Shakers On Clark

Love Shakers! Friendly staff! Great karaōke on Sunday — they have a ton of songs and the woman running it is super nice and wants you to sing! Great prices on drinks too!

I’m giving this place only three stars because I’m not a fan of dive bars. Well that’s the way it felt, even though they had live music. I love live kusic bars but this was more just loud place to be. The margaritas are not so great, I’ve had better at Ceasar’s.The only reason it is getting three stars because my boyfriend likes dive bars and any bars with TV and sports.

Just when I was starting to embrace this place… No more shakers for me! Danielle is gone

A friend and I came on a Sunday evening to enjoy a drink while in the area. I knew this place was a must for us to try when I read in a Unilocal review about the flavored long islands. I love a good long island, and that combined with fruit flavoring sounded super appealing. Luckily for us, the 23oz long islands were on special for $ 8.50. I ended up getting the pineapple flavored long island, and it was very good. The bartender poured pineapple juice in with the alcoholic mixture and the whole drink was refreshing. Sunday was also karaōke night and my buddy and I got our chance to «shine» on stage. The atmosphere at Shakers appears to be pretty lo key, and the space is pretty large inside.

Had a couple of margaritas before the Blueman group. Place was descent waitress was great.

I came to see my friends band here. The staff was so sweet! They literally picked up and table and moved it to the perfect spot for our small group. The drinks were made really well and the prices weren’t terrible. At not exactly my typical scene but I won’t hesitate to go again of friends are going. The crowd was decent.

I think coming on a Monday night was not great. The drinks were a good price and good but the comedy show was not funny. Definitely has a small, divey vibe if you are into that. The bartender was really nice and helpful and close to where we were staying.

Great place to hang out, have a beer, charge your phone and play pool or darts. Also have live shows, or bands and karaōke. Lots of tv to watch any sporting events or the Kentucky derby.

I love this place. It is nice to have bar staff that wants to come to work and is friendly! Great location and a fun atmosphere!

This place is in need of a Bar Rescue. Don’t get me wrong, they are obviously trying very hard, but for what it is not clear. Given its location, it needs to have something to draw people. Within walking distance, you have Parrot’s, L&L, Dram, Friar Tuck’s, Jake’s, Clark Bar, plus the «nicer» places like Dry Hop, Wilde and whatnot. My gf and I stopped in out of curiosity, and during the course of enjoying one beer, we noticed several deficiencies. First though, the bartender was very nice, and clearly a lot of effort has gone into the conversion from 3160, but much of that effort has been misguided.
The wall color is a bold blue, with neon green covering the top couple feet of the walls. Not inviting, it comes off as a little Trader Todd’s (not a good thing). They have a decent, but not outstanding, beer selection, but NO BEERS ON TAP. Don’t recall the last time I was at a bar with no tappers. Apparently they have no food besides bowls of pretzels. If people are drinking, at some point they are going to get hungry. And if you have no food, they will leave. It would not take much to have a convection oven for pizzas and a deep fryer for fries, poppers, breaded mushrooms, etc. That would be sufficient to keep people there and make them thirstier and get them running up that tab. The drink specials are nothing special. Buckets of Corona in the winter? If you are going to have mainly craft beers, do some kind of craft buckets. And 12 – 13 kinds of Long Island Ice Teas? I don’t know the last time I was within earshot of someone ordering a Long Island Ice Teas, let alone asking for one flavored like watermelon.
Again, they obviously put some thought and a lot of effort in, but it should have been the other way around. It does have a pool table. It does have a good upper seating area that would be good for a group. It does have phone chargers at the bar. They do have plenty of TVs. But it’s trying too hard at too many things instead of at the right things. They tried trivia, they’re trying karaōke. Just work on giving a good, solid, quality experience and it’ll work out. Look at some of the shitholes I mentioned that are doing just fine.

I just can’t say enough of how well they treated us here. We went to the new whiskey place on Halsted before coming here and made a big mistake.
My boyfriend and I had such a wonderful experience here that I would never go to Halsted ever again. Plus we had three drinks each here for the same price as one

In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I am good friends with the owners and am thus probably biased here.
But even if I wasn’t, I’d have high praise for this place. If you visited when it was 3160, do return because it’s got a completely different vibe now. The owners (Jason & Mark) brightened the place up, expanded the drink selection significantly, hired some top-​notch bartenders, and most importantly, created a very friendly and open environment with zero attitude.
They are all about customer service so frankly, whatever you’re into, they will probably let you do. Wanna watch a game? If it’s not already playing (they have the NFL Ticket package and a bunch of other satellite sports packages), they will turn it on for you. Want to listen to the upgraded jukebox? Cool. Want to host your birthday party there and bring in a bunch of food? No problem. Forgot to charge your phone? Oh, they have some on-​hand for you to borrow. They are just incredibly accomodating and eager to please.
They’ve only been open for a couple weeks but I am already super-​impressed and excited to see what comes next. I know they have plans for live entertainment, trivia nights, karaōke and other fun stuff.