(Downtown Square, Newark, OH)
Scooter’s 1121st bar, first visited in 2015.
The Center Pub is a genuine dive bar located i n Newark’s downtown square, in the front corner of a “mall” of mostly antique shops and boutique shops called The Arcade.
We were the first customers of the day, and had a delightful conversation with a really nice bartender as we enjoyed our drinks.
Entering from the street, you find yourself in a carpeted room with two pool tables and lots of natural lighting. If you enter from inside the Arcade you arrive at the back half of the venue — the hardwood-floored main bar with a back wall covered in dollar bills.
The Center Pub is everything you should expect a dive bar to be, and even had a few surprises — I noticed some imports and specialty beers including a few I had not seen before.
We were invited to return in the evening when it would be busier and there would be a band, but unfortunately we didn’t make it after a long, exhausting day in Columbus. But this will be my new hangout on future Newark visits.
33 N. 3rd St.
Newark, OH 43055
US
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(740) 349-9544
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