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Do Friday Night The Right Way: Eat, Drink, And Be Social

By Sponsor in Arts & Entertainment on May 12, 2016 5:00AM

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Friday night is here and your myriad of well-curated group texts is lighting up. That newly married couple invited you and some friends over for wine and Netflix—but, really, they're planning on going to bed early to build an above-ground planter for their petunias in the morning. Your college roommate invited you to go to some god-awful club that reeks of hippie mosh pits. And your less-than-appealing ex has been day drinking since noon and wants to meet you downtown. So many options...

Or, you could do you. Make your own plans with friends who value the unusually amazing and intentionally captivating. Mediocrity and weird smells are for weeknights—tonight is for 1 a.m. ping-pong tournaments, craft beer, and killer karaoke renditions of 'Party in the U.S.A.' Punch Bowl Social is waiting to up your Friday night game with their made-from-scratch chicken and waffles (yes! A million times yes!) and their 27,000 square feet of old school games, bowling, and bowls of fruit-flavored weekend magic. It's time for new friends, shuffleboard, and probably a shot or two.

At Punch Bowl Social, the night is what you make it. If that means the night is actually Saturday brunch with the best build your own Bloody Mary bar in existence (yeah, we said it), so be it. PBS is a place where the music never gets stale, the food is always on fleek, and there's something new to try. So when you go out this weekend, leave your above-ground planter plans at home and join us at the ultimate weekend paradise—Punch Bowl Social. Here's to going out right.

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