Jere reports that he couldn't really get into "What About Sal?" partly because it was so short, partly because it was actually filmed in New York and the actors seemed to have New York accents:

... The bar they show--at least the outside shot of it--is Pat O'Brien's! In New York City, a few blocks from where I used to live. It's a Sox bar on the Upper East Side, with a big sign in the window (they now have a second sign, I saw it recently when I was at Chan's place in the same area) saying "watch all the Red Sox games here." ...