St James Place

This place is really good for what it is, a dive bar with cheap drinks, darts, jukebox, and great bartenders.
We have been here more than a few times and we’ve always had a good time. For a dive bar, they surprisingly have a few options for red or white wine. Great beer specials, and they make a strong vodka soda. Great place to hangout, my friends and I can usually scope out a table or area by the bar when we get there. Gets crowded on the weekends but, it’s not overwhelming.
They have a breathalyzer machine on the wall that you can pay 50 cents to check yourself before you leave the bar. I’m not sure how accurate it is because you’re given a coffee stirrer straw to use to breathe into it, but, another quirk about this place.

Simple quiet bar that is clean and and great place to hangout. Prices of drinks are cheap and watching a game here having a beer was enjoyable.

This is simply a kiddie bar. The drink specials are cheap so you forget that you are essentially drinking in a loud hallway. The place is tacky and stinks of BO, hot garbage wafting in from the alley and skunked beer spilled by an army of 19 year olds. St. James is the skid mark of 95^th street bars… and that includes George’s.

This place is kind of like a dive bar. It’s a nice place to grab a drink and hang out. They don’t serve food but you can order pizza and have it delievered there. They used to have a lot more seating but now they got those slot machines and got rid of a lot of tables. I thought that was kind of dumb. Anyways, if you’re looking for a chill place to hang out that isn’t too expensive this is a good place.

A great dive bar. Mixed Drinks, beer, and shots for $ 2. Sure the inside of this place is nothing fancy, but if you are looking for cheap drinks this is a good place to go. They have darts in the back which are also cheap. It usually has a mixed crowd of the older regulars sitting at the bar and some younger people scattered throughout. My only complaint is that they don’t serve food here.

This place is great! I’ve been going there for a long time. Staff is friendly and always accommodating. They have great prices, good pizza, good selection of draft beer, 5 slots that pay out all the time and 3 dart boards. I want to comment on the fat transvestite that wrote a blog about St. James on 1÷26÷14, Lacey F. her picture explains how she looks. I witnessed the whole fiasco that she was talking about. That’s not how it went down. She complained the whole time she was there. All she kept saying was «I’m a bartender» the place was packed, she complained she had to wait to get drinks, then when it was time to order it took her 20 minutes to get her order in of 6 bottles of beer. She kept running back to a table to find out what her friends wanted. She had the nerve to say she waited to get her drinks but then she took 20 minutes to give her order. The bartender, who was not the owner, said that she will come back to her when she had her order ready. That’s when trashy worth girl freaked out on the bartender. Then when she did give her order, it was 6 bottles of beer. This Lacey chick was too busy talking with her friends that she never realized that the bartender gave her the change back. Once again she went off on this poor bartender. The bartender did nothing wrong. She didn’t even say a word to her and walked away. Sounds like this girl Lacey just wants to start trouble and likes drama. Btw, her friend Andy, some dude in jean overalls said she’s a bitch and this is how she get attention since she can’t get it any other way. Poor soul. She says she can’t stand this place but I guarantee she’s be back. Would love to find out where she works as a bartender and to give her the same bs she gave the bartender at St. James. Also, there was no fight that night like she said. No beer thrown, no fights. Sounds like this chick never got hugged as a kid.

Do not go here! The bartender who says she is the owner has NO respect for the people who help her make a living. In the first 3 minutes I was in this bar she called me a bitch and told me if I didn’t like her attitude to leave. Let me explain.
I ordered two lites, turned to talk to my friends, turned back around gave her my ID that she asked for and my money, turned back around to talk looked back to grab one of the beers for a friend and they were gone. I asked the bartender where my beer was and my change. She told me I should stop talking and pay attention. I then in a calm manner told her that she didn’t have to be such a bitch. I was «nonchalantly» calling her out on her nasty attitude. She proceeded by calling me the bitch when I did absolutely nothing wrong, and said if I didn’t like her attitude «to get the fuck out»!!! I was shocked and appalled!
I would have left but I had a group of 7 and not everyone wanted to drive. Later that night there was a fight, and I guess this crazy woman started yelling at someone to get out and they poured a beer on her. Too bad they didn’t throw it in her face! Now that would have been enjoyable!

This is a great dive. It doesn’t (usually) stink. The drinks are cheap and they are generous with the dart tips. (Cricket! It reminds me of college!)
However, the jukebox really, really sucks. Really sucks. I think there was only one visit that I can remember with tolerable music – the night the jukebox was broken and they had to play the radio.
Come to think of it, their beer selection sucks, too. I think I only like St. James to play darts. *Epiphany*

An awesome hole in the wall. Great cheap drink prices, but a long with that brings the scummiest people. Bad to go to before 8 unless you like sitting with old rude drunk men who one care about baseball. And get annoyed if anyone plays music. But at night it’s the younger crowd, which is more lively. Bartenders are nice, the short blonde is my favorite because she’s nice. I would give more stars but they need more than darts and slots.

If you’re like me, you pay close attention to the small details. I went on a Friday night because my friend suggested that St James was a nice hip place to go. I was expecting a atmosphere with young people but it was mostly full of an older crowd.
The beer is cheap and the mixed drinks are cheap too. There is pretty open space so you can walk around and explore the place. You can play darts with your friends and play a song on the jukebox. However, a lot of the people’s music selection is screamo/​hardcore/​slaughterhouse loud music, horrible horrible music. If I played a song of my taste, everyone would probably go home.
I don’t see myself going here again but people seem to enjoy it so that’s what counts.

Friendly staff. Laid back atmosphere.

Boyfriend and I went here on a Saturday afternoon. After a group of 6 older gentlemen left, it was us 2 and about 6 others. We sat in the middle of the bar, ordered our first beer, paid, and tipped a dollar. Right off the bat, the red headed bartender seemed to have a bad attitude and wasn’t friendly at all. I finished my beer and at that time the bartender had gone outside to presumably smoke. After 15 minutes, she came back and both of our beers were empty. She passed us right up and proceeded to serve the other side of the bar then talk to them for 10 minutes. She made her way back towards us but still did not acknowledge us or our empty glasses. After 5 more minutes of being ignored, we left. Very disappointed because we’ve had great experiences here with other bartenders.

2.00 drinks. Everything. All the time.
On one hand you have grimey bathrooms, crowded and bro-​tacular on the weekends, and fuck it, I can’t figure out what else to say that’s bad about this place. BUT on the other hand you have two dollar drinks.
2 dollar.
Drinks.
They have a decent beer selection, too. Bass, Guinness, Blue Moon (2 $ Black and blue, baybay.) Their bartenders have a strong pour, which is always a plus.
It’s just da best.

Cool place! I was surprised at how young the crowd was, but mellow.
The bartendars were very friendly. Extremely, cheap priced booze — you can’t beat $ 2 drinks!!! It is a very low-​key, casual place, but definitely not a dive bar. They have tables and a decent size bar.

I walked in expecting a dive. I was surprised how nice this small bar was inside. It is not a dump like some other small store front bars in OIak lawn. The barteder was very attentive and the drinks reasonable. I walked over to check out the goal post after this visit