ABG's

Bar · Provo · 190 W Center St

A Beuford Giffords Libation Emporium -- known universally as ABG's -- is downtown Provo's long-running free-standing bar: neon, pool tables, and live music on Friday nights for the 21-and-over crowd.

Where it is

On Center Street, about two blocks west of the grid origin at Center and University.

Provo addresses are grid references rather than house numbers in the usual sense: they count outward from the origin at Center Street and University Avenue, one hundred to a block. Our guide to how Utah addresses actually work explains why the same number means a different place in the next city over.

What we know about it

It anchors this site's coverage of a category that is unusually small here. A full liquor license narrows the field considerably in Provo, so the rooms that operate as actual bars rather than restaurants with a drinks list are few enough that our nightlife writing names them one by one.

Our music coverage makes a related point worth keeping: ABG's and Velour, a block away on University Avenue, are not really competitors. One is all-ages and one is not, which makes them two halves of a downtown scene rather than rivals for the same night out.

Everything we have written about it

This is every page on Provo.com that names ABG's, most substantial first. The directory exists to route you into the writing rather than to replace it.

The durable facts, and the ones we refuse to carry

Name: ABG's
Address: 190 W Center St, Provo, Utah
Cuisine: Bar
Where we read the address: our own page, not a third-party listing
How we know the city: this site prints the city immediately after the address

We do not publish opening hours, prices, phone numbers or ratings for any venue in this directory. Those are the facts that go stale, and a directory carrying them is wrong within a season while still looking authoritative. For hours, ask the restaurant.

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