Seagrape Cafe

I’ve been having fun playing pool during happy hour. Great atmosphere for the locals until 9ish, then busy college bar. Regardless, always welcomed me whatever timing I have.

Visiting my boys in Fairfield. Went here at 10pm. Place was filled with middle aged moms. If you want to waste your time talking to mothers with kids at home and be surrounded by over aggressive bouncers this place is for you.
My friend got punched in the face by a bouncer. The kid was voicing his frustration with the bartender that didn’t return is credit card. No one in management seemed to care or was concerned with how the situation was handled.
Don’t waste to your time there! There are beautiful people in Fairfield by the beach. Find and make friends and you will have a better night.

Definitely a college bar but great bar tenders and staff. If you are looking for a relaxing night, this is not the place for you, it’s always busy on weekends and some week days.

Worst bar in all of Connecticut. Only stays open because of its location. It is THE ONLY bar Fairfield U students will go to because they can walk there/​all the rich beach kids live there. The layout is god awful. Island bar in center, wide open space around it, no dancefloor and bad chairs. They charge a cover usually of 5 – 10 $, 15 $ on nights like senior week because they know dumb college kids will pay for the last bad experience before graduating. Drinks are also expensive 10 $ each, good luck getting served, bartenders only go to girls, I’ll stand at the bar with 100 $ bill and still get no service. When u do get service drinks are never made the same and u get a different drink each time. Bar is always packed, no room to breathe or move and you cant hear anyone. Bathrooms are nasty and smelly, stall doors don’t even close. They will never renovate or change this place because they simply Dont have to, they will make enough money of cover charge alone. College kids are to dumb to realize and to cheap to spend mommy and daddy’s money on a cab to go to better bars down the street they could also walk to in 15 minutes. If anyone bought this bar and turned it around into something good they would make a killing all year. Instead this bar goes back to being and old man bar during summer. A real woman wouldn’t be caught dead at the SeaGrape.

Tim the bouncer is a jerk and the bar itself is mediocre at best
I went here and the beer was overpriced, the booths are awful, and the bartenders were jerks.
Also Tim sucks and should be fired. Seriously, I’m a paying customer and these people have no respect

Huge college bar.
Urinals look and smell like the old Shea Stadium (Queens, NY).
Not for the faint of heart of for kids… of which you will see some.
If you’re on probation, I’d look elsewhere… your PO is probably in here pounding drinks.
(Great for bar backs through).

Great place for darts and beers. Conservative selection of «micro» brews featuring at least Magic Hat #9, Harpoon IPA, and Sierra Nevada. The college bar reviews are spot on. For darts league nights are Mondays and Wednesday otherwise ask for the house darts and throw a casual game.

Nothing bad to say about this place, it is what it is, a good time, cheap prices, good bar food and ranked 17^th best college bar in the country by bro-​bible.

It has cheap beer. The crowds are college kids during the school year, pretty boring during the summer. It really is a good college bar, that just isn’t my thing anymore

Like many college bars throughout the country, when school is out– the bar becomes an attraction for the local sottery.
Lured by the college specials intended for parsimonious college people, it is during the off season where cherry-​bomb specials and the always mysterious 180 brand drinks can be enjoyed by the local dipsomaniacle distaff and Seadogs alike. Sometimes I think these characters are stratigically placed during the mid week afternoon lush rush for the budding FU alcoholic to take note of what happens if Senior year really never ends…

As a recent Fairfield U grad, I have to give the grape 5 stars. If you were a Fairfield senior and did not go to the grape at least once a week, then I’m not sure what you did. In fact, you should just walk out to the light house during low tide and wait a few hours until you can’t see the shore…
I’m proud to be a regular at the grape, present during the school year on most Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. James H. makes a fantastic timeline about a typical grape-​night. And Mike C… to my defense and the defense of my classmates, only about 10% of seniors fell under the tube top/​gelled hair category. However, I can say that about 95% of us were blacked out before close.
I was there a few times during the summer and I have to say, I’m very disappointed about the light crowd. Even though the students are gone, I figured locals and shoobies would pour in more frequently.
Regardless, the grape is the epitome of the Fairfield U social scene. My night at the grape (after a hefty pregame at lantern point) would usually start with a few vodka 180’s and a half a dozen house shots (which are only $ 1). Chris, the DJ, pretty much sticks to hip-​hop all night. And even though Fairfield might be the least diverse campus on the East Coast, we know how to drink and embarrass ourselves through the art of dance, preferably right next to the dartboards. We also know how to waste money in games like Buck Hunter, Lobster Claw, and Bowling.
On Tuesdays, most drinks are $ 2, and all the time $ 2 bud light bottles are hard to beat. I’ve never heard of another bar that supports a shitshow of a water/​booze fight the night after graduation and gives out commorative t-​shirts to their loyal Fairfield U senior customers. Sea Grape Café, I love you.

12:30 PM — Arrive at prototypical college with friends from FU
12:31 PM — Pound a 2 dollar bud light and a shot of something reddish
12:32 PM — Get more beer
1:14 PM — Get 5^th round of the day
1:28 PM — Put 20 dollars in Big Buck Hunter, drink more
3:34 PM — Commence chain smoking
5:32 PM — More Beer, more cigarettes, more buck hunter. I’ve spent 60 bucks already on 2 dollar beers and buck hunter
7:05 PM — Sox Game starts, I can see the screen, I’m too drunk to see
7:47 PM — Play darts. Bad idea.
8:01 PM — Vomit for the first time
8:02 PM — Another round of shots.
8:03 PM — Vomit for the second time
8:04 PM — Decide to stick to beer
8:05 PM — Another round of shots
1:00 AM — Closing time. Can’t drive home for obvious reasons, mainly, I can’t feel my face.
3:14 AM — Walking back to fairfield, pit stop at the 7 – 11. Taquitos…
5:04 AM — Sun starts to rise
5:17 AM — Make it back to Fairfield, not quite sure how.
11:00 AM — Head feels like an anvil dropped on it.
Is this what real college is like? Perhaps Asher Roth is on to something…

are those drains on the floor so they can hose down all the puke at the end of the night?

This is the local senior bar for Fairfield University. If you are a student there chances are you, and all your friends will at least stop by sometime durring the week. The most popular nights for students are Thursday, Friday, Saturday, but there is a strong Tuesday night contingent as well.
Especially in the spring the bar fills up around 11:00 most nights and lines can be very long.
Drink specials are pretty good if you like Bud-​Light and the darts and various games are always fun.
On most night be prepared to be packed in to a college bar where everyone knows everyone from class and most people are pretty wasted.