Tequila Roadhouse

This place was Primo!!! I loved it when it was open eventhough I dont remember much when I was there. I didnt know it was closed until I just looked it up before my trip back to Chicago

FINALLY! This place has gone downhill since it was hoppin’ back in the 90’s!
Lots of good memories at the Roadhouse. Paying the $ 10 cover charge… the boxing game in the front bar… walking to the back to watch people take shots off «the saddle». Going to the washroom and the stall didn’t have a wall but was made of chicken wire… so you could see the guy in the stall puking or going to the bathroom. The small dance area in the middle… i even got up on the tables a few times in my day! The back bar… well was just a bar with tables around. Dancing behind a girl with your Miller Lite bottle in the air, and slowly dancing closer and closer until you latched onto her waist and next thing you knew… you were grinding on the dancefloor which always led to a makeout!!! It was fun!
Oh and the dance area in front of the pull down screen that would show the orgasm scene of «When Harry Met sally» as «Nine Inch Nails» thumped from the speakers!
Back in the day, the Roadhouse was the late night spot for all of us «Structure wearing Plaid shirt guys» to pick up chicks. It was fun, cheezy but always a good time.
5 stars for the Roadhouse… I personally had many drunk fun nights here, many hookups… thanks for the memories!!!

The only good things this place ever had going was that it was open til 4, let underage girls in through the back door and let me drink unlimited Red Bull Vodka every Friday from 9−10pm!

Well… I’m probably completely out in the cold on this one, but I gave the place three stars. I went for a friends birthday party and, maybe it was because I was with a large group of fun people, but we had a great time. (and yes, they were all well over the age of 21)
The shot chair was entertaining for our birthday girl (sorry, but oiled up men don’t do anything for me) and we got some good photos out of it to embarass her with well into next year.
They also had installed this punching bag game — you plop in your quarter, bag drops down, meathead punches bag, scoreboard reports your manliness. Hours of endless entertainment… (we even had one really drunk girl that could barely hit the bag)
Yes, I noticed everyone was completely intoxicated. Yes, the one girl I tried talking to while I was there was a completely flake. Yes, it was more expensive than other places. But all-​in-​all, I’ve definitely been in sleezier in Chicago.
I believe they have now also moved and renamed the bar.

That’s right! I’m giving Tequila Roadhouse three stars!
My only experience with this bar is for a friend’s birthday party. Needless to say, the alcohol was flowing so Tequila Roadhouse didn’t seem all that bad to me. There were tons of bimbos and their male counterpart… the himbo. Himbos and bimbos drunk out of their minds made for some choice people watching.
I thought that the shot chair was hysterical! Maybe that’s because we made the birthday girl get on the shot chair and some oily bohunk was gyrating all over her. I’m a huge fan of six-​pack abs so I was pretty happy to watch this guy take his clothes off.
The bar kind of smells like vomit and I was afraid to use the bathroom, but the people watching is stellar.

If you are looking for narcotics or depraved men oogling minors, they opened a place just for you. This place is garbage.

Yea, i gotta say its not all that here. I won a party here years ago — maybe 6? and it was fun then. But now there are MTV wannabe Real Lifers and its just pretty narrow minded of people :) So, yea, skip this place and check out the cooler places in Chicago. There are tons of places to get a better choice of music, people and atmosphere! :)

Christ on a crutch does this place suck. I guess if you want to pick up an 18 year old with a fake ID, this is for you. Another «woo girl» hangout. Awful beer selection, awful music, and frankly the clientele makes for a horrific vibe. If you like to dance there are better places for it. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. It’s a freakin’ miracle if there’s no rookie vomit in the bathroom.
«Look Taylor, I’m dancing on the bar! We’re gettin’ CRAZY! WOOO!»

$ 10 cover charge, great… Looks like someones barn! The lap dance thing, they need cuter people to do that first of all. The guy does the same thing over and over and over… and over. How boring. The girls are ALL underage… Great for guys. I guess.
Drinks are good, the people I was there w/​knew the bartender so, nice hookup. The bathroom was really dirty w/​no toilet paper… PEOPLE, girls need toilet paper. We cannot shake and drip!
I don’t think that I’ll be coming here at all. They do have a restaurant inside for those who are drunk. lol

Worst. Bar. Ever.

I expected to find Patrick Swayze when I walked in the door. Lots of wide eyed young partiers looking for a rowdy ol’ time. It gets noisy early here and this is one of those places that is convinced that if you can’t hear the person next to you, you automatically must be having a good time.

Dude, I can’t believe people hate on this place so much. Sure it’s a shithole, underage-​haven, full of puke, overcrowded and has the audacity to charge cover…
But wait here’s where it gets good.
If you talk to most guys who’ve lived in Chicago a few months and you mention, Tequila Roadhouse you get «the look» and the «uh oh…»
Yeah it’s That Kinda Place.
Needless to say, it’s not a place to meet someone you’d wanna date but it’s great to pickup some BRILLIANT (like Denise Richards trying to be the rocket-​scientist in one of the 007 movies), cute girls for some one-​nighters. These girls are so dirty that I get checked up right after even though I always use condoms… not that I would partake in that sorta thing… yah…
So yes I understand why the girls give this place such a shitty rating but guys, come-​on. Who cares if the place is a piece-​of-​shit when you can get some nice action from hotties?
Note: Look at the pictures of the other reviewers… the ones that hate this bar are OLD. They can’t get action. They are justified in hating this bar.

I do believe the only reason I found myself in here, is due to the fact I was dating one of the bouncers. So I didn’t have to pay the cover charge. I am not a club person for the most part, and this place goes far to assure myself that I never will be. The service was just extremely poor, even though they were relatively overstaffed. And way overcrowded, with more than a spattering of them looking as if they had yet to hit the legal drinking age. (Not to mention they had to be violating some kind of fire code.) The best things about the place was the saddle shots, and for some reason, they were playing 80’s re-​mixes that I actually enjoyed. Now that I’m broken up with the bouncer, my chances of coming back are pretty slim.

Eh. I am a little partial to this place because it was one of the first bars that I went to when I was looking at moving to Chicago, but when I look back on it, why did my friends bring me there. The music is mediocre and the place is always overcrowded. On the other hand, they do lap dance shots in saddles that are a lot of fun. Pretty decent drink specials and late hours make this place worth checking out, but my guess is that you will only go once.

My best friend once had a guy reach up her skirt & assault her … er … private parts … in this bar. When she freaked out (obviously), she was promptly told to settle down & that she was probably imagining it.
Why she didn’t press charges is beyond me.
Buyer beware…

I give this bar a star mainly for one reason. I know someone that works there. That being said, we have a great time with him, as far as drinks go, but as far as the clientele the shows up here, ugh! There are so many fake ID toters here it’s insane. The bar itself charges an INSANE amount of money to come in (Usually around $ 10) for it to be completely empty, or so packed you can’t turn around. If you like to pick up the «I’m so drunk out of my mind» wanna-​be Trixies, then this is your place! I don’t recommend stopping by here unless if you are under the age of 22.

I went here for my friend’s Pre-​Birthday party. I never met anyone who liked to celebrate their birthday month in advance. I have previewed this place on Unilocal and it is exactly how everyone described. If you just turned 21, this is fun place to find someone for make out session. I never met so many young women who had boyfriends and already looking for next hottest guy. I hope this isn’t how all Chicago women are like. This place is super small and gets so crowded that you can’t walk around without bumping and grinding and you are not even on the dance floor. I did my best to raise my drinks super high to walk around so it doesn’t get spilled on anyone. My friend thought I was having a super time because I looked like I was cheering with my drink in the air.
Overall, I had wonderful time with my friends in the back drinking and meeting new people. You definitely want to tip the bartenders very good so you can get drinks pretty fast. They were very upfront about wanting tip.

This is definitely an underagers bar, its obvious. They have the place split up into the front bar and the back dance floor area but the thing that sucks is that they play two different types of music in each room… if you’re stuck standing in the middle, like we were, all you hear is noise! Its very unpleasant. Plus, its super crowded and people bump into you all the time. BUT, they do have good drink specials!

If I was 20 with a fake ID or just turning 21 this would be the place I would go, but I’m way past the drunk college years. I went here for a birthday party for a friend and I don’t think I’ll be going back.

Until about 1992, this was the original Exit. For a few years, it managed to run on the fumes of Exit’s coolness. I had an okay time shooting pool there a couple times. However, it’s changed with the times, and now it’s barely cooler than any other Lincoln Park bar, though it still has the faux-​Western/​truckstop décor.