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Live band on the Old Main patio under strings of warm bulbs after dark

What’s On

Something’s always going on at Old Main.

Live music in the beer garden all summer, specials that repeat every week, and a private room for the nights that matter.

What’s on

What’s on at Old Main

Out back

The Beer Garden

Scroll in. Four thousand square feet behind the building, string lights overhead, and a stage at the end of it.

Sunday, Sep 27

Burger night

“The 1103” and a pour off the wall.

Sunday, Sep 27

Wing Lab night

Experiment sauces plus the classics.

Sunday, Sep 27

Live on the patio

Bands in the beer garden. Music at 7.

The space

Four thousand square feet.

Picnic tables, high-tops and the stage — no reservation needed for the garden on a music night.

The Old Main crew behind the outdoor bar in the beer garden, set up for a private event

Private events

Take the whole garden.

Four thousand square feet, a stage, and a bar of its own — company parties, reunions, and summer nights that belong to you.

The calendar

Weekly specials repeat automatically — dated events are added as they’re booked.

September

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Friday

September 25

Nothing booked this day — the kitchen and both bars are still open.

Every week

The printed Old Main lunch menu: sharables, burgers, Wing Lab wings, handhelds, soups and salads, and Roman-style pinsa

Sundays · 8:00 AM

Burger night

“The 1103” and a pour off the wall.

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Jumbo bone-in wings tossed in house sauce from the Wing Lab

Sundays · 8:00 AM

Wing Lab night

Experiment sauces plus the classics.

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A band playing the beer garden stage at sunset, string lights strung over full picnic tables

Sundays · 7:00 PM

Live on the patio

Bands in the beer garden. Music at 7.

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Skillet dessert, berry shortcake, and coffee from the Old Main Sunday brunch menu

Sundays · 8:00 AM

Brunch, 8 to 2

Juice flights, skillet cinnamon rolls, steak and eggs.

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Private Events

The nights people plan around.

A private room downstairs, a whole social floor upstairs, and a kitchen that caters beyond our walls. Rehearsal dinners, banquets, company parties, Doane University occasions — we’ve built for all of them.

Tell us the date and the headcount; we’ll handle the rest.

The Old Main crew behind the outdoor bar in the beer garden, set up for a private event

Rehearsal dinners

Banquets

Corporate parties

Doane University occasions

Holiday parties

Off-site catering

Your own night

Or take the room for yourself.

Four spaces, including four thousand square feet of beer garden with a stage already in it.