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    Riley's Tavern

    3.8 (36 reviews)
    Closed 6:00 pm - 2:00 am (Next day)

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    What's the vibe?
    Very loud
    Divey
    Juke Box
    Good for dancing

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    7 years ago

    Jake and Mario and tommy are the best bartenders in all of down town. Rileys is a place you wanna be friday saturday an sunday!!

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    8 years ago

    Do not go here for karaoke. The DJ is no good. Have given him many tries.I would give him zero stars if I could.

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    7 years ago

    Good selection of Draft Beers, lately its gotten super crowded on the weekends thats its hard to get drinks but overall still a cool bar.

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    8 years ago

    It's always a great place to let lose and have fun! So many people to meet and everyone has a smile

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    7 years ago

    I love Riley's it's fun and the bartender Thomas is so amazing and by the way I think he's so dreamy!

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    10 years ago

    This place gets better and better every year! If im going out on the town you can bet im going to Rileys!

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    14 years ago

    New owners and better set up than previous visit. Impressed with improvements and drink prices reasonable

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    Shaina, Lou, Colin, Robert, and Ryan, are fantastic, sexy as hell, and equipped with witty humor.

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    Nobody plans to spend an evening in Bakersfield. You pass through it on the way to somewhere else…read more-- Mammoth, the Sequoias, the long flat grind up the 99 to Sacramento -- and if you stop at all, it's for gas or a bathroom or because your BMW's brakes have decided, somewhere around the Grapevine, that they'd rather not. Thank you, Weatherford BMW of Berkeley, for the near-death experience and, inadvertently, for one of the best nights out I've had in years. Stranded and waiting on repairs, we checked into The Padre, the only hotel in Bakersfield that feels like someone with a subscription to Dwell had a hand in it, and set out walking through a downtown that time has treated with more kindness than reputation suggests. There's a Woolworth's luncheonette still hanging on. There are old brick facades and wide sidewalks and the particular quiet of a Central Valley evening when the heat finally breaks. And then, on 18th Street, there is Tiki-Ko, and suddenly you are no longer in Bakersfield at all. You are, instead, inside someone's magnificent obsession. Tiki-Ko is a proper tiki bar -- not a tiki-themed cocktail lounge, not a place that bought some bamboo at a craft store and called it atmosphere, but a genuine, committed, floor-to-ceiling shrine to mid-century Polynesian fantasy. The carvings are real. The lighting is correct -- which is to say, barely there. The mugs are serious. There are pufferfish lamps and carved totems and the whole glorious taxonomy of tiki ephemera, accented here and there with a skate-culture edge that keeps it from feeling like a museum. It's reverent without being precious. The drinks are the real thing. Mai Tais built with actual orgeat. Zombies that earn the name. The bartenders make them with the kind of care and enthusiasm that tells you this isn't a gig -- it's a calling. They want you to be here. They want to talk about rum. They want you to try the Painkiller. In a city that most Angelenos regard as a punch line, somebody built a world-class cocktail bar and filled it with joy, and the regulars clearly know it. You will not plan a trip to Bakersfield. But if you find yourself there -- by mechanical failure, by accident, by the peculiar mercy of a bad brake job -- walk downtown. Find the tiki bar. Order a second round. Stay longer than you intended. Bakersfield has been underestimated, and Tiki-Ko is the proof.

    Tiki bar located in Downtown Bakersfield that kind of acts as two locations or spaces. There's the…read moremain bar at the corner and if you go outside and walk a bit down the sidewalk, there's 'The Sinking Ship' with a more heavy nautical and speakeasy vibe (where you enter and walk down some stairs and find a lush decor). I only had a drink upstairs at the original bar and I ordered my default go to when I visit new tiki bars and am unfamiliar with their menus and that was the painkiller. The service or person behind the bar was chill and super friendly. I came in on the earlier side of a Friday evening, so although people were trickling in, the place wasn't packed. Since I was only able to stay for a drink, I just wanted to walk down and check out 'The Sinking Ship' and was thoroughly impressed by the decor (well pretty much for both spaces). Definitely a place I'd love to grab drinks with friends or spend more time at.

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