University of Virginia Library

Drinking Spots

A Drinker's Guide To Charlottesville

By ROBERT SHEEDER

For the incoming University
student desiring to assuage a thirst
or socialize while imbibing liquid
refreshment, Charlottesville
provides a multitude of inns,
restaurants, and "beer joints"
catering to student's wallets. The
state of Virginia creates an impasse
for the more hedonistic "under-21
year olds" by prohibiting them
from purchasing any alcoholic
beverages other than the notorious
"3.2" beer, etc.

Probably the most frequented
spot in close proximity to the
University is Poe's Restaurant at
the Corner. Decorated with red
brocade wallpaper and a large
circular bar upstairs, Poe's offers 35
foreign beers, the largest selection
in the state. Such brands as Swan
lager from Australia, Whitebread
English ale, Carlsberg, and Tuborg
are all sold for the price of 50 cents
a bottle. Although no foreign brews
are of a 3.2 percentage, domestic
3.2 beer is also sold.

25 Cent Brew

Poe's provides an excellent
atmosphere for socializing and will
open the fall semester with live
entertainment on the evenings of
the 15th and 16th. "Happy Hours"
will also be held this year from 2-5
on Monday through Saturday, and
will feature 25 cent draughts.

Behind a bold facade of blue
and orange, with walls arrayed with
college pennants from Stanford to
Slippery Rock, the Virginian offers
a more raucous and informal
atmosphere. On its occasional 10
cent beer nights, the Virginian
becomes the focus of the

University's inebriate population.
Happy Hours are held Monday
through Wednesday with 25 cent
draughts for those fortunate to be
over age.

In the opposite direction, close
to the new dormitories, the Village
Inn (alias the ZBT annex) provides
an informal atmosphere with
televised studio wrestling on
weekend nights, along with pool
tables and probably the best
selection of pinball machines near
the University.

Study At The Library

For the indolent yet
equivocating scholar, the Library
Restaurant on Emmet Street across
from the Downtowner Motel
provides an ideal excuse for
spending an evening steeped in the
depths of intoxication. Although its
prices are relatively high, the
Library also serves mixed drinks for
the more serious imbiber. Various
piano players provide
entertainment every Friday and
Saturday evening from 5:30 until
10:30.

Farther down route 29 North,
Lord Hardwicke's Inn also caters to
the entertainment seeking student
with folk and blues singers weekend
evenings. Hardwicke's provides an
excellent atmosphere with a heavy
English Pub decor. For the
customer tired of beer drinking,
Hardwicke's offers cider served
English style in frosted mugs.

Adventurous Type?

For the more adventurous
Cavalier, the Sip N'
Sizzle Restaurant on west Main
Street down from the Hospital
offers a wilder and cruder
atmosphere. Live rock bands
perform regularly, but the Sip N'
Sizzle remains a less than ideal spot
for dates, catering to perennially
belligerent "Townies".

Newcomb Hall Grill in the
basement of the commodious
student center serves 3.2 beer to
students at all times of the day.
What it lacks in atmosphere it
compensates for by its convenience
and low prices—35 cents a glass.

Delivery Service

For the less peripatetic student,
Lupo's delivery service delivers beer
along with food orders, offering
both 3.2 and 6.4 beer. Dormitory
deliveries have been suspended, but
the determined first-yearman can
receive orders at other locales.
Delivery service costs an additional
50 cents, but several orders can be
delivered on one trip and the cost
divided by the several people.

For the more dipsomaniacal
student desiring to purchase the
"Hard Stuff" there are two state
A.B.C. stores in Charlottesville. One
is on Main, down several blocks
from the hospital. The other state
A.B.C. store is in Barracks Road
Shopping Center. Be forewarned,
the customer is usually asked to
produce an ID card to prove his
age.

Perhaps the last significant point
for those desirous of indulging in a
drinking bout that's more than
intemperate is People's Drug Store
at Barracks Road Shopping Center.
Besides selling beer and wine until
midnight everyday but Sunday,
People's offers the student 24-hour
services, selling such lifesavers as
aspirin and No Doz in large
quantities.