New Max's Tavern

Max's is one of the four classic college bars, always the ending stop for everyone due to "closing maxs", which consists of everyone standing on the tables and benches and belting out sweet caroline, which is a blast.  If you get there early enough or go on an off day, you can get a table which makes it way better.  If you go on a wednesday, thursday, friday, or saturday after 11pm or so, good luck.  It gets hopelessly packed and you can definitely expect to get a drink/something spilled onto you, people bumping in to you.  They give out free popcorn ONLY IF EVERYONE in your party buys a drink (as we were rudely told last time we were there), which are extremely expensive (we thought it would be fine that half our group had drinks and half were already too drunk for another), but no.  

Garrett (?) who used to be the bouncer but now is a bartender, is awful - horribly rude, impatient, and tells you he expects a tip without doing ANYTHING to earn one (just be nice??). Even if you're completely sober/well behaved/polite, he treats you like he is way above you and says sarcastic, mean comments.  He ruined my experience there, and as I was complaining to other people, I got the same response from everyone - a friend even told me that the week before, he and an entire group of people left because of this bartenders rudeness.

Which is too bad because the rest of the bartenders are great. Just make sure your tips go to them!

Overall a great bar though, with good people and good times.  Another review says that it isn't filled with the frat type, and that's probably true before 11pm, but after, it's half/mostly Greek life like every other campus bar.

Max's is a great bar! The free popcorn they give you is fantastic, but the problem is you can't stop eating it. The bartenders are great and really friendly. Just an overall good place to get a drink.

I asked for a Cosmo, and was rather gruffly informed that Max's "doesn't do fancy drinks." I wasn't aware that a Cosmo was considered "fancy," especially since I saw all of the ingredients sitting on the bar. There was live music which was all right, a decent beer selection, and plenty of seating. All in all, it was all right. Not the best bar I've ever been to, but not the worst either. Just make sure that whatever drink you order has the name of the ingredients in the title.