Out-R-Inn

Definitely a college bar, kind of dive-​y and gross but that’s a part of the charm. Can’t beat $ 1.50 double wells on Thursday nights. Also love the atmosphere during the summer. Mostly outdoor seating though, so not my favorite place during the winter. They have corn hole outside and pool inside on both the first and second floors. Although on busy nights, it’s hard to get a game. Mug nights are on Sunday’s and Monday’s, I believe. Not usually crowded on Sunday’s, but fun to go with your friends and hang out. A decent place to catch any games, but definitely not a sports bar. Also, I’ve always gotten great service from the bartenders, even when it’s packed. Oh yeah, it’s also connected to Sicilia’s which is a plus.

If you are young and free on Thursdays this is the place to be! Can’t be lay $ 1.50 double wells. The music is always pretty good, they have pool, and the indoor/​outdoor layout is fun

As a non-​OSU grad, I have never been or heard of Out-​R-​Inn until I was invited to a Happy Hour there over the summer. I enjoyed its atmosphere as a dicey college bar. We played cornhole on the back patio which was a pretty good size for the size of the bar. I can only picture that place on a Friday or Saturday night… madness of drunk college students. It seems like the bar I would end up at for the final drink (s) before heading home if I went to OSU. So I have one question for you: Are you Out-​R-​Inn?
⁴⁄₅ stars

It’s a cheap bar with cheap drinks, so it has that going for it. Unaccountably shitty service, though. I’ve actually had a bartender walk over to me, talk to me about the drinks and what I wanted, and then walk away for five minutes, never coming back. Perhaps she thought I’d wandered in just to admire their beer selection. Regardless, you can do better.

Love this place! They have fantastical daily drink specials, nice pool tables in the main area as well as upstairs, cornhole, a nice back patio area, wood finish ever’where, and the best bartender in Columbus, Marcus!
Drink prices are great, plenty of televisions and nice seating. Also, if there’s a liquor that they don’t have that you are a big fan of, it doesn’t hurt to ask — thanks to the awesomeness of Marcus, they now have two different cucumber vodkas on hand (the Effen gets mine vote as the better of the two).

Awesome specials. Mug nights are Sunday and Monday, the best deal here in Columbus. The bartenders are also fun and really friendly, shout out to Nobli who’s the greatest. They also have a bunch of pool tables to shoot on. Plus, PJ’s is right across the street for some awesome late nighty munchies.

As someone who goes to bars about 3 times a week and has pretty much done them all at this point, I think this is easily the best bar on campus. They have it all. Pool, darts, music that doesn’t suck (how refreshing!), a somewhat seedy upstairs area to discreetly do whatever it is that your into, corn hole, dancing around the bar, TV to watch football games… they literally have it all. $ 1.50 double well drinks on Thursdays too, so it looks like I’m never gonna be going to Chumlees for Thursday Night Football again. The atmosphere is dope. Check it out.

Probably my favorite campus bar in my hometown of Columbus! I love coming home in the fall for a football weekend, and I ALWAYS end up here and one point or another. Always a fun crowd – especially on gamedays. And let’s be real, how can you not love a place that sells you a large mug then offers $ 1.00 beer. Love it! And Go Bucks!

I like this place pretty well. Great to go to on a nice day. It gets its name from the fact that they open up the back of the place when the weather is nice so it feels like you’re outside and inside at the same time. I’d avoid mug nights unless you feel like fighting through a crowd to chug swill with the kiddies on the cheap.

This is probably my favorite bar on campus. However, I would never go there on a Sunday or Monday (dollar mug night) because it’s incredibly packed. The rest of the nights it is a nice divey bar to play some pool and throw back a pitcher. Also, the patio area is pretty awesome. The biggest downside is the bathrooms are a little cramped, and on weekdays they frequently close the upstairs area. Drinks are decently priced. The bouncers can be a bit grumpy in my experience.

Yes, this place is dingy. Yes, the women’s bathroom is sometimes gross. But overall, it’s a decent place close to campus to enjoy cheap drinks with good company. It’s got two floors and plenty of space. On Friday nights during happy hour, it’s usually empty, which is great if you’re the type to avoid crowds. During warmer days, it’s nice to sit on one of the tables outside and play a few rounds of cornhole (you have to ask the bartender for the bean bags, and he might ask for your ID or something else to hold on to as collateral until you’re finished).

One of OSU’s greatest and most unique bars. Mug nights are legendary. Being about 5 years removed from graduating, I’m way too old to frequent this place, but make it in before or after a few football games a year.
It’s big enough and has enough flow to handle the large crowds. Pretty good music is played or at least not your typical top 40 stuff found at most college bars. Pizza place next store smells incredible and is greasy enough to soak up some of the cheap beer you are sure to have consumed.
The oddest thing about this place I notice now that I’m a little bit older is that everyone in it tends to be really drunk. Like fall down, spilling stuff all over drunk. Have never really seen it create any huge problems, but just something to be aware of. Especially if you are a dude trying to navigate the stairs to the bathroom.

If you are a current college student or recent grad… heck, even if you are simply an alum… this place is awesome.
I lived a block away from this bar my Jr/​Sr years of school and I miss the 2 minute walk to and from. =D
They have Mug Nights on Sunday/​Monday where the beer is cheap and you get to keep a pretty brightly colored mug. Their regular priced drinks are cheap and stong… a rum+coke is $ 2.50 so you can’t beat it. Thursday nights they have $ 2.75 Long Island Ice Teas that are about 20 ounces. And I think they have (had?) free pool on Tues/​Wednesday nights too with $ 3 pitchers.
This bar is super chill, great music (don’t know if it’s someone’s iPod or a radio stations or what… but it’s usually good), plenty of pool tables downstairs and upstairs and darts up there as well. Outdoor bar and corn hole with picnic tables when it’s nice out. And another bar over by the pizza place that’s next door. The ambiance of this place is the best… you don’t’ have to get dressed up, the bar tenders know what they are doing and are fast and nice. Writing all over the walls, and really anywhere you can get writing to stick due to many ‘o Senior Crawl nights. This was hands down one of my favorite bars while in school (and like I said the walk wasn’t bad), even ran into some professors there a couple times as well.
Highly recommend if you want a cool/​chill place to hang with friends.

Dolla’ dolla’ mug y’all. Count me in. Aside the house party beer games often being played (think quarters, cards, and pong) — this place can be a social gathering hotspot. I cherish Out-​R-​Inn for it’s charming appeal, and stay for the cheap beer.
Solid way to spend a Sunday/​Monday night.

Aside from having incredibly cheap drinks and a decent pizza joint next door, I don’t see why everyone loves Out-​R-​Inn so much. I suppose I’ll have to visit again during football season.

I’ve only been dragged here a few times and each time I was always at a loss for its popularity: obnoxious douchebag OSU students, crowded as hell, and you can bet there’s a long time at the mens’ restroom. The plastic take-​home mug that gets you a discount is cute, but doesn’t make up for the fact that the bar is a craphole and full of philistines. Definitely a sign that I picked the wrong university to waste half a decade.

If you are a college student or a recent grad at OSU this is probably your alma mater for drinks or just place where your dad use to go. Monday and Sunday night are $ 1 mug nights plus the back patio is kinda like if your neighbor decided it was cool to throw a year long party.
Great seating outside. Really great music played in the background. Here’s an example playlist
(TV on the Radio, Black Keys, Radiohead, B.y.b.o., My Morning Jacket, and some rappish stuff)
This is a non douche bar on Campus in my opinion. Like it! :)

This place is notorious for their «mug nights» where one can procure a 20 oz domestic for $ 1.00. On sundays/​mondays during the warmer months it is the place to be.
I have some issues with mug night…
1. The wait for a beer can sometimes be atrocious.
2. After you are intimidated to tip on every budget beer, it really turns out to not be that great of a deal. You also have to put $ 10 on tabs, so bring singles.
3. I don’t think they clean the hoses to their kegs, as I almost always get the beer-sh@ts after drinking there.
4. The men’s «bathroom» is a trough atop a dangerous flight of steel stairs that puts the pisser in prime view of the crowd out back.
Somehow, this place also attracts local regulars, give me a break.
Anyway, if you are in the campus area you will more than likely be dragged by an insistent friend to go to «mug night.» It is pretty much the only place to meet people during the deserted summer months too.

I couldn’t decide whether to give Out-​R-​Inn three or four stars. I wish I could give it 3.5. As far as campus bars go, this is one of my favorites, but it just depends on the night. Sometimes I come here and have an amazing time, other times it’s hell. It all depends on how crowded it is.
I’ll start with what I love about Out-​R-​Inn. There’s a lot. First of all, this is the most interesting-​looking bar on campus. It used to be a house, and while it’s old, it’s pretty because it’s all wooden and to get in the front door you have to climb some stone steps and then you’re on this cool front porch area that does have some places to sit down. The inside is pretty big. The bar is right inside the door, and the building is sectioned off into large rooms. There are pool tables and the back is open to a great patio. On the patio you’ll find wooden picnic tables and there is a bar out here. A great place to hang out in the summer. In the winter, they cover the patio so you can still hang out in the space. There’s a set of stairs and some pool tables upstairs, and there you’ll find the bathrooms.
I like the crowd here. Yeah, it’s a lot of students, but for the most part everyone keep to themselves and are pretty chill. I don’t see fights and drama going on here. Out-​R-​Inn is in the north campus area on Frambes, just around the corner from High St. I used to live on Norwich so I’d walk down here all the time. There is also a heavenly pizza place right next door. You can go over there, get a pizza and bring it back in here to eat with your friends on the patio. We used to do this all the time in the summer. The pizza is delicious — great drunk food. It’s pretty greasy, but the crust is soft and chewy and they load on the cheese. What more do you want when you’re trying to soak up all that beer? The music is always kick-​ass too — less mainstream than other campus bars.
Out-​R-​Inn is famous for their mugs. At some point in their lives, it seems like every OSU student acquires dozens of these plastic mugs in neon colors with a picture of Out-​R-​Inn on them. In fact, I have several in my kitchen cupboard right now. When you get these mugs, you bring them in on Mondays and Tuesdays and fill them with beer for $ 1. Gotta love that. Definitely the best nights to come here in the summer, because the beers are cheap and the students are gone so it’s not crowded. I really love this bar in the summer.
That leads me to the stuff I don’t like about Out-​R-​Inn. The crowdedness. Oh my god this place gets packed, especially around football season. I’ll never forget, the last time I was there, it took my friend and I half an hour to make our way to the back bar because it was so packed. It was insane, very uncomfortable and pointless. As I mentioned, wait for the kids to go home for the summer and take advantage of this place then. I give Out-​R-​Inn 5 stars in the summer and 1 or 2 when the students are back full force. It becomes a whole different bar.
It smells in here. Yeah, I know it’s old, but it kinda smells like dried up puke and I wish they could do something about it. Another reason I like to sit on the patio. But. No joke, one time when my friends and I were sitting at a table on the patio over the summer, we looked over to see several rats running around chasing each other. Yep. Big furry rats. I only saw them that once, and I thought it was kinda funny because they were playing, but my friends were grossed out and wanted to leave. The rats were in the cornhole area, so they ended up scurrying away when some people came to play.
The service isn’t so great. Of course it’s hard to get a beer when it’s crowded, but sometimes that doesn’t matter. The bartenders are often rude and there’s a $ 10 limit on credit cards here and they don’t warn you. That means you’re in it for the long haul if you open up a tab on $ 1 mug night by accident, which I’ve done several times. When you’re not here for mug night or happy hour, the drink prices suddenly become not so impressive. Sometimes it can get expensive. I stick to the $ 1 mugs so I expect to stick to beers if I come here.
The bathrooms are kinda crazy. Everything in there is covered by writing and they are small. If it’s crowded, forget even going in there, you’ll be in line forever. It’s pretty well stocked, but they have those disgusting fabric hand towels instead of paper towels. You know, the ones where you pull them through the machine and they «clean» themselves? Hopefully they have done away with that since then. Parking also sucks. Not easy to find a spot on the street most of the time.
Overall it depends. This place reaches its full potential in the summertime, so I highly recommend coming on a summer mug night to take advantage of the cheap beer, sit outside at one of the tables, and enjoy the fact that all the students are back home, not in here crowding the place. I really love it here then. Other than that, this place can get pretty overwhelming and I tend to steer clear.

I’ll admit, Out-​R-​Inn had some pretty decent prices and specials when I went, not to mention the outdoor patio was extremely enjoyable in the warm weather. However, my biggest grief with this bar was how many college students were playing drinking games there such as Quarters and Cornhole.
WTF? This is NOT your frat house, the apartment you live in, or a party you’re at! This was extremely annoying for me and my group because we don’t go out to bars to play games, we go out to drink. So, when drunk college girls are spilling pitchers at us trying to to play some asinine game, we’re not going to be happy.
I might go back to Out-​R-​Inn again, now that the summer is here and most students have left. Perhaps I’ll try a different day of the week, and maybe I wont encounter the same crowd. But generally it was very discouraging, and I’d probably just go to Larry’s instead.