Did they stop doing the gameday opponent bar headquarters shit? Thatâs what drove them to the bottom of my list.
Winner here should be Asado and itâs not even about the bar. Wings and taco hit every time.
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Yea i hated Trinity doing that. I think theyâve backed off a bit. I was there drinking with the DU boyz before the SMU football game and there werenât any SMU folk in the building.
Asado hasnât made a decent taco since it was Baja Bean.
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Durty Nellys as play in against whoever Fig is is laughable
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Boylan not getting a bye or whatever is crazy too.
Also dragon what? Have you had the honey sriracha shrimp taco?
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Did Biltmore close?
My favorite bar in my day was a tie between: Biltmore / Coupes / Greenskeeper / Virginian / Bistro / Orbitz / Baja / Maartenâs (h/t @CaptainThurman15 ).
My second favorite bar was staying home and playing Nintendo with Busch light or Bud2k (on a splurge night).
Might have those orders reversed thoâŠ
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Biltmore closed and is now Ellies. I havenât stopped in since the reopen.
Agree with @JBHoo Boylan coulda got some more love thatâs become my default spot on the corner the past few years. Although I still have a soft spot for the Virginian.
I went to Asado 2 yrs ago maybe before the Duke foorball game and i had the wings and a cple tacos. I was not impressed. I also hate sriracha and am leery of fish tacos after spending time on the Left coast.
Baja Bean never missed and had a killer open mic on Tuesdayâs.
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Oh and Buddhist Biker Bar, in late 90s / early aughts. That place took off in popularityâŠ
Iâve basically become a living embodiment of that terrible VH1 show âRemember the 90s?â. And whatâs crazy, is that show is probably like 20 years oldâŠ
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Buddhist was absolutely my spot in the aughts. I loved that bar even tried to buy it one long night there.
After the Clemson football game in 07ish my boy crushed like 5 bowls of crab bisque there and the became a human water fountain as he sprayed it back up off the back porch.
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I remember it having surprisingly good food for a college bar. Or at least it did when it first opened
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Agree it had good food when Lauren was running it in the early days. Also in retrospect a college bar serving ny strip probably not the best idea.
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Iâm way too old. Most of the places you guys mentioned werenât around when I was there.
Thanks to @haney for the St Maartenâs HT. I put myself through school waiting tables, bartending, and as the only 160 pound bouncer ever at Sophieâsâwhich for two years was the place to be on the corner.
By the time you youngins showed up, Rich Hewitt had bankrupted the place snorting away all of the profits. Finished school working at Maartenâs and eventually became a partner thereâtill I went to DC to chase a girl.
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Coupes with Benny Dodd singing Wagon Wheel, free burgers/ribs on Mondayâs, single bathroom so you doubled up and peed in the sink with the friend or stranger in front of you, dollar red stripes, ripping cigs and trying not to ash on the person pressed up against you (not by choice, just too crowded to move), passing back over the fence or trying to sneak a piss into a pitcher because the bathroom was stopped upâŠ.thatâs an all time #1 seed!
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The bathroom situation at Coupes was an all timer.
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Red Stripes for the win!
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Quickly becoming an in memoriam for bygone barsâon that note pour one out for the Blue MoonâŠ
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Bistro in the '90s? I probably served you.
Saw that it closed. Made me sad. Some great years there.
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Yeah, I was in there only every once in a while, but it seemed very swanky compared to most college bars. Fancy beer selection
Late 90s
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Their shrimp was on point. Buddhist was a winner
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That was the point. First microbrew bar in CVille. Hard to believe now, but Michaelâs was the only bar in town serving microbrews for the first year or so it was in business. Other bars noticed the line down the stairs and into the alley and upped their game.
Youâre welcome.
(oh, and if was late '90s, I was probably working. Worked there 5 or 6 days a week from '95, more or less its opening, until 98 or 99.)
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