OK. Two caveats: 1.) This is a college bar. 2.) You must be at a certain level of drunkenness before you walk in the door to appreciate the unique experience that Tim's delivers.
If you are looking for a place to kick back a few beers with your pals and chat it up, this is not the place for you.
If you are looking for a place to dance your ass off with your friends, act like a fool and have a good time (think wedding reception-like drunken dancing), then Tim's it is!
Pros:
- Dayton Beer Co. - half-decent local brew on draft, cheap pitchers
- PBR for the tighter wallet nights
- THE POLE
Cons:
- Security can turn into assholes really quick, Soup Nazi style.
- $3 cover on the weekends
- Thursday nights are +18, don't even bother.
Anybody who is anybody on the weekends at UD goes to Tim's. Â UD has a few other bars - Bargo's, Flannigans, The Field House, Malano's, and Bdubs. Â The first three being great bars for the week-day drinker, but if you're not at Tim's on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, you should have just saved yourself some money and went to community college. Â
There is a select group of people who live and breath Milano's. Â This bar is kind of a half-way house where UD hides the cargo short wearing mouth breathing nerds away from mainstream society. Â Freshman and Sophomores wonder why they never see their RA's out on the weekends.. THIS IS WHERE THEY ARE!! 95% of people who are in attendance at Milano's after the sun goes down never had an alcoholic drink until their sophomore year of college and are still trying to get to second base with their girlfriend they met at band camp. Â If you happening to be visiting the city of Dayton for a comic book convention, this is probably the place for you - they will even check your asthma inhaler at the door for no cost... that's less you have to carry in the 10th pocket of your cargo shorts. Â
Timothy's completely sums up what UD is all about. Â It's a complete shit hole packed full of suburban white kids acting like wild animals and getting blacked out drunk, holding absolutely nothing back. Â The bar itself has absolutely no substance to it. Â It is one huge room that has two bars and a stripper pole. Â They have a signature drink called the "Wall".. it's about the equivalent of ruffying yourself. Â Have two walls at Tim's and you're guaranteed to wake up the next day either next to a fat chick or in jail.
Timothy's Bar and Grill... 99% of all good stories at UD starts with "Remember that one time at Tim's......"
It's Tims...
Pro's
- Walls (a delicious mix of bottom shelf liquors)
- Dayton Beer Co. - sold here
- Still have PBR - awesome
Con's
- Massive drunkenness all around you
- Dingy, dirty, and a pole
- Horrible service and bathrooms... oh the bathrooms
- Street Meat... seriously street meat
I agree with parts of the reviews of Tim's thus far but feel that I provide a different perspective. Yes, Tim's is exclusively for UD students. Yes, Tim's is hellishly shabby and probably STD-ridden. (And no one even mentioned the bathrooms!) Yes, Tim's is the location of many Wall-motivated-poor-life-decisions. BUT, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say, I love Tim's. In fact, some of my best memories of UD occurred at Tim's.
That's right, I said I remember being at Tim's many a nights. Because what a lot of people don't seem to realize is that Tim's is not solely for the stupidly drunk. Sometimes my friends and I planned our nights around Tim's (getting there before midnight to avoid the $3 cover). Some people really do like to dance--even sober--and not because they want to be grinded on by cargo-shorts-and-polo-wearing hambones, or creeped on by middle-aged weirdos (which are actually deterrents to dancing). But because they are young and want to have fun. Some people even like to dance on a platform and a pole. Does that make them skanks? No. It means that they appreciates the fact that they are in college and have the opportunity to dance on a pole. That is what Tim's is about--living in the moment.
To emphasize that Tim's is not only for the heavily inebriated, let me recall a recent conversation that my friend had with a Tim's bouncer. He said, "Oh yeah, you were the girls that never bought drinks." Yes, we really did just go there to dance.
Rather than a pathetic frat boy or low-grade beer, I feel that Tim's can be compared to another UD staple: a house in the Ghetto. Would I prefer a first-rate club in close proximity to campus with a real DJ and locking restroom stalls? Yes; just as living in a brand new house without holes in the wall or a squirrel living in the attic would seem better than a house on Lowes. But how can I feel anything but love for my Ghetto house senior year or Timothy's Bar and Grill? They are more than buildings; they are experiences and memories. They are made complete in their imperfections.
Anyone who has gone to the University of Dayton since 1965 knows about Timothy's Bar and Grill. It is the quintessential bar for the University of Dayton and boy what does that say about the Flyers? Be patient, I'll get to that.
Don't be fooled by the name Timothy's Bar and Grill. There is no food here. And don't expect to be getting a dirty martini either. The most famed drink is the "Wall," which consists of a hellish combination of booze and tastes like fruity sugary death. Tim's also charges a cover most nights (or all nights? I'm not sure). I only know this because I have been dragged by so-called "friends" here on three separate occasions on the condition that someone else is paying my cover. There's no way I'm paying to try to enjoy myself in a sweaty sleazy death chamber. Oh, and this place is dirty. How dirty? Like, do-not-touch-bare-skin-to-any-part-of-this-Âestablishment-or-you-will-get-an-infection dirty. There is a chronic problem with girls coming here to dance in uncomfortable shoes and then taking them off and dancing barefoot on the floor. Their legs almost always have to get amputated afterward.
For the most part, people come to Tim's to dance. I believe the "Grill" in Timothy's Bar and Grill actually signifies that if you are a girl and you come here to dance, you eventually will have a cargo shorted penis trying to grind on your bum. If you are lucky, it will be a drunk college boy who most likely enjoys Dave Matthews Band, flip flops, and will--with a certainty I will put money on--be attending UD's Annual Shitfest, "Dayton 2 Daytona." If you aren't lucky, the man trying to grind on you is most likely a 40+ UD Alumnus who hasn't done anything with his life.
I know people who claim to enjoy Tim's on an ironic level. They are lying. As someone who at times skirts the edge of hipsterification, I appreciate me some irony. In fact, I love it. But there is nothing ironic about Tim's. There is only tragedy. Do not go here my friends. There is nothing here but pain and suffering to be had.
Tim's is the bar equivalent of listening to a dude with a puka shell necklace successfully woo girls by playing horrible renditions of Jack Johnson songs to which he doesn't quite know the chords. But he will play it whenever he can. Just to get attention.
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