I love this bar! Friendliest bar staff in Chico, without a doubt, feels like a very welcoming family! You always feel welcome here. There is a lot to do to quench your entertainment needs. However, the food I don't trust unless your starving. The building is old and in need of dire maintenance. Some parts of the bar have an old smell which makes you wonder how long it's been since the last renovation. Besides that I have never had a bad time here.
Review Source:I didn't come here very often when I lived in Chico, but I always liked "the O". Now that I'm old, I figured it would be the perfect place to sit and have a few. It's exactly the type of place I like to go these days. We sat at the left side of the bar, and the bartender never even looked our direction. After 10 minutes, we just left. There's no shortage of bars in Chico, I'd rather go somewhere where the bartender doesn't have her head up her ass.
Review Source:If you're one of those strange people who goes to Chico State but hates dealing with shit like 'Power Hour' or any bar filled with v-necks and fohawks, then this is the place for you.
Unlike its Chico bar bretheren, The Oasis is almost never crowded, which means no waiting in line for drinks, and no macho men trying to out-douche one another for the affection of liquered up and plastically enhanced females. Â It's just real Chico people, drinking and having a good time.
Here is a list that covers just a few of the awesome things the Oasis has going for it:
1. Closest bar to campus not called The Bear (it's right behind the new WREC center)
2. BEST Jukebox in Chico! Anytime you go to 'The O' you are almost guarenteed to hear at least one song by Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Zeppelin, and Garth Brooks. Â ABSOLUTELY NO TECHNO HOUSE BULLSHIT!
3. The O Burger is one of the best in town, and might be the most affordable as well.
4. Great place to meet people who have great stories. Â This place has got a nice collection of folk from every age group, and almost every one of 'em has got a story to tell.
5. It's the most historically significant bar in Chico. This was THE greek bar at Chico State in the 60's and early 70's, as evidenced by all the old greek life memoribilia that they still have on display across the bar's ceiling.
6. There is lots of fun shit for you and your friends to do whildst putting back a couple of cold ones. Â Six or seven pool tables, and ping pong table, and FREE TABLE SHUFFLEBOARD!!
7. They have a great staff that treat their regulars like family.
8. Best place in Chico to watch sports. Â They've got 12-15 huge HDTV's with every sports package you could ever want.
My buddies and I had a lot of great memories at this place during our tenure at Chico State, and hopefully students continue to do the same for generations to come.
The experience I had at Oasis was beyond horrible. While I was there I witnessed a situation of hate and discrimination from the management, bar tender, and other random people in the bar, all directed at a transgender person. I've never seen or heard such horrible, unkind and discriminatory comments in my life and I was shocked that they were coming primarily from the employees. The bar tender was literally leaning over the bar screaming in this persons face. A person who was sitting politely not doing anything. I left holding back tears, as this person left to shouts and rude comments from a number of people in the bar. I still can't believe that something like this could happen in Chico, but I want to help make others aware that it did happen, and it happened in this establishment, with the support of the management and employees there. I will NEVER go back to this bar and I encourage others to stand up to this kind of behavior and not support this business.
Review Source:This is a great dive bar in Chico. The food is cheap, the drinks are cheap and Tuesday nights are lots of fun here. There are ping pong tables, pool tables, and shuffle board. It has a lot of sports going on through out the day and they have two for one days on Tuesdays. Â You might find college students, vets, contractors, teachers, and doctors in here. Â Many people are lifers for the Oasis and each night they close with the same song by Garth Brooks...can you guess it ha!
Review Source:I could be biased because I lived about 50 feet away on W. first street.
Shuffleboard, pool tables, cheap pitchers of beer, lots of parking, lots of friendly people, lot of oldies but goodies, a jukebox, and the bartender might remember your name if you're here often enough.
Also, it's only a couple blocks from campus. Â Liquid lunch, anyone?
Of all the bars in Chico - the town has  a lot of them - the Oasis is my favorite. I like the food, the "O" Burger is excellent and not very expensive. The beer prices are reasonable too. I like the TV set-up for games, they have a lot of TV's with a lot of games going on at once, which is great if you are a sports nut. You don't get a pretentious crowd here, it's a mixed crowd, a lot of locals, some students, a lot of blue collar workers. For some reason a lot of painters hang out here - as a longtime painter myself that's cool. Great to have a place you can go to when you have paint all over you. I like the juke box here, it's low tech, 4 songs for a buck, can't beat that. Finally, as a CSU Chico alumni I'm aware the Oasis was  - for umpteen years THE Chico State Bar, and that dates back to the early 60's. Before the Bear, The Grad, and all these other places there was the "O", it was the top college bar in town. That's probably not true anymore, a lot of locals hang out here now - mostly local really - but it's reputation as Chico's  oldest, arguably most important, college bar still resonates with many alumni.
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