For sure this is one of the legendary places in Carbondale. It has been a long time favorite for…read morecheap drinks, food, and music. PK's is popular with both locals and students. A surprisingly good amount of stuff on the menu including plant based. This place may be a dive, but it's better than it looks. A lot of history in this bar. It's known for the cheap ass happy hours. There's also the cheap ass weekly specials. Be sure to check out the list in the bathroom. It's $2 for whiskey on Wednesdays. Among the many cheap drinks. Burgers are most popular among the food options. The food menu also has a lot for vegans. It's $6 for the Impossible Chicken. This comes on a bun topped with lettuce, onions, and pickles. Has to be one of the places you go to when visiting this college town to check out the local flavor. It's on Illinois Avenue at Walnut Street. There's lots to get for meat eaters such as burgers, and there's also healthier options, including many things for vegans and vegetarians.

Pks is always been our bar we love it. It may have to change some but still a good place to goread more

Been twice. Both times, it was a bar as expected. The atmosphere of the place is sort of depressing…read moreas far as I've seen. The bar tender has seemed annoyed with us being there both times despite it being before 10pm on each occasion. I haven't tried the food.

If New Orleans and Charleston had a baby, This is it!!! So laid back with lots of entertainment and…read morerestaurants in walking distance. I even ran the entire island

Okay atmosphere but sh!t service. Bartender was rude and tried pouring me a drink I'm allergic too…read more he xaught an attitude when I tried to point out the ingredients on the bottle. Only decent thing was the Bloody Mary's years ago and I've had better at John Browns. Place has gone way down hill. *pun not intended*

My friend spilled her drink and they gave her another one. Had to give a positive review:)read more

Ed made me some Hennessy wings and seasoned awesome fries I recommend this man and his foodread more

Manny's doesn't serve food anymore. That's a bummer after a five hour drive. No bar snacks to be…read moreseen

I'm 80% sure the bartender was hard as a rock making my drink because he was looking at sorority…read moregirls. And I got groped by multiple frat boys. I would be leaving one star, but they load up the drinks with liquor, so I figured they should get a star for that.

Music is too loud and the dumb frat boy bouncer couldn't put enough brain cells together to read my…read moreID and thought I was born in 2023

Best music venue in Carbondale. Hangar 9 has been a long time favorite for both students and…read morelocals. It has a lot more than just music. Good cheap drinks at the bar. The place has a long history in town. A lot of fun has gone on here. It's one of the few good places in town to see live music. This kind of looks like an airplane hangar from the outside. Inside it looks more like a dive bar. Lots of room in here though. Good place even when there's not music, because you can drink at the bar. It's about $4 for the cheapest cocktails. Whiskey and whatever. Good specials on pints and buckets. There's no food but you can bring in stuff. Have to make an update about this business. It has closed. This is sad for the community, it's a place with lots of history, so you'll have to go to some other bar or wherever.

This is normally my go-to bar, but Paige the bartender completely ruined my experience on Saturday…read morenight by being blatantly rude to us. This has happened on multiple occasions- we (two girls) were standing at the bar for at least a few minutes, while she did nothing accept for standing by her monitor and passively aggressively WAVING at us. So, TAUNTING us, basically. It wasn't until the other bartender (Haley I believe) came over and helped us out, and Paige IMMEDIATELY flocked to the men who came up to the bar after us to serve them. I'm not sure if I'm missing a social cue here or something, but Haley already seemed like she was busy with enough customers. So not only were we IGNORED, but were quite literally bullied by one of the bartenders. Terrible service, and it sort of messed up our whole night.

My partner and I did a little tour of Carbondale to relive our our college days and we were excited…read moreto go tres. We were shocked when we looked at the menu and there was just fajitas and nacho chips with cheese dip and guacamole, but we're told this place is no longer a Mexican restaurant.. I don't know what to say about that considering the history, the name, and now it's a sports bar? I don't know. I think they're having an identity crisis. We're really sad and ended up going to quatras for pizza to at least get a little bit of food and added nostalgia.

I went in a few months ago on ST Patrick's day with my fiancé. We were looking for a sit down…read moreMexican place and all the pictures looked so good! We showed our server a picture of what we wanted from their reviews. Turns out they didn't serve ANY Mexican food anymore. Our server said "we have queso and fried jalapeños!" Who wants that when they are looking for food... especially actual Mexican food... she definitely saw we were disappointed and barely helped us after that. After paying we left and got don taco.

Food Very good and varied food. Interesting specials. Not…read moreyour average bar food. My favorite is the catfish dinner and catfish sandwich. I enjoy their side by side two flavor frozen margaritas or daiquiris. Service I typically sit at the bar or get takeout called in over the phone. Good service and they get my to go orders correct. Ambience Bar away from downtown with a mix of patrons of various ages.

The food is pretty good. The staff is always nice, except the head bartender, he clearly hates…read morebeing there and has a horrible "better than thou" attitude. We go every few months and don't return until we forget about how terrible his service is.