"One of several nautically themed entries on this list, the Ship Ahoy on Gladstone has the battered charm of a reliable old trawler that doesn’t know how to sink. The bar is densely packed with knickknacks, improvised shelving, and an impressively sized card table with a modest patio and the usual barroom entertainments like pool and pinball. Food is of the “we can heat up a Totino’s for you but we’d rather not” school, but if grog is what you’re after and Gladstone is what you’re on, the Ship Ahoy can oblige." - Ben Coleman