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Matinee’s front room in low light — a vintage black-and-white film playing on the projection screen, a table lamp lit beside the armchairs, and framed film posters covering the walls

700 Main Street · Buffalo

The Theatre District’s neighborhood bar

What are you feeling tonight? Tell us and we’ll pour you something good, before the show, after the show, or instead of it.

Matinee owners Ryan ‘Rex’ Keppel and Kevin Shanahan at the bar

Since 2016

Ten years on Main Street. Come say hi.

We opened in 2016, a block up from Shea’s, behind a bar built out of salvaged wood and surrounded by props from the old Studio Arena. It’s still the same idea: good beer, good whiskey, old movies on the wall, and somebody behind the bar who’s glad you came in.

Don’t know what you want? That’s our favorite question. Tell us what you usually drink and we’ll find you something new.

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