Towne Tavern is situated in the heart of Clarendon and is, to the best of my knowledge, Clarendon's only public bar and not all that popular since most of the locals do their drinking at the VFW club. Indeed you'll find that a lot of the patrons seem to be stopping by more often to purchase 6 packs to take out.
Towne Tavern is basically a beer guzzling dive bar and unfortunately not one of a higher order, but being situated in Clarendon, a remote sort of has been, "seen better days" type of town, one really couldn't expect much more. I've been here a few times over the years, and because of its generally depressing "down on your luck" atmosphere, haven't really got much good to say about it.
Though not all that bad looking on the inside, the customers it attracts tend not to be the most savory of characters. The bar and, for that matter the town itself has a reputation for having had plenty of bar room brawls and street frights, but since it is a small town I think that such isn't all that frequent; you just hear about them more often. And if there is a fight, most of those seem to have been between relatives, a that fact may not be too surprising since everyone in Clarendon seems to be related in one way or another. Indeed, though I can't vouch for the factual truth behind it, Clarendon has long had a rumored local reputation for incest even to the point that one of the most commonly told jokes about it is that Clarendon guys look forward attending their annual family reunions as it's one of the best places for them to pick up chicks.
If you go here, your best bet is to park in the dirt parking lot along the side of the tavern as on the main street you might be subject to some logging or oil well truck traffic that often have damaging chains either dangling or swinging from their sides.
On the good part, and my reason for going two stars instead of one, is that I've always been well treated at Towne Tavern, but then again having grown up nearby, I know most of the people. read more