Names of Taverns, Bars, and Inns

[Hand of Evil]

Seeing these names and knowing the history of parties I am really surprised I have never used or heard any one call an tavern...

The Burned Down

 

[lgburton]

not me, but my wife's "gotta be one in every campaign" bar name...

the surly mermaid.

 

[grimslade]

Bars and Dives

There is a Vulgar Mermaid in Living Greyhawk version of Gradsul.
In my home campaigns there have been a few:
The Lady has Two Faces (A Game hall that had a barrell full of masks out front, if you didn't put one on before you entered, Misfortune knew your face.)
The Burnside Inn
Lucky's (sign outside was a one-eyed, three-legged mongrel dog)
The Pig and Pickerel (after a decent bar on Washington Ave in Albany)
The Sea Devil's Lament (only building to survive a Sahuagin raid on a coastal town)

Grim

 

[Stik]

A group I used to play with had a chain of taverns, with a franchise in every major city, called "The Vomiting Dragon"

I've also used:
The Broken Drum (a Terry Pratchett reference)
The Mended Drum (the same pub, rebuilt after the fire)
The Dew Drop Inn (another really bad pun name)

Some of the best pub names can be gleaned from your local phone book. From mine:

Rohan's (yes, this is a real bar, located about 3 miles from my house)
Duke's Neutral Corner
The Cornerstone
Mustang's
The Crazy Donkey
The Courthouse
Almost Home
Night Owl's
Grizzly's Den
Guido's Irish Pub (not really good for D&D, but too great a name not to mention)
Branding Iron Pub
Coopersmith's Pub
Effin Gruvin (another name too good not to mention)
Bone Yard
Dizzy Lizard
Wizzards
Whoville

 

[sukael]

The Rusty Arcanoloth.
The Billeted Trout.
Mephit's Tombstone.
The Marauding Gargoyle.
The Prancing Chimera.

 

[johndaw16]

By far the most sucessful inn name in a game I've played has been the Drunk Duck not all that imaginative but it stuck. And then kept reappear no matter the campaign or world. And to make it even better someone found a sign online for what I can only guess was once a real pub that said the Drunk Duck on it, and had a picture of a brewer whose cask had dumped its contents into a pond. The foreground was naturally dominated by a drunk duck paddling on its back.

 

[Dalprin]

Every campaign I've been in has had the Green Griff Inn and the Barge Inn. The Barge Inn is always shaped like a boat. Not sure where the names came from besides the obvious puns.

 

[Dryfus]

Inns

In my games i have a couple that always seem to pop up

The bear and boar(pictuer of a bear and a boar on the sign)
The griffin and goat(ditto, but a goat and griffin)
the green dragon(got that from a gamming store in atlanta many years ago)
The Dragon Tale(oppened by a retired adventurer that was a bard, who kept his clientel(sp?) amused by stories from his adventuring day, and the sing was a picture of a fighter type dragging a drgons tail, kinda a double pun thing)

 

[kenobi65]

the green dragon(got that from a gamming store in atlanta many years ago)

In turn, that name might well have originally come from The Green Dragon tavern, in Bywater (near Hobbiton), in The Lord of the Rings.

 

[The_Universe]

The Rusty Scabbard
The Broken Sword
The Broken Tooth
Holocost (Starwars)