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| - After going to the Green Room for about ten years, I now find I'm starting to feel a bit out of place on the busier evenings. The combination of cheap beer (which, I find, is more likely to leave you with a hangover than other bars) and a good 'bar-like' atmosphere understandably draws new arrivals from nearby U of T. It doesn't detract from the enjoyment, however, as the crowd is always mixed. It is occasionally hard not to feel a little old when the place is full of 18 year-olds, though.
My one complaint about the Green Room in the evening might seem silly, but it's that the music is too loud, and totally sporadic in quality. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's awful. I don't say that as a music snob either; it's just that it sometimes feels inappropriate for the setting. And as someone who tends to be soft-spoken, I just can't have a conversation here. Sometimes that's fine, but more often, it's really annoying.
During the day, however, this place is still quiet, charming and relatively empty, and the fact that you can have lunch with a pint for well under 15 bucks is great.
It's hard to shake the nostalgia of this place. I guess as I long live in the Annex, I'll keep heading back here. I just wish that, in the evenings, they'd turn the damn music down.
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