Ivy Inn

Good bar food and affordable beer. Bartenders are extremely friendly. The place is definitely a dive bar and has karaoke nights. It is nice place to get a beer if you do not want to be at a super busy restaurant to grab a drink after work.

Dive bars are dark, grungy, chaotic -- the perfect type of bar for me, really. Less civilized, but more exciting. Less attractive, but more available. Less exclusive, but more forgiving.

You know what irks me about this place? Even though it's a dive bar, it's still in Princeton; there are always tall, above-average-looking white guys congregating in this place -- which is sort of in my wheelhouse. I feel generic whenever I'm here. It's messed up. I guess everyone who goes here must have had decent health insurance and good nutrition growing up. Just like me.

I notice that other reviewers complain about the Ivy Inn as if it didn't belong in a place like Princeton. But that's just ridiculous. Genius breeds misery, and this is one of the only miserable places in this Ivy League town. I'll bet anything that this place makes for an excellent refuge for some of the most beautiful minds in Princeton.

The Divey has always been a decent dive oasis in stuffed up Princeton. However, in the last few months they have seriously upped the ante! The place looks fantastic! And their new menu may be the strongest menu in town. Tunes, tater tots, trivia and cans of pbr in a town of puffed pastries? Pure heaven.