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    Out-R-Inn

    3.8 (55 reviews)
    InexpensiveSports Bars
    Closed 4:00 pm - 2:30 am (Next day)

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    OUT-R-INN ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Loud
    Divey
    Casual
    Good for groups

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    Peter C.

    Great place to tailgate before a buckeye game. Bars outside are cash only but reasonably priced drinks. Great crowd and close to the stadium. Open early for good libations!

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    Adam G.

    Three words: College dive bar. If you go in knowing that, you won't be too disappointed. Writing all over the walls, tables and chairs. Run down bathrooms (especially upstairs). The inside is kind of small, with a few scattered TV's. They also have a large outdoor area patio area (hence the name) with a bar and more TV's. Largely standing room only outside. I was there for a game day and they had port-o-potty's outside for extra bathrooms. This place was absolutely packed for game day, with very little wiggle room. Again, college dive bar...take that as you will.

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    Ryan S.

    (Note: Out-R-Inn has been wrongly listed as closed. I assure you it is still open. I am opening a new listing due to there being no easy way of sending a correction and reopening the Yelp listing. Be advised.) Out-R-Inn inhabits a Victorian-ish house on an uprise behind a stone wall on Frambes just East of High. It has been here for as long as I remember, a classic student hangout of time past, with sticky floors, and dark damp caverns with the smell of stale with beer. As a student I would come here often to start or end a night, drink and smoke in their large gritty patio, or meet woman which I had more success here than anywhere else. But I out grew it and moved on leaving the ORI to the next generation. Forgotten, I hadn't visited in the last millennium. I had been of late curious to visit and see if it was still the same in an ever changing off-campus scene. And with Mike G one day decided to go for a drink. What I found was a grove of authentic gritty campus among the growing deforestation of gentrification. It hadn't changed much. The long worn bar in the very dark narrow hallway look the same as it did in 1996. The CDs which once filled the wood racks behind the bar are gone but the fixtures are still there; too bad, because back then the music was played full album and was its uniqueness . The rock playlist still permeates the air through the system though. Still a large dive, ORI does not have a selection if craft beers. Beer and other spirits are served in plastic cups--a huge reminder of what once campus was. The bar area remains a dampy escape from the sun, a cool sanctuary. To the right through ancient looking arches is more seating just as windowlessly dark and containing scuffed seating as I remembered. Ah the days when just drinking at a simple table was a thing. Out-R-Inn does not serve food, have bands, nor offer experiences but billiards, darts, and cornhole. The second story still exist in its caverness brick frame of the past. Restrooms dirty and punkish, artistic primitive style graffiti and scratches of names: drunks, lovers, scatological poetry. The best thing about this campus institution is the patio, a sizable chunk wedge close to neighboring houses with bars, picnic tables, and games. I remember springs and falls when school was in they would adorn the fense there with torches giving it a tropical feels. Certainly ORE type places are dying out. Yet for those still wanting a cheep, informal, place to chill the Out-R-Inn provides a relaxed cool place. Lot of memmories flooded my mind when we visited, it's good for there to be a vistage of the campus past. Visit while it lasts.

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    4 years ago

    Old style High St type bar before OSU became WOKE and turned High St, across from campus into a corporate food court.

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    4 years ago

    I love this place! It is so crazy and fun and amazing :) I want to be married and buried here. Good luck!

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    7 years ago

    Honestly loved this place. Dave was so hot and hospitable. Wondering if he does private security. Thx

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    4 years ago

    the best OSU bar and it's not even close! drinks are cheap, strong, and it's such a casual hangout, and it's great on Gamedays too!

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    10 years ago

    On thursdays 1.50 for double wells. You can get hammered for less than 10 bucks. Favorite bar with my favorite bartender -- billy parrott!!

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