic semi-covered patio outdoors, which features its own live entertainment when weather permits.

183 Beale Street
Memphis, TN 38103
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Scooter’s 854th bar, first visited in 2010.

We got there shortly before closing but were able to get served.

The food is spectacularly delicious. My only complaint? There’s not enough of it. It seemed more like appetizers than a meal.

I hesitated to list this as a bar, since we sat at a table in the dining area and ordered a meal. But there was a bar physically present, and we ordered additional beer separate from the meal, so I’ve decided to count it. We did spent a few moments in the bar area with our additional beer before closing time forced us to finish it out in the street.

52 South 2nd Street
Memphis, TN 38103
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Scooter’s 853rd bar, first visited in 2010.

The band was awesome, and our bartender was terrific. We ended up settling in here for the remainder of the evening, the experience was so good. I filled up on a local brew, repeatedly, while Dr. Feelgood Potts played the crap out of his harmonica.

One odd thing about this place is that it has no restrooms. But that’s okay, since everything is connected you just slip through a side door to use the restroom at the place next door.

We loved this place. I will come back here each and every time I ever visit Memphis in the future.

174 Beale Street
Memphis, TN 38104
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Scooter’s 852nd bar, first visited in 2010.

As we drank our beer, a guy was being arrested right outside the front window. “This looks like a crack pipe to me,” one of the officers said after removing a glass tube from the suspect’s jacket.

It was interesting me how many of the businesses are connected. This bar is directly connected to an adjacent gift shop.

153 Beale Street
Memphis, TN 38103
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Scooter’s 851st bar, first visited in 2010.

We started out on the lower level where we bought drinks and a souvenir glass. There was no place to stand where we were not in the way, however, so we soon moved upstairs where we at least found a wall to stand against.

The band (whose guitarist kicked ass, by the way) played a variety of popular blues favorites.

I really enjoyed this venue and would love to come back. We stayed for a good amount of time.

143 Beale Street
Memphis, TN 38103
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Scooter’s 850th bar, first visited in 2010.

The very friendly bartender (who was heavily pushing shots) did get up on the bar and dance for one song, but that was as close as we got to the famous “Coyote Ugly experience”.

326 Beale Street
Memphis, TN 38103
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Scooter’s 807th bar, first visited in 2010.

Sure, we only went to 3 bars in Nashville, but this was our favorite by far. Both of us would see ourselves hanging out here regularly if we lived in Nashville. It’s a great, honest dive with good food that doesn’t seem touristy.

It started out not too busy here, but there was a rush before the start of a football game that filled the place to capacity.

Food-wise, this place’s gimmick is to put fries on its sandwiches. The signature sandwich is the Piranha Sandwich, in which fries, slaw, and cheese are piled on your choice of meat. The fries are sliced right in front of you, they aren’t frozen.

But their gimmick sandwich is a monster, a 10-lb cheesesteak. Though they offer $100 to anyone who finishes one, it’s actually intended to be a group sandwich. Both Man vs. Food and Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives have been in touch with Piranha’s, but neither will put the sandwich on their show since the challenge is more of a joke and isn’t intended to be possible.

As luck would have it, a large group seated behind us happened to order the 10-pounder while we were there. We stuck around to watch the creation of it, the videos and several of the pictures below document the preparation. On completion it was actually weighed, and when it didn’t quite come to 10 pounds they added more food to get the weight up.

The ingredients of the 10-pound cheesesteak, being presented to the group that ordered it…

113 2nd Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37201
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Scooter’s 806th bar, first visited in 2010.

B got the Southern Flyer Lager, I got the Iron Horse Stout.

The bartender told us that this is a local place, but that it had fairly recently been bought by Gordon Biersch so is now technically part of that chain.

111 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37201
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Scooter’s 805th bar, first visited in 2010.

Given that it was 10:30 on a Sunday morning, we were initially alone in here. B got a Bud Light, I wanted to try something local so the bartender selected a Yazoo Pale Ale for me.

A few other people came in during our visit, but they were there to eat. The restaurant is mainly in a side room but the food counter is accessible from the bar as well.

Mullet Wall of Fame…

411 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
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Scooter’s 804th bar, first visited in 2010.

While inside, B asked a bystander if he knew of any other bars. “Sure, there’s one just around the corner!”

We followed the directions we were given and found ourselves at a gigantic place.

The Coconut Bay Cafe is a 2-story tropical themed building. The lower level is all restaurant/lounge and was virtually empty, but the hostess guided us to “the party room” upstairs.

Up the stairs we found a huge space with 2 bars, a band, and a good crowd of people. The band was doing covers of southern rock and was pretty impressive. We ended up hanging out here quite a while and probably would have stayed a lot longer if we weren’t so tired.

817 Interstate Drive
Manchester, TN 37355
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Scooter’s 803rd bar, first visited in 2010.

Then, there it was, ahead on the right — the blinking lights of Irma’s Place. A bonus bar… as none of our resources and indicated this would be here.

We arrived just after a failed wet t-shirt contest. Apparently it was a success in that it had drawn a lot of guys, but no girls showed up to participate. Karaoke was now underway instead.

2684 New Tullahoma Hwy
Manchester, TN 37355
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Scooter’s 802nd bar, first visited in 2010.

Karaoke was underway, so B sang “You Never Even Call Me By My Name”. I shot video, but that’s just for us to see.

We were both amused by the Hanoi Jane urine targets placed in the urinal trough.

After this we headed to another bar a few blocks southeast, but they wanted a $5 cover so we passed.

703 Hillsboro Blvd
Manchester, TN 37355
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Scooter’s 801st bar, first visited in 2010.

This is a wedge-shaped restaurant-bar at an angular intersection, tapering to just a few feet wide at the south end. We entered to find a very old interior and a good side crowd in a small space. The bar proper was to the left in a small back room but there was no room for us in there. However the booth at the “tip” of the place was open so that’s where we settled in.

The old wooden benches in the window both sloped and were lined with cracked and torn leather. Years of messages were written and carved into all the woodwork.

There was a rickety-looking spiral staircase that we didn’t check out. After we left, I looked up and saw that it led to a rooftop deck.

1012 Market St
Chattanooga, TN 37402
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Scooter’s 800th bar, first visited in 2010.

This place was packed, but we found two barstools right by the door.

There were literally hundreds of beers to choose from. I selected Highland Black Mocha Stout, while B chose Boulder Sweaty Betty. He went for a burrito, but fearful of getting too full I settled on just some cheese sticks.

423 Market St
Chattanooga, TN 37402
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Scooter’s 799th bar, first visited in 2010.

From the outside it looks new, but on the inside it appears to be well over 100 years old.

It was pretty crowded. I sat down at the bar while B went to use the restroom. I tried to order our drinks, but apparently in Chattanooga they can only sell one drink per person at a time. So I had to wait for B to return before I could complete the order.

It was too crowded downstairs so we took our drinks up to the second level. It was crowded up there as well.

The standout feature of this bar is an opening in the middle of the second floor where an antique dumb waiter is used to carry food and drinks between the floors. There was a small bar ledge around this opening so that’s where we camped out.

334 Market St
Chattanooga, TN 37402
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Scooter’s 786th bar, first visited in 2010.

We decided to finally give the PGA Tour Golf game a try. It’s by EA Sports, and has a lot in common with the Tiger Woods Golf games. It probably seems odd to some people that we were fascinated by this game, but we just don’t see it back home.

1979 Madison Street
Clarksville, TN 37043
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Scooter’s 785th bar, first visited in 2010.

The Jukebox has a small front room, where we started out, and a larger back room that we migrated to later. The L-shaped bar is designed to serve both rooms. The back room has pool tables and a DJ booth.

What we call “Bags” back home but is called “Cornhole” here was set up, and we watched a group of people playing. B joined in for a little while but discovered it’s not as easy as it looks.

1360 College Street
Clarksville, TN 37040
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Scooter’s 784th bar, first visited in 2010.

Rap music filled the air. The crowd was mostly college students, but there was a fair share of military mixed in as well.

B ended up playing competitive trivia against a couple of military guys. It started out close, but they didn’t catch on that the correct answer to the first 6 questions was ’4′. B ended up clobbering them 9729 to 5399.

535 Franklin Street
Clarksville, TN 37040
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Scooter’s 783rd bar, first visited in 2010.

The bar features 2 pool tables, darts, and PGA Tour Golf. We’d end up finding this golf game in several more bars, it appears to be more popular than Golden Tee in this region.

Pool was free tonight so B decided to shoot a game or two with a guy named Mark who had been shooting alone for a while. We grabbed our mason jars of beer and headed back to the tables.

“It’s free to play, so I’ve been playing by myself for a while,” said Mark.

“Just like when you’re at home, huh?” B replied.

He didn’t get it.

This is one of those bars where you get to write on the walls, but I didn’t notice that until I was uploading the photos later.

116 Franklin Street
Clarksville, TN 37040
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Scooter’s 782nd bar, first visited in 2010.

We proceeded up a very long, steep, and narrow staircase to the upper level. There was no seating available at the U-shaped bar, nor at any of the tables. After standing for a while a small table opened up towards the back that we migrated to.

It was very dark inside so I apologize for the poor picture quality.

The Tap Room is a dive bar, an upscale lounge, and a sports bar. It’s rare to see a place that pulls off all three well. (It should be noted that at $3 a bottle, these were some of the more expensive beers we had in Clarksville.)

The front half of this floor is a bar, the back half is a very mellow lounge bathed in a soft blue light.

Up another smaller set of stairs to the side is another room that had pool tables and other games. We didn’t make it into that room during our visit.

132 Franklin Street
Clarksville, TN 37040
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Scooter’s 781st bar, first visited in 2010.

It was moderately busy, but most of the people were either in the table seating area to our left or shooting pool in the back. However we were soon joined by an older man, who pulled something out of his pocket and tapped my shoulder.

“You want some homemade beef jerky?” he offered, shaking the baggie of beef.

I was reminded of the shrimping at Flo’s Poke-a-Dot in Kansas City. I’m sure the beef jerky was delicious, but I get nervous about accepting meat snacks that strangers pull out of their pockets so I politely declined.

1310 Fort Campbell Blvd
Clarksville, TN 37042
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Scooter’s 780th bar, first visited in 2010.

We walked in and found ourselves in the second smokiest bar I have ever experienced. (Only a VFW I visited in 2006 in Liberty, MO tops it.) I’m talking so smokey that there were actual visibility issues.

We plopped down at the U-shaped bar while the sounds of country music and an episode of “It Only Hurts When You Laugh” on TruTV filled the air. We began drinking our $1 Bud bottles and quickly notice that everyone in the bar was fixated on the TV.

We turned around in our stools to join the regulars in watching the show — a clip show of people screwing up in painful but funny ways. Everyone in the bar was heckling or laughing at the videos.

During a commercial break I got up to use the restroom. It was while I was in the men’s room that events in this bar took a turn for the wacky.

I was washing my hands when it happened. Above the sound of the running water, female voice carried across the bar and into the restroom. The voice of a woman sitting at a table behind us with three of her friends. A voice that spoke in graphic detail of how she performs oral sex and what she likes about her techniques.

I tried by hands and exited the restroom. I immediately locked eyes with B and we gave each other the same knowing look. The look that we knew we needed to sit down and listen, because something really funny was probably about to happen. And it didn’t take long for us to be proven right.

“I love it when guys c– in my a–!” the same woman joyfully proclaimed a few moments later. “It’s just so warm and creamy on the inside. And then later, when I’m taking a sh–, I feel like I’m a chocolate eclair!”

It took everything we could muster to maintain our composure and not erupt in laughter.

Mystery woman, we have no idea who you are, but we thank you for making Speakeasy our funniest stop of the trip.

1991 Fort Campbell Blvd
Clarksville, TN 37042
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Scooter’s 779th bar, first visited in 2010.

THIS IS THE BEST BAR IN CLARKSVILLE!

This is a beer bar only. It’s laid back, it’s welcoming, and it feels like home. This is the perfect place to hang out and enjoy conversation over beer with your friends.

The bar’s showpiece is a large freshwater aquarium whose inhabitants include Oscars, Jack Dempseys, Peacock Bass, a Channel Cat, and a rather goofy looking Goldfish (among others). The owner chatted with us at length about the aquarium. Feeder goldfish are dropped in every Friday, something that surely must be fun to watch while drinking.

B swaps fish stories with the bar’s owner

2130 Fort Campbell Blvd
Clarksville, TN 37042
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Scooter’s 778th bar, first visited in 2010.

There are several rooms. The bar is in the front, across from it was a larger room where poker night was underway. Towards the back was a game area, with Pop-a-Shot, Pac-Man, Golden Tee, darts, air hockey, and several other games. The far back corner has a lounge area with a secondary bar, sofas and coffee tables.

There’s also a big covered patio off the front of the place.

The Thursday night special was $1 domestic bottles. We always love cheap beer!

2150 Fort Campbell Blvd
Clarksville, TN 37042
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Scooter’s 777th bar, first visited in 2010.

The patrons were almost all military, at least we assume so from the haircuts. The bar itself is small and U-shaped. There’s pool tables in the front room, and a lounge in back. The bar was pretty crowded, so we didn’t manage to make it to that room.

I call this my Jackpot bar, since it was #777.

2241 Fort Campbell Blvd
Clarksville, TN 37042
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Scooter’s 776th bar, first visited in 2010.

The bar itself is U-shaped, recessed into the far back. There’s a handful of tables in front, a few pool tables top the side, and several games and flatscreen TVs scattered about. There’s a covered patio to the side that’s almost as big as the bar itself.

The place seems to be known for its food, with wings as their specialty. There are varying flavors and heat levels, as well as smoked wings.

They were setting up for either a DJ or karaoke, but we left before that got started.

1471 Tiny Town Road
Clarksville, TN 37042
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Scooter’s 775th bar, first visited in 2010.

That said, it did take us several minutes to get the attention of the bartender despite the fact that the places wasn’t very busy.

This is a big place, divided into two large rooms. The front room has a horseshoe shaped bar, what looked like a stage, and table seating. The back room had pool tables and additional seating.

We were heavily carded here, this would prove to be the case almost everywhere we went in Clarksville. (ID checks became more stringent as we got closer to the military base, and less stringent to almost forgotten as we got further away to bars that cater more to the locals than the military.)

There’s live music Fridays and Saturdays with a cover that’s enforced quite early compared to when the bands start. Luckily for us, it was Thursday.

There really didn’t seem to be much about this place that makes it an Irish Pub, though. Putting a shamrock on the Budweiser sign doesn’t do it, and serving Guinness isn’t even enough as many types of bars do that. I will say this though, Irish pubs should not be playing hip-hop.

1198 Tylertown Rd
Clarksville, TN 37040
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