A place of business serving beer or other alcoholic drinks and often basic meals
In Britain, a pub is a building where people meet friends and have drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food.
In American English, a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks is usually called a bar.
After work they went to a bar downtown.
In British English, the word bar is sometimes used, especially to refer to a place serving alcoholic drinks that is part of a larger building, or in expressions such as wine bar and cocktail bar.
A pub /pʌb/, formally public house (a house "open to the public", as opposed to a private house), is a drinking establishment in the culture of Britain,[1][2] Ireland,[3] New Zealand, Australia,[4] Canada and Denmark. In many places, especially in villages, a pub can be the focal point of the community. The writings of Samuel Pepys describe the pub as the heart of England.
The history of pubs can be traced back to Roman taverns,[5] through the Anglo-Saxon alehouse to the development of the modern tied house system in the 19th century.