2014's New Year's Eve Parties at Every Bar in Lakewood

The Side Quest

Start your New Year off with The Side Quest, join us for ATOMIC PROM! 

We will have the best (and of course worst) retro sci-fi movies on all night, Photo booth, Champagne Toast, Cosplay Contest and more.

So brush off your starfleet dress uniform, bust out your fanciest bow ties and channel your inner Judy Jetson! Cosplay prize will go to the best vintage/retro inspired cosplay.

https://www.facebook.com/events/409684775852123/


17900 Detroit

Patio Tavern

The lovely Miss Jessica will open the bar at 3PM, and Miss Emily will be tending bar all night on New Year's Eve!
As always, we will have $1.50 Miller Lite pints, AND Southern Tier 2XMAS and Troeg's Mad Elf in pints for the always least expensive price to drink in Lakewood!  
Should our loyal patrons feel like a shot of Tullamore Dew, they will also be awarded a signature Tullamore Dew shot glass!  

We're looking forward to counting down the clock to ring in 2015!

15615 Madison

Harry Buffalo

18605 Detroit

Lakewood Village Tavern

We have happy hour until 7pm, there will be a 5:00 champagne toast for the day crowd, toast at midnight of course, $2.50 wells and domestics all night.

13437 Madison

5 O'Clock Lounge

Champagne toast free cover with a dj!

11904 Detroit

16-Bit Bar+Arcade

Alright people... HE'S BACK!!!

NO Glitz, NO Glam, NO Cover (because Chuck Norris doesn't pay covers) and NO Meatheads (just Chuck). Chuck Norris will kick the doors open at 4pm, we'll be running Chuck Norris drink specials and movies all night!!! 

Hang with us and Chuck for a killer New Year's!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/600087053470251/

15012 Detroit

Avenue Tap House

Red Rose

Free Chance to Win one of the Prize Buckets! Various fun items in each reusable beer bucket! Drawings at 11pm. Winners must be present. Sandwich trays at midnight! New Years party gear too! Drink specials & 40¢ Wings All Day & Night!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1561962024017786/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

14810 Madison

Iggy's

13405 Madison

Corner Pub

We're having a day time party from 10:00am till 2:00pm, with a shot or beer toast at noon for people who can't stay awake until midnight. And a night party from 9 pm till 2 am with small finger foods, and a toast at midnight.

12301 Madison

Mahall's 20 Lanes

The same people that brought you "Enchantment Under The Sea Dance" last New Year's Eve here at Mahall's, Memorabilia Productions give you this year's:

BLACK LODGE BALL !

The time has come for you to seek the path!

We invite you and your friends to join us at Mahall's and usher in the spirits of 2015. 

Between the two worlds of Dark and Light, 2014 & 2015 dance within THE BLACK LODGE!

With your MCs Snake Grimwood & Krauty McKraut!! 

Dance to DJ Himiko Gogo & DJ Road Chief!

There will be a delicious special menu of themed cocktails and eats!

5 Dollars

Come as you are or as you'd like to be,
Semi-Formal or Casual remains to be seen...

Your soul has set you face to face
with the light of a new day,
New Year's Eve at Mahall's,
Know yourself and abide in that state.

And if your anticipation is too much, join Mahall's every Monday evening at 8pm to watch episodes of David Lynch + Mark Frost's "TWIN PEAKS".

13200 Madison

Corky's Place

We're doing free party favors free champagne toast at midnight and karaoke starts at 10. No cover charge

13302 Detroit

Vosh

As their name implies, RadioActive Band is a high energy Top-40 band with ... VOTED CLEVELAND'S BEST TOP-40 BAND BY CLEVELAND MAGAZINE 2013!  Starts at 9pm

http://www.voshclub.com/event/new-years-eve-at-vosh-featuring-radioactive/

1414 Riverside Dr

Around the Corner

New Years At Around The Corner! 

7pm

Biggest party on the Westside! No cover, Free Party Favors,
Balloon Drop, Pop Rocks playing in Warehouse and Dj on Front Stage!, 4 bars open!
Looking to rent out a room and do your own exclusive package? Email Ryan at rkrivosh@yahoo.com or call 216-310-6148

VIP bottle service
Includes your own VIP section with a VIP host and party favors.
1 Svedka bottles (750 ML) 12 bottles of domestic beer and a bottle of champagne. -$162 Includes tax and gratuity
2 Svedka bottles (750 ML) 12 bottles of domestic beer and a bottle of champagne. - $252. Includes tax and gratuity
Customize your VIP package by calling 216-310-6148 or email rkrivosh@yahoo.com

18616 Detroit

Merry Arts

$35 9-midnight:

Top shelf and domestic bottles, heavy apps and champagne toast at midnight. 

Space is limited

15607 Detroit

Sloane Pub

Come to the kinder, gentler, New Years Eve at the Sloane, with $3 Christmas Ale Pints, $1 mint chocolate pudding shots, and a champagne toast at midnight, just o name a few things.

18196 Sloane

New Year’s Eve Celebration!!!!

12/31/14 from 8:00 p.m. – Midnight

$40 per person

$70 per couple

Open bar

Generous food buffet

Champagne toast at midnight

Party favors

Contact Pat at 216-849-1295 for reservations!

Halloween 2014

Bars continue to open and close, great (and not so great) seasonal beers appear and fade away, and thus the blog must continue. Here is the Every Bar in Lakewood list of Lakewood Halloween parties. I’ll add more to the blog as they are submitted. 

We are celebrating Halloween all week at The Side Quest!

Each night is a different theme ending with a huge party on Friday Night to show off your best Costumes.  Drink & Food Specials all week.
Prizes for Best Costume Nightly!

Monday: Video Game Cosplay Theme Plus Mario Mondays console gaming with GDL Entertainment

Tuesday: Medieval Cosplay Theme Come in your best Game of Thrones, Middle Earth, or Renaissance Faire attire!

Wednesday: Freak Show Cosplay Theme Bar Against Humanity at 8:00pm American Horror Story Freak Show at 10:00pm

Thursday: Star Wars vs. Star Trek Cosplay Theme The ultimate geek showdown! Battle it out to see who wins! Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes starts at 8:00pm.

Friday: Halloween Party! All Cosplay Themes! Come in your Cosplay Best and party at the Geekiest Spot in Ohio!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1493166937621260/

Bevy in Birdtown 

Halloween Costume Party 8pm, Halloween 21 & over only Drink Specials, Spiked Cider and Prizes.
EVERYONE in costume will receive a raffle ticket to be entered in drawings to WIN:

Cleveland Browns Blankets
TWO Hall of Fame tickets &
GRAND PRIZE of 2 CLUB seats for Browns Game this year

Come join in on the fun!

https://www.facebook.com/events/294898094029429/ 

The Sloane Pub 

The kinder, gentler Halloween this year. We will have Pumpkin Pie pudding shots for $1.00.

Lakewood Village Tavern 

We are doing a party Friday and Saturday that weekend. Costume prizes both nights and captain Morgan and Malibu specials.

Harry Buffalo

The Flying Rib

We are partying Friday night with drink specials and a costume contest. Shannon and Vieda are creating some very interesting Halloween shots.

World of Beer

Corner pub 

Halloween party Friday October 31 9pm. $50 1st place costume, minimum 15 people dressed up. Drink specials under $3.50. DJ Dawn for karaoke and music requests

16-Bit Bar+Arcade

NO COVER | DOORS OPEN AT 4PM | SPECIALS ALL NIGHT | PRIZES/GIVEAWAYS | TREATS | CRAZINESS | AND WIN AN ARCADE CABINET!

Qualifying rounds held at 10pm, 10:30pm, 11pm & 11:30pm...
All qualifiers plus two wild cards will compete for an Arcade Cabinet of choice from the 16-Bit Warehouse at MIDNIGHT!!!

THAT'S RIGHT PEOPLE, WIN AN ARCADE CABINET OF CHOICE FROM THE 16-BIT WAREHOUSE!!!

Corky's

Our party is Nov. 1st starting at 10 with Scary-oke. Cash and prize for the scariest, sexiest, and most or Original Angry orchard, apple pie shot, and spooky shot $2 each.

Iggy's Bar



5 O'Clock Lounge

It's secret soul club its awesome! Best dance party, voted 1 in cleveland magazine!

Mahall's

We've got Womack Band and ANgela Perley & the Howlin Moons plus pumpkin carving, costume contest, halloween drinks & eats - Oct 31

The Stache 

Halloween Party! Sponsored by Angry Orchard and Fireball! Fireball girls, free giveaways, drink specials AND a Costume Contest!! Bob for shots, free candy! Costume Contest Winners will get... 1st Place $200 2nd Place $100 21+ ONLY Pre-registration starts NOW until 10pm 10/31 To register either stop in and sign up or email thestachecleveland@gmail.com with your name and costume!

https://www.facebook.com/events/581887185276662/ 

Around the Corner

Something's brewing and it's going to be a wicked good time... Calling all goblins, ghouls, and freaks alike, join us in Lakewood for a spooktacular night! Fly over on Friday, October 24th & park your broomsticks at Around The Corner.

Wear your costumes whether witches or ghosts, Daniella Dior will be your host! Be there by 10pm to meet your fate, wear your wildest costume and bring your tastiest date.

Our models are ready for this magical night, filled with mayhem and mischief and other such freights! Halloween Costume Fashion Show starts just before the witching hour at 11pm!

Spooky shout out to our sponsors Pinnacle Vodka, Sam Adams Octoberfest & Adult Mart! Thank you for helping make this night enchanting.

 Our treats will delight you, be there if you dare! Creepy Cocktail Specials: $3 Pinnacle Boo Bombs Scary Sam Adams Octoberfest Contact Jessie Nunn to setup VIP bottle service in the warehouse web. Mysterious MC Lu Cas will keep you on the edge of your coffin, with devilish dancing all night w bizarre beats by DJ Ace! Photo opportunities with our event photographer John Yuhas, from Sites4sight Multimedia.
We're so happy we could scream!
Why?
Because it's Halloween!!!

 https://www.facebook.com/events/856365871048883/

Every NEW Bar in Lakewood! Bars #61 - #65

As many know, the idea of Every Bar in Lakewood is not a concrete concept. The bars of Lakewood are more of a fluid idea.  The names and ownership change with the trends, people and standards.  

Well, that, and your normal amount of bars that close due to poor management, ownership or just general grossness.  This summer I caught up to the end of the current list of all the bars.  But the list is wily and will not be defeated so easily.  Today I announce the list of Every Bar in Lakewood-that-opens-this-summer!  The Side Quest Bar, O’Toole’s Pub, The Stache, 16-Bit Bar+Arcade, and Kelley’s Pub are bars #61 through #65.

 

O’Toole’s Pub has taken over the location of Irish Kevin’s.  The new bar is looking to be an upgrade of its predecessor.  The beer list will be set for a wider audience.  It will be changed more often to give O’Toole’s customers more options and prevent beer boredom.  The biggest change to the bar will be the food.  A new full kitchen is currently being installed behind the scenes.  The true inspiration behind the bar is the love of food Urvashi O'Toole and her husband have.  They want deliciousness to be seen and tasted at O’Toole’s Pub.  Their diverse tastes of Italian, Indian, and Mexican (to name a few) will translate to options for to everyone.  Urvashi wants to make sure that her bar offers food worth loving:  both for her patrons and private events in the future.

In addition, O’Toole’s Pub will be lightening up its look.  The black ceiling has been painted gold and is the original to the building.  The windows and entrance will be enlarged so that the light from outside can flood the bar and into create a more inviting look.  The new large front windows will slide open to let in a fresh breeze during our fairer months.  I got to meet Urvashi before writing this blog and more than anything you can tell that she is working to create a bar she can be proud of.

 

The kitchen should be up and running by the end of summer, but until then, pizza from their neighbor Grab-In-Go Pizza will be available.  The window and door expansion is set for next spring to early summer.  Check it out soon for the beer and free pizza and then revisit later to check out the new food menu.

13601 Detroit Ave

216-226-5718

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16-Bit Bar+Arcade has been the biggest news to Lakewood bars this summer.  It will be the only bar not moving into a previous bar’s location: it will be going into the previous location of Five Guy’s Burgers.  This is 16-Bit’s second and biggest bar, allowing them to increase what they do great.  16-Bit Bar+Arcade will bring an army of arcade games (around 50) that will be kept current by rotating them with their Columbus location.  They will also have a number skee ball machines, which they use for both individual and league play.  They try to offer the best of old school and newer cocktails pushing for quality ingredients and enjoyable taste.  They have a diverse beer list ranging from domestics, local and Belgium craft beers and some vintage varieties.  Their events are a mix of arcade tournaments and nostalgic culture.  16-Bit Bar+Arcade looks to be a great new draw to our fantastic downtown Lakewood.

16-Bit Bar+Arcade was originally slated to open July 1^{st but}  has pushed back to August 29th in order to get everything just right.

(Some info is thanks to Cleveland.com)

15008 Detroit Ave

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The Stache has taken the place of Johnny Malloy’s.  They have replaced the sports bar/pizzeria to go with the idea of a “modern-day speak-easy.”  They will endeavor to have the best burgers in town.  Along with that, they’ll offer great beer options, your favorite cocktails, and, keeping with the speak-easy theme, offering moonshine.  They want to make the community a part of their concept.  The Stache isn’t open yet but they are showing updates on their Facebook and Twitter pages.  The Stache opened August 20th.

 

17103 Detroit Ave

216-221-1177

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Billy C’s location is opening as Kelley's Pub this summer.  It’s already looking better than a month ago.  It will be opened by a local Cleveland firefighter.  I don’t know anything else about this bar yet.  Let me know if you do and I’ll write it here!

13525 Lakewood Heights Blvd.

 

The Side Quest Bar is opening at the previous location of Eddy & Iggy's on August 30th.  It is being opened the writer of the local blog…oh, that’s me.

Every Bar in Lakewood is opening its own bar!

A question repeatedly asked of us was,  “Once you’ve finished going to Every Bar in Lakewood, what’s your next project?”  So, what does a geeky bar blogger do next?  Open a nerd bar, of course!

We’ve visited nearly Every Bar in Lakewood and we’ve discovered what’s missing!  A bar for us, a bar for you, a place for geeks and nerds can go enjoy the things they love while having a few great craft beers with friends! 

The Side Quest is going to focus on tabletop gaming, geeky TV shows, and craft beers in a relaxed environment.  Trivia, theme nights, lecture series, and live television programming events will be common occurrences.  New ideas and events will be included as our customers (you) ask for them.  We want this bar to be your bar, so, we would love to hear what you’d love to see, play, and drink.

The Side Quest will offer an extensive library that can be loaned out to play in the bar.  These games can range from card games like Munchkin and board games like Settlers of Catan to Scrabble and Sweet Valley High.  Don't worry, you'll also have the option to BYOG (bring your own game.)

 

We will offer 24 beers on draft, 12 of which will be brewed specifically for The Side Quest Bar.  The beers we offer will be from local brewers, whenever possible.  Craft drafts by local beer nerds for local beer nerds.  We will design different seasonal cocktails throughout the year to engage your palette and your nerdy side.

 Our food will be designed to be easy to eat with one hand to keep you in the game when your stomach is running on empty.   This will allow you to try different foods per visit without emptying your wallet.

In the last year, we have worked with different businesses throughout the area on events that ranged from filling up Mahall’s 20 Lanes for the a viewing of the Doctor Who 50^th anniversary episode, manning a table at Carol and John’s Comic Shop’s Free Comic Book Day event, to a month-long Mario Kart 8 tournament at Eddy and Iggy’s this summer.  The Doctor Who party was where we officially decided to open the bar.  I had simply wanted to watch something I was excited about with other like-minded people.  It turned out there were a lot of you.  The Side Quest will strive to be a part of the community and local businesses through joint promotions, events and customer participation (to let us know what they want, like and dislike.)

Are the cities of Lakewood and Cleveland ready for a Geek Bar?  We are a city where the Avengers battle and Superman was born.  We have craft beer festivals on a regular basis.  There’s barely a bar in town that doesn’t rely on sports, games, or at least scoring of some kind or another.  Some of our biggest drinking days involve dressing up in costumes or at least large amounts of green.  The question isn’t, "is Lakewood ready for a geek bar?"  The question is, "are you tired of waiting for your bar; a bar that lets you eat, drink, watch, and play what you want?"

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www.thesidequestbar.com

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As I invite you on my new quest, my Side Quest, I don’t want to you to stop exploring.  There are great bars opening: bars with great ideas, a bar that will offer their love of great food, a bar that will offer you hundreds of arcade games, a bar that will offer you the best burger and moonshine you could ask for.  A bar reborn through a local fireman’s vision, and a bar that asks, “Are you ready to geek out?”  Check us all out and the other dozens of bars throughout Lakewood.  We exist for you and because of you.  Come find your favorite bar; adventure is just around the corner.

World of Beer's Best of Ohio Tap Takeover

Every Bar in Lakewood promotes three major points, adventure, community and supporting your local businesses.   Today’s blog is about the latter, buying local.  A part of supporting our local businesses, that we sometimes forget, is that it’s not just about our local retailers but also about our local producers.  The manufacturers, the growers and in this case the brewers make great things.  Getting to buy a product that you know was create in your home state, or even town, gives us that extra bit of pride.  Getting to drink something that was made by my "neighbors" makes me happy and makes me feel like I have a closer relationship with my beer.  On Friday, I was invited to World of Beer’s (bar #42) for their Best of Ohio Tap Takeover.

The World of Beer put 48 Ohio brewed beers into their taps.  These covered over two dozen breweries from all over the state.  They ranged our hometown Lakewood’s own Buckeye Brewing to one of my favorite’s Jackie O’s from Athens’ Ohio.  Breweries of all ages attended, from the established, Great Lakes Brewing Company, to plucky new comers like Franklin Brewing Company.  What these breweries have in common is creating products that aren’t just beer.  If you have enough money, know how, and cleanliness abilities you make a good enough beer.  Hell, you can make good beer in your basement.  These breweries do something beyond just making beer.  They are crafting beer.  This may just sound like a play of semantics but to the people that work at these breweries it’s everything.  They spend countless hours tweaking recipes to be the exact beer that they want to exist.  This Friday they got to show themselves off.  It was impressive that there are enough great types of beer in Ohio to fill forty-eight taps  and that we could have used at least another couple dozen beers.  I tried out five of them and still wished there was another half dozen I would have drank as well.  Well, my liver disagrees but what are you gonna do.

The event itself was odd.  There weren't any of the breweries present there like I was told, or at least they weren't obviously present.  There was also a weird smell coming from the sinks or garbage that made us move to a different location in the bar.  It basically felt like a normal day at World of Beer (minus the smell) but with a ton of Ohio beer on tap.  But they had soooo much local beer that they made up for it.

My first beer was Crafted Artisan Meadery, Meadjito.  Artisan is one of four quality meaderies in Ohio.  For those with a good palate, you’ll pick up hints of mint, lime juice, and of course, honey.  If you aren’t a mead connoisseur, it’s going to taste like a mildly sweet and sour white wine.

Next was Actual Brewing’s Photon.  I couldn’t detect much smell to it and it didn’t have a head.  This was a good beer for those trying to bridge the gap from light beers.  It’s very fizzy with little taste.  There’s a slight after taste to it as well.  It’s a nice choice for the light beer drinkers but not too interesting to your average craft beer aficionado.

I haven’t had anything from Fathead’s Brewery in a while and tonight it was time to make amends.  I didn’t even have a choice.  How do you not drink something called Fat Head’s Bonehead Red Rye Cask w/ Pineapple and Habanero.  It had a nice head to it and a soft foam.  They used the rye well, where many breweries have failed.  There should have been a piney and pineapple taste but it had trouble competing with the habanero's heat.  The spiciness took over more and more of the taste as you drank, including sticking around for a long after taste.  Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it and would get it again.  I want to try it with something to eat.  I believe that its complex taste will enhance a variety of foods.

My favorite beer of the night was Elevator’s Horny Goat.  I am always impressed with what Elevator produces and tonight was no different.  Horny Goat is a dark beer that even Kelly, who doesn’t like dark beer, liked a lot.  Its taste combination of whiskey, vanilla, and coconut creates a taste that’s more than its parts.  Horny Goat just got better as you went.  You must drink this, it will raise your expectations for beer and yourself.  Perhaps this was simply because it was my fourth beer in.

My last beer of the evening was Brother Drake's Apple Pie Mead.  This is not a shy mead.  It has a strong sweet aroma of apple, alcohol and cough syrup.  It’s a sweet mead, whose taste is heavy with apple and honey.  The combination can come up almost fake due to its potency.  This strong apple pie taste hides its 13% alcohol content.  This is a beer whose goal is to blast you in the face with apple pie, then knock you on your ass.

These are experiences that can’t get with a domestic beer.  Our Ohio craft beers, instead of being part of the background of getting drunk, are part of our experience.  I enjoyed getting to know some new Ohio beers.  Thank you to the people that crafted them for us.

These are the other beers included for the World of Beer's Best of Tap Takeover:

Crafted Artisin Meadery Meadjito 
Brothers Drake Apple Pie Mead 
Brothers Drake Sour Paw Paw Mead 
Black Box Abbey Ale
Black Box Cloud 9
Thirsty Dog Brewing Co. Barrel Aged Cerberus
Thirsty Dog Whippet Wheat 
Rockmill Petit Saison
JAFB-Wooster Brewery Harvest Saison
JAFB New Stunt IPA
Actual Brewing Ingenuity
Actual Brewing Photon
Great Lakes Brewing Company Space Walker
Great Lakes The Wright Pilsner
Great Lakes Mango Perry Firkin
4 String Backstage Blonde
4 String Big Star White IPA
Hoppin' Frog Brewery Turbo Shandy
Hoppin' Frog BORIS the Crusher
Buckeye Sunstream
Buckeye Hippie IPA
Jackie O's Pub & Brewery Paw Paw Wheat
Jackie O's Galaxy Mandala DIPA
Jackie O's Dark Apparition
Catawba Island Whitecap Wit
Catawba Island Double Couple
Franklin Brewing Company Ltd. Company Ltd. Americas Gold
Franklin Brewing Milk Street Stout
Willoughby Brewing Company Peanut Butter Cup Porter
Fat Head's Brewery Jack Straw
Fat Heads Bonehead
Fat Heads Bonehead Firkin w/ Habanero and Pineaplle
Fat Heads Bumbleberry
Portside Distillery Pop Smoke Rauchbeer
Portside Brewing Ironclad
Lagerheads Smokey Robinson
Seventh Son Brewing Golden Ratio IPA
Seventh Son American Strong
Brew Kettle White Rajah
Brew Kettle Black Rajah
Columbus Brewing Restaurant Bodhi
Columbus Brewing Dalton
Mt. Carmel Deeper Roots Coffee Brown
Elevator Brewing Company Horny Goat
Griffin Cider Lemon Blues
Griffin Cider Honey Oak Nitro
Rivertown Roebling Porter Nitro