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    Sullivan's Tavern

    4.5 (18 reviews)
    Open 9:00 am - 11:00 pm

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    Bar & Liquor Store are one and the same
    J P P.

    A Vintage Dive Bar conveniently located on the outskirts of Dekalb. The 'Welcome' mat is always out for this neighborhood icon. But always a good chance that NIU students are busy boozing on the other side of town. 'Sandwiches Known From Coast to Coast'. My 'Double Cheese' was a tasty Bar Burger, but unfortunately lost its notoriety somewhere along the journey. The well-worn bar is a 1950's museum time capsule. Years of abrasion from beer bottles, elbows, ash trays and shrimp dinners have left its mark...twenty five bar stools and not a bad seat in the house.

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    28 days ago

    Best Gem in Dekalb!!!!! Great service, Great Prices. Food is Great. Great Atmosphere,

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    1 year ago

    Good food, good service, big TV's,draft beer slots,beer and spirits to go, good music

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    4 years ago

    Nice friendly home town bar / you couldn't ask for a better place to have a burger and beer

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    7 years ago

    Several beers on tap, very good food and service with reasonable prices.

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    15 years ago

    The service was excellent. Plenty of seating, lots of TVs. Strongly recommend the fried fish selection!

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    13 years ago

    You wouldn't expect it but the food is great. Best Ruben around. Great place to go to have a few beers with friends.

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    Fatty's Pub and Grille

    Fatty's Pub and Grille

    3.6
    (338 reviews)
    1.7 mi
    $$

    I've heard so many positive comments about Fatty from my NIU friends! The inside is quite large…read morewith multiple event spaces to host parties as well as a large patio. We sat at the outdoor patio bar where they had two screens playing sports games. We started with a John Daley & Huskie Punch. The punch tasted similar to a painkiller which is tropical and fruity. The John Daley tasted like it had more tea than lemonade but it was refreshing. For food, I got the Honey Garlic Boneless Wings. I loved the flavor of the sauce and the medium order came as quite a big portion. They were very crispy and well breaded. My husband got The Fat Boy burger with a side of their famous Cajun Fried Potato Salad and Baked Beans. The burger was juicy and flavorful. The potato salad wasn't too spicy but tasted delicious. I see why it's so famous! Overall, this was a great summer hang out spot! I was thoroughly impressed by the food quality and atmosphere Fatty's has to offer. I will certainly be back with friends!

    Traveling trough the area I hear the "I'm hungry" call from the back seat! It's our 4yr grandson…read morewanting food. Being just after the usual grazing time for him we found this establishment that checked all the boxes for the three of us. Outdoor seating as well as indoor seating was available, seat yourself style. We sat inside. The noise level was not loud at all. Perfect for table conversations. The menu had too many tasty sounding items. I chose the Fatty Melt with the Cajun Fried Potato Salad and Coleslaw. My wife had the Chicken Club Wrap with Onion rings and Beans (for me). The little had the 2 mini sliders with fries. Being family we share the sides and the onion rings were a hit. The number one treat in my book was the Cajun Fried Potato Salad. The bean had a good smoky flavor to them. Last but not least our server should get top billing in the review. Jordan did a fantastic job accommodating our requests and took the time to answer questions without feeling rushed. She made us feel more like a friend than a patron. Hats off to you Jorden! Thanks for making our visit enjoyable.

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    Bar inside
    Chips and salsa with guacamole
    Chips and salsa with guacamole
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    Cub & Spank's

    Cub & Spank's

    4.5
    (10 reviews)
    5.2 mi
    $

    Best bar in DeKalb County! This is me and my friend's favorite bar to go to. Great service and fun,…read morefriendly crowd

    Ah, good old Cub and Spanks…read more.. Now I've only been coming here for the past couple of months, but they fulfill a couple of requirements I require in a bar. 1) cheap drinks. And I don't mean this place is the kind of establishment that serves drinks in red solo cups, they serve them in regular plastic tumbler cups, and they're not bottom shelf garbage liquids either. A Jameson and Ginger ale will set you back a whopping $4. I feel like I'm stealing from the bar when I drink here! This is a good thing. 2) conversational level of crowd noise. This place has never been so loud that I couldn't hear the person I was sitting with, granted, we haven't come here on a Friday or Saturday night, so consider that the asterisk. I prefer a place where u don't need a bullhorn to talk to someone 3 feet away. 3) shuffleboard table. This place will always have a special place in my heart since I popped my shuffleboard cherry here on September 30th after closing out Charter Fitness. However, they've since replaced the old board with a new-fangled board with the prison bars that come up in the middle to avoid free plays, and the table is but crooked. Not that I'm a cheapskate and try to play for free, but the sand gets stuck in the holes so when you start a game, you have to manually push the bars in in order to allow your pucks to slide freely from end to end. I know, I know, #firstworldproblems 3) jukebox. Since the beginning if time, man has attempted to push forth their culture on those around them, and this is the perfect way to do it. You can even control the jukebox from your phone! Well, your smartphone at least. I don't think your Motorola StarTAC is going to help you out here, nor will your Nokia 8200. 4) regulars. You will see the same people day in day out here, whatever day of the week. They may or may not remember that you had a conversation about whatever you had a conversation about, but they're friendly. Or you can chalk it up to this place being a townie bar, but I won't call it that. Come to Cubbies, sidle up to the bar, and maybe drop a buck on a game of shuffleboard or two. If I'm there, say hello and challenge me to a game. I might show you a thing or two. Or not. I've only been playing for a couple if months...

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    A hanger!  That means your puck stopped and is hanging over the edge, obvi...it's worth like a gazillion points
    A hanger! That means your puck stopped and is hanging over the edge, obvi...it's worth like a gazillion points
    The new board...wimp womp

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    Hink's Bar & Grill

    Hink's Bar & Grill

    4.1
    (59 reviews)
    5.1 mi
    $$

    We just started coming here since Corn Fest '17. My family and I were leaving Dekalb the Sunday…read moreafter Corn Fest and heading back to Elgin. NIU is my Alma-Matter so my husband and 2 kids find it a fun and nostalgic weekend. Tony [husband] looked up and found Hink's for the first time on google reviews. He said not one bad review, he's kind of a rainman-savant when it comes to finding good places out of nowhere to eat at. It's a rather small place but I'm glad I played along b/c this place blows away the other larger Sycamore eating places we used-to go to. Now we have put this place on our regular-rotation of places to eat, its our new favorite place to eat and have come by just about every friday or saturday night since Corn Fest. Pizza is fab and Bloody Mary's are about the best you can find [from scratch NO mix!] The two guys on shift work like crazy and handle the whole place, really just two guys! WOW.

    We finally tried this place after living here for over 30 years…read more We just got carry out. We had a pizza, it was just ok Pork tenderloin sandy was big & good Fries were nothing special Potato skins were dry Chicken wrap was fine Bill was well under $100 for a pizza, 1app & 3 sandwiches w/fries. We usually spend $125 or so at other places. We didn't get any drinks. We might try it again

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    Great beer, great friends, great place!   Leave the kids home, please!!
    Great beer, great friends, great place! Leave the kids home, please!!
    Get it extra dirty
    Get it extra dirty
    Shenanigans Day after New Years!

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    Dick's R U Crazy

    Dick's R U Crazy

    3.5
    (12 reviews)
    67.6 mi
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    Dick's R U Crazy is the lone successor to a Calumet region Gay scene that once boasted five (5)…read moreflourishing and active Gay bars of which one was exclusively for Lesbians. Unfortunately, Calumet City succumbed to a sad combination of white flight and city officials Hell bent on destroying the State and Stateline entertainment corridor, leveling solid historic properties into a barren surface level wasteland, that remains void to this very day. We were once guided by the bright neon signs and chasing lights, like a mini-Las Vegas strip it was. God forbid someone was drinking, carrying on, staying out until past 4 a.m. and having a Gay ole time. So here we are at Dick's R U Crazy, this lone Gay venue has been established in 1990 and serves as a beacon of life for area Gays. It offers a traditional Gay bar feel from back in the day with two (2) chalk dusty pool tables and an eclectic variety of your usual patrons. A corridor leads past the restrooms on the right that opens up into a lounge area with intimately lit tables, a stage and runway avec drag drapes. However, classic Drag shows and those once crowned as bar royalty, drag queens, have been replaced in a new world favoring karaoke. Ugh! You cannot miss what you do not know. In my opinion, today's bar music or what I heard at Dick's was a bore. It's choppy and doesn't flow one song to the next. Who wants to hear and see Seth Meyers bash Trump on Big TV screens on a Friday night in your bar? A total waste of fun time! There must be something far more entertaining and uplighting to fill in the background with to get people up and dancing. Dancing!!? What the F..k is that? One might ask! Dick's R U Crazy is a Gay oasis in a desolate desert environment that doesn't offer many better options short of going into Boystown/Chicago . Hopefully one day the Calumet Region Gay scene will rebound. Dick's R U Crazy is a continuing work in progress.

    I have never made a review before in my life, but the fact that I am now says a lot because of bad…read moreexperience they had. I went to this bar, cause I was visiting the area thinking it would be chill and fun got here at six because that's what online says but they were closed and the doors are locked. I was like OK whatever no big deal come back at 8 o'clock later but door is still locked but lights are on and This is during the winter and it's cold now I'm sitting here in the cold, waiting for my Uber to get me back home would not recommend to come here gay or not most likely they won't be open or let you in. PS this was on a Saturday night.

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    Dick's R U Crazy
    Dick's R U Crazy
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    A Total Top?
    Fun bar

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