Foxy Olive, Reno, Nevada, Beer Restaurant Details

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Cozy hole in the wall

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I have been a regular at this little bar for the past four years and it will always have a place in my heart. The patrons and bartenders are some of the nicest people you will ever meet. Even though you must be over 21 and most of us are not related, I think everyone has come to view it as a family establishment.
Foxy Olive has seating for about 25 people so you have to get there early if you want a seat. Its a smoking bar so as such it gets a little smokey in the winter. The drinks are great and the prices are amazingly affordable (Dollar PBR on Happy Hour 5-7pm). If you want a real Bloody Mary get it at the Foxy. They pickle their own veggies and they build the drink from scratch (no mix here). There's free wifi and an internet jukebox... but usually the bartenders have pretty good taste in music.
Either way, check it out if you haven't already! Two thumbs way up.

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Foxy Olive has a cool name and when it opened, it just seemed like a cool, hip new place, but it's probably the smallest bar in Reno. It seems nicer than the place it replaced, but it's still as small. It's also in a bad location under a weekly/monthly motel that used to be a haven for druggies and felons. Lake Street is cursed in Reno with several deaths every year from car wrecks, burning buildings, murders, getting run over by buses. This place used to be called Lakes Crossing after some dude name MC Lake (no relation to MC Hammer) built a bridge and charged people for crossing it. Some say he's still around and angry we named the city after some obscure Civil War General who has never even visited Reno, so he kills people on Lake Street. There used to be a bar under the old Mizpah that never succeeded even after changing its name a few times and having people crash into the place. I'd never open a bar on Lake, but this place is on Mill, so I guess it's fine, although someone got killed a few steps from it a few years back.