Update: still my favorite pub in town. Best place to watch a match. They also fixed my two…read morecritiques. Food is now served AND they know how to pour a Guiness. Service is always friendly and fast. Food from next door is great, and the environment is excellent. Upgrade to 5 stars

Great Bar Inside. English theme with plenty of dart boards in connecting open room. The…read moredecoration is awesome, except for the small lamps on the bar. (They get in the way and feel intrusive). I hope they do something with Wimbledon!

Great place to go for a pizza and a beer! Food is hit and miss! Right out by the Illinois State…read moreFairgrounds so it gets crowded during August. Outdoor seating and some nights bands.

I'm not a local - I'm a tourist, visiting the Lincoln sites and looking for lunch. That said, my…read moreimpression of The Stadium Smokehouse is that it's a bar that serves food. As a bar it appeared to be a neighborhood hangout and is probably pretty good. As a BBQ restaurant, not so good. The service was OK, she was fast and attentive. The sides (cole slaw and potato salad) were right out of food service tubs. The French fries were OK. But you come to a BBQ restaurant for what . . . BBQ. The Brisket was probably cooked days ago and kept in the refrig. The waitress said that they slice it and throw it on the flat top to heat it up. Yea, it also dries it out and gives it a hard crust. The smoke ring and taste was OK, you just had to drown it in sauce to soften it up. My wife had smoked turkey and it was exactly the same, good smoke ring, interesting taste, but dry and hard from the flat top. The only thing interesting was the sausage made out of burnt ends that was really good after I fished it out from under all the cheese sauce the drowned it with. Who puts cheese sauce on smoked sausage? Ball park franks maybe, not smoked sausage! The only reason for even two stars was the service and the sausage.

I've always enjoyed this place, I came here multiple times for happy hour. The bartenders were fast…read moreand attentive, with a good sense of humor, same with the owner. The bartenders are happy and love doing their jobs with a little attitude. There's plenty of video entertainment gaming along with pinball. They call it a dive bar but the restrooms are no way divvy.. it's clean and fresh, the way it should be. 31/2024 Ambiance 5 definitely dive bar/Christmas in Springfield Service 4 Value 5 Location 5 nearby easy to find shopping center bar.

This place sucks don't waist your time poor management poor service. We thought since it appeared…read morenew and clean we would stop in for a cocktail and a Fight broke out outside the Police showed up inside the bar searching for someone hiding in the bathroom with a knife. Not good for business guy's!

This place is amazing. Cannot say enough about the staff and how wonderful they are. The place…read moreis incredibly clean and well kept. A true five stars!!!!

This place was absolutely awesome. It's right in downtown Springfield. We meant to go for just a…read morebeer or two, and stayed for wait longer. The bartenders were fantastic and the atmosphere there is exactly what I want out of an Irish pub. I wish I'd taken pictures, but I got carried away with having such a good time that we forgot. We also ended up finishing a bottle of Jameson by paying for four shots, and got to sign it! (That's a tradition --- finish a Jameson bottle, sign it, and they put it on the wall). I'm very honored to have my name inside a Springfield institution. My wife used to live in Springfield, and this is one of her favorite spots. So we will definitely be back!

I just want to make a post about the horrible experience we just had at JP Kelly's. Our whole…read morefamily went in there to drink after the farmers market. I brought my dog, as he is well behaved. We saw the same corgis at buzz bomb-everyine was chills after a few barks He was just fine at Buzz Bomb, where we came from. There were other dogs at Buzz bomb and of course some barking took place then everyone was friends. NO PROBLEMS!! K? Keep that in your back pocket while reading this. Our family decided to go to JPs. Clyde didnt make a sounds the entire time. Multiple people came up to me saying how good of a boy he was being. He was minding his business. This couple with 2 corgis comes in, same people from buzz bomb, and obviously my dog is interested as is theirs. Their dog barked first*****, so mine barked after, duh. So a bartender came up to us (group of 10-12) and said if my dog barked again, we needed to leave. I asked another bartender why because the other couples dog barked first and his response was "well they come in weekly" ahhhh sooo it's okay since they patron there often and we don't as much. Although, their dog started it everytime?? So I was saying goodbye to my family and ANOTHER bartender came up saying we had to leave and don't come back. TRUST!!! We won't!! AFTER clyde and I left, the bartender told my brother in law that he told us to leave 3x which literally did not happen!! He told me the one time and we left. So please!! Roll the footage on that one I would love to see it. The bartender tried fighting my brother in laws dad after nasty comments were made about my niece.

We were here for the Charlie Robison show and had a bit of time in the front bar area since the…read moreband had transportation issues and were delayed. They serve cheap drinks in plastic cups and comfortable seating. The double doors opened into a larger area with the stage, another bar, and seating along the back wall. It was a great show, but I thought the sound was somewhat distorted. I'm not sure what the issue was, but I saw everyone having a great time. We were able to stand pretty close to the stage. They deserve special recognition for booking Charlie R., as he doesn't come up north too often from Texas. After the show, he was led away for the meet and greet, which was organized and such a treat.

Inexpensive place to see great music. Clean. Lots of tall tables, long bat with barstools. Clean…read morespacious ladies room. Men's room had stalls with doors. Bartenders were on top of things. The act was Leon Russell and there was plenty of room and seats for the tickets sold. Definitely will return.

This bar has a lot to offer! Great old-school, traditional bar atmosphere. The bartender was…read morefriendly and made us excellent Old-Fashioneds.* There's a huge game room upstairs, and a round of air hockey was the perfect finish to our night out. *Old-fashioneds date back to at least 1806!

The fucking bouncer was a dick. I went with my brother who just wanted to use the bathroom after we…read moreordered a drink, and he was glued to our backs the whole time we were there. All I did was help my brother up the stairs to find the bathroom, and he forced us to leave after he accused my brother of stumbling up the stairs. He wouldn't even let him use the bathroom before he made us leave. He didn't even let us have our drink that we paid for, I have never been treated with such disrespect at any other bar I have been to.

Ok came here on whim with a work convention. Chris was bartending. This is very unbiased as I…read moredon't live here but Chris is the shit. We had so much fun!! He was engaging and knew his alcohol and how to make a stop at a bar worth staying. Big shout out chris!! I will definitely come back and see you when I'm in town!

Popped in here while on the job. What a cool place. Drinks , conversation , just all around nice…read moreexperience. Employees very nice. Stop in and enjoy

Very good chili albeit a bit thick. Excellent burger and…read morefriend. Very friendly and informative bartender - Jamie. I'll be back!

This place has the best staff I've ever seen in there kitchen. I'm a dasher and I've watched the…read morekitchen staff rotate here many times. It's an insanely demanding kitchen with less then 3 cooking every night. I'm very impressed with the current staff and believe they all deserve a raise and 5 stars. Great Job guys.

Stopped here for a work related event…read more Great people Great drink Great atmosphere What a great time See you next time guys

Came in for an old fashioned after doing a quick search on yelp!…read more I like looking for the "best old fashioned" but realize that is all super subjective. There was absolutely nothing special about this old fashioned. I think the most disappointing thing about this drink was they muddled the luxardo cherry into the drink. The only place so far that I found that actually had luxardo cherries WHY would you muddle it. Ugh. The inside was cool. It really could have been a place I would frequent because of its proximity to work. But bummed they just don't have my drink. No biggie there are other places