Empire Club — Restaurant in Durham

My Warm Fuzzy Place!

The Empire is my long time favorite thirst parlor. It was the place that all the farm hands went for their after work "get down". It is now, one of those very cool, out of the way places, that you don't want everyone to know about. No need to dress up to be seen there. Saturday is karaoke night and always lends some interesting fun to an otherwise "just another Saturday night".

If you're looking for a snobby crowd that will pretentiously pay too much for weak drinks, this is...

I've always enjoyed this dive bar. Bartenders are always pleasant and friendly. Great place for a game of pool, shuffleboard, and darts. Drink prices are moderate. To the best of my knowledge, food is not sold here. And, for the most part. All the people I've encountered there have been pretty cool with exception to only a couple of disruptive individuals in all the time I've visited this establishment. However, it is a dive bar. So, those types of things are to be expected from...

A delightfully unrefined, rough around the edges neighborhood dive bar, the kind your grandpa probably used to (or maybe still does) frequent. Cold beer, friendly barkeeps, a pool table, and a jukebox. Just an unpretentious place to have a beer with a friend, the sort of no frills place that someone might write a good country song about. Not many of these...