OT: What's your favorite Ann Arbor bar?
Sitting at work nostalgic about AA and also wishing I was at happy hour. Naturally led me to this topic.
For me it's Dominick's. A sunny afternoon with a constant buzz in hand in the backyard of Dom's is about as happy of a setting for me as there is. Bill's Beer Garden is a close second. I just love the outdoors + drinking combo if you can't tell.
What's your favorite Ann Arbor watering hole?
It was due to darts. I somehow threw a dart that hit perfectly on one of the dividers between the sections on the board. Caused the dart to pull a 180 and ended up in my foot. I just stood there stunned looking at it for like 2 minutes before pulling it out.
Same night, the future brother-in-law streaked from the bathroom, down 1st to Liberty.
asking for a friend's team.
still let her marry him? :-)
Mitch's
get you to 1,000 mgopoints. You're welcome
The thing with Mitch's, at least the last iteration... I can never trust a bar with carpeting.
Where carpeting was on the ceiling. Now that's an institution!
for me as well. Met my future wife there on a lovely spring evening in May of 2000. Hit it off on the upper deck over a couple of Ball jars full of Oberon.
Ashley's and Dominick's. Brown Jug was fun too. I am too old to know any of the new prewpubs.
Ashley's as an older student. Dominicks as a younger one.
Ashley's as best indoor bar. Dominick's as best outdoor. Ashley's as best atmosphere and beer selection. Love the attention to glassware, as well.
Except it had to open right after I graduated...!
Damn I miss Ashley's.
Wait...
What happened to Ashleys?
Yep, I'm old too.
Fraser's. Great memories of going there as a kid w my Dad. He used to drink there in college in the mid 60s, as I did in the late 80s. Feels like a real sports bar w some history.
I (non-student adult) frequent Fraser's. The place is disgusting and the servers are either extremely attentive or don't know you're there, but it serves a specific purpose that I'm all about. Trivia, sports, cheap beer, and not downtown.
The opening site for my brother‘s bachelor party, and also a stop for my best friend’s bachelor party. I was the best man in both of those weddings, so that was no coincidence. My avatar shows my affinity for the oldest trophy in college football. I also picked up the replica trophy from rivalrytrophies.com for my basement (highly recommended for junkies)
I also liked good time Charlie’s. They had Honey Brown pitchers for $2.50 on Wednesday nights circa 2002. I only was able to do it a couple times, but those were really good memories.
A friend recently introduced me to pretzel bell, pretty neat spot with some good history that re-opened in recent years.
Dominick's in warm weather is also hard to beat (agree with many there)
I loved Dominicks in the summer. In the winter we usually went to Scorekeepers or another one on State I can't remember (touchdown something?). None of them were my awesome go to bar. There was one on Main that had pool tables upstairs. I really loved that.
My favorite bar, ever, bar none (no pun intended) was one in Detroit, the Tipperary Pub. But sadly it's long gone.
is the name of the place on S. University. Used to frequent it for the Nuclear wings and to play an interactive football game called QB1 on Monday nights. It was dumb as $hit...you basically had to guess what play the offense was going to fun. Run right, run middle, run left or pass right, pass middle, pass left. You'd get points for guessing correctly. I distinctly remember how difficult it was to figure out Bill Parcells and the Jets.
I spent way too many nights there.
Currently, my favorite summer bar is Bill's Beer Garden.
A highly underrated bar I enjoyed in grad school was Alley Bar.
I had forgotten about that one. Good call!
We used to go there for burritos & tequila. We could walk in with unopened bottles of beer & they would put them in the fridge for us until we were ready to leave. Which usually were many hours from then.
yes! weird, but that was our go to place for the huge burrito.
Old Town. Quiet. Good beer selection. Townies and grad students. Never crowded. In close proximity to Fleetwood for late-night eats.
Yep. The one thing I feel bad about is that it took me so long to figure it out. Spent too many nights shoehorning my way into Charley's, the Jug, and then Ashley's when I should have been hoofing it over to Old Town all along.
Figured it out my senior year. When I moved back to A2 later I deliberately rented close by.
Favorite is Ashley’s and ABC.. I love my beer and ABC has the only shuffleboard table in all of AA
The bar on the top floor of the Union. Did it even have a name? Remember some good times for Friday happy hour in that room.
The bar on the top floor of the Union. Did it even have a name? Remember some good times for Friday happy hour in that room.
Not the most number of taps, but the best quality taps in town, with a super knowledgeable staff. Easier to get into that Bill's most nights and--best part--you can bring in your own food, which in my case is usually Blimpy across the street or the sausage cart dude that hangs out just over the fenceline. Cannot be beaten.
We’d go with one of two different bars for the “all seasons” category when it was too cold outside or when Dominick’s was closed seasonally or if we wanted to keep the party going after it closed at 10pm.
If I just wanted to hang out w buddies it’d be Ashley’s. Better beer & you can actually hear yourself talk. But pretty terrible for meeting women. Just not conducive to meeting new people.
If the goal was to mix it up and maybe meet women it’d be Connor O’Neils or if we were being lazy, cheap, or really wanted to meet undergrads it’s be Scorekeepers.
one night a few days before St. Patrick's Day.
I packed up the family the next day and took them to Florida and my phone was on fire with people calling that Sunday and telling me I was on the front page in an article which descrobed CO's as being the "epicenter of the meat market scene" at the time.
Coincidentally, I was coaching a 4th grade girls' rec & ed basketball team at the time.
Not funny! I had just been there with a group of friends having a coupls of pints.
not a drinker. i liked goodnight gracie's mainly because my buddy was the guitar player and we'd have a nice little smoke session between sets.
Ran into Laithe at CVS a few months ago.
No love for The Old German yet? I feel like I'm in that scence in Inglourious Basterds when I'm down there.
listened to live music upstairs many times. oops my bad. that was the heidelberg.