The Barking Frog

Went here on a Thursday night for Western University’s Western Voice afterparty.
Apparently, thursday nights are an Ivey networking night (Ivey, the upper-​year business program at Western) but that is slowly changing.
This place was fairly large. Could easily fit 80 sitting and another 80 standing on the two levels.
Interesting how they divided it though — front entrance leads you to a relaxed bar area and open-​to-​above second floor with minimal seating and includes a foosball table. Downstairs is a cramped space with washrooms, atm and coatcheck. Quite chilly down there (coming from January night experience).
Continue to the back of the building and double swing doors lead to the dance floor with some seating on the edges and side entrance. There is also a bar and just behind it, stairs to a second coatcheck ($ 3 btw).
I personally liked the physical segregation with the doors and the second floor, while isolated, offered a perfect quiet space (to do… ya know, things).
The one thing that was off for me was the difference in prices at the bars.
Dance floor bar offered $ 4 Jaggerbombs and $ 6 Heinekens while the front bar offered $ 6 Jaggerbombs and $ 4 Heineken. Wasn’t sure of the reason for this and it was a bit troublesome to wait for the bartender just to be told to go to the other bar.
All in all, relaxed atmosphere, easy going crowd (possibly due to the WesternU presence), and cozy environment.