John's Place

11104 Lee Hwy, Fairfax, VA 22030 | 703-352-7222

Neighborhood:

Fairfax County

Bar feature:

Bar

Tags:

Pinball

Quick Take

A strip-mall dive bar with cheap beer and more than a dozen pinball machines.

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Event Calendar

  • Mondays

    Pinball League Night

    The area's largest selection of pinball machines can be found in a dive bar in a Fairfax strip mall, and the best players hang out there on Monday nights.
 

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John's Place is an odd one: the kind where the deer head mounted high on the bar's wood-paneled walls is draped with a bra, and when strangers walk in, you can feel everyone in the room swivel and look them up and down.

The pinball machines are in a room that, for all its glass-block windows, '70s wood paneling and beat-up vinyl furniture, looks like the rec room at an old VFW hall.

The games are available to play from noon to midnight daily, and the bartenders are used to making change. If you show up and the game you want to try isn't on, pinball league organizer Paul McGlone helpfully suggests you "just plug it in."

 
 
 
 
 

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John's Place
11104 Lee Hwy
Fairfax, VA 22030
703-352-7222

 
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