Big Red Barn

So many friendly people there!

$1 beers is what Friday's are for.

Homely barn with dollar beers!

Nice place for coffee and sandwich

Great hung out joint

Beer on Fridays!

Fun atmosphere

Beer for 1 dollar?! Bomboclaat

Nice place, cheap good quality beer, free snacks and occasional events.

Great hangout for grad students. Lots of events like trivia, cheap drinks, and more

Good place to work, chat, network and have fun

Nice place to sit and write your paper or thesis. Morning 8 am to 11am is writing hours in BRB.

Great place to get dollar beers and hang out with grad students.

Always a good spot to meet colleagues, exchange ideas, and enjoy $1 beers

Cozy, great place to study, free popcorn, and cheap drafts after 2pm!

Favorite in my time was the PhD sandwich and the Tuna melt (but don't eat tuna).

Atmosphere is always inviting and staff is very friendly.

Very chill place for grad students to hang out at

An old nice building with friendly atmosphere

Cheap drinks fun atmosphere!

Had a great time at Trivia night

An amazing place for cheap beer with colleagues (usually Friday). During the school year, it also is a nice place to grab a sandwich or soup around lunchtime. The BRB also hosts a good variety of events (swing dance, trivia, and more) that are always fun.

Located on the Cornell University campus, The big red Barn is a wonderful meeting place for graduate students and exhibits. The parking lot offers a stunning view of Cornell's watchtower and landscape. Indoors is a cafe and plenty of room to stretch out with tables and chairs sofas and nooks here and there to settle in or visit friends. Housed in a renovated Barn the building has an old-time ambience that is accentuated with some new architecture that blends with the building seamlessly. The building is surrounded by lovely gardens.

The best thing about the BRB is the people. The atmosphere is relaxed and warm (wear layers) and, while it can get loud with all the chatter at times, they really know how to host a wicked event.

It is the best place for grad students at Cornell. Free coffee from 8 to 11 am, 1 dollar beer in the afternoon, and its quiet and warm. Just a great place for reading and writing in general, especially in the morning

Beautiful barn and the food is great. The chicken pesto sandwich and the asian chicken are my favorite. Staff is friendly.

Great service! My sandwich chef was very friendly (told funny jokes!)

Only grad students and faculty allowed here. You get one dollar beer here everyday. And beware Fridays can get pretty crowded

It's cool. A spot for grad students to hang out in or outside and there's food and drink along with free popcorn

Great place. Cheap beer and lots of free snacks. Good place to hang out

Albert Zhou

Great service! My sandwich chef was very friendly (told funny jokes!)

Britt Snider

The best thing about the BRB is the people. The atmosphere is relaxed and warm (wear layers) and, while it can get loud with all the chatter at times, they really know how to host a wicked event.

Beulah Agyemang-Barimah

It's cool. A spot for grad students to hang out in or outside and there's food and drink along with free popcorn

Frank Leahy

Located on the Cornell University campus, The big red Barn is a wonderful meeting place for graduate students and exhibits. The parking lot offers a stunning view of Cornell's watchtower and landscape. Indoors is a cafe and plenty of room to stretch out with tables and chairs sofas and nooks here and there to settle in or visit friends. Housed in a renovated Barn the building has an old-time ambience that is accentuated with some new architecture that blends with the building seamlessly. The building is surrounded by lovely gardens.

Aisha Freelove

Beautiful barn and the food is great. The chicken pesto sandwich and the asian chicken are my favorite. Staff is friendly.

Ashwin Pc

Only grad students and faculty allowed here. You get one dollar beer here everyday. And beware Fridays can get pretty crowded

shailesh gurung

Great place. Cheap beer and lots of free snacks. Good place to hang out

Austin Hovland

An amazing place for cheap beer with colleagues (usually Friday). During the school year, it also is a nice place to grab a sandwich or soup around lunchtime. The BRB also hosts a good variety of events (swing dance, trivia, and more) that are always fun.

Jessica Zarkin Notni

It is the best place for grad students at Cornell. Free coffee from 8 to 11 am, 1 dollar beer in the afternoon, and its quiet and warm. Just a great place for reading and writing in general, especially in the morning

Decent food

Chill place for grad students

good value/cozy espace gettting drunk for a few bucks in short time

Eh. If you're a Cornell grad you'll end up here one way or another. Don't fight it.

Chicken Petso on Sourdough was good, came with salad

The food is average but the building is great and has a fantastic atmosphere. Problem is that they sometimes hold events there without warning and kick you out very rudely. Has happened to me like 4 times and I've asked and they don't have a public calendar for people to see so you just gotta get kicked out and accept it..... It's really annoying.

I only come for salsa so cannot comment on much else. By itself, it is a very nice building deity a lot of character. Multi level with loft walkway around the main dance floor. The biggest problem is that for salsa, it is too small as the dance floor use a very small portion of the actual barn. Plus, they always put the live band at the same floor, taking maybe 1/3 off. And they store tables and chairs on the same area, reducing the dancing area even more. And it's always crowded as it is on Cornell campus. Mostly newcomers so the dancing is not spectacular.

Pretty good food at a reasonable price. Soup was good and sandwich was acceptable. Nothing too special but not bad either.

Mike Catanzaro

Pretty good food at a reasonable price. Soup was good and sandwich was acceptable. Nothing too special but not bad either.

Pavel Masek

I only come for salsa so cannot comment on much else. By itself, it is a very nice building deity a lot of character. Multi level with loft walkway around the main dance floor. The biggest problem is that for salsa, it is too small as the dance floor use a very small portion of the actual barn. Plus, they always put the live band at the same floor, taking maybe 1/3 off. And they store tables and chairs on the same area, reducing the dancing area even more. And it's always crowded as it is on Cornell campus. Mostly newcomers so the dancing is not spectacular.

Jason Apolo

The food is average but the building is great and has a fantastic atmosphere. Problem is that they sometimes hold events there without warning and kick you out very rudely. Has happened to me like 4 times and I've asked and they don't have a public calendar for people to see so you just gotta get kicked out and accept it..... It's really annoying.

A good spot in a middle of the campus

It makes for a good study place during the day, as long as there aren't any other events going on. Towards the evening, they start serving beer, and on Fridays it gets LOUD. Otherwise, a great place to chill and write a few academic papers.

Beautiful building closed for operation for summer so idk how the food is

Bad coffee, worse food, but I guess it's conveniently located in the middle of Cornell campus. Prepare to be distracted by tons of undergrads inside and out.

Nice place to relax after a hard day of studying. Also you can call to set up for a event.

Cody Bickel

Beautiful building closed for operation for summer so idk how the food is

Roger Jackson

Nice place to relax after a hard day of studying. Also you can call to set up for a event.

Jeney Wierman

It makes for a good study place during the day, as long as there aren't any other events going on. Towards the evening, they start serving beer, and on Fridays it gets LOUD. Otherwise, a great place to chill and write a few academic papers.

Taylor Stevenson

Bad coffee, worse food, but I guess it's conveniently located in the middle of Cornell campus. Prepare to be distracted by tons of undergrads inside and out.

No fresh cooking sandwichs brought in

Horrible service.

You have to buy a $20 gift card to get a beer. Beers are only $1-2 so that means you either need to get incredibly drunk or you have to keep track of a card until the next time you frequent this poorly run establishment. Also they random kick you out for 15 min and then let you back in. So don't come here if you are working on an assignment with a deadline. Good thing they have a monopoly in the area of they would probably go out of business.

EXTREMELY rude to my group and I as soon as we walked in the door. I do not frequent this place often, however I decided to go for a lunch break with some colleagues, and the cashier had an attitude with me about the order in which I paid for my food. She then came over to our table on her lunch break to yell at one of my colleagues to move her chair over. She wasn’t even on the clock anymore! THEN the manager came over and accused us of drinking alcohol and said that we loudly stated “We are drinking alcohol at the barn” so she was forced to intervene, which is just not a real thing someone would say normally. Why would anyone proclaim that to an entire restaurant? They literally sell beer here anyway so drinking alcohol isn’t even an issue! And just so we’re clear, we were not doing anything out of the ordinary to get this kind of treatment. We were trying to enjoy our lunch and got rudely interrupted not once but twice. They targeted us for no reason. They need to do some more training. Beyond unprofessional.

pat shaffer

You have to buy a $20 gift card to get a beer. Beers are only $1-2 so that means you either need to get incredibly drunk or you have to keep track of a card until the next time you frequent this poorly run establishment. Also they random kick you out for 15 min and then let you back in. So don't come here if you are working on an assignment with a deadline. Good thing they have a monopoly in the area of they would probably go out of business.

Jada Stackhouse

EXTREMELY rude to my group and I as soon as we walked in the door. I do not frequent this place often, however I decided to go for a lunch break with some colleagues, and the cashier had an attitude with me about the order in which I paid for my food. She then came over to our table on her lunch break to yell at one of my colleagues to move her chair over. She wasn’t even on the clock anymore! THEN the manager came over and accused us of drinking alcohol and said that we loudly stated “We are drinking alcohol at the barn” so she was forced to intervene, which is just not a real thing someone would say normally. Why would anyone proclaim that to an entire restaurant? They literally sell beer here anyway so drinking alcohol isn’t even an issue! And just so we’re clear, we were not doing anything out of the ordinary to get this kind of treatment. We were trying to enjoy our lunch and got rudely interrupted not once but twice. They targeted us for no reason. They need to do some more training. Beyond unprofessional.