Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust

[Dafatone]

Not in Collegetown and not a bar, but this is a reasonable place to mention  Hal's Deli closing.

I certainly remember Hal's Deli and of course Hal, who was a fixture at Cornell basketball games in Barton Hall.  His son, Mike who's pictured, was a ballboy for Sam MacNeil's team.

My friends and I agreed Hal's had the fastest delivery.  They once got us our food in 7 minutes, and we lived a couple miles away.

[CU2007]

Which bars still exist in collegetown?

[RichH]

Which bars still exist in collegetown?

From this very thread, which to the best of my knowledge is accurate. (Added Dunbar's replacement, Hideaway):

Current Collegetown spots with a bar:
Collegetown Bagels
Resurrected Rulloff's
The Nines
Level B
Jack's Grill
Loco Cantina
Hideaway


RIP:
Palms
Dino's
Johnny's
Johnny O's
The Chariot
The Connection/Bear Den (College Ave)
Little Joe's
Pixel
Stella's
Chapter House*
Dunbar's

[Trotsky]

Well clearly kids have stopped drinking...

[billhoward]

Not in Collegetown and not a bar, but this is a reasonable place to mention  Hal's Deli closing.

Sad to see Hal's close. But ... Our fraternity at reunion three years ago (or was it eight?) went there Sunday morning for brunch. The place was a little dimmer and grayer than we remembered from undergrad years. One spouse used the ladies room and said that'd be the last time she did that. Once, Hal's was about the only place to get a good bagel. Hal's did not adapt to the rising competition or quickly branch to meet customer interests such as coffees beyond regular and decaf. Recalls the line from Inherit the Wind: Sometimes you can change by standing still. I feel disloyal saying that. If you haven't gone back, just hang on to your memories from the 80s.

[Robb]

Well clearly kids have stopped drinking...

Nah.  Just no difference between drinking at home vs. a bar when you're just staring into your phone either way.

[billhoward]

Well clearly kids have stopped drinking...

Nah.  Just no difference between drinking at home vs. a bar when you're just staring into your phone either way.

Maybe the phone in public is a way to look busy not alone, the way you could fiddle with a cigarette a generation ago.

[George64]

Image credit to Corey Ryan Earle '07

[jtwcornell91]

Image credit to Corey Ryan Earle '07

I was going to say "What, the Chariot doesn't make the list?" but I then I remembered it's been closed for over a decade. ::uhoh::

[Trotsky]

Image credit to Corey Ryan Earle '07

I was going to say "What, the Chariot doesn't make the list?" but I then I remembered it's been closed for over a decade. ::uhoh::

That was the beginning of the deep rot.

[billhoward]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/beerandcider/the-51-best-college-bars-in-america/ss-AAmI3Xh Clickbait, "The 51 Best College Bars in America." Cornell not among the winners. Apparently no other Ivy schools either. Checked by googling the story title and each school name one at a time. Otherwise you click through fifty-some screens.

[George64]

Actually clicking through 50+ screens didn't take long and yielded better results: 21 Harvard, 32 Dartmouth and 41 Brown.  Links provided for non-retirees who should be working.

[French Rage]

And while the Dutch Goose is a nice place to grab burgers and beer and watch Stanford beat USC at The Coliseum, it's not really a bar in the classic sense (more of a bar and grill) and it's more of a local place that college students happen to go to occasionally rather than a student place.

[Tom Lento]

And while the Dutch Goose is a nice place to grab burgers and beer and watch Stanford beat USC at The Coliseum, it's not really a bar in the classic sense (more of a bar and grill) and it's more of a local place that college students happen to go to occasionally rather than a student place.

The Dutch Goose is clearly deserving, if only because of the deviled eggs...

[upprdeck]

Is the Nines the next to go?  I saw links on Ithaca Voice about a project to replace the building with a 6 story apt. building..