Great service. It's definitely its own thing, but I loved the vibe for a late night beer.

I came here after reading Sarah D.'s review.. I was so excited! As soon as I walked in I started to asked every guy there if they were the Bartender's brother.. they all just looked at me weird.. So, I asked the bartender if their brother was still here making sales... The bartender told me they don't even have a brother. Sarah D. is full of shit.. was able to scrape a fatty off the back of the toilet. 4 Stars read more

I went here in the bathroom was all backed up, it turns out people are doing Coke there. Apparently the bartender's brother is selling Coke out of there. Lame environment, never returning!!! Plenty of other Spokane options read more

Awesome place. We were catching an Amtrak train and had three hours to kill. Of all the dive bars in Spokane we had to amble into Mootsy's! A strong punk dive bar vibe, just our kind of place. We had a blast. The bartender (sadly, I forgot her name) was lovely and made us feel like we were regulars. Oh, and $4.00 taps on Mondays. The Huckleberry Press was fantastic. If we lived in Spokane, this would be our local. Good beer, great prices, and a great dive vibe. Could have done without the shooting, but that had NOTHING to do with Mootsy's. read more

Dont judge a book by its cover. Very friendly staff and patrons with a great selection of beer. 100% recommend.

Best bar in Spokane! All the bartenders are excellent! Special shout out to Joseline and Jarae! Thanks for making me feel at home on the road here! Five stars! read more

Came into this place tonight with a group of 8 ladies. There was nobody in here and no music playing. The bartender sat with his back to us and didn't acknowledge our presence UNTIL..... he turned around with a taser in his hand and activated it stepping towards our group. We left and called the police out of concern for the remainder of the general public. Apparently he was just hammered. What a joke. read more

Had a pretty good time there, loved the pizza and the atmosphere for the most part... Then I saw one of the bartenders (Sarah I think?) Attack a homeless person and spray them with water. The free show was entertaining I guess, but I definitely have mixed feelings about someone pulling out a bat to beat up some street kid. I really hope this isn't how the bars in Spokane handle homelessness :/ read more

Monday Night Spelling Bee was cancelled, but Brian is bartending again & that made our night ;) read more

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Had an amazing time this place has great liquor and a very relaxed environment. Super romantic setting. Had a blast.

5 stars solely on the price - $4 for a jack and diet AND a pbr Deep in the heart of downtown, Mootsy's is a must! Brush up on the Bach if you want to entertain the crowd, there's a piano right by the bar read more

It's dirty, it's loud, it attracts the locals, should I go on? We came here because a guy we just met, who just moved into town, met a neighbor doing laundry. Said neighbor is in a band and was playing tonight. Also, this random guy and I had mutual friends, so it was a good group of us. We got to meet the group playing, sit up on a couch on top of a pool table. Considering how tall everyone in this city seems to be, that was perfect for me. This isn't the place to go when you want to talk to people. It seemed like they have a good selection of booze, beer and hard liquor (I feel like I need to specify this in Washington). Parallel park in the street. It's Downtown so it's kind of hard to find parking...and it was a Wednesday night. Lastly, don't leave any valuables in your car, one of our friends' car got broken into and had some things stolen :( read more

The best bar name of all time, The bartenders are awesome, $ 1 beer night on Wednesday and Sunday, entertaining people and just a great place to meet up with your friends and have a drink! read more

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I've seen Mootsy's all my life and it seemed like a bit of a trashy place until I first stumbled in. It was a Wednesday and they had $1 PBRs, an open pool table next to a very decent jukebox. The gin and tonics are stiff, along with the other drinks. They've got 8-10 beers on tap, for decent prices. Mootsy's looks like a quintessential downtown bar, a little dirty (just enough to be fun), dark and with interesting but not intelligent decor. There is only one pool table so it can get boring after a while, but it's the perfect place to stop by on a night of bar hopping. Plus there is a delicious taco truck right across the street that is open late Thursday-Saturday. read more

Mootsy's is a wonderful hole in the wall. Strong drinks at a cheap price. Great crowd for a Spokane dive bar. Great music on weekends, which sometimes includes the up and coming touring act. At one point in time they did poetry readings, but not sure if that is still happening. Become enlightenend at Mootsy's! read more

Smells like piss. Decent enough bar but half the time the urine stench is enough to make me keep searching

Loved it! It was a hole in the wall place and loved it. Live band Thursday night. It was loud as hell but still had a blast. Had a great selection of beer. Loved the crowd, and as another poster rated it is full of locals. And that is the shit! The locals make a place not some college kids that have no idea. If you get a chance drink a Koa Stout read more

Went in a few weeks ago and only had my tribal Id on me and the bartender was rude and tried to tell me she couldn't accept it because all tribes were affiliated? I showed her my bartending license witch clearly had my name from the tribal Id and birthday she still wouldn't accept and i explained to her I bartend down the street...she still wouldn't accept I then told her she wasnt a very good bartender because tribal id's are federally reconized peices of identification (I mean I can get into Canada if I wanted with it.) She then continued to tell me she had been bartending for 10 years so she should know. read more

Wait staff can't handle orders more than a pbr or well mixed drink. Clarify your charges before you get committed to over paying.

Mootsy's is a filthy Spokane dive bar, but it's OUR filthy Spokane dive bar. And we love it. This is a dive bar, no doubt about it. No food, no bartenders dancing on the bar. Get over it, drink beer, and make fun of the douchers that are afraid of people with tattoos. read more

This place is a solid dive bar. It's dimly lit, it's got good music, they have good bands play, and they have their fair share of crusty characters. This is a place where you can find interesting people and possibly interesting conversation. It can get a little busy on live music nights. There's also spelling bee contests on Monday, I haven't been but they sound fun. You can't beat the drink specials on Friday, $2 drafts until 9? Please. No frills, no airs, just a solid bar that offers great rotating drafts and liquor. You get what you see. read more

$1 PBR's Sundays and Wednesdays clinches the 5-star rating and of course there are other wonderful selections of beers and other drinks. A nice cross-section of people as well as very cool and eclectic decor. Also has live music. One of Spokane's cooler dives! read more

Stiff cheap drinks and decent live music. A bit on the cramped side depending on the night, but well worth the visit. The owner is a pretty chill guy and gave me a ride one drunken night (and hey, I'm a dude) so this place is getting a 5. read more

Moostys has a storefront on Washington that sells pizza and another store front on Sprague that is a bar and night club. The night club works very hard to bring in local music acts and the beer is pretty cheap. The place has booths big enough for groups of 4 or 5 but it can get extremely loud when they bring in music. There is a sort of cool mezzanine level with eclectic furniture that probably should be burned. Its looks out over the small main stage and is a nice place to feel like a low budget VIP for the indie scene. read more

Do i need to say much. This place is awesome and you should probably try this place. Cheap drinks, quality service. Beautiful spot. I definitely recommend this place for a chill, relaxed drinking spot. read more

Little dive bar w/a few good Brewskies on tap... unique upstairs too.. I didn't eat here but it looks like they have a brief menu at least. It's quite economical, not expensive at all read more

I love a good hipster dive bar. Mootsy's fits the bill. Cheap stiff drinks and tons of tattoo watchin.

There were more beards and beanies in one room than I thought possible, and out of 50 or so customers, it didn't look as if anyone had taken a shower in the past 72 hours. If you're feeling too fancy for an authentic "derelicte" atmosphere, you should probably skip it, but I had a lot of fun. There was good live music, which always improves the atmosphere, and the drinks were strong and cheap. Truly Dive Done Right. read more

i was a little faded when i showed up, so it's all a little blurry - my amtrak from kings station in seattle (en route to glacier two states away) had left the station just two minutes behind schedule but with onboard crew bestowed with a competitive stream we'd arrived about an hour before expected. good fortune at first glance, but the second half of the eastbound empire builder originates in pdx & with a coupled delay of mechanical problems and ice over the southern tracks, we were looking at a four-hour delay, i think everybody on the train kept saying "i can't believe this", even if they were sitting by themselves to me, it didn't seem that long, but you know how time zones and jetlag & seasonal progression can screw with your sense of things, and this loudmouth drunk in the seat next to me had given me a bit of grey goose & a pop of cool glass, cold outside wound up here with a coupla norms from the train, late twentysomething to old - maybe i should've asked for their own yelps, surely they had them? all they could talk about were the best enchilada joints in tacoma & the seattle bistros to avoid ... i think this establishment was our second? third? stop after leaving the station, the talk was boring me & i couldn't stretch it's all about the moment! my expectations tempered when the bartender at the sukiyaki inn down the street didn't know what a dark & stormy was & then only had schweppes on the ginger front! so i just ordered a cheap rum drunk at the resident maestra's discretion (she was really friendly, too!); it tasted about like you'd expect but was strong for the price, which was two bucks less than sukiyaki (which only seems to have a listing on here for the restaurant portion of the conglomerate, which seems okay, so it seems like i shouldn't taint it with my jittery negativity for real, i'm fine with simple shit in my cup so long as it gnaws at my physical balance, not that of my bank account the jukebox was pretty good, i can't remember anything remotely modern save for a radiohead & a modest mouse cd, if you can really call that kind of music modern with a straight face anymore, Ha ha Ha, but these machines being up-to-date is a true rarity, and it's always a mood thing, and i'm usually in the mood for 80's new wave or at least receptive to it ... they had some good funk, disco, odds&ends, i remember there was one cd that surprised me in its presence enough to prompt exclamation now i don't remember what it was at this point i wouldn't say that everyone there was gold, or even silver, but there were a few interesting looking subgroups i ended up chatting with, our small talk & travelogues were at least six million times more enjoyable than anything my fellow train folk were saying smoked a nat with my last brief conversational sphere, i think they had a pack too walked back to the train, slept well, well enough read more

The bartenders are great, the drinks are stiff, the prices are low, Mootsy's is my favorite dive in town. My friends and I have had lots of good times here and there are always cool people to talk to. Plus it's right across from the Satellite for a perfect transition from late night to morning ;) read more

Awesome place, good beer, great music, and as a bonus, the bartender looks like Milton from office space.

Unapologetically real in a nerf coated world. Thanks for existing!!!! Good shows, cheap beer, interesting people always.

This place is a Spokane jewel! The service and wait staff go out of there way to make sure that your taking care of! I would suggest the drink "The dead Natzi" followed by a traditional Spokanite favorite PBR tall boy. read more

Although I only was here for an hour or so, it was just my kind of place. The bartender was super friendly and not pretentious at all. The patrons seemed nice as well and the place has kind of a grunge/Rock n roll/hip dive bar vibe. My favorite part was the old cheap jukebox. 5 songs for a dollar with a great selection. Was my favorite of the 6 or 7 bars I visited in Spokane. read more

Good dive bar - great prices but pretty much the same as some other places in the area. $1 PBRs is a great touch - again they do the same at some other local places. This place has lots of locals attracted by cheap drinks. read more