Surfside 7 is an eclectic mix of punk rock & Hawaiian-Tiki surf. Â Local art adorns the walls and adds to its unique character. Crazy huge sized wooden tiki gods look over you as they stare down from the walls. Yes, a straw hut IS the bar and it'll most likely be the first thing you see when you walk in. You have the choice of sitting out back under some lattice work. There's a modest supply of good beers on tap and liquor behind the bar. The jukebox is unique mostly filled with punk rock music turned up loud like NoFX or Iggy Pop but you'll also get an occasional Otis Redding in there so it's an unusual mix. This place is for a younger crowd mostly college age. If you get hungry they do have NY style foldable pizza served as a pie or by the slice and heated quickly. Â It's surprisingly tasty and a perfect compliment to a couple beers. Will this place become my usual hangout? Probably not, but it does provide a young and fun atmosphere.
Review Source:Love me some SSS!
Best lunchbox special I've ever had. Last Saturday night for $5 we got a corona (full size) and a shot of Jose Silver! That took the night to interesting places!
Love the vibe and the decor. There was some awesome sassy bs written all over the walls and the trippy hallway bathroom hall is always a delight! This isn't a Tiki bar, it is much more than that. It is a funky punk neo-op weird magnet and I like it!
A Punk Rock bar in Colorado? Much less Fort Collins... Count me in.
Every night I've spent at Surfside 7 has been awesome. The drinks are priced right and the music on the jukebox is awesome. Surfside has a waaay different scene than most of the bars in old town in a good way.
Sometimes there's live music and you have to pay a cover but its not really a big deal and its usually pretty cheap.
I love the patio in the back. Its one of the best outdoor bar areas in old town.
The pizza is kinda meh, but i never go there to eat, but it is nice to have in there in case you get hungry late night and don't wanna leave before last call.
Last night was my first in Fort Collins. After going to a show at The Aggy, our group ended up at Surfside 7. This place is awesome! I love that it is a bar with a pizza window. I also love how the bar area is built as a little tiki bar--we sat at the bar and I felt like I was in a tiki hut! I ordered a slice of cheese and the crust was so chewy and tasty I had to order a second piece. I am a huge crust person and this crust there is top five in my opinion. I will definitely stop by for  slice the next time I'm in town!
Review Source:Bar food, Bar drinks, Bar fare, friendly service, Tiki decor with nothing better than Bacardi for their rums...
Why open a tiki bar, when you just want to serve high balls of whiskey?
The music they jam in here is cool, and so is the live music that they used to have play (I haven't been back in a couple years, so I don't know if they still do live music) but everything else, in my opinion, is pretty lacking
I don't understand the tiki bar decor. Â But I really don't care. Â The jukebox is awesome for those that want to hear great punk and old school metal coming at their ear holes while they drink some cheap shitty beers.
I don't have any piercings or tattoos so I may not be their core clientele  but I love the music here and the fact that it is different than any of the other bars in town.  You can come in early, grab a booth and let the Slayer song that just came on remind you that your day may have sucked but someone else's was worse and things are going to be ok.
The walls are lined with a rotating gallery of paintings for purchase. Â And they serve pizza by the slice for cheap. Â It ain't the greatest but neither is your face, so get a slice and enjoy you bastard!
Places like this are necessary in a town rotten with jam band concerts and bland people listening to blue grass.
There is rarely a time and place for these things yet they seem to be at every turn in Fort Collins. Â Luckily you can wander into Surfside 7 and scrub that mess from your dome with a gulp of Olympia and a blast of Rise Against from their speakers.
Surfside 7 has a really awesome staff, hands down. They are always smiling, full of laughter, and telling stories. The pizza is some of the best to be found anywhere in town, and it's super cheap!
Quick hint: if you only want pizza and they're having a show inside with a cover, the doorman will usually let you in without paying the cover if you just beeline for the pizza and get back out quickly. I have done this a handful of times without issue. No offense to the bands playing, it just wasn't my style of music. Plenty of people were having fun grooving to the tunes in there.
Good cheap beer with nightly deals, as well as great local microbrew happy hour deals. Excellent staff that busts their ass to get orders taking care of and knows when to put their foot down when things get a wee bit rowdy. Awesome jukebox with a mix of local bands, punk, old country standards, though they really need to bring back "Piss up a Rope" and "The 'Brews". Good, large pizza slices with a variety of toppings, from pepperoni, sausage and pineapple, to pesto, spinach, and sun dried tomatoes. My favorite band in all of Colorado. My only complaints are the music gets too damn loud (I'm a big weenie), and the graffiti over the nice pretty pinups in the bathroom.
Review Source:I am with one of the other posters -- I have a love/hate with the SS7.
When I love it, I am drinking cheap drinks, eating tasty pizza and kick ass cheesy fries with some rocking music and my good friends.
When I hate it is an angry crowd or poor service mixed with a whopping attitude and too crowded, and yeah, the stinky bathrooms.
To be fair to SS7, I know for sure they clean the bathrooms with bleach. It is an old building and I think it just smells from years of neglect.
EDIT: Summer 2010, they have added a small outdoor patio. Awesome!
The one place in Old Town you're not going to see frat boy pricks yelling "WOOO!" at SportsCenter highlights. Â If you're looking for a loaded jukebox, a couple hipsters, and the most interesting bar bathroom in Old Town, Surfside won't disappoint.
Our favorite go-to bar was packed so we decided to hit SS7 on a whim. Â It was a Friday night and were hoping it wasn't packed. Â Walked right in, grabbed the corner by the window on the couch which was enough area for the 7-ish of us. Â I don't think there's any other bar in Fort Collins that has $2 New Belgium pints on a Friday night. Â Good shots - the surfer on acid and kamikaze were a bit different than I had elsewhere but were still good.
I've had the pizza here before too and it's pretty damn good. Â A slice and a PBR for less than $5 bucks, you can't beat it.
One of the best jukebox selections I've ever seen - from Frank Sinatra to ButtHole Surfers it's got everything that doesn't suck.
If you're looking for the roofie-slipping, table top dancing, 21st birthday puking, douchey DJ kind of atmosphere, there's a couple places in The Square you're going to love. Â We'll be at Surfside, so don't wait up for us. Â I'll take the hipsters over that crap anytime.
It's just too love/hate. Â
When I love it, it's the cheap beer, awesome cheap pizza, great music, awesome memories (my wedding reception was held here!). Â It's the whole atmosphere, even with the shit-faced patrons and the semi-rude bartenders and the turn-it-down-please jukebox. Â
But when I hate it, it's because the jukebox is actually seriously just too loud, and the bathrooms really, really, really smell. Â Bad.
Pizza, get your greasy, cheesy, messy, floppy, giant pizza!! Â We went on a Saturday night as the mid-point in our bar-hopping extravaganza. Â And it was perfect timing too... something to absorb all the booze we had in our stomachs, and something that allowed us to make it till last call! Â
We just got the plain ol' cheese pizza. Â The sauce was alright (not bad, just not great), but the cheese and crust were excellent! Â The crust was almost undercooked, but not. Â It was unexplainable. Â They also had 5 dollar corona/tequila shot special which sounded like a good idea at the time!! Â But none-the-less a great deal. Â Overall for 4 of us our tab was 30 bucks! Â Not bad for a 16" pie and 2 rounds of drinks. Â The place was packed and I could see pinball and some other old school arcade game off in the distance. Â The bar had a cool tiki theme to it and the staff was friendly and prompt. Â
The crowd was diverse and there was a guy that fell off of his bar not once, but twice and was outside asking everyone for a cigarette.... cheap drunken entertainment!!
The SS7 is a very specific genre of bar and often people don't understand this. This is one of the most punk rock bars I've ever hung out at and that's what makes it so wonderful. People come here to get away from the frat & sorority crowd and listen to loud, awful music with other poorly dressed people.
If your idea of a good time is listening to Dave Matthews, wearing a North Face softshell and sandals and drinking pretentious microbrewed beers that taste of patchouli and pine needles, this is not your place. If you're looking for fellow Slayer listening, dark clothing wearing rejects of society who love $2 Pabst and greasy NYC style pizza, you're in heaven.
It's a great punk rock bar that serves great pizza. Â My boyfriend is obsessed with the place, it's pretty much the only bar we'll visit while in Fort Collins. Â The pizza comes with any type of toppings you can think of, and they serve slices late into the night so it's great hangover-preventative food. Â They have some great live bands come into town, mostly punk rock and the people who come to see the shows are mostly punk too, so if that's not your scene then be forewarned. Â The people do tend to be somewhat elitists, but don't all punk rockers? Â They're the original old school kids. Â
The bathrooms are clean and the walls are interestingly decorated so you're never bored. Â Only downside is it's a one-holer for the ladies. Â So the line might be long. Â I anticipate having to go, so I have time to wait in line before I make a puddle where I'm standing. Â Drinks are cheap, pours are heavy, so what more could you really want?
The Surfside makes me feel out of place like a cheerleader at a punk rock show. The people in here don't generally seem to approve of my going-out outfits of sparkly shirts and high heels. The condescension is such that I even notice it when I'm plastered! Pizza is good, but Surfside and patrons, you're just too cool for me.
Review Source:Fort Collins is finally maybe sorta getting cool. Â I generally loathe coming back to this cold, sleepy, highly generic front range city, but it's where my parents live, so it's a necessary pilgrimage. Â The Surfside 7 has made this visit a lot less painful with $2 PBRs. Â It's a typically scuzzy punk rock bar with cheap wells and occasional bands--something you'd think would be a fixture in a college town, but that has been lacking in Ft. Fun for a long time.
The bartenders aren't particularly friendly, but that might change if you're more than an annual regular. Â
Thanks for dulling the pain, Surfside.
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