The O Patio & Pub

There is one reason and one reason only to come to Four Kegs aka O-Patio (You comin'?) or whatever else it gets changed to.

Liquid Dope. Sweet tart in alcohol form, served in a pitcher. A sugary, alcoholic mess of a drink.

Oddly enough, they have craft beers hidden behind the bar as well, which surprised me because it's a crappy campus bar.

I've never eaten here, but I've drank several times - it's a college bar, and during school is jam packed with drunks, off-school, it's often empty, and slow.

The second best thing - it's location, so close to Raising Cane's and A Slice of New York, two of my favorite post drinking eateries.

Came here after The Game in 2016 and it was a pig sty. I'm not sure if it was due to the fact that they had been open all day or if the bar just didn't care about cleanliness. Being a decade or so out of college didn't make me feel old until I realized I had to relieve myself on top of over flowed toilets that others had backed up. It was really gross. I don't think it had anything to do with age, but I could be wrong.

It is understandable that this place only has two reviews. It has had so many freakin' names in the last few years I don't even know what to call this place anymore. Saturday after the first home game me and three other OSU alumni get in a taxi trying to go to this bar. All four of us shout out a different name for the place, and our taxi driver knows NONE of them. "Bar with big patio on 15th and High" - never really changes, though, regardless of whatever they may be calling that bar this month.

Now that it is the O Patio it pretty much looks the same. The main improvement is the patio area on the outside is actually (semi) covered now. In the past extreme direct sunlight could actually endanger your day-drinking by cooking you too early in the day - greatly hindering your ability to stay out and continue drinking. I see the new owners are doing their best to keep you happily drinking instead of actually attending classes.

Less seems to have changed on the inside, except the giant picture of Ohio Stadium is gone - you know... the one that is in Playboy behind OSU's delegates for the girls of the Big 10 issue. Shit - Jerome is still there. Chances are good that if you have attended Ohio State in the last decade you have at least seen Jerome. He is the only 35 year old behind the bar (looking more like 28) who refuses to grow up and get the deuce out of Zig's. Every time my boy Bender comes to town he has to go into Zig's to shoot the shit with Jerome, just because he can.

Look - this is one of the very few places left that is a campus staple. If you have never been - don't go, unless you are in the mood for some serious campus scene because that is why places like this exist - it is a campus scene.

DO NOT GO HERE unless you enjoy being heckled by rude staff. Had a horrible experience with the bouncers. You'll be minding your own business, having a drink and for no reason they will come up and start heckling you to leave. Literally don't go there. Drinks were trash, bad atmosphere, rude staff.

For OSU Campus nostalgia this is one of the few bars left for me. Larry's is long since gone, Bento Go-Go and their Saki Bombs... gone. There are still some classics like Out-R-Inn but how much longer will they last? I just want to say this now... O Patio will be gone soon (November 2015?) as it has been purchased by Campus Partners (the death of all things I loved about OSU's bar scene). Get to O Patio while you can.. Stop by Canes, Slice of New York/ Pizza by the Slice, Mamma's.. as they will all be gone soon.

Past Review:
I cannot seem to get away from O-Patio. Almost every time I walk by I am pulled in by nostalgia and days long past.... or not so long past. It seems to never change but I prefer day visits to night pop-ins now. Liquid Dope is always my drink of choice but they have a pretty decent craft beer selection as well.

The O. OSU! This place has food and alcohol, so why do you need to look any further. College kids and 30-something's congregate here on the weekends. There's something for everyone here. The bathrooms seem weird.

It's almost pointless to review this bar because it changes owners, names, and what have you at least once every two years (often much quicker than that). Despite all this changing of hands, every bar that opens at the location is exactly the same, so truthfully, yelp ought to just copy/paste over all reviews from existing businesses at the location to the new one.

The main thing the location is known for, as the name implies, is the patio. It has a big patio renowned for having drunken bros and hos hanging off its rails in large numbers. As if that weren't bad enough, they have a pretty stellar sound system that they use to blast Jack Johnson and John Mayer in a mile-wide radius.

The interior has two levels. Bar on the ground floor, some games and stuff up top. I come here for two things: to hand out promotional materials and to piss.

Without a doubt my favorite bar. I'd go here before anywhere else and couldn't estimate how many nights I've ended at the O. Service is the best the can do with crowds, the bouncers and bartenders know you by name, and remember what drinks you get when you go back. Fire pit on the patio is a game changer when it's cold, perfect place for a game if you don't have tickets. I'm really gonna miss this place.

With such a storied past, The O Patio (still known to most as 4 Kegs, its previous moniker) has come to be the most ubiquitous part of the OSU bar scene. Everyone you know that visited here has at least one story involving an extremely awesome or extremely terrible evening, and before they cracked down on the rampant underage drinking that would pack this place to the ceiling every night, there was rarely any happy medium to be found.

After a particularly unsavory incident that I'll refrain from giving the details of (do some Googling and you're bound to figure it out for yourself), 4 Kegs was under fire from local law enforcement and women's groups for their lax ID policy. They quickly switched from being an 18+ bar to a 21+ bar, which, in my opinion, was when this bar really shined for what it was: a centrally located sports bar with cheap drinks and an awesome patio. With freshman scared back in to hiding the the Greek scene in search of a new place to roofie pledges and dance to terrible 80's music all night, it was easy to show up with a group of 10 or more, take over a cluster of tables outside, and cause mayhem until last call. Then it closed.

After a winter-long hiatus, 4 Kegs reopened to little fanfair as what is now known as The O Patio & Pub. A few renovations were made to jazz up the both the inside and the patio, but it was only a matter of weeks until The O was up to its old tricks. There may be less minors here now, but this is still one of the most obnoxious bars on campus. The service at the bar here is absolutely terrible. There's usually two bartenders on duty on busy nights, but there is no semblance of a line when waiting to get a drink. You're likely to find yourself standing at some sort of angle hoping to not get cut by a group of frat guys that know the bartender well enough for her to forget you were even there in the first place. Half the people here order neon colored shots that take 5 minutes to make, which doesn't help either. It's a lot like the worst keg party you've ever been to- everyone seems to have house privileges but you.

The specials here are lackluster as well. Sunday and Tuesday nights offer cheap mason jars of PBR, but you have to spend 3 dollars on the mason jar at first, and it's likely to get tossed at a dumpster in the back alley on the way home. Wednesday is their notorious "Liquid Dope" night, which is nothing but a watered down mixture of peach schnapps, cheap vodka, orange juice, and red sugar syrup. If that doesn't make you gag, the steady soundtrack of country music definitely will.

The only reason The O gets an extra star is it's "Beat the Clock" special on Friday afternoons, which is the perfect way to kick off your weekend as early as 3 PM. If you can get there early enough to snag a table, it's the perfect place to go in lieu of that last class that no one ever goes to in the first place. It gets packed by 6, however, and by then it's business as usual at the latest incarnation of the lewdest bar that OSU has to offer.

No, just don't even..everywhere you look are bros in their Sperrys hanging out by the dozen. Been to about every bar and this is the one that I'll never even consider again. The drinks weren't terrible but the atmosphere caused me to finish my drink ASAP and get the hell out of there.