Bobbie’s Runaway

If you don’t have at least six drinks while you’re here, you’re doing it wrong.

This bar is horrible, i walked in and three old men and an elderly female bartender smoking cigarets stopped their conversation, looked at me and didn’t say a word the rest of the time i was in the bar. The place was full of smoke, and the floor had a mound of cigaret butts. They made it clear i was not welcome, so I left.
Later that week i was walking home near Bobbies, and a guy was screaming and throwing bottles at the door threatening to kill the lady bartender inside. Classy joint.
STAY AWAY!

Walked past this place many times and just never walked in… until the West of Ashland Pub Crawl. This was our first destination and I really wouldn’t have cared if the crawl ended right there.
The bar was rather accommodating considering that they just had 10 – 15 people converge on them with neither group knowing anything about the other.
Friendly people, reasonably priced drinks and some decent bar food.

A cool dive bar on Damen Avenue. A cool walkable community has this small treasure. The bartender at night was very nice and this place has a coll ambiance and vibe to it. One of many cool bars on this stretch of Northern Damen and perhaps the diveiest of them all. small food menu is highlighted by huge Corn beef sandwich that you usually have to wait until St Patrick’s day at most places.

Great times… Great people… Great service… Cheap drinks!!!
If you don’t know Bobbie… You don’t knnow JACK!!!

I planned on having some early drinks the other night, due to having to get up with the birdies to pick up a UHaul. I finally passed out on my bare mattress on the floor at 3am. In the hours between daylight and complete drunken stupor, I enjoyed many cheap beers and endless hours of conversation at Bobbie’s. This is definitely an old man bar, and because I’m secretly harboring the soul of an old man somewhere in my young little body, it was the perfect choice. The best part is that this old man bar serves food, and the bartender made us a delicious corned beef sandwich while we pretended she was our mom. Only $ 4.75 for a tasty sandwich made by a surrogate momma, who unlike my real mother won’t throw away all my stuff. Excellent. I’m sure I’ll find my way here again, considering I’m dead broke and this is a place I can actually afford.
Extra billion stars because the bartender thought I was 17.

Make no mistake: this place is a dive bar. But it’s the kind of dive where regulars share their candy with you if you come in on Halloween. A skip and a jump down the street from the Leadway, Bobbie’s actually plays the football and basketball games the Leadway advertises and doesn’t.