Would you like to go to a bar where the bartender is more keen on playing pool with his mates than serve a group of 20 who were there to spend a minimum of $300 ?
If you do, this is where you should go to...
We were a bunch of 20 colleagues from work who went on a pub crawl in Saratoga Springs. Our first bar was sadly this one. Our bus dropped us all and we entered the empty bar where the bartender was playing pool with his mate.
My boss goes to him and says that we are all together and he will pay for everyone on his car to which the bartender points a finger to a sign "No credit. Cash only" as if to say buzz off..
My boss offers $300 in cash so everyone can get their drinks to which the bartender says " You have to pay cash after I serve each drink. I cant calculate all the glasses together."
And while we take money off our wallets to pay for the two drinks in exact change, the bartender, Mr. Hole, leaves the bar and is seen busy playing his game of pool.
If you want to be served by a man who does not care to serve you, here is where you should go. No wonder there were only a couple sitting in the bar when all the others were buzzing with people. Probably that couple wanted some quite time to themselves where nobody including the bar tender bothers them...
This bar and its bartender is a joke.
Why be in business when you dont want to do business?
The bartender, Mr. Hole, lost a good $500 which he would have made had he bothered to serve us.
The T and L has been around forever, serving pitchers of beer to the college kids. It's a dark, subterranean dive bar with all of the typical atmosphere that any college town bar offers. There are always some pretty odd geriatric customers hanging around trying to look youthful and attractive to the college girls. They really should be home with the wife or even safely tucked in at the nearby retirement center. One guy has been perched on the same stool for close to forty years and is a hit at all of the reunions when the middle aged alums stumble in and recognize him. In fact, he's even in a lot of the reunion pictures.
Nothing says Dive Bar in town more than the T and L. If you are in Saratoga, take a look but don't have any great expectations for upscale craft cocktails or a sophisticated clientele. Order up a pitcher of beer and turn up your hearing aid if you are over 25. It is loud in here. Check out the photos, the names carved in the tables and the crazy college students, remembering you were one once. Take a little trip down memory lane. It's a real scene. And it has outlasted many other more high end places in downtown Saratoga.
A fun low-key bar to grab a pitcher with friends. Really busy late-night in the summer when Saratogians return from college. You can play beer pong, flip cup, etc. here, so it definitely caters to the college-aged individual. However, they also get an older crowd in the early evenings and weekdays. Not a place to grab a fancy drink, but perfect for a beer. Check out the claim-to-fame plaque near one if the booths!
Review Source:I love, love, love this bar! Â My friends and I frequent there all the time and have actually become friends with the bartenders and the bouncer. Â I've never had a bad time there and could easily drop hundreds of dollars in one night... Kudos to TnL for such and awesome place to hang!
Review Source:Tin 'n' Lint, or TNL as it's known to many, is a dive amongst dives. Â It's dirty and cheap, but in a good way. Â If you go on a non-party night, you can enjoy some peace and quiet and a few pitchers before getting the boot around 11 or so. Â Go on a Thurs-Sat, and expect to be surrounded by underage students getting obliterated. Â That's not a bad thing by any means. Â Many locals, sketchy and not, have figured this out, so it's an entertaining mix of predator and prey between students and non. Â
This was the first bar I had an under-aged drink in, and the bartender certainly knew, because when I went to the bar I had no idea how to order a drink. Â He sold me a pitcher, and smiled and said "enjoy, but we're closing soon." Â Sadly, not all barkeeps are made equal. Â This one fat slob pervert guy once charged me $9 for a vodka-cran when I was a little too drunk to notice. Â Harumph. Â
Tip to the locals: Â Skidmore girls are rude and snobby, and will assume that if you're not a student, you're a walking rape-machine. Â I apologize on their behalf. Â But if I were you, I'd enjoy that challenge.
Check this place out if you're looking for an adventure or some absurd people watching. Â Just don't be surprised when a girl in $400 worth of clothes spills beer or vomits on you.
I went with my Mom and Dad between Christmas and New Years for Community Patrol. Tin and Lint was a favorite haunt of my father 35 years ago. Back then Skidmore was a girls school and I can see why him and his friends might make the trek to Saratoga to go to what was surely a dive bar then too. Apparently (much to my mothers chagrin), dad used to date a girl named Stormy with wild hair and who smelled like patchouli.
Community Patrol is when you go out for beer and make sure everything is as it should be. We often announce we are on community patrol when we start drinking so that there are no questions. On this occasion we played a dart gambling game  where each person puts up 5 bucks and tries to hit a target. Being bad dart players it took nearly a half hour for mom who I'd never seen play darts to beat us all and got a nice pile of cash.
Tin and Lint hosts many a local during the day, and many a college party on the weekends. We had gone there a Halloween a few years back. We were all packing heat in the form of cap guns and had several celebratory shoo outs.I'm trying to use up some words here and make this review as long as possible because I want to share a secret with the reader who dives deeper into this review. I went with a friend of mine a little while ago who was in town for just one night. It was cold and a weekday and we saddled up to the bar for some whiskey. There wasn't many people there and we got to be quick friends with some of the other patrons and the bartender. I mentioned my dad and Stormy and we talked about the skidmore girls days. One thing led to another and the barkeep mentioned going downstairs. I had never been down there before and knew nothing about it. Eric (my buddy) and i went down there to look around. There was the fabled barbers chair a couch, dusty lamp and tons of shoe boxes. I was afraid what might had gone down on the couch  and did not sit. The barkeep opened one of the boxes and it was full of Polariod pictures. Grabbing a some to shuffle through I saw to my amazement and delight that there were full of girls flashing the lucky photographer. Thats right, naked boobs. tons of them. boxes full of girls showing of their boobs, or taking shots and showing their boobs, having a great time showing their boobs. "What a piece of work is a breast is, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel ..."  If you have boobs you may not understand how awesome this is. but believe me it's really awesome. These pictures date back 30 or more years. That means that the fabled Stormy might be there topless with thousands of other girls. This is something not many people know about so keep it under your hat. Don't be surprised if it's existence is denied either. And don't press your luck trying to get down there, it wont work. I just needed somebody else to know what what they were drinking above.
We tried to go swimming at Victoria Pool the other day and found a giant line/wait. We decided we'd go into town and get a drink and then try the pool again a little later. After finding most places either packed or closed, we stumbled upon this little dive. We were practically the only people there, with the exception of a drunken older man who spent the entire time vehemently and almost aggressively hitting on my boyfriend. This amused me greatly, especially when he asked us what we both did and cracked to my boyfriend "let me guess, you're a porn star." (He's not, actually.) The drinks were cheap and the decor was a pleasant sort of standard dive.
Review Source:It's a decent place to start your night off. The drinks aren't outrageously priced, and there's usually a crowd. Yep, it's the younger crowd you'll find on Caroline Street.
And jezus, I thought I was transported back to Texas when I first walked in there - it's a shock if you're not prepared for it.
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