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Spacious Outdoor Patio with games, music and more. Inside bars with lots of space to hang out with friends, play pool, watch sports, listen to music have a great time. Large selection of takeout beer, wine and ready to drink cocktails. Bring your dog along to hang out with you on the patio. Closest Downtown Bar to Beaver Stadium and Bryce Jordan Center.
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Address: 110 Sowers St, State College, PA 16801
Phone: (814) 238-3566
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Thiago LR
Dear Sharkies,
This is a love letter, from an alumni:
My friends and I were brave to venture into Sharkies, always under desperate times, which included: bar crawls (mandatory stop if you want to complete it), being in the area and lazy to go anywhere else, covers everywhere else, “let’s grab a drink from their fridge, pay and leave”, lets play pool where it’s not packed (champs), let’s go for the meme, let’s go for the thrill of danger. And those occasions only.
Sharkies is the champs of the townies. It’s where you will see, in one place, all local ICE supporters at once. If you want to experience what ‘merica feels like, Sharkies might need to be on that list.
As soon as you walk in you are greeted with the warm, unwelcome, disgusted, looks of the townies sitting by the bar and by the pool tables . It’s a mutual connection, where you know you don’t belong there and so do they. But they accept you still…reluctantly.
You go up to the bar and order a ranch water so you can fit in among the folks. By the time you do so, your girl friends have already been looked up and down and hit on at least once by a white 50 year old looking male. You start to settle in and feel at home. Your American home.
Now comes the dangerous part. Playing pool. Most likely, the top floor pool tables will be under use by the regulars. Somehow they are always there, playing non stop, for hours.
I MUST WARN YOU: Do NOT play against them. You WILL get humiliated. You WILL get mocked. And you WILL want to crawl to your shower and cry. IN CASE you DO play against the townies, do NOT friendly mock them back or taunt them. I speak from personal experience. My friends wanted to kill me thinking that I was going to get us all beat up.
In case you follow my advice and you don’t play on the first floor, you then must venture into the basement. We might as well call it a bunker, bc once you do down there, you switch to survival mode.
To compare, walking down to the basement of Sharkies, is like walking into Chernobyl, you will experience radiation. Beware.
As you go down the stairs, hopeful that you will have a good time playing pool with your friends, you are flash banged with the immense smell of cigarettes. You immediately develop stage 4 lung cancer as you inhale the air of that basement.
You stumbled down the steps, waving your hands trying to disperse the heavy clouds of smoke, like as if you are in the Amazon forest jungle shaping a trail with your machete by cutting the vegetation ahead. El dorado style. There aren’t enough words to describe that floor, so I will leave you with just a simple yet beautiful comparison: Sharkies basement is like a drunk cig.
If you survive from the townies in the first floor, and from the cancer downstairs, you will find a table available at the basement, and a chance to see a band playing live too if you are lucky.
You play pool with your friends, and decide you had enough. You leave Sharkies and you find yourself changed. You have grown. Experienced. Matured. You will take this experience on, and one day, write a review about it.
… moreThis is a love letter, from an alumni:
My friends and I were brave to venture into Sharkies, always under desperate times, which included: bar crawls (mandatory stop if you want to complete it), being in the area and lazy to go anywhere else, covers everywhere else, “let’s grab a drink from their fridge, pay and leave”, lets play pool where it’s not packed (champs), let’s go for the meme, let’s go for the thrill of danger. And those occasions only.
Sharkies is the champs of the townies. It’s where you will see, in one place, all local ICE supporters at once. If you want to experience what ‘merica feels like, Sharkies might need to be on that list.
As soon as you walk in you are greeted with the warm, unwelcome, disgusted, looks of the townies sitting by the bar and by the pool tables . It’s a mutual connection, where you know you don’t belong there and so do they. But they accept you still…reluctantly.
You go up to the bar and order a ranch water so you can fit in among the folks. By the time you do so, your girl friends have already been looked up and down and hit on at least once by a white 50 year old looking male. You start to settle in and feel at home. Your American home.
Now comes the dangerous part. Playing pool. Most likely, the top floor pool tables will be under use by the regulars. Somehow they are always there, playing non stop, for hours.
I MUST WARN YOU: Do NOT play against them. You WILL get humiliated. You WILL get mocked. And you WILL want to crawl to your shower and cry. IN CASE you DO play against the townies, do NOT friendly mock them back or taunt them. I speak from personal experience. My friends wanted to kill me thinking that I was going to get us all beat up.
In case you follow my advice and you don’t play on the first floor, you then must venture into the basement. We might as well call it a bunker, bc once you do down there, you switch to survival mode.
To compare, walking down to the basement of Sharkies, is like walking into Chernobyl, you will experience radiation. Beware.
As you go down the stairs, hopeful that you will have a good time playing pool with your friends, you are flash banged with the immense smell of cigarettes. You immediately develop stage 4 lung cancer as you inhale the air of that basement.
You stumbled down the steps, waving your hands trying to disperse the heavy clouds of smoke, like as if you are in the Amazon forest jungle shaping a trail with your machete by cutting the vegetation ahead. El dorado style. There aren’t enough words to describe that floor, so I will leave you with just a simple yet beautiful comparison: Sharkies basement is like a drunk cig.
If you survive from the townies in the first floor, and from the cancer downstairs, you will find a table available at the basement, and a chance to see a band playing live too if you are lucky.
You play pool with your friends, and decide you had enough. You leave Sharkies and you find yourself changed. You have grown. Experienced. Matured. You will take this experience on, and one day, write a review about it.
Connor Price
Sharkies has fallen off so hard, no more parking, no basement, pool tables and cues are missing at worst; broken at best.
Used to love going here and had great interactions with staff. Nowadays I have no reason too, go to the brew or Zenos for a better establishment, see you there!
… moreUsed to love going here and had great interactions with staff. Nowadays I have no reason too, go to the brew or Zenos for a better establishment, see you there!
Anna Valle
I’ve never had such a personalized experience at a bar since I met Paulie from sharkies. Although it wasn’t necessary, Paulie came over to our table when he was bartending to see if we needed anything and ask how are night was. My friends and I love that fedora wearing man!!
… moreM Montejano
My overall grade for Sharkies Bar is: D
1 person to scan IDs
1 person behind the bar
Service is horrible.
Outside seating is nice, but not really a people-watching area.
Just an ok experience
… more1 person to scan IDs
1 person behind the bar
Service is horrible.
Outside seating is nice, but not really a people-watching area.
Just an ok experience
Joe O’Neill
Closed early for 3 day weekend and let you order drinks right before close. No care for customers
… moreSnicker Snacker
I gave food a 5/5 so it doesn’t effect the review. They don’t have kitchen food, they have little bags of chips here and there. Which is fair. This bar is.. different. Drinks are hit or miss depending on who makes them. There’s an older Asian man that makes the best drinks. Sometimes they’re really bad. Pretty chill atmosphere, but the downstairs isn’t open. I think this would be beneficial for them as it gets busy at times. I enjoy coming here. It tends to be an older crowd rather than the college kids. Id recommend coming here 2-3 times before you decide if it’s a bar for you.
… moreBill Rose
Great little bar has pool tables and friendly bartenders joe is fantastic has a bar down stairs with more pool tables and sometimes live music bike night on Tuesdays when the weather works outside tables with umbrellas has taken away beer and supplies love this bar
… moreMarc McDill
Sharkies is first and foremost a pool bar. There are four pool tables and a bar. So most of the people who are there are there to play pool. But you can sit at the bar and have a drink if you want. It’s also a bottle shop with a good selection of six packs to go. The tables are decent. They maintain them pretty well, so the cloths and bumpers are in good shape. The tables play fast, so you don’t have to power your shots to play across the table. The bartenders are friendly and you seldom have to wait long to get your glass filled. Novices and sharks are all welcome.
… moreJustin
This is a great local place. The bar is cash only but the bottle shop will take cards for take out. It’s a refuge for locals when the students are around. No insane dance music or dance floor and it’s clean and doesn’t smell like puke which some of the really crazy student places do. Definitely come down if you like to shoot pool. It’s a pretty chill place. No smoking upstairs, when the basement opens later in the evenings there is smoking down there.
… moreMichael Piraino
While I loved it here right when it opened, and enjoyed the food, wine, and solitude, at night it is an entirely different overcrowded atmosphere.
I would not go to it at night, and would have rated it at a 1 if I had only that experience to go off of. However, that is just because I don’t like overcrowded college bars. It rates as high as it does for me at least, because of the great time I had there when I went with friends at 11.
… moreI would not go to it at night, and would have rated it at a 1 if I had only that experience to go off of. However, that is just because I don’t like overcrowded college bars. It rates as high as it does for me at least, because of the great time I had there when I went with friends at 11.