Hello Buffalo!
im gonna be driving down from Toronto and am wondering if there is anywhere around the university that i could go for a drink before the show?
any suggestions from those that live down there?
thank you....
There aren't many bars around the North Campus, where the concert is -- it's located in Amherst, a suburb of Buffalo. Most of the happening life would be in Buffalo itself on Main street near South Campus (the older UB Campus located in Buffalo), on Elmwood near Buffalo State College or parts of Hertel Avenue. Other than Main street though, they're all kinda out of the way. There's also Chippawa street downtown... but that's more clubs from what I get of it.
The one that seems the most interesting is
Cole's (
their official site) on Elmwood, but that's on one of the really out of the way streets. (the first site has a pretty extensive list too. I guess Buffalo's weird because our bars stay open until 4 usually, which is late other places.)
The life around North Campus is mostly bar/restaurants like Unos, Chilli's, and Applebee's. Those have bars, but I can't say much about the atmosphere.
But if you wanted to avoid drinking and driving, you could hit a bar on Main Street (like
Broadway Joe's-area) and walk to South Campus and take the
shuttle from South Campus to North.
Umm, if you had any more questions I could probably try to answer them. At least with directions... Unfortunately Buffalo isn't centrally lively and you basically need a car to get from one place to the other. I love it, but it certainly has it's drawbacks.