Gaswerks

This place is fine because it's cheap and has dollar shots.  Don't expect anything besides a large, gymnasium style bar with cheap drinks and pool tables.   Decent patio.  

It's only good because of location, price, and size.

Once upon a time, this used to be the place to meet up in the Arena. Not stay, but meet up...grab your first couple of rounds then migrate.

Now it's the place to run from.

Unless you love the smell of cherry bombs, then you'll def want to swing by. It's almost as if they purchased some custom cherry bomb scent and spray it every night before it gets busy.

The bottoms of your shoes will get sticky.. .you'll feel like you've worked out for hours but when you check, you're actually not sweaty it's just the warm musk surrounding you uncomfortably.

I want to like this place, cause I grew to love a few of the bartenders. But truth be told I do my best to avoid this place.

I'd still go here before Brothers though. That's for sure.

It's a bar in the Arena District. Yes, it's loud. Yes, it's packed. Yes, there are bros there. Yes, the girls are scantily dressed. What the fuck did you expect? If you want a nice private evening out -- DON'T GO TO FUCKING ARENA DISTRICT. Stay in Pickerington or Hilliard if you want that shit. Gaswerks, Brothers, and the surrounding clubs are all PARTY BARS. You go here to get shitty, dance, and drink a whole lot for not much money. It's no fault of the bar to be rated one star, when obviously its target audience is people that enjoy doing all of those things.

That being said, yes, it's a trashy bar filled with "campus people," but I'm not above having a good time outside of the comfort zone of Short North that apparently a lot of people have. Stop taking yourself so serious and try to enjoy places like this once in a while. It won't hurt, I promise.