Northside

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  This place is awesome it has become on of my fav in Akron. The line-ups are excellent, sound is good, beer is good, service is always nice and fast, I mean that's a winner in my books!

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  Posted on 01.04.13 Ian f.

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  I've only been here for jazz night Wednesdays, but it was a ton of fun.  The service was good, and it wasn't too busy.  Makes eating at Luigi's after tolerable.

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  Posted on 05.10.11 Nathan K.

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  Can't speak for the food or the music any other night besides Wednesday, but the Wed. nite jazz jam is awesome. Check it out if you're in the area!

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  Posted on 09.29.10 J R.

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  During the week Northside has some fun music.  Rachel Robers plays every Monday (<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Frachel-robers.info&s=f8d23ba4731102d94eb07de1b095e750f30b82e5a528817f08d559738798b4d0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://rachel-robers.info</a>) and Zach (<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fzachmusic.net&s=94c2d0f68838f555a4f97656399ce14b77c17b8f4a1fbfafaa5c1cad9e71d4ca" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://zachmusic.net</a>) plays with his band every first wednesday of the month.
  
  Northside is a small, interesting place.  Their food has changed hands at least three times in the past three years.
  
  Right now I think it's an organic thing.  Though I have not had the food, I haven't heard much about it, either.
  
  But I don't know anyone that goes to the Northside for the food.
  
  People usually go for the music.
  
  On weekends they have blues.... since their claim is a blues bar.
  
  People also go for the wine.
  Which isn't bad at all.

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  Posted on 03.08.08 Korrin B.

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  My professional wino BFF, his wife (who sometimes I like better than my actual BFF) and I decided to play "blast from the past" and pop into Northside last night after consuming a metric ton of sushi shortly beforehand.
  
  Northside is a bar which has seen me through various stages of my life... I used to go to this bar when it had just re-opened (formerly being Cavanaugh's) in the early 90's with my (now) ex-husband (then) live-in boyfriend.  My friend Julie's (now) ex-husband (then) live-in boyfriend used to do improv on Thursday nights... and, as I am a stalker of the funny, we used to go to drink cheap beer and hang out.
  
  Later, I performed here with an improv troupe (Clueburger with Cheese - a name we ripped off another improv troupe which had gone defunct) to stacked crowds of our friends.
  
  This was all before I was 21.
  
  Post 21, post divorce - this was the bar that me and my friends from the Literary Guild used to hang out and act all pretentious at. Smoking our clove cigarettes and reading our crappy-schmappy-pappy poetry to each other.  It was a scene.  A total Midwest scene.
  
  There was (and, is) an open mic night at Northside which attracted the "avant-guarde" of Crackron, Ohio... people stinking of patchouli with long-hair, Birkenstocks and acoustic guitars took to the stage to play post-Gulf War era protest songs.  Angry college lesbian poets read pre-slam era poetry about sexual injustice.  Wacky townies told bad jokes... it was a hodge-podge of bad art.
  
  It was fucking awesome.
  
  Last night we happened into Northside on open-mic night.  We sat at the bar, so as to avoid being overwhelmed by acoustic versions of "Jack and Diane."
  
  The bar hasn't changed much in 15 years.  It's still the same dark, wooden bar with a bad wine menu (though we did find a nice Riesling to compliment the hot day which was yesterday.)  The only thing which really has changed is that the place isn't filled with smoke - as smoking in public places is now illegal in Ohio.
  
  They even still serve free hotdogs to soak up the alchohol.  Had we not consumed a metric ton of sushi previously, we might have been inclined to go after one of those Dogs.
  
  Northside also has an eclectic calender of live music - mostly local jazz and blues bands - pretty much every night of the week.
  
  But, somehow being back in Northside made me want a cigarette more than I have since being back in the Crackron area.
  
  We had fun with a walk down memory lane for the duration of that bottle of wine, but afterwards decided to eschew ordering another in favor of repairing to my BFF & wife's house to open a bottle of their own brew and watch Ghostbusters.
  
  It was a sign that we are getting old.
  It had to happen sometime.

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  Posted on 07.11.07 Kate K.

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