Campus address: 601 Thea Bowman Drive NE
NOTE: For Fall 2020, Murphy's Grill is available for take-out ordering only.
Murphy's Grill, established in 2017 is the bar and grill on campus. Its first floor is student lounge and its second floor is the bar and grill where the CUA community can sit down and dine or just have a drink at the bar while watching the game.
Mike Murphy, who graduated in 1974, inspired this project.
It was when Mike was battling cancer that he learned that the Rathskellar was closed and that there would be nothing to take its place in the new Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center. He couldn’t fathom it. It was at his 55th birthday party that he announced to a large group of Catholic University alumni and friends that he was planning to start a fund to build a new place for students to gather on campus— a place where friendships could be formed and nurtured. It would be an on-campus gathering spot— a new Rathskellar. That was in 2007. Ten years later, with the help of many of those friends and numerous additional donors, the University dedicated Murphy's Grill to Mike Murphy.