Daniel Street Tavern

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  D. Street. A place that is the best late-night-already-drunk stop in Portsmouth. Don't come in the afternoon, too depressing. Spent many nights here, most recently on New Year's Eve, when the karaoke was rocking (it never disappoints.) It also has a few arcade games and a pool table and the BEST jukebox. And fried food for when you have drunken hunger. Also, the staff is super friendly. Love!

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  Posted on 01.02.13 Love T.

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  Total dive, stale beer and B.O. smell included. What a sweat can. But they have a good pool table and cheap drinks. The chicks were pretty hot as well. wsh I wasn't completely bombed, I might have had more luck.

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  Posted on 09.10.12 Drew P.

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  The Portsnnourh guerilla gay folks met here last week, the management im sure was told before hand the would be meeting here. However, the biuncer was maing homophobic comments..  Not realizing the gents inside had an impact on his salary.  No excuse for hiring idiots.

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  Posted on 04.30.12 R U.

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  I used to live in Portsmouth and this bar was give or take. I do love dive bars, but this one is a little more shady for my taste. I know my friends have went in there and had crazy experiences as well. There are good memories in this place too. Nothing like singing Neil Diamond sorts with a 50 year old man in a sun dress! At the same time, there are some less than classy people that go in there that try to make you feel uneasy. One night a bar tender started getting really offensive with me. I said one cuss word and a group of guys started in on me. Then when I was going to leave someone actually pulled a knife out.
  
  That was my last memory of that place. Maybe they didn't like me because I wasn't local enough. Maybe it was a day they had a bad catch. I just know my memory of someone coming at me with a knife outweighs singing Neil Diamond with a cross dresser.

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  Posted on 11.28.11 Chance S.

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  This was the first bar that we went to on Halloween night after the parade. It is a very divy bar, interesting mix of locals and for the night, it was full of interesting mix of people with costumes. It had one of the smallest bar pool table I've ever seen (maybe 5' x 3'?). The bartender according to my friend did not pour my Guinness correctly. I tasted it and she was right. It was a bit flat.
  
  But it was an interesting place to go check out the local scene but I wouldn't come back if it was my choice.

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  Posted on 11.04.11 John L.

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  It takes a special kind of person to appreciate the diveyness of this bar. And yes, I love me a good dive.
  
  Come already buzzed/drunk, leave judgements outside. Beer only, unless you love peach schnapps.

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  Posted on 08.29.11 Vanessa V.

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  What's not to like here? Friendly bartender, Guinness on tap, munchies, pool tables, and the game on tv. You'll be fine.

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  Posted on 05.25.11 Stephanie B.

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  Wow.  There is a lot going on at this bar.  Perhaps the broadest mix of people in a bar I have ever frequented.  Bikers, third shift workers, townies, hipsters, naval officers, college kids, and str8 up local drunks.  They have a limited liquor license here, so beer is the way to go.  Otherwise, the liquor offerings are all low proof, i.e. kahlua, schnapps, malibu.
  When I asked the lovely gal behind the bar what she could possible make with that selection, her response:  "Sweet drinks for young, cheap, sl*ts."  Classic.

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  Posted on 04.20.11 d j.

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  Minus one for not accepting government IDs and minus one for no liquor. The other star missing is simply b/c they're not that good to begin with.

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  Posted on 05.15.10 Elizabeth J.

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  PBR went up to $2.75 for a tallboy, but the karaoke is still free.  This place makes me feel totally insane as a general rule.  The bartenders are good and the other regulars are happy to show up at 11 a.m. to start drinking.  I view this as a good thing.  I don't remember what they have on tap, but it's a beer-only kind of situation.  There's a pretty sick basketball arcade game in the back of the room, so you can run up in there and jam on it if you're in the berzerker zone.
  
  The regulars that do karaoke here are all amazing talents that make me want to extricate myself from the world of performing arts due to my shittiness in relation.  I'm not kidding.  Karaoke Master has a list of every song you ever performed, organized by date.  Look for "Door Creaking Sound FX" as an option in the big book of songs.

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  Posted on 12.22.09 Pivbo H.

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  Good stuff - $2.25 PBR pounder cans, what more needs to be said?
  
  Great neighborhood feel, just regular people looking to kick back, have a few brews and relax with their budzos.   Nice pine (?) wood walls give it a cabin-type feel.....the basement bar you wish you had in the lake house you wish you had.    
  
  You might get a few people staring at you when you walk in, but this is sheerly because they haven't seen you in there before.  
  
  Go here, crush a few brewdogs, and play some pool - you will enjoy yourself.  Especially if you're tired of the yacht club crew at all the other bars downtown.

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  Posted on 07.07.08 Jamie S.

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