The Best Bar in Every Catskills Town

## One Bar Per Town A service guide to the Catskills bar scene, organized by town. One recommendation per place: the best version of itself, the bar locals name when asked. Adults 21+, and none of these bars are consumption venues for cannabis; the point is the bar itself, and cannabis stays at the cabin in the evening. ## Woodstock **Colony** — Rock City Road. The 1929 Catskills-style boarding-house-turned-live-music-room has the best lobby bar in town. Walkable from the Tinker Street restaurant row; programming runs most nights; a good glass list and serious cocktail standards. See [Woodstock anchor guide](/blog/woodstock-catskills-artist-colony-cannabis-weekend). ## Phoenicia **Sportsman's Alamo Cantina** — Main Street. The unpretentious local bar that anchors Phoenicia's late-evening social. The jukebox is 1970s; the beer is cold; the clientele is 50/50 weekenders and locals. This is not the elevated-craft-cocktail bar; it's the bar you want at 9:30 PM on a Saturday. ## Tannersville **Last Chair Bar & Grill** — Main Street. The ski-weekend anchor that holds up year-round as the Painted Village's reliable bar. Serious draft list, après-ski history, good kitchen. See [Tannersville anchor](/blog/tannersville-painted-village-cannabis-kaaterskill-weekend). ## Margaretville **Binnekill Tavern** — Main Street. Long-running western-Catskills bar with a full menu, draft beer, and a dining room that bleeds into the bar side. Slower rhythm than the eastern Catskills bars; the Margaretville version of the weekend bar. See [Margaretville anchor](/blog/margaretville-catskills-western-crossroads). ## Catskill (town) **Avalon Lounge** — Main Street. The small-room live-music bar that functions as Catskill's Saturday-night anchor. Programming drives the week; off-nights are still worth a stop for the cocktail program and the room itself. See [Catskill anchor](/blog/catskill-town-main-street-music-venues-weekend). ## Livingston Manor **The Arnold House Bar** — a few minutes out of the village proper on Shandelee Road. Technically attached to the Arnold House Inn's restaurant, the bar side stands on its own for a Sullivan County evening. Regional spirits, considered cocktail menu, the kind of bar you settle into for two hours. See [Livingston Manor anchor](/blog/livingston-manor-cannabis-willowemoc-creative-weekend). ## Roscoe **Raimondo's Roscoe Beer Co.** — Old Route 17. The working brewery-bar in Trout Town. Draft line is house beer; the food side is elevated bar food; clientele leans fishing-week during the season, Main Street regulars off-season. See [Roscoe anchor](/blog/roscoe-trout-town-cannabis-fly-fishing). ## Callicoon **The Western Hotel** — Main Street. A 19th-century building running as one of Callicoon's bar anchors. Quieter than the Sullivan-County fishing-town bars; slower; the Delaware-River-town evening. See [Callicoon guide](/blog/callicoon-weekend-cannabis-guide). ## Narrowsburg **One Grand Bar** — attached to the Arnold House's sister property One Grand in Narrowsburg, if the current operation is running; check hours in shoulder seasons. Alternative: the Laundrette on Main Street, which operates a bar side that holds up for a Friday evening. See [Narrowsburg guide](/blog/narrowsburg-dvaa-cannabis-arts-weekend). ## Saugerties **The Dutch** — Partition Street. A small, carefully-programmed bar with a tight menu and a short cocktail list. The Saugerties Partition Street evening anchor. See [Saugerties guide](/blog/saugerties-opus-40-catskills-gateway). ## Andes **The Andes Hotel Bar** — Main Street. Covered separately in the [destination-dining article](/blog/peekamoose-andes-hotel-spruceton-inn-mountain-dining) — the restaurant and bar are one space, and the bar stands on its own for an Andes-weekend evening. ## West Kill **Spruceton Inn Bar** — the end of Spruceton Road. Also covered in the destination-dining piece. The bar at the end of the valley. ## Hunter Hunter village proper runs light on standalone bars outside ski season. The on-mountain bars at Hunter Mountain open with the lifts; off-season, Tannersville's Last Chair (five minutes down Rt 23A) is the serviceable option. ## How to Use This Guide Most Catskills weekenders anchor in one town and pick one night to venture out to another. A few possible routes: - **Woodstock base, Saturday evening drive to Catskill (town)** for Avalon Lounge. Dispensary stop at HERbal on Tinker before dinner, Avalon after. Home by 11. - **Phoenicia base, Saturday evening drive to Tannersville** for Last Chair. Good Catskills-weekend social arc. - **Roscoe / Livingston Manor base, Saturday evening drive 15 minutes to the Arnold House bar** for a slower Sullivan County evening. ## How Cannabis Fits None of these bars are consumption-friendly. All are private venues with their own rules (most align with standard alcohol-only licensing, which excludes cannabis). The bar evening is a drinking evening; cannabis is for the cabin afterward, if at all. See the pillar flagship [cannabis and hiking the Catskills responsible-use guide](/blog/cannabis-hiking-catskills-responsible-use-guide) for the larger framing on combining categories. ## Compliance, Quickly - **21+ only**, licensed shops only. Verify via OCM QR code at [cannabis.ny.gov](https://cannabis.ny.gov). - **No consumption at any bar listed** — private venues, alcohol-only licensing. - **No consumption in cars** between bars. Use a designated driver or a rideshare where available. - **Start low, go slow** on edibles, at the cabin, in the evening, after the bar. ## Where to Go Next - [The Catskills cannabis weekend itinerary](/blog/catskills-cannabis-weekend-itinerary-2-day) - [The Phoenicia Diner and the post-trail breakfast circuit](/blog/phoenicia-diner-catskills-post-trail-breakfast-circuit) - [Peekamoose, Andes Hotel, Spruceton Inn — mountain destination dining](/blog/peekamoose-andes-hotel-spruceton-inn-mountain-dining) - [Catskills music venues worth the drive](/blog/catskills-music-venues-worth-the-drive) **This is editorial, not legal advice.**