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?
Until you remember how much it cost to drink out of those mason jars! Best environment, worst prices.
way back when. one of the few live music bars back then. used to go in for happy hour (to avoid the cover charge), listen to los chickens, then whoever played that nite (ie. george bedard and the king pins, tracy lee and the leonards, et al). them were the days.
and he can still be found at bars around town from time to time.
Was there a neon sign that said "Resignation" on the stairs to the bathrooms?
was my favorite back in the day -- had some great music there.
Nobody has metnioned Joe's Star Lounge which was a classic reck and roll bar downtown back in the 80's. Some really loud, loud music.
Dominick's. I'd also accept Ashley's. And I did appreciate 8Ball for its darts, occasional good band upstairs, and yack-scented carpeting.
Domincks was great. Pitchers of sangria (or other mixed drinks) on the porch when it was warm. I have a glass or pitcher of sangria every now and then just to remember those days.
Had a lot of fun at the 8 Ball and the Blind Pig. Went there just about every time Big Dave and the Ultrasonics played.
Del Rio was pretty cool(and very dark) but I mainly went there after college.
My crowd always liked Ashley's, but I wasn't in the right income bracket at the time. I like it now. I believe Red Hawk is pretty much the same bar.
Brown Jug just for the tradition.
That said, drinking on people's porches was probably the best.
There are a bunch of clone recipes out there that pretty much hit it on the nose. A jug of cheap red wine, brandy, Manischewitz, bunch of oranges and lemons, sometimes a fruit schnapps.
The rumor was always that it includes some form of MD 20/20.
2) Dominick’s
Honorable Mention) 8-Ball.
Then I moved to Madison and there were more bars within two blocks of my house than there were in the entire city of Ann Arbor.
Or maybe because I had many drinks it just seemed like it.
I like soda
I like soda
I like soda
bad for your teeth to have 3 in a night.
Monday Night Beer Pong Tournaments, which I believe is why it was shut down in the long run. The DJs/Bartenders playing Black Betty every round...great way to kill a Monday Night and some brain cells
Turd
Double Turd
Back in the day. I drank with world leaders and piranha fishes alike. Basically the same creatures with a beautiful view of A^2 especially at night. Phone scam (ahem) added to the entertainment.
Was the best!
Was the best!
Corner Brewery in Ypsi
Last Word (for cocktails though Bar at Braun Court competes in a less formal way)
Second Chance for drinking beer out of the pitcher to that local band playing Beatles and Beach Boys covers all night.
Blind Pig for Boogie Red on Tuesday nights.
Dominicks for the open air on warm nights.
And MGrowOld, either stop telling people you're my age or change your name right now! :)
Undergrad: ~2000-2003: Brown Jug. Knew the bartenders there when I was 20 so drank before I was 21. They always thought I was 21 so never really asked. Came in for my 21st birthday and showed them my ID, needless to say they were a bit surprised.
Now that I'm "old": Old Town/Raven's in the winter, Bill's or Beer Grotto in the summer.
Lots of fond memories at Dominicks as well - wish I would've spent more time there when I was in undergrad.
Was never really a big fan of the dungeon they call Ricks. Always too crowded. But for whatever reason could deal with Skeeps. Took a piss next to Steve-O there once - he had no shirt on and was telling dirty jokes. Good times.
And now sitting here at my desk at work, I miss college.
sorry bout the pizza pizza double post
Del Rio was the first "adult" bar I ever went to and felt really at home.
Dominick's just has a great setting for daytime drinking. Pizza sucked, late night was overrun, but a cold pitcher and sun in the spring or fall was paradise.
Blind Pig was the most fun in A2. My friends would order Jager shots and Cap't Dave and the Psychedelic Lounge Cats would blow the roof off the place.
Lining up at 6AM at Dooley's on St Patty's Day for green beer? That was also the only bar that let people in during freshmen orientation as I can recall.
My vote is for the Blind Pig followed by seeing live music at Rick's.
As they say in the Senate, I adopt the prior posters endorsements of Frasers, Ashleys and Dominicks. I would add Conors, the Session Room, and Rappourt (up in the Plymouth Rd corridor in shopping center, but still a very cool bar).
Again, the answer to this question is ALWAYS Del Rio.
