Dolphin Lounge

Great live music!!! The sound is awesome. Nothing else.
$ 5.50 for well
$ 6.00 for shelf
$ 2.00 for coffee. Really?
Ceiling is low, the place smells, the patio is pathetic, and everything is dirty. You can’t call it a dive bar and charge so much. Even have to pay for water! And you have to buy a drink, or they’ll ask you to leave! Not friendly service.

I love this dive bar. The lava lamps. Velvet Elvis. The bar stools are old but comfy. Sometimes the live music is great, sometimes not. But they can’t all be winners. Astro turf on the patio. I’ve always had excellent service. I don’t pay much attention to the prices. I’m an adult with a job I either have money to go out and drink or not. I’ve never been a regular here but I do end up here a couple of times a year. I always have a good time. The only thing I would change is the slight smell of basement that has been there forever.

I walked in and was shocked when I saw how small this bar was. The 70’s panelling, the seats were duck taped so bad that tape was lifting and stuck to our clothing, there wasn’t air conditioning, and horrible service. They attempted to use small household fans and opened doors to cool the place. We had to chug our beers to drink them before they got hot. I will not ever go back.

I really want to like this place… Too expensive for the dive bar open mic atmosphere. if it was cheap pbr and well whiskey I would be all about it. However spending 6 plus a drink for that atmosphere is ridiculous…

Blast from the past. The owner has made several improvements, Bose speakers, several flat screens, dart board, jukebox from this century, neon bars signs, etc.
The bathroonms have also been improved, new paint job. Still old school with the wall of mirrors, reminds me if my grandma’s house.
Yes, the beer is a little pricey, but you don’t have to pay a cover so it ojay. The best deal is the bucket 5 for $ 15, mix-​n-​match.
The bands are good, they have different stuff every night. Open mike, live bands on the weekends. Tgey also have special events, bar crawl, benefits, sponsored by moonshine or new bud products, complete with the «girls dressed in skimpy outfits».

What great live music! Randomly wandered in here on a recent trip to Gahanna. The interior is a blast from the past: dark, pleasantly musty, and lots of lava lamps. Apparently they have live bands all the time. Drinks (liquor) was slightly pricey but makes up for the fact that there was no cover at the door.

An outstanding place to grab a drink. Friendly neighborhood bar with great service.

I came here for a special event and probably will never be back. It is a nice enough neighborhood bar with I’m sure a nice following of regulars, but it is not for me. They had live music of a man and woman singing and playing guitar, it was just OK, lots of country music which I am not familiar with. Wait staff was attentive and took care of us.

I agree with Melanie on the priceing…3.25 a bottle of beer and 5 bucks for a single shot of well liquor. The bartender explianed the prices like this «You pay more for your alcohol because you get live entertainment every night with no cover charge.» Well I don’t feel that the entertainment is that great and they offered no food. I went next door to The Mug which charges 3.00 for a bud ice which dolphin lounge doesn’t even carry.
Now when it is open jam night, which it was last night, honestly it says sign up time is 9pm and that is not neccasary you won’t see much really start to happen till after 10pm. Very talented bunch of guys though for sure.

Alright so I’m shameless and about to plug a friend…3^rd Thursday of the month Amy will be playing and she is a must see.
Now about the lounge… H#LL YEA! Sorry but why wouldn’t you go? The juke box kicks the staff or like friends you had in H.S. but cooler cause they pour you drinks. I also like that they will call you a cab… no DUI’s here people!

What I remember most from this bar was not the typical drink prices, the open floor-​level stage, wood paneling or the elevated bar area… no, what I remembered most was the AstroTurf covering the back patio!
A standard (but dated) local dive indeed, the DL does just that: Pleasing those stop by… on the DL. The bar staff was pleasant and the chip tree caught my eye, but I’d be lying if I told you I remembered anything else but the green patio out back. Good for music, old leather swivel chairs, and smokin’ a cig whilst standing fake grass.

Psssh. This place isn’t so bad. It’s a pretty standard dive bar.
It didn’t smell like anything when I was there last night (to address Josh’s review), and I didn’t find it too outdated — it’s just ridiculous in that way that dives are supposed to be. Take for instance the lava lamp, or the aquatic theme — why? I don’t know. It doesn’t really matter — I’m very sure this isn’t the reason people come here. The boy played here, and he usually plays at bars in Columbus like Skully’s and Circus and Ravari — so when he warned me about Dolphin Lounge, I expected something like the Billiard Club, which got a similar «you really don’t have to show up if you don’t want to» warning. I liked Dolphin Lounge better than the Billiard Club, however, because it has a townie bar feel, and I think that’s cool. I really did expect more of a «dolphin» vibe, but aside from some florescent lights shaped like dolphins at the bar and a surf board in the area where bands play… well, I was let down. I also expected floor lighting and fish tanks, but people say I have an over-​active imagination. ;)
The servers were extremely friendly — I loved the bartender who was taking care of people in the live music section — she was friendly, fun, danced, smiled, etc. Honestly, for a local dive, that’s sort of rare, so kudos to her — she was great! My main complaint is that in no way shape or form do I ever want to pay $ 3.25 for a bottle of Miller Lite — but I did anyway (times five) because I was there and what else was I gonna do? Boo hiss fail. There was also no drink special for the band, which doesn’t really encourage bands to play out here, esp. in a place as remote as Dolphin Lounge. I was honestly surprised there weren’t more people there — it was a really good show on both bands’ parts (advertising fail?). But I can say that if I lived around there, I would figure out the cheapest beer deals and be all over this place. I’m not sure what the other reviewers were expecting from this dive, but it’s pretty a-​ok to me.

Haha this place is a joke…
I came here back in May of 09′ on a pub crawl through Gahanna and luckily I was not completely out of it yet so I was able to relish such an unbelievable establishment.
First of all the place stinks like they use the air freshener «stale cigarette smoke» and it is completely outdated… I imagine this bar is for regulars who give outsiders the stank eye when they walk in. But there is always the eloquent patio outback where you can watch fast food feeners get their fix at the McDonald’s drive through window! Lets give the place some credit though, they decided to keep the astro turf floor covering on the patio. This seemed to attract a large amount of nats the day I was there which made the patio experience extra pleasant!