Spot Tavern

This controversial mural is the work of The Droops, an Indianapolis-based artist collective who were commissioned by The Spot to do the piece in 2015. It located on the side of the Spot and overlooks their parking lot. It takes up 2 sections of the bar's side wall.The mural is in great shape but as you can see in the photos, its lower park is obstructed by parked vehicles. It is a collogue of random images that include a guillotine, a beer on a folding chair, a tombstone, a skull, a in a bikini with four eyes holding a beer up, a knife, a clown, a bomb, a trumpet, a cigarette butt, a foot, a face being punched by a fist, a hand holding a knife, and an odd character holding a beer while playing a piano.The mural also depicts a naked woman tied to a tree and male genitalia in between a hotdog bun, which caused quite a site as you can imagine. There were calls by the community to have the offensive piece removed, covered up or fenced off. The change.org petition ended with 20 supporters. At one point the Lafayette police issued a warning that artwork was violation of the city's graffiti ordinance. There was a point during all of this that they used a Mike Pence head (who was governor at the time) to cover the male genitalia.Ultimately, the Spot won and the city decided that the mural was not graffiti and did not meet the criteria for a citation. The mural is standing today. Even though there are a lot of images to digest. The artwork is very nice. This is a provocative piece that definitely generates conversation. You can deiced for yourself what your thoughts on the piece are.Parking to get a closer look at the mural is easy, even though it overlooks a parking lot, the lot is kind of tight. There is however, some free parking pretty close to the mural too. Anyway, as with most murals that I have visited and reviewed, this is not a long stop. I was there less than 5 minutes. So, you may want to consider planning out additional stops at many of the other attractions in the area, or making this stop part of a larger itinerary to maximize your time and trip. There of tons of murals to check out in the immediate area.

great food : Snuggs Pizzaservice : the bartenders are a bunch of sweetiesthe spot is the spot

Pizza was good! Drinks are strong..just the way we like them. Ambiance..grunge bar. Bartender was great.

I've been to the Spot a few times. The service is always great, the decor is interesting.. never really a dull moment. The spot offers such a wide variety of events as well. So nice to experience something different than the usual

I've only been here a few times but we always meet unteresting people here. We live to sit by the outdoor wood fire and just strike up cinversations. Great cocktails, too!

Okay, I didn't get any pictures because I was intimidated by the local hipster crowd, who were so "cool" they wore full tweed blazers in 100 degree weather (literally multiple people, multiple genders in tweed blazers- did I miss the cool kid memo???) But this is probably my favorite bar In town!! The bar patio is suuuuppppperrrrr fun and natural-not like most places in town that are right in the road, they have done a fantastic job with landscaping and making you feel like you are in your own place. The bartenders are friendly, fast, and great at recommendations. No table service, only bar. The wood fired pizza they offer through a vendor who comes on the weekend is the absolute best pizza in town, and you can do take out! My only complaint is that it is to popular with other young people, so that parking is chaotic! Definitely carpool or walk!! Also they allow smoking on the patio, which is gross. Don't smoke kids.

Great service, great coffee, and the food is very good. I always get the Chai tea and it is fabulous.

The Spot Tavern has the BEST bartenders. Especially when Max is working! He plays the most fun music to dance to and was mixing up wild and delicious cocktails. The patio is the frosting on this crazy cake. There are wild sculptures and sunflower gardens in the summer. Hop vines and bamboo tower over your head. Spot has also curated an excellent collection of artwork..floor to ceiling ...painting, lights, graffiti, challenging and exciting murals all over the exterior, ect) oh yeah, $5 pizza pies. YAAAASS

if you're under the age of 45 do not come here, and don't come here if you don't want to sit and stare at a live band instead of dancing. we got cut off after dancing to live music and having three drinks. staff is rude and old heads do not like when you have a good time.

Great people, great atmosphere, great place.... "MY" bar... love the grieve I've made here