Spring Break
For your drinking pleasure: Jeremy picks the best local bars
Jeremy Carmona
Issue date: 9/27/07 Section: Entertainment
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09/27/07 - After a long day of academics, work and stress, the only way to revive life into our bodies is to be social with those who also just underwent the aforementioned at a bar.
I'm not saying that a bar is the only way to get rid of stress, but for the typical University of Rhode Island student, I feel that it's the most common.
With your long day behind you, the only things that run through your mind are, "What lovely establishment is going to be best to wet the whistle," and, "How many of my sorrows am I willing to drown out?"
Once again, I'm not saying that alcohol is the way to rid your problems but, for some people it might be, and that's their prerogative. As long as you drink responsibly and have a sober driver, then you can go wild and crazy.
As you think about those very two questions (perhaps for tonight's agenda) here's a list of some of the local bars that might accommodate the taste for Dirty Jersey, Strong Island, as well as some of the other bars that make up the Narragansett scene.
Charlie O's is the bar that I can call my second home. With $5 pitchers of beer during the weekdays and pitchers of sangria on Sundays, Charlie O's is a main attraction around Narragansett. Besides the temptation of pitchers, the bar's happy hour is something of sheer delight, as it comes with free food.
The theme of gluttony surrounds Charlie O's as directly next door is Fat Jacks, and down the road lies Kingston Pizza and Island Deli, which is now late night starting on Thursday nights.
Inside, Charlie O's is your typical bar setting: dim lighting, booths for eating, stools for drinking, pool tables, and a modern day jukebox (a wall mounted music selection program).
Upstairs, Simonz, the martini bar is the complete opposite setting. Leather couches, wood floors and shuffleboard help to add class to this bar. Specialty pizzas and martinis sound delicious, but aren't as cheap as downstairs.
With prices ranging from $7 to $13, the items are affordable but after a drink or two you might regret spending $14 on two drinks when you could have gone to Charlie O's and got three pitchers.
I'm not saying that a bar is the only way to get rid of stress, but for the typical University of Rhode Island student, I feel that it's the most common.
With your long day behind you, the only things that run through your mind are, "What lovely establishment is going to be best to wet the whistle," and, "How many of my sorrows am I willing to drown out?"
Once again, I'm not saying that alcohol is the way to rid your problems but, for some people it might be, and that's their prerogative. As long as you drink responsibly and have a sober driver, then you can go wild and crazy.
As you think about those very two questions (perhaps for tonight's agenda) here's a list of some of the local bars that might accommodate the taste for Dirty Jersey, Strong Island, as well as some of the other bars that make up the Narragansett scene.
Charlie O's is the bar that I can call my second home. With $5 pitchers of beer during the weekdays and pitchers of sangria on Sundays, Charlie O's is a main attraction around Narragansett. Besides the temptation of pitchers, the bar's happy hour is something of sheer delight, as it comes with free food.
The theme of gluttony surrounds Charlie O's as directly next door is Fat Jacks, and down the road lies Kingston Pizza and Island Deli, which is now late night starting on Thursday nights.
Inside, Charlie O's is your typical bar setting: dim lighting, booths for eating, stools for drinking, pool tables, and a modern day jukebox (a wall mounted music selection program).
Upstairs, Simonz, the martini bar is the complete opposite setting. Leather couches, wood floors and shuffleboard help to add class to this bar. Specialty pizzas and martinis sound delicious, but aren't as cheap as downstairs.
With prices ranging from $7 to $13, the items are affordable but after a drink or two you might regret spending $14 on two drinks when you could have gone to Charlie O's and got three pitchers.
