Normal Bar

Fantastic neighborhood bar and great bar staff! Often times it gets quite busy between 8−11pm, especially on weekends, making getting a seat or table a little difficult. Prices for drinks are affordable, and they offer boiled peanuts for $ 1.

Not only are they dog friendly with a large outdoor seating area, they have two nonalcoholic menu options that are delish.

Love to stop here after work or for just a break! Patio is outside and inside is perfect for Normaltown/​prince Ave people watching!

Love Normal Bar! I almost don’t want to share how great it is in fear of it becoming another college bar. This is the place to go to get away from the college crowds, meet up with friends and get inexpensive drinks. Oh and did I mention $ 1 boiled peanuts? Yum! This is a welcoming local hangout with involved staff a great back patio and now double the room. Oh on certain nightsdelicious food can be ordered from Ike and Jane’s next door with their Ike at Night window.

Usually I avoid the Normal, tending to appreciate things slightly abnormal to most, but since I was in Normaltown it seemed like the thing to do.
They had a nice beer and liquor selection. Comfy seating for me and my pals to gather and chat. Nice bartenders and a clean bathroom. It’s a great neighborhood bar.

A fun bar at the edge of town where you can huddle in the darkness and enjoy fine beverages from their cocktail list, which was pretty exciting to read I must say. I had a vodka cocktail with honey in it, and it was delicious, but then switched back to beer because it’s what I like. If you’re looking for interesting cocktails though, I know this is the place to go. They had a nice selection of drafts and bottles and wine too. The décor is captivating, with photos and prints from every era it seems, and ranging between local projects to stuff that appeared to have a fertile past. I confess I do not always want the facts about an item, as they tell such elegant stories in their silent presentation. But I do know that this bar spoke softly of a mysterious day to day that can’t just be weighed and bundled, but needs to be experienced and appreciated. I mean Athens of course. You’ve got to sit there quietly without giving to the impulse to eat your feet, and then the place reveals itself, in slow and tiny increments, like a book on Ancient Greece, where boys reigned supreme, without a voice. Normal town? I think not.

Can I say it’s my favorite bar and leave it at that?
No?
Well then: I love the music, I love the Braves games, I love that it’s a 7 minute walk from my house, I love the bartenders, I love the boiled peanuts, I love the generous pours of whisky, I love the Manhattans (though I was sad when they switched to making them with bourbon so now I explicitly order them with rye) … I love the darts, the atmosphere, the prices, the patio, the food next door by Ike @ Nite, the peanut butter & honeys, even the sign … I love the fact that it helped make Normaltown relevant after 8 pm.
…and while I love the familiar scotch selection, I’d love to see it grow ;).

Great drinks. Great prices. Chill place. A great fit for Normaltown.

This is magical place. Great place to catch up with friends or watch a game or both. Music is super-​cool and so are the owners, Josh and Luke.
Also, they are the first corporate sponsor of the Next Round Robin (NRR) fantasy football league, so you know they’re good people.

This is a great bar!!! It took us some back tracking to find it but we loved our time here. The patrons and the staff are so nice. We ened up sitting in the back with the fire for a few hours. The drinks were great! The dogs running around made for great entertainment.
Should we ever come back to Athens we will stop by here again.

Excellent. Perfect. Exactly what what I needed: Too old for college bars, never too old to stop going to bars. Can’t wait to come back in a couple of months. Keep on pourin’, Normal Bar.

Friendly staff.
Cheap drinks.
Comfy atmosphere.
Perfect bar.

Great atmosphere, casual enough for a weeknight but fun for weekends too. Coming from Atlanta, can’t quite believe the delicious cocktail I got (American mule) was $ 7. Nice outdoor area.

A cool bar to chill and hangout with friends. The beer/​drink menu is pretty extensive, so there’s lots to choose from. The main room is dimly light, plays pretty cool music, and allows for dogs to be inside. There’s also a patio in the back and 2 unisex bathrooms that have oddly differently shaped doors.
The best way to describe the crowd is older, almost-​out-​grown-​out-​of-​hipster-​scene, type of people. It’s also conveniently located across a couple Latin restaurants to get your late-​night grub on.

Normal Bar quickly became one of my favorite drinking holes. It’s very close to my house so I can ride my bike but there’s plenty of parking for those who don’t have the luxury. Good beer and wine selection. Seasonal cocktails are a hit. Possibly the best bar service in Athens.

Normal Bar is a breath of fresh air for the neighborhood. At last we have a cozy, laid-​back, neighborhood bar within easy walking distance to adjacent neighborhoods (Normaltown, Boulevard, ARMC area, Cobbham, Buena Vista). Designed in warm, reclaimed woods, the bar is dark and lovely. The special drink menu contains surprisingly tasty concoctions you might never have dreamed up, and the service is great. Best-​kept secret: homemade boiled peanuts are just $ 1/​bowl! There’s a long bar as well as several tables (including a couple of booths); there’s also an outdoor area out back. Want to play darts? There’s a board at the front of the bar.