Monolith Bar

This is a great place if you are looking for a quiet place to have a drink. We frequently stop by on date night to get our favorite beers and sit and talk. They carry Pigeon Head and the black lager is amazing, probably my all time favorite beer. They have several others on tap that are pretty darn good, so if you’re looking for a tasty out of the ordinary beer… this is a good place to try.
The staff hasn’t changed since we started going, it’s nice to go in and know the bartender and bouncers on staff. They are all really friendly people, the bartender we usually have is great to strike up a conversation about different brewery’s and beers and is actually pretty knowledgeable.
The bar area is usually really clean, it has a nice setup as well and is pretty roomy. I’m not a big fan of the couches and other areas of this joint, the bathrooms can be a little gross… but overall it’s a decent establishment. I would say it is casual/​hipster, but a place you can stop by dressed up after date night without worry. Sometimes the crowd and music is a little strange… but if you want somewhere quiet to stop and have a beer this is the place to go. We have gone on weekends a few times and had the place basically to ourselves. Unless they have a special event or live performance going it’s pretty calm and quiet.

After having a few drinks around the corner, my buddy and I dropped in to check it out. Great little space. Good music. Good drink specials. Good vibe. AND FOOSBALL!
I’ll be back often. Then I’ll walk over to Noble Pie Parlor and grub on some wings at the end of the night.

This bar has had so many names in the last year that it’s a little embarrassing. I didn’t really like it when it was Whiskey and I don’t really care for it very much now that it’s Monolith. It’s always just felt like an office space turned bar. It’s kind of dingy, the lighting is bad, but the well drinks are only $ 3 so it could still be fun. I would come here again but I probably would not have suggested it. I really want this bar to be cool but it just never seems to make the cut. I’m rooting for it though

I let some girl borrow my jacket during the Santa Crawl who immediately lost the group and left my jacket at monolith. The barkeep was super helpful accommodating me to get it back!

For a small place, they’ve got plenty of seating and lots of fun activities, pool table, foozeball (I know that’s not spelled right), and always super friendly staff. Relaxed without being divey. Big windows, nice location and never a wait to get a drink

It’s a really small place but does have some fun things to do with foosball and a pool table. It’s a bit of a dive but that also adds to the charm of the place.

Great little divey bar with good house music. They are open pretty early in the am. Gray venue!

Great, Fancy, cocktails. Very inconsistent on the amount you get. One bar tender gives you barely a shot in your glass. Another gives you more than 2x that. The place is filthy. Bar was sticky and gross so we moved to the couches. The arms also had spills on them. Fabulous 50 & 60’s music. Tony Bennett, Sinatra, Cole, Martin, etc. Don’t go right at 7 when they open. They are a little unorganized and busy setting up. The night we went they were out of some of the main ingredients for their specialty drinks and also didn’t have the appetizers listed on the menu.

This bar is as good as it gets.
Three of my favorite things are fancypants cocktails, cheapo cans of PBR, and local brews on tap, and Ampersand has all of these (often incompatible) things and does them each well. When I’m feeling fancy and flush, I treat myself to their creative and delicious specialty cocktails, especially the ones that involve either almond milk or St. Germain. When I’m feeling plain ol’ thirsty, I can get my $ 2 PBR. And when I’m feeling proud of Reno’s local brewing scene, I can order something from the likes of St. James Brasserie or Pigeon Head.
Ampersand has a great vibe. The bartenders and patrons are friendly. One can dress casually or hipstery or full-​out overdress (that’s me) and feel equally at home. There’s a pool table and weekly pool tournament on one side of the bar and a foozball table on the other side, and plenty of seating (bar, two sets of close-​together couches, window-​ledge) in between. On some nights there is live music, and local art is displayed and rotated. The electronic jukebox has a wide range of tracks, and the bartenders choose eclectic playlists when they hook up their iPods to the sound system. The gender-​neutral bathroom is clean and its walls are mirrors are graffiti-​covered in a fun and an arty manner. There are two TVs at the bar that are always streaming great movies. If you’re a nice person and a movie is just ending, you can request the next movie, too! Come on, what could be better for a millennial than watching «Donnie Darko» subtitled?!
Could Ampersand get any better? Having purse hooks underneath the bar is the only thing that is coming to mind. Maybe adding a foozball tourney to the regular Tuesday night pool tournament?
Whenever I am able to snag a street parking spot of Arlington, which I often can if I am driving north to it over Wingfield Park, I feel like royalty. Even when I have to park a few blocks away, the location is very convenient and I feel safe walking to my car in the post-​midnight hours.
Ampersand is my favorite bar in Reno. Hands down. Perhaps it might be yours, too, folks who have not yet checked it out!

& continues to grow on me each time I visit!
& seems to constantly be adding new design elements, beers on tap & fun to this neighborhood cocktail lounge!
&‘s cocktails never disappoint… the last visit I had the Water & Life, & the Lime & the Coconut
& who knew aquavit, an old school anise flavored liquer, could be so delicious?
& if you don’t like something on the menu, just ask & let the pros mix something up for ya!
& oh ya, the crowd is cool, lively, somewhat hipster chic, & friendly too!
& they’ve got great music and events.
& well, what are you waiting for?

Came here for Valentines Day and it was also the start of their mug club. What a cool idea. Great music, friendly bar staff and just divey enough!

I LOVE THIS PLACE! the moto&kuzi is the best drink i’ve ever tasted.

A friend and I went here for the grand opening and had the best time! Their new cocktails are fantastic (I recommend the Silk and Punch or the Coconut and the Lime – both are great). They also have a great PBR + a shot of Jameson for $ 5 special, hence why all of the «hipsters» as Louis D. wrote below are drinking PBR. Overall, the place is a cool venue with unique décor. The bar top was made of cassette tapes and the Breakfast Club was playing on the TVs. The bartenders Rich and Jared were excellent (Rich made all of our cocktails) and were giving out free food. Unfortunately, no vegetarian options on the menu but I heard that was great as well. Kind of all over the place with the age range from 20s-​40s. Great place, I’ll definitely be back!

Formerly Whisky Bar, formerly Se7en Teahouse, this nice, dark bar gets popular around midnight. Unfortunately, everyone drinks PBR cans like it’s 2000. Hello Reno? They didn’t change much from Whisky Bar. There’s a new bar top filled with 80’s cassette tapes. There’s a pool table and they moved the foosball table to the bathroom hall area. They often have a live DJ playing obscure house music. I probably annoy people when I designate a bar a hipster bar, but it is. I don’t know why, but it’s full of short brunettes and tall, skinny dudes with beards. Some are still wearing plaid, although I think unlike those yupster vertical striped oxford shirts of the 00’s framing a faux hawk, plaid never really goes too much out of style. You can’t walk up to some Scottish dude in a kilt and tell him he’s so 2010. Lumberjacks will wear plaid whether it’s 1913 or 2013. You just won’t see the entire bar full of plaid anymore like you did a couple years ago. Seriously, THE ENTIRE BAR. You will see knitted hats, beards, and thick black-​rimmed glasses and everyone sporting a cliché last decade hipster PBR can. It’s definitely a young crowd, perhaps the youngest in Reno outside Waldorf.
They have a good selection of independent beers on tap and yes, a lager, albeit Brooklyn lager. A lager is not as hipster as an IPA but anything Brooklyn is like a hipster badge. I remember drinking Brooklyn beer at a liquor store in Manhattan and thinking it was cool because it was ghetto and it was the 90’s when everyone wanted to be ghetto. Funny how Brooklyn just keeps up with the times. The bar is owned by the owners of Noble Pie. I’d like to see them bring over their cocktails and bloody mary kits. Although, I can imagine I’d be the only one drinking a cocktail at the bar.