The Archives

The Archives An archive of classic arcade games and great craft beers.

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

🍺🤝☕️ A New Neighborhood CollaborationOne of the things we love most about being in downtown Burlington is being surround...
06/12/2026

🍺🤝☕️ A New Neighborhood Collaboration

One of the things we love most about being in downtown Burlington is being surrounded by other small businesses that care deeply about what they do.

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with our neighbors at Sweetwaters. Starting today, guests can order food from Sweetwaters and have it delivered right to their table at The Archives while they enjoy a cocktail, craft beer, pinball, or live music.

No need to choose between great drinks and great food anymore.

Scan the QR code at your table, place your order, and Sweetwaters will bring it right over.

It’s a simple idea, but one we think makes downtown a little more connected and your visit a little more enjoyable.

Support local. Support your neighbors. Enjoy both.

The Archives Bar x Sweetwaters
Two local businesses. One great experience. 🍻✨

Ordering Available
Sunday-Thursday until 9pm
Friday-Saturday until 11pm

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🍹 YOU SAID ONE DRINK. WE BELIEVED YOU🍻🍻 FIDDLEHEAD FRIDAY = $6 HODAD DRAFTS🍻☀️ Patio’s open
🚪 Garage door’s up
🎸 And we ...
04/17/2026

🍹 YOU SAID ONE DRINK. WE BELIEVED YOU🍻

🍻 FIDDLEHEAD FRIDAY = $6 HODAD DRAFTS🍻
☀️ Patio’s open
🚪 Garage door’s up
🎸 And we booked your weekend without asking

FRIDAY:
🎤 Dex Leatherman — 8:30–11:30

SATURDAY:
🎸 Mike MacDonald - 8:00-11:00

⚡️ Cocktail Features::
🍒Nagano Mule — bright, tart, dangerously easy
🍸Double Black Diamond — bold, spiced, not for beginners
🍊International Affair — smoky, rich, ends complicated

⚡️ 24 Draft Lines are flowing
⚡️ Weather is doing its part
⚡️ The rest is on you

Come sit outside, order something you’ll defend later, and stay longer than planned.
—
☠️ The Archives reminds you:
Great stories rarely start with water.💦
Bad decisions make the best ones.😈
Hydrate tomorrow.

⚡️🩸 THE ARCHIVES 🩸⚡️WEEKEND SPECIALS HAVE LOST ADULT SUPERVISION🎧 DJ TONIGHT — 9PM
Lights down. Music up. Regret pending...
04/10/2026

⚡️🩸 THE ARCHIVES 🩸⚡️

WEEKEND SPECIALS HAVE LOST ADULT SUPERVISION

🎧 DJ TONIGHT — 9PM
Lights down. Music up. Regret pending.

🎤 GRACE PALMER — LIVE TOMORROW @ 8PM
Come for the music. Stay because you made a situation.

🍍💣 PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN SPRITZ — $14
Tropical • Bright • Deceptively Friendly
Village Gin • Licor 43 • Lemon • Pineapple • Grenadine • Luxardo Cherry
🍍 Starts like a beach day. Ends like you overshared to a stranger named Kyle.

🔥🌿 THE TEQUILA PROCESS — $15
Herbal • Smoky • Emotionally Reckless
Reposado Tequila • Vida de Mu***os Mezcal • Cherry • Luxardo • Lime • Rhubarb Bitters • Mint
Step 1: Order drink.
Step 2: Text someone you absolutely should not.
Step 3: Double down.

🍓🥐 STRAWBERRY POP TART — $15
Fruity • Creamy • Nostalgic Delusion
Buffalo Trace • Strawberry • Vanilla • Coconut • Lemon • Rhubarb Bitters • Soda
🍓 Like childhood, but now you have bills and worse coping mechanisms.

🫐🫠 SPRING EDITION SOUR — $15
Silky • Bright • Suspiciously Easy
Vanilla Vodka • Lemon • Blueberry Cordial • Blueberry • Egg White • Raspberry Powder
🫐 Pretty enough to trust. Dangerous enough to ruin your evening.

⚓ THE ARCHIVES REMINDS YOU:

Great stories rarely start with water.
This one won’t either.
Hydrate tomorrow.

⚡️🩸 THE ARCHIVES 🩸🩸⚡️

No structure. No guidance. Just consequences. ☀️ The sun is shining. Bad decisions feel extra jus...
03/27/2026

⚡️🩸 THE ARCHIVES 🩸🩸⚡️

No structure. No guidance. Just consequences.

☀️ The sun is shining. Bad decisions feel extra justified.

🎶 Live music tonight with Jesse Agan at 8:30

🎮 POKÉMON SPECIALS HAVE ENTERED THEIR PROBLEMATIC ERA 🎮

⚡️🍍 PIKA PUNCH
Tropical • Bright • Shockingly Irresponsible
Real McCoy 3YR Rum • Drumshanbo Pineapple Gin • Lemon • Pineapple • Coconut • Grenadine • Luxardo Cherry
⚡️ Starts adorable. Ends with you yelling like it’s helping.

🌙👻 MIDNIGHT ‘MEW’-L
Dark • Spiced • Suspiciously Smooth
Shade of the Evening • Lime • Ginger Beer • Butterfly Glitter
👻 You didn’t pick this. It showed up anyway.

🌿🌊 BULBASAUR’S BEACH DAY
Fresh • Citrusy • Vacation Lies
El Charro Blanco • Dry Curaçao • Lime • Watermelon • Midori • Soda • Tajín • Mint
🌿 Feels like a beach day. Behaves like a mistake.

🔥🥀 LONELY CHARMANDER CLUB
Smoky • Fruity • Emotionally Volatile
House Mezcal Blend • Aperol • Passionfruit • Lime • Bitters
🔥 It’s fine. You’re fine. Everything’s fine.

💧🐢 SQUIRTLE SQUAD SPRITZ
Light • Citrus • Dangerously Crushable
Planetary 3 Star Rum • Blue Curaçao • Lime • Coconut • Velvet Falernum • Soda
💧 Hydrating in theory. Problematic in practice.

🕹️ THE ARCHIVES REMINDS YOU:
Bad decisions make the best stories.
Hydrate tomorrow.
☠️ No continues. No save points. Tip your bartender. ☠️

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🍁🔥 THE ARCHIVES PRESENTS: MAPLE FEST 🔥🍁
Vermont looked at sugar and said “what if… more?”🍦 BETTER THAN A CREEMEE
Creamy ...
03/20/2026

🍁🔥 THE ARCHIVES PRESENTS: MAPLE FEST 🔥🍁
Vermont looked at sugar and said “what if… more?”

🍦 BETTER THAN A CREEMEE
Creamy • Sweet • Emotionally Confusing
Like a creemee that grew up, got hot, and now texts you back at 1:17am.

🥃 SUGAR SHACK SOUR
Rich • Velvety • Deeply Suspicious
Warm, cozy, and absolutely not on your side.

🫚 MAPLE MULE
Bright • Zesty • Alarmingly Drinkable
You’ll say “just one.”
You will not mean it.

🥓 BACON N’ MAPLE JELLO SHOT
Savory • Sweet • Morally Flexible
Breakfast for dinner. Bad ideas for dessert.

💥 MAPLE DROP SHOT
Sharp • Sweet • Disrespectful
Gone before you can make a good decision. Which is convenient.

⚠️ THE ARCHIVES REMINDS YOU:
This is Vermont. Maple isn’t a flavor. It’s a way of life.

🍁 Maple Fest is live
🍸 Come get sticky
🧾 Apologies not included

03/19/2026

🔥⚡️ IT’S HAPPENING. ⚡️🔥
�THE ARCHIVES HAS CAUGHT A NEW ONE.
Introducing the Stern Pokémon Pinball Machine — now live, loud, and ready to absolutely ruin your hand-eye coordination after two cocktails.

🎯 Flip your way through:�⚡️ Electric chaos�🔥 Fire battles you will take personally�🌊 Water levels smoother than your third drink�🌿 And just enough nostalgia to make you text someone you shouldn’t.

This isn’t just pinball. This is childhood…with a bar tab.

🍸 Come drink.�🕹️ Come play.�🏆 Come prove you were always the best trainer (you weren’t).
💥 HIGH SCORES = BRAGGING RIGHTS�💥 LOW SCORES = BLAME THE MACHINE

⚠️ The Archives reminds you:�You can’t catch ’em all…but you can absolutely lose to a 12-year-old on this machine.

📍 Now live at The Archives Bar
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☘️ St. Paddy’s Day Specials Have Entered The Chat ☘️If your plan was “just one drink”… this menu wou...
03/13/2026

☘️ St. Paddy’s Day Specials Have Entered The Chat ☘️

If your plan was “just one drink”…
this menu would like a word.

🌟Featuring:🌟

🍀 IRISH EXIT ~ disappear into the night
🍏 DUBLIN APPLE ~ apple pie with worse judgment
🥃 GAELIC GLIDER ~ classy whiskey mistakes
🍦 SHAMROCK SHAKE ~ tastes like you absolutely got expelled from Catholic school

THE ARCHIVES REMINDS YOU:
Bad decisions make the best stories. Hydrate Tomorrow.

03/06/2026

☠️ SPECIALS HAVE ENTERED THEIR CHAOTIC ERA ☠️

The bar has been left unsupervised and these showed up:

🍇 Bramble Berry Mule �Blackberry vodka, lime, spicy ginger.�~Basically a Moscow Mule that wandered into a berry patch and never came back.

🐈‍⬛ 9 Lives Negroni�Barr Hill Tomcat • Cynar • House Vermouth • Fernet Branca �~Bold. Bitter. Strong enough to make you reconsider at least eight of your remaining lives.

🐒 Gilded Ape �Monkey Shoulder • Licor 43 • Pineapple • Lemon • Golden Raisins�~Tropical sophistication…if a monkey ran the bar.

🏴‍☠️ Queen Anne’s Revenge
Drumshanbo Pineapple Gin • Lemon • Pineapple • Dragonfruit• Coconut • Bitters�~Sweet, sharp, and pirate-level dangerous.

🎧 DJ starts at 9PM tonight
Cocktails first. Questionable dancing shortly after.

⚓ The Archives reminds you:�
Great stories rarely start with water.
Come make some memories you’ll need witnesses to confirm.

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New specials + live music 9–11pm with Jesse Agan 🎶🍸
Because your coping mechanisms deserve a soundtrack.🍊 UNC’S ORANGE C...
02/20/2026

New specials + live music 9–11pm with Jesse Agan 🎶🍸
Because your coping mechanisms deserve a soundtrack.

🍊 UNC’S ORANGE CREAM SODA
🌪️ HURRICANE TINA
🍁 SUGAR SHACK SOUR
🍺 Draft deals too (we’re not monsters)

We can’t fix your life, but we can make it blurry.
Water is free. Regret is extra.


💘🖤 VALENTINE’S DAY LOVE POTIONS 🖤💘
Because red flags look better after two cocktails.🍸 St. Valentine Sour — silky, brigh...
02/13/2026

💘🖤 VALENTINE’S DAY LOVE POTIONS 🖤💘
Because red flags look better after two cocktails.

🍸 St. Valentine Sour — silky, bright, gently spiced.
Looks sweet. Has a history. Just like your ex.

🍎 Love Stinks — bold, fruity, slightly bitter.
Served over a rock and your worst instincts.

🍫 Dark Chocolate Cherry Bomb — rich, dark, decadent.
Will ghost you first. Save yourself the effort.

🥂 Love & Lust — light, bubbly, reckless.
You’re not texting your ex. You’re making a documentary about it.

🎸 LIVE MUSIC with Troy Millette from 8–11pm to really set the mood for bad decisions.

No proposals. No crying alone. Respect the glassware.
Love is temporary. Tabs are forever.

💔🍒 The Archives Bar

Come for the cocktails. Stay for the character development.

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Address

191 College Street
Burlington, VT

Opening Hours

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

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