This place is great. Those who work here make it worthwhile. Perhaps it's just the self-entitled upper middle class types around the internet, but It's hard to believe a lot of the reviewers of Oasis actually live in a large metropolis and not, say, in an immaculate mall lobby somewhere in Palm Springs. Get a grip. It's a late night bar, so it's annoying as all get-out when drunk students flood in with all the grace and self-awareness of expiring mole crickets... but that's probably true of any place at 4:30am filled with people who think they need just one more before heading home. read more

I can't pretend this place is anything more than what it is: awesome. No, that is not true. It's just so much less depressing to pretend the watering hole, steps from my door, is more than a mediocre, townie bar with lousy mixed drinks and shots pre-made, consisting of nothing more than bar mix. the bartenders are not particularly friendly to me, but still, it's quite comfortable. It's like that shitty couch from college that you just don't ever get rid of. That was not a good analogy. Anyways, few beers on tap, a mediocre hard liquor assortment, and I swear their call drinks and top shelf drinks switch everytime I'm there. Also, most of their drinks are like 6.50 or 4.75, which is kind of annoying. It is open alarmingly late, so the oasis-hypnosis will lure you in till dawn, when you finally realize you've been watching a bad kevin bacon tv movie and listening to 80's music at the oasis all night, only to crawl alone back to bed. or maybe that's just me. No, but really, free darts, filthy surroundings, metallic blue chair cushions, does it get any better? yes, yes it does, but you know, maybe i don't want anything better. read more

Best 4 o'clock bar in East Rogers Park! A bit of a dive, but doesn't pretend that it's not. Great jukebox, darts, pool, supports local amateur sports teams, etc. Package sales too. And, did I say, open 'til 4AM (5AM on Sat.)? Full disclosure, I know the owners, but, I had these opinions even before I did. Say "Hi" to Gigi, the bartender! read more

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I came here a few months ago with two of my lady friends!! It was a disaster!!! We waited to play pool and asked the guys playing if they would let us play next. They told us sure the next game. Well after waiting two and a half hours they finally left and we went to play and I set my drink on the table for a second to rack the balls. One of the workers got rude with me telling me he told me not to put my drink on the table that I just got on. He then started to take the balls of the table being rude during the process!!! They do have really cheap drinks but the crowd is on the older side. Also if your looking just to get drunk and not enjoy your drink go here. The bartender over pours on the drinks extremely!! Also had no music playing during my stay there. This bar is right in the area that I live and I haven't been back since living here for almost a year!!! read more

I've read the reviews and don't agree this is a "totally local dive bar." It's "totally local" if you're young and white. A few months ago, my good friend and I stopped in for a few drinks. He's black and I'm white. I felt like my friend was treated completely different than I was. For example, we are the same age and he was carded and I was not carded. He was also carded again when he showed a credit card for payment. Later on, a few attractive ladies walked in and my friend wanted to offer them a drink. When he asked to bartender to send over a drink on his tab, the bartender (Darren) said "I don't think so. It would be confrontational to do that." I wonder if I offered the drinks, would the bartender have the same response? The girls, of course, happened to also be white. Seeing a recurring theme here? Here's the skinny: Gigi is cool. The bushy-haired mixed race bartender who plays on a pool league with his skinny girlfriend is barely OK, but ironically suspect. Darren (the aforementioned bartender) is a complete douche and should be fired from Oasis. I don't know about the other bartenders. In short, it's obvious that the majority of bartenders who work at this bar are not qualified or are scared to deal with people who do not look like them. What makes this so ridiculous is that the neighborhood in which the bar is located is extremely diverse...yet, they treat most non-whites like second-class citizens. I've told everyone to avoid this racist armpit of a bar. You decide for yourself. read more

Worst bartender ever. She should be fired. I feel bad that she's driving out business for a place we specifically walked a long way to try. Sad. read more

Ahh, the Oasis. The best dive bar in Rogers Park. I've been there when it's been jammed to the gills with Loyola students to quiet afternoons drinking cheap beer while editing a paper. It's a dive bar with dirty floors, great jukebox, and pool. The drinks are cheap and the tap is tapped well enough so the cheap beer doesn't suck. I used to go here late night after the regular downtown partying and for afternoons with a friend correcting my Master's Essay. Nothing like going over a paper and drinking down some good cheap beer to make graduate school a little more relaxed and laidback. It's a kickass dive bar and was only a few blocks away from where I lived. I went here the night before I moved with my dad, the connisseur of dive bars. It was my last hurrah for living in Rogers Park. It holds a special place in my heart. read more

If you live in the neighborhood and need a bar that is open till 4am most nights....then here it is.....but don't be impressed when you walk in...it totally defines a "hole in the wall" bar....dark dingy with an old musty smell...be fore wared about their beers on tap....depending on which line is hooked up to what tap you just might get something that tastes like moss beer....your better off spending a few extra dollars on bottles and saving your taste buds....darts are free but pool isn't....you might have to wait several hours for the table as there are no time limmits to who has the table....but don't be afraid to ask to jump in on the rotation....9 times out of 10 you'll get in.....overall I really would rather go home and sit my ass on the couch to drink some beers....I find that the only times I do go are when friends are already there.... read more

Let me just say this bar can be a little odd but somehow I always end up here. It's like my home away from home in an oasis at the oasis hahaha. I've had some pretty bomb ass games of darts here and some nice pitchers of beer. I would 9.3/10 recommend this place. Only reason why I'm taking off some points here is because I'm not a fan of the bathrooms. read more

Was a tourist in Chicago a few days ago. Ended up getting harassed on the street by an angry drunk dude (not affiliated with Oasis; he was also a tourist) right near the bar. There were a few regulars of Oasis outside that witnessed it and immediately made sure I was ok. Invited me to come into the bar and have a few drinks to relax. I ended up hanging out there for a few hours until my flight. The bar patrons were some of the most salt of the earth people I've ever encountered. Bar was a very pleasant dive. Bartender was a sweetheart and drink prices were fantastic. This place is open until 4am, which is wonderful if you're a night owl. And definitely check Oasis out if you're looking for a chill place to catch a Cubs game. read more

Midnite at the Oh-ass-is! I've been revisiting this place since the 80's - the other Loyola bar being Grumpy's, the Disney dwarf bar, where, in 1981, my wishnik friend Erick once hid and walked along underneath my Indian tent dress to avoid paying a cover at the door, and actually got away with it until the bartender carded him and he could not produce. But alas, the lad could not "produce" much more than that after a tankful of Jack Daniels. But I digress... To cut right to the chase, Oasis is very much like the north side version of the south side's Falcon Inn, which is a Hyde Park entity unto itself. I would be hard-pressed to decide between the two as to which one would win a merit award over the other. The ladies room reeks of a curious mix of VIrginia Slims, excrement and Dollar Tree body spray. Invigorating. The bar smells like gender-friendly farts, sweat, and beer. Intoxicating. The men smell like neglected 3 year olds who have not been toilet trained. The women smell like anything pertaining to the night before. (and probably well before that...) The bartenders are doing you a favor by not waiting on you. And if you walk in expecting to be treated like king or queen shit, then you deserve to be ignored, anyway. So there ya have it in a nutshell. Now pass the peanuts and piss down the Pabst, baby! read more

Dive bar. I typically like dive bars though so i gave it a whirl. They have pool table, darts and drinks are not stingy or generous. The bartender I had though was a down right snarly .... well, leave it at that. Regardless I left a generous tip and left. I have been in some places that the scum of earth find home while in military and the vibe of this place - not for me. Friends invite me to join them there and I decline. read more

I should be embarrassed to admit how many times I've closed this place down over the last year and a half. There was a loyal crew of people that you KNEW you would see every Friday or Saturday night. Hell, I have friends that I have honestly never seen sober because I always met them at the O. I should be more embarrassed to admit how many times I've walked in there with a book bag full of my own beer, got a glass from the bar to "split a pitcher" then proceeded to walk into the bathroom to crack open my illicit "book bag beer," take a few swigs and then pour it into the glass, magically leaving the bathroom with a full glass. Truth is, I'm not embarrassed in the least. I'm an asshole (who at the time had no job, so it was kind of excused) and The Oasis rules. It's probably the place I miss most from Rogers Park. read more

The bartender's nice and the drinks are cheap. They have plenty of TVs. Some of the patrons, including ones who seemed like regulars (gleaned from my 4ish times there) are kind of strange. Just a dive bar that's good to get cheap alcohol and watch the game. Oh and the urinals are huge (guess it helps those with bad aim??) read more

A solid bar. Nice pool table. Relatively cheap beer. One bartender is very friendly but the others aren't as nice.

Best bar eva! The regulars are a hoot and down to earth. Drinks are phenomenally priced. Bartenders are attentive and great.

Hi Neighbors, I can't write an impartial review, because I am a general assistant at the Oasis; however, I'm sorry the person who wrote a prior review deemed the apology, about the gay-bashing vocal derision he had experienced, to have been half-hearted. I'm the person who presented that apology. I thought that man and his friends who had accompanied him were courteous, pleasant, and neighborly. Some of them, perhaps with some of their other friends, had been there previously, and the bartender and I had remarked together (after we'd closed for the night) regarding how nice they had been. In fact, the apology was sincere, and I was mortified. In fact, with the concurrence of the bartender, I required the offending person to leave the premises as soon as I had heard him to be persistently using the inflammatory and derisive language to which the person who wrote the prior review made reference. We at the Oasis do not condone or tolerate anyone being abusive of any of our patrons. We are a late-hour tavern, and we have to make an especial judgement call regarding anyone who seeks entry after 2:00 AM, because some persons arrive after having been at another place that closes at that time and have already had enough. Sometimes a person is fine at the door, and so is admitted, but turns the corner after a single drink, and has to be asked to call it a night. We endeavor diligently to maintain a pleasant and safe environment for everyone. We are very sorry that anyone may have felt alienated or derided by anyone allowed to be present in our neighborhood tavern. Sincerely, JCR read more

This place is open til 4am... that is about all I can say positive. After work and after the other bars we frequent close we come here. Drinks are pretty cheap and they have specials.. no food, but a juke box with lots of OLDIES... and a pool table. They get a little irritating with th wrong people.. I threw an ice cube at a friend (in the room by ourselves) and almost got kicked out and the dude that slapped my ass by the juke box didn't get anything (well he got a gift from me, but thats another review). Women don't go alone.. you will be sorry. Still smells of smoke and looks like a dive.. so YAY!! Restrooms are surprisingly clean, but that may be cause no women frequent this place. Its always a blast and I never leave without a new story to tell.. read more

Absolutely incredible karaoke nights. Can't go wrong with the three dollar well drinks. Tyler is an absolute treat and I wouldn't go anywhere else for my karaoke needs! Convenient location too, definitely my favorite place for a good drink. read more

Here's how I remember the Oasis: #1 Gigi #2 Wayne (at the door with the cheap sportcoat) #3 Carry-outs too late for anyone's good #4 A jukebox that played the entire side 1 of RUSH's 2112 for a quarter (sorry Gigi) #5 Huge Jagermeister and Jack Daniels shots #6 Smoke thick like paste Back in the late 1980s the Oasis was one place to be after 2AM for Loyolans. And, seems it still is. Back then most of us were normal college kids by day, doing what college kids did. At night, we were vampires of East Rogers Park. We toggled deftly between the college bars (Pumping Company, Hamiltons, Loyola Sports Bar, etc) and the local dives (Oasis, Bruno's, Lighthouse, etc), as comfortable in the latter set as the former. After graduation Rogers Park remained my "home" for some years, as it did (and, does, I imagine) for many Loyolans drawn in by the weirdly eclectic city neighborhood. And the Oasis remained a part of my routine for those years. Those were great days indeed. We carried on without a care, as if the clock's hands would never catch up with us. Alas. Fast forward almost twenty years. The old LU crew splintered long ago. Life's paths has carried us to distant places, geographic and otherwise. I don't even drink any more. That may beg the question, "why would I write a review of a bar when I no longer drink?" To that I would say, because the Oasis is the "O" tab in the rolodex of my life. That may beg the next question, "where's the actual review?" Hell if I know. I'm just rambling. read more

This place is a decent dive bar. Gigi is cool and they have the biggest urinals in the city!

I'm a dive bar guy and Oasis is my favorite spot in the neighborhood. A real Cheers type place for regulars, and a fun stomping grounds if you're just passing through. Bar staff is solid. Free darts, plus a pool table, jukebox, karaoke once per week. Nothing fancy going on here, just a comfortable place. Open late. Watch out for the 2-4am crowd -- it gets crowded/sloppy quick because it's the last & latest bar open in the neighborhood. read more

Being new to Chicago, my wife and I couldn't have found a better neighborhood hangout. No hipsters whatsoever ! Instead you are treated to a wide array of people from virtually every country you can think of. Some friends tried to steer me away because they claimed it can get shady at times but so far I haven't seen a problem. read more

This place is garbage and smells like it. Bar box pool table is $10 an hour. What a scam. Far better places close by. Plus, this lady behind the bar is rude and condescending. I just moved within walking distance of this place, and will never walk back to it. You've been warned. read more

Oasis is a 4 am in my hood I've been wandering into for 20 years. It's just shady enough to be super interesting. I like it when there are hookers in there LATE night, rubbing up on the super drunk guys. Just the right amount of wrong. read more

I give one star for cheap beer. Otherwise, yikes just yikes. Sketchy escapees from the local mental institution wander around asking for beer. Some guy was bothering our table and the "bouncer" moved him two stools away from us, where he continued to bother us. One of the rudest bartenders I have ever met. She should go back under her bridge if she doesnt like people. Pool is expensive. No music playing. Oddly lit. Rude service. Realllllly sketchy crowd. This was the only bar we could find open in Rogers Park and the visit was still regrettable. read more

This bar is awful. It's so terrible, they don't even play music. They don't have a "radio license", if you can believe it. Sure, you're free to play the jukebox, which is fine, but when it stops, doesn't matter if it's 1 in the morning, silence. The overweight bartender tonight wasn't even busy and I still waited 15 minutes for a beer. About 10-15 people in the bar at midnight on a Saturday night, gee ya think ya might be doing something wrong? The clientele isn't even cool enough to be labeled hipsters- they're wannabe even more annoying hipsters. Avoid this dump at all costs and do yourself a favor. Very pissed at myself that I went here. One stoner "bouncer" working the door, one dude selling six packs of natty ice, and one absolutely crappy bartender. 3 employees for 15 patrons and you still have to wave your money to get served. Pitiful. read more

Place is awesome. Great specials. You can bring in or order food. Pool darts. Arcades. Service is great too---- vintage urinals in the men's bathroom makes it all worth it. read more

The quintessence of the neighborhood dive bar. Oldschool decor, from the linoleum floors to the tattered dartboards. Friendly staff and regulars (April is a stellar bartender), and an exceptional karaoke night on Sundays thanks to Jay. And they actually have a surprisingly high-quality beer selection, with taps from Goose Island and Revolution as part of their regulars. Simply a fun place to share a drink with folks. read more

This place rocks!! Its a great late night spot. They have plenty of dart boards and a pool table. Gigi is solid behind the bar and runs a tight ship so you'll find none of the normal riffraff common in late night spots. Plus they sell booze to go til 4am sun-fri...5am Sat. Stop by for a 3.50 becks tallboy next time youre in Rogers Park. read more

During my recent search for a place here in RP, I ended up doing some day drinking at Oasis waiting to look at places. After a bit of skepticism when the bartender was scanning my ID and putting it on video, she opened up and we talked through 2 beers. Through my next two visits I got to know Michelle, the weekday bartender better and she is a sweetheart of a woman. I will definitely make it my late-night spot for that last drink. Why it gets 4: * Open late - 4 and 5 am * Nice owner (bought me a beer! and bartenders) * the 2nd biggest urinal I have ever pee'd in * Cheap 6-packs wrapped up (in ice, from Michelle) to go to the beach... but you didn't hear that from me... read more

First off, this place is what it is: a divey neighborhood bar with a package liquor stand. So long as that is what you are down for, you won't be disappointed. Went with a friend. Regulars were friendly enough, and the bartender was nice. Had some decent mid-range draft beers. Prices are a little on the steep side, but not so bad as to make you stop drinking. Dartboard, jukebox, all the standards. Nice place to see a friend and chat. read more

I can't believe the "O" is still open till 5:00am on weekends! Back in the early 90's, I left there many a Sunday nights/ Monday mornings at 5:00 am, and it was standing room only. Although the Oasis didn't allow tabs at all, one Sunday afternoon (just picture "I woke Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt") my cohort and I were totally tapped out financially. I asked Ben for a tab and he said sorry. Although he knew we were good for it, it was just the rules. The manager, whom I'll only identify as "Mr. W" ,happened to be sitting at the bar asked me; How much do you need?", I said $20 will do it, He peeled $20 off his bank roll and loaned it to me w/o even knowing my name! (Although he did know our faces and knew we a lot of coin in there). read more

Had some great times at this bar. After finishing school at Loyola, this was my handout for years. Ben, Michelle, Gigi.....Wow, brings back some good memories. I can't remember how many times I was there until closing. I also remember watching great Bears and Bulls games back in the 80's and 90's. read more

Oh, the O. Good "after bar" bar or if you want a drink without all the hassle of Hamilton's. Yes, the crowd is sketch. Yes, the bathrooms are gross. But damn, it's cheap, good and has a jukebox. read more

Typical dive bar, with college kids playing pool and a jukebox. It's not a bad place but parking is horrible.

My favorite bar. Bartenders Michelle, April and Gigi are all great friendly bartenders. They have specials everyday including $3 Guiness on Tuesday [can't go wrong with that]. There's plenty of TV's to catch up on the game as well as darts and pool. The regulars are all really cool and it's a good mix of people. Also, open late in case you need that late night drink and there is a pick up window if you can't stick around to do your drinking. This is the kind of neighborhood joint everyone wishes they had in their neighborhood!! read more

great neighborhood spot...I have not experienced the homophobia that has been mentioned in previous reviews...the crowd has always been pretty diverse...in fact, I have become friendly with several "straight" guys that frequent the place;-) read more

Tip your bartenders well, they do an amazing job! Never a dull moment here! Order a "bittersweet symphony" from April, Amazing! Not to mention the hey are on top of their shizz at thi bar. read more