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An archive of classic arcade games and great craft b**rs.

Collection of craft b**rs, creative cocktails, and classic arcade games located in the heart of Burlington.

11/01/2026

🎃 Well, Burlington… you understood the assignment. 👻🍸

Hundreds of cocktails poured, some absolutely AMAZING costumes, and just the right amount of questionable decisions. 🥃💀

What a Halloween weekend at The Archives! 🖤

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out, dressed up, drank up, and made this weekend one for the books. You definitely kept our bartenders busy!

And a special shoutout to our incredible crew who survived the madness and kept the cocktails flowing all weekend long. 🍸

The costumes were unforgettable. The cocktails were dangerously good. And the decisions? Best left buried in the archives.

Until next year! Cheers! 🎃🖤

10/30/2026

🎃 HALLOWEEN WEEKEND AT THE ARCHIVES! 👻

Good cocktails. Bad decisions. Questionable costumes. Exactly our kind of weekend. 💀

🎸 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 | HALLOWEEN EVE
The Lloyd Tyler Band is kicking off the chaos with live music from 8–11 PM!

🎃 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 | HALLOWEEN
Our bartenders have been brewing up some seriously spooky cocktails, and trust us, they’re worth getting dressed up for. Creepy creations, wickedly good pours, and a few drinks that might have you seeing ghosts. 👀🍸

Throw in an amazing craft b**r lineup, classic games, and a bar full of questionable characters, and you’ve got yourself a proper Halloween weekend.

👻 Costumes encouraged. Good judgment optional.

We’ll also be handing out a few $50 gift cards for our favorite costumes throughout Halloween night.

Doors open at NOON. Bad decisions start whenever you get here.

📍 The Archives Bar | Downtown Burlington

10/16/2026

🎃 FRIDAY THE 16TH. LET’S GET SPOOKY. 👻🍸

October has officially taken over The Archives, and we’re leaning into it like a skeleton who’s had three espresso martinis.

🍎 Fall cocktails? Seasonal, delicious, and making some bold promises.
🕹️ Arcade games? Come relive your childhood while aggressively losing to your friends.

🎸 LIVE TONIGHT: MIKE MACDONALD! Bringing the tunes while we handle the cocktails and general lack of supervision.
The drinks are festive, the games are unforgiving, and your Saturday morning is none of our business.

The drinks are festive, the games are unforgiving, and your Saturday morning is none of our business.

🦇 Come get spooky. Stay for the chaos. Blame the ghosts.
📍 191 College Street | Burlington, VT

10/09/2026

🍂🍻 FANTASTIC B**R. LIVE MUSIC. QUESTIONABLE SELF-CONTROL.

October is in full swing, and The Archives is doing what we do best… pouring excellent drinks, making questionable jokes, and pretending we’re emotionally prepared for another Vermont winter.

🍺 CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE DRAFT LIST?!

Because whoever said fall was just for pumpkin b**r clearly hasn’t seen our taps.

We’ve got an absolutely ridiculous lineup of craft b**r pouring right now. Hoppy, hazy, crisp, dark, local, and downright delicious. Our draft list is STACKED, and frankly, we’re a little too proud of it. 🍻

🎶 THIS WEEKEND’S ENTERTAINMENT:

🎸 FRIDAY | RYAN SWEEZEY
Kicking off the weekend with great music and absolutely no responsibility for your Saturday morning.

🎤 SATURDAY | GRACE PALMER
Back by popular demand and bringing the kind of energy that makes “just one more” a complete lie.

👾 AND OF COURSE, THE GAMES.
Because nothing says a relaxing fall evening like aggressively competing against your friends on a 40-year-old arcade machine.

🍂 Ridiculously good b**r. Live music. Vintage arcade games. And a staff that’s already counting down to Sunday.

We’re not saying The Archives should be your entire weekend plan. We’re just saying we wouldn’t bother making another one. 🍻

📍 191 College Street | Burlington, VT

10/02/2026

OCTOBER HAS OFFICIALLY TAKEN OVER THE ARCHIVES. 👻🍸🎸🕹️

And it brought UVM Family Weekend with it.
Which means Burlington is full of parents, students, fall foliage, and the beautiful sound of someone else’s credit card hitting the bar. 😂

We’ve got a BIG weekend:

We’re drinking our way through spooky season with:
🌹 Death & Roses — gin, Drambuie, rosewater, pomegranate, honey, lemon & rhubarb bitters ~Floral, tart & dangerously easy to drink. 🍊 Blood Orange Spritz — Aperol, ginger, blood orange, allspice dram & Prosecco ~Bright, bubbly & basically fall pretending it’s still summer. 💜 Purple People Eater — rum, blueberry, lime, pomegranate & cranberry bitters ~Fruity, tart, purple & just weird enough. 🥃 Clarified NY Sour — wh***ey, lemon, simple, bitters, spices & a red w**e float ~Smooth, spiced & dressed up for spooky season. ☕ Frozen Hot Chocolate — vodka, Baileys, chocolate, crème de cacao, almond milk & marshmallows ~Adult hot chocolate. Except frozen. And boozy. Obviously.

Basically, October in a glass. Several glasses, actually.
And because drinks are only part of the chaos…

🎸 TONIGHT — The Lloyd Tyler Band makes their FULL BAND Archives debut.
🔥 SATURDAY — Dex Leatherman returns. Fan favorite. Archives favorite. Always a good time.

🕹️ GAME OF THE MONTH: CENTIPEDE We’re throwing it all the way back to the original arcade classic. No fancy graphics. No complicated rules. Just a trackball, mushrooms, a rapidly descending centipede and the sudden realization that your parents may actually be better at video games than you are.

So bring Mom. Bring Dad. Buy them a Death & Roses. Challenge them to Centipede. Let them tell you how much drinks cost in 1982.
Then order another round on their tab. 😏

Happy UVM Family Weekend. 💚💛 Spooky drinks. Live music. Vintage games. Questionable decisions.

October at The Archives has officially begun. 👻🍸🕹️
📍 The Archives • 191 College Street

09/29/2026

🦈 YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BAR.

JAWS PINBALL has officially landed at The Archives. 🕹️

The beaches are open. The shark is hungry. And we fully expect productivity to suffer.

Come save Amity Island, grab a drink, and see if you’ve got what it takes. 🍻🦈

New game. Same Archives chaos.

09/25/2026

SEPTEMBER IS ALMOST OVER. WE’RE NOT DONE WITH IT YET. 🍂🍸🕹️

The leaves are changing. The flannels are multiplying. Someone has already mentioned ski season and needs to calm down.

Meanwhile, at The Archives, we’re doing fall the only way we know how:
Tequila. Live music. Vintage games. And just enough chaos to keep things interesting.

🍎 FLANNEL CURE MARG Epsilon Reposado, apple c***r, lime & honey with a cinnamon sugar rim. Basically apple picking for people who would rather sit at a bar.
🌲 OUT OF THE WOODS Whiskey, maple & rosemary. Tastes like Vermont. Does not require hiking.
🫐 MIDNIGHT RAIN MULE Blackberry, vodka & ginger b**r. Crisp, refreshing and considerably more reliable than Vermont weather.
🥂 CH*****NE PROBLEMS Gin, violette & Prosecco. We can’t fix your problems. We can make them bubbly.

And because apparently we needed MORE going on…

🎶 Friday - GRACE PALMER -  🎶 Saturday - DEX LEATHERMAN

Live music + fall cocktails + cold b**r + vintage games + bartenders who have probably already heard your joke.

There will be Pac-Man.
There will be pinball.
There will almost certainly be a machine that decides tonight is the night it needs attention.
There may be tequila.
Okay, there will definitely be tequila.

Come make some poor decisions before September leaves us. 🍂
📍 191 College Street • Burlington

The Archives — making memories one token, cocktail and questionable decision at a time.

09/11/2026

FALL IN VERMONT HAS ENTERED THE BAR. 🍁🍸

The leaves are showing off, mornings require a sweatshirt, afternoons somehow require shorts, and everyone is suddenly willing to pay for apples they picked themselves
And because fall nights deserve a soundtrack:
🎶 TONIGHT — GRACE PALMER 🎶 SATURDAY — RYAN SWEEZEY
Live music, vintage games & a brand-new fall cocktail menu. 🍂

🍓 BRAKING POINT — Gin, strawberry, grapefruit & Prosecco. Light and bubbly. Unlike whatever brought you to your braking point.
☕ BETTER THAN A CREEMEE — Vermont vodka, maple cream & vanilla cold brew. A maple creemee with caffeine and consequences.
🍎 SWEATER WEATHER — Rye, Scotch, apple c***r & cinnamon. Cozy enough to justify that overpriced flannel.
🥂 ORCHARD SPRITZ — Aperol, c***r, cinnamon & Prosecco. Apple picking, but someone else did the work.
🌶️ ZOË’S REVENGE — Tequila, mezcal, tangerine, passionfruit & habanero. Sweet at first. Then things escalate. Zoë had some things to work through.
🍐 PEAR OF THIEVES — Gin, spiced pear, lemon & honey. Absolutely willing to be your alibi.
😈 DEVIL IN THE DETAILS — Bourbon, apple brandy, apricot & rosemary. The devil’s in the details—and Pac-Man tried to warn you about the ghosts. 👻
🥥 COCONUT DAIQUIRI — Rum, coconut & lime. For the person still wearing flip-flops in October. We see you.
🍏 BEAN’S APPLE MULE — Vanilla vodka, c***r, lemon & ginger b**r. Like a crisp fall walk that ends at a bar.
🫐 BLUEBERRY COSMOSIS — Vodka, Vermont blueberry, pomegranate & mint. “I’m drinking antioxidants.”

🍁 Vermont fall doesn’t wait around. One minute it’s 68° and perfect. The next you’re looking for the ice scraper.
So use the good nights while we’ve got them.
Grab your people. Come downtown. Catch some music. Drink something fall-ish. Play some games. Stay for another round.

Fall is short. Cocktails are ready. Pac-Man is waiting. 🍂🍸🕹️
📍 The Archives | 191 College Street | Burlington

09/04/2026

September showed up wearing flannel, ordering tequila and trying to tell us summer is over. 🍂🍸

Ma’am. It’s Labor Day weekend. Calm down.

We have an extra day to make questionable decisions and argue about who cheated at Pac-Man. We’re not rushing into sweater season quietly.

But we will drink like it’s fall.

🌲 OUT OF THE WOODS Whiskey + maple + rosemary.
~Basically Vermont in a glass, minus the Subaru.

🫐 MIDNIGHT RAIN MULE Blackberry, vodka & ginger b**r.
~Refreshing. Dangerous. Goes down significantly easier than your last bad decision. Conveniently, there’s a long weekend to make another.
🥂 CH*****NE PROBLEMS Gin, violette & Prosecco.
~Because if you’re going to have problems, at least make them bubbly.

🍎 FLANNEL CURE MARG Reposado, apple c***r & cinnamon sugar.
~Pumpkin spice can stay in its lane.

❄️ THE FROZEN DRINK LIVES. And YES, the frozen drink is staying because IT IS STILL TECHNICALLY SUMMER AND SEPTEMBER DOES NOT GET TO BOSS US AROUND.

And because apparently b**r, cocktails and arcade games weren’t enough stimulation…

🎧 FIRST FRIDAY DJ SETS — JABU + GABE Friday night. Volume up. Responsibilities down.

🎶 SATURDAY — LIVE MUSIC WITH MIKE MACDONALD Because Saturday deserves its own bad influence.

Then Sunday arrives and you suddenly remember…

YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORK MONDAY.

Which feels like information we should all handle irresponsibly. 😏

Come play games. Drink the new menu. Dance a little. Stay too long. Order the round. Lose your tokens. Find your tokens. Lose them again.

Tuesday-you can deal with the consequences.

“Labor Day weekend. Because Sunday night deserves Saturday night energy.” 🍸🕹️

📍 The Archives | 191 College Street
🕹️🍸 Great stories rarely start with water.

08/29/2026

TONIGHT’S BAD INFLUENCE 💖✨

Meet the DOLLY SHOT
because apparently gin needed a little rhinestone energy.

🍓 Strawberry + Mint Infused Gin
🍋 Lemon
✨ Sugar Rim
💖 Glitter. Obviously.

$9.25

Come get a little Dolly in your life.
9 to 5 is over anyway. 🪩💅

📍 The Archives | 191 College Street

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191 College Street
Burlington, VT

Opening Hours

Monday	4pm - 2am
Tuesday	4pm - 2am
Wednesday	4pm - 2am
Thursday	4pm - 2am
Friday	2pm - 2am
Saturday	12pm - 2am
Sunday	9am - 2am

Website

http://www.thearchivesbar.com/

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