JEN & AL'S SENIOR YEAR (Last day: 6/15/25)

From Eater Seattle​

After saving the University District institution during the pandemic lockdowns, the owners are moving on

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by Harry Cheadle  Aug 21, 2024, 1:32pm PDT

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The College Inn Pub, one of the University Districts most beloved haunts — literally, it’s haunted, by a ghost named Howard — will soon enter the next phase of its long life. This week owners Jen Gonyer and Al Donohue sent out a press release that served as their “graduation announcement”: After four years of running the half-century-old basement watering hole, they were moving on. If no one buys the pub, its last day of service will be June 15, 2025.

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Gonyer and Donohue took over the bar at a particularly dicey moment. The College Inn Pub had been a classic campus dive since the ‘70s — dark wood, a vaguely English vibe, students and professors chopping it up in the dim light. In 2020 it joined the ranks of businesses that closed during the pandemic lockdown era. But Donohue and Gonyer (who worked there as a server and wrote part of her University of Washington dissertation there) stepped in to rescue it and reopened the following year, after extensive repairs.​

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