Barstool River North

14 W Hubbard St, Chicago
(312) 366-2109

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Mary Peterson

Great place to end my vacation! Music, food and service was excellent. đŸ„‚

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Lorenzo Guevara

Have not tried the food yet, but awesome atmosphere and band!!! Service was fast and good!

Atmosphere: 5

Service: 5

John Morse

Nice bar with good food. Live music provided by Riplock

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

John Burns

Chicken tenders are pretty hard to mess up but they somehow managed to make these inedible. Service was okay, weird atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 3

Nirusha Venkatesh

The smash burgers are INSANE!! Sooo yummy. Love the vibes here

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Alex Mayeux

Came in around 10pm on a Sunday to finish up SNF. Had a drink and then ordered another around 10:55 thinking they were open until midnight. Almost immediately after ordering (no last call announcement), they turned the lights on, then 5 minutes later bouncer whistled to tell everyone to finish up their drinks and get out (telling everyone they know the drill). Website says open until midnight, why are they kicking people out an hour early?

Service: 1

Dan Skarr

Overpriced and meh. Grab a beer just to say you went.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 2

Johnny Plaid

Beer cold. Service (I've had better in a Manhattan subway dunks)
Food even worse. Good for a beer or 2

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 1

Christopher Brander

Food is terrible and shitty service.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 1

Dovydas Mazeika

First time at Barstool Bar in Chicago and we had an awesome experience! Security guard Blue took great care of us, super professional and made sure we were safe, even stepping in when a few sketchy people came by. The team here really looks out for their guests. We’ll definitely be back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Peyton Weiss

At first when I got here, I wondered why it had such mid reviews. It became clear when we got to the afternoon slate of football games, and they left 20%+ of the TVs on old channels that were just showing news and highlights of the earlier games. When asked if we could change the nearest one to any channel actually showing a game, the server told us “my manager said we aren’t allowed to change them anymore because we got asked like 100 times yesterday.” That’s quite literally the point of being a sports bar, just something you have to deal with if that’s your whole vibe? Currently at halftime, of the afternoon games and multiple TVs in the establishment are showing what’s in the attached photo. This is a sports-bar for people betting on sports, WE WANT TO WATCH THE GAMES.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 4

Brent Nacu

3.9 / 5 - Fun atmosphere, a little bit touristy.

Food was decent, average bar food. Drinks were decent but a bit pricey. Service was polite, but not above average.

It was a decent sports style bar. Watched the Bears home opener. Not sure if I would go back. There were better options.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

amine lakhlifi

An American African very skinny security guy was very aggressive with us on a Tuesday night at 8pm, as we were getting in to have dinner. Our “mistake” not stopping and giving him our IDs without him asking. Obviously when he asked we said “of course, there you go out ID” but he kept going: “haven’t you seen a security standing here?” “In america we give our ID at the door”.
We said that we didn’t know and that he just needed to ask for it and then he would get it (not every place we go to people ask us for our ID - we are 35-40 years old). He was very aggressive, so obviously we didn’t even want to argue or waste our time, so we went to another bar in the same street (where people were very welcoming and treated us properly).

Service: 1

Todd Griffieth

Easily the best sports bar in Chicago at the moment. More TV's than I count could, a DJ spinning tunes during commercial breaks of the premier game and a live band around 10pm. Had a great time at this place with great bartenders. The wings were amazing and the overall atmosphere was perfect for college gameday!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

M

it’s alright but a double tito’s and soda was $30 which is wild. we live downtown so we’re used to crazy prices but that’s insane.

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