Miska’s Bar

On Tuesdays the bartender Nick is super awesome. He helps create a welcoming environment.
The drink specials are pretty awesome ($ 2 mixed drinks for Tuesdays)
I live right by the bar and will come back as often as I can. I can’t recommend this bar enough to the people of Roscoe Village.
Miska’s Bar, a bar I can get behind.

The fact that they have a pool table got them one star, and the multiple TVs with sports always on got them one more. Other than that this place has no other redeeming qualities. Somehow every bartender is always kind of an asshole too. This place should be a neighborhood watering hole but it seems like it wants to be a douchey wrigley bar. I don’t understand what they’re thinking. Cheap beer, pool, sports on TV and barkeeps who aren’t dicks. It’s not complicated.

DO NOT support this place. I live down the street and have been in a few for some last minute things and every time I’m in there, there is an employee following me around. I’m a petite 100 lbs woman shopping for some wine and I’m being followed around the store as if I’m stealing their product. If you don’t believe this post, make a visit and you’ll see for yourself.
They have the most unfriendly employees and the owners live upstairs. There is a women starring down from her balcony watching the entire stores. The owners clearly do not believe in customer service.
Take your business elsewhere as this place will not appreciate your support.
I had to give it one star in order for this message to post. This place deserve to close down. It is giving Roscoe Village a bad name.

Let me preface this review by telling you I love dive bars, and I really want to like this place since it’s in my neighborhood. We tried it out one night and all I can say is EW. It smelled AWFUL, the mixed drinks were overpriced and tasted disgusting (what kind of bar attached to a liquor store serves bad pineapple juice and generic Red Bull???). This place is depressing, empty and stinky.

$ 10 for a martini AND they charge for mixers?!? No wonder this place is always empty. The one star is for the attached liquor store…

Not bad, i like the little music venue, not much room to dance but you can get a decent view of the band form almost anywhere.
We played pool and drank some beers $ 5.00 standard blue moon and Guiness. It was a cool venue but the service was not the best and guess what? The bar tenders charged the band for everything they ordered! Musicians, make an agreement with getting a $ 100 tap before you play!
I Knooooow!

owwww home base my boys take care of me here owww owww enjoy fellas

I used to come here all the time when I lived in Roscoe Village with my friends. Solid drinks and erotic photo hunt. I haven’t been here in a few years, but there was usually an interesting mixed crowd, and by crowd I mean a handful of people… It’s a good place to go to start or if you already have a bunch of peeps.

It’s Saturday, 9PM, raining, and we’re running for cover. Around the corner we go… Miska’s miraculously appears out of nowhere. It’s obvious to us all that we’re going in – no communication necessary. The door is opened and we rush in to begin shaking the water off of our coats. Sweet… they have a large movie screen. But it’s playing Sweet Home Alabama. Surround sound. I take a seat at the bar and I now realize that the three of us are the ONLY people in the bar. Not even a bartender. We wait a good 5 – 6 minutes before a girl enters from the deli next door. Oh good. Someone IS here! Get me a drink. Make it a cosmo ;) Why not a $ 15 cosmo? Because that’s what I paid – too much in my opinion. Time went slowly, as awkward silence filled the bar (with the exception of Reese Witherspoon). Soon enough, we finished our drinks and exited the creepy bar. The rain no longer seemed so bad.

Empty, over priced, and disappointing… not unlike Steve Carell movies.
For a small neighborhood bar, I thought it would be a good place to hang out on a Friday night and have a drink without breaking the bank. It was depressing when I walked in and saw an empty dance floor with disco lights spinning. I wanted to turn off the light to put it out of its misery… there was not going to be any dancing that night. A couple of dudes were having a drink at the bar and 3 more people came and left in a span of two hours.
There is 1 pool table and an old barber chair that’s pretty cool looking. The special of the night was $ 1 jello shots. After they charged me $ 15 for a martini, I said adiós and never looked back.

The acoustics left something to be desired and the beer was watered down like crazy.
The doggie was cute though.

We really liked this place. We went last night to hear «Watch out for Kenny» which is a fantastic blues/​funk/​soul band. Sooooo, maybe the fact that the band was incredible helped us love this place. The entrance is shared with the liquor store which could worry you, but once you get in the size is small and it feels good right away and the stage is nice looking and lighting and sound are all AOK. They have a pool table too. We sat at the bar, but they also have some tables closer to the band. It’s a great intimate place to hear any good band. They even made hot Lipton tea for me which is not a standard offering of theirs and I am super grateful. (Don’t hate on me. I get cold and am the designated driver. My hubby drank booze and we tipped well.)
The ladies bathroom is AOK, but if they wanted to upgrade a teensy bit they could figure out why the flourescent overhead light flashes slightly like a strobe, and trade the open garbage for a flip top so you’re not staring into an open garbage can??? Plus a little pleasant color paint in the ladies room would be nice too. If you really wanted to go nuts switching to non-​flourescent lighting would really rock. A girl wants to look pretty when she checks herself in the bathroom, and flourescent lighting is not kind. So I know I know it’s a bar and I should be grateful the bathroom is clean which it really is. I’m just saying, women like nice bathrooms, and men take women where they want to go???
So in short, we really like the place & we’ll be back!

Subdued bar with chill live music. Yay! I’m a fan.