The Rhine House — Restaurant in City of Ithaca

Stacks of well-loved board games, wee beer garden with entrancing street art, juke box, pool and darts, exquisite rotating list of drafts from local craft breweries...all this in what feels like a cozy dive bar atmosphere. Complete with your hard-workin' hard-drinkin' locals. The $3 pint nights post 7pm Saturdays is the best beer deal in all of Ithaca. Seriously, where else can you drink a local Ithaca Beer Flower Power for under $5, nevertheless $3? Oh, and free peanuts? Yes please.

Super LGBTQ friendly. I...

Hands down, best bar in Ithaca. The people who hang at the Rhine House are a perfect mix of interesting, and eclectic, but thankfully there are no real signs of a hipster vibe. I sat at the bar with a guy for a while and when he was leaving I found out he was a provost at one of the colleges here in town. If that's not chill, I don't know what is. Local hints- if Kara is the bartender you lucked out, and if you get to meet Harley, you have hit...

I went on a night when the pool tables were free! Decent priced drinks. I was really impressed by the free stuff in the bathroom, some of which I've seen in other places but some was new to me. There were condoms and tampons but also cup covers to stop your drink from getting drugged, fentanyl test kids and a test for some other drug I can't remember. A couple does of narcan...