Curve Inn Incorporated

Terrible experience! The Curve does not seem to have high expectations of their staff. Bad vibes. Rude kitchen staff. Disgusting bathrooms. Overall grimy feel. Not a pleasant place what so ever. Save your money, go to Boones.

This bar is full of specials and fun nights. Bando is a blast on Wednesdays. The bar has a small town feel and a wonderful beer garden that holds very talented small bands on weekends!

The prices are reasonable. They have a very nice atmosphere & vibe. The people are very friendly & Ooh yea the food is excellent to…

Stumbled into The Curve Inn. What a great place. Friendly people, excellent food, (sandwiches), and very friendly service. A staff member named Dana was just super, providing us with the menus, drinks and great suggestions as to what to eat. Coming from a city with a population of 2 million plus, it was a real pleasure to see «down home friendly» service and food. You can bet that you will see us again, a great place, and rteal friendly people. 5 Stars to the Staff…

A good, lively place to hang out. Cheap drinks, regular live music, a good beer garden, this place pretty much has it all. Springfield has a lot of dive-​y bars, but The Curve seems to incorporate the best elements of them all.

So fun! Fiances brother took us here. He had a burger and fries for $ 1.50 and drinks were cheap and good. Live music excellent. Thank you Carl and Tracy!

Great place for getting wasted at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday night.

Stopped in for their Monday $ 8 rib lunch special. Came with chips and cole slaw.
The ½ rack of ribs was good size and plenty for lunch. They had a flavorful rub which was not hot. The bark was perfect. Too often smoked ribs have a dry tough bark. This bark was done right. The meat was so tender it fell off the bone but still had good texture. Mine had a bit of fat which could have used a bit longer over the flame. Wife’s had no fat and was perfect. The waitress said the ribs were «awesome». She was right. Not the best ribs we’ve ever eaten but pretty darn good.
The slaw is sort of Italian vinegar style. It was fresh and ok if you like that kind but we prefer creamy style slaw.
The chips were the standard out of the bag every day chips.
For $ 8 it was a very good lunch special.
The Curve Inn is and always has been a dive bar. It’s not «Cheers» and not a family bar/​restaurant. It’s a dive and the owners advertise it as such. And that’s OK. It’s a place for OK food and lots of drinks.

Classic Springfield dive-​bar.
Inside is typical but outdoor area is kind of a strange layout. Live music and cold beer are a good mix. Apparently they have a 3am liquor license and it’s pretty lively after 11pm. Great place to people-​watch!
I didn’t eat there but given the condition of the bathroom my guess is the kitchen is a nightmare.
Drinks-​yes.
Live music — yes
Food — probably not

Awesome dive bar!
We stopped here for a drink in Saturday afternoon because the weather was perfect and the bf didn’t know of many other places with an outdoor patio that weren’t super-​cheesy. He had tried to bring me here for lunch on a past trip, but the picture of the giant steer on the illuminated 1970s-​era sign sort of deterred me. On this trip, we ventured into the dark bar and ordered two imported draft beers at the bar (CASH ONLY) for about $ 7 and went outside.
The outdoor patio had a very strange layout — an upper level with what looked like a (defunct?) bar on one end and a port-​o-​let off the side of the other. The upper level was long and narrow with only a handful of tables. On the lower level, there seemed to be a lot more room and many more places to sit. It was sort of rocking for a Saturday afternoon. People were having a good time playing corn hole and drinking buckets of beers. The staff was setting up for a band in some sort of amorphous stage area on the bottom level. We noticed that there were heaters installed into the brick wall along the back side of the patio, indicating that the party doesn’t stop when the weather gets cold.
Looking around, I was sort of glad I didn’t live in Springfield– not because I didn’t like the place, but because I became so comfortable with the easy going summery scene that I could see myself spending a lot of time at the Curve Inn, despite the fact that the music vacillated between horribly loud classic rock and awesomely obscure Indie tunes. Sometimes you just have to take the bad with the good.