Vogan’s Alley Bar & Grill

Had burgers and fish sandwich with fried mushrooms and onion rings. Tasted like bar food, not bad & not great. We didn’t have any bar drinks so can’t say much about the bar. It is in historic Tombstone on the main road across from the Crystal Palace. The location is great and there was a lot to see.
Parking is a little crazy. The main road is always blocked off from traffic and there is very little close parking. Most people like to walk through Tombstone anyways so it’s not a problem unless the weather is bad. We probably won’t go back because there are too many other places to eat in Tombstone.

(Before I take you on a tour in hell, I have to say this event took place about 3 months ago. Just now got around to posting my review because this has scarred my brain permanently. Maybe talking about it will help.)
If you like bad acid trips or Quentin Tarantino movies, this is the place for you!
I don’t even know where to start… ???
We were fair warned when having a drink at Big Nose Kate’s up the road from Vogans but thought the people were joking about getting food poisoning if we were to eat there.
We went anyways because «it couldn’t be that bad“and all the bars in Tombstone stopped selling food at a certain time of night except Vogans, the only bar that served til closing.
As we approached the bar we noticed in the grease splattered window was a nasty flat grill with an old slice of dried up, I think? american cheese hanging off the ledge of the grill. It being odd that a food establishment could get away with having a nasty grill pushed up next to a window made me have to second guess myself in thinking maybe it was purposely on display as some sick artwork??? Lol. This alone should have been a warning sign but NOOO!!! Made me want to further investigate. ;)
We walk in and the place smelled of old grease and beer as if they used it to mop the floors with. The atmosphere was dark, dingey and sticky. The bartender/​cook chick was a creepy, greasy black haired, pippy longstocking braids, bad teeth with black rimmed coke bottle like glasses. She had this weird red dress with with polka dots to add to her beauty. Eww! Btw, she spent most of the time outside smoking a cigarette and talking on the phone.
So we sat at the bar, managed to catch the bartender for a beer and dared to even contemplate the thought of ordering food. I looked over at the flat grill (which was behind the bar in plain view … Odd?) by the window and saw old dried up food all over the floor and noticed old grease drippings embedded to the wall next to it and down the sides. Behind us was a table with a big plastic tub full of condiments in for your hell burger. I had to take a closer look and all the lettuce, tomatoes, pickles were wilted and old and there was no ice keeping them cold, just old water with onions and relish floating around. The mustard and ketchup bottles look like they had been handled by a bunch of dirty greasy transients which probably was an accurate assumption being the clientele of the place.
At this point, I needed to use the bathroom but decided I’d rather find an alley to pee in then to find the bathroom door as the gateway to hell. We wanted to come out alive so that was not an option. Needless to say, we peed in the alley and went to bed hungry. Nuff said ;)
Like Megan says in the movie Bridesmaids…“Look Away!!! LOOK AWAY!!» LOL!!!

I was told by several people that Vogan’s has the best cheeseburgers in town so I wanted to try one. I walked in and noticed two major issues immediately. There was a dog sitting at the bar and it was hot as Hades in there. I left and went over to the Crystal Palace but was ignored there so I returned to Vogan’s, determined to try one of those infamous cheeseburgers. I’m glad that I did. The burger was really good, the bartender/​cook was a very pleasant lady and the locals were fun to talk to as I sat and drank a couple of cold beers.
My suggestion to them would be, keep the dogs out of there, get the A/​C fixed and they’ll have tourists tripping over themselves to get in. The place definitely has the history to attract them and their service is awesome.

Hey its an original! Not alot has changed here. It’s actually never changed. Spitting image of how it’s been 20 years ago. Pool table sucks. It’s always wet because there’s a hole in the roof above it. Lol Decent jukebox. Depending who’s working, decent food. Hey. One of the places to get a fairly priced beer! Always been a local bar. Small menu, chicken sandwiches are good. Grab a beer and a bite! Hole in the wall type bar.

Seeing these reviews is puzzling to me. When i lived in Tucson and my parents lived in Tombstone i was a regular visitor to Tombstone. Vogans Alley was always my favorite place to go. Yes the place is old and divey and the grill and fryers are right there for everyone to see by the front window. But they have always had good food from the fried chicken to very good burgers. Not to mention it is the only bar in town that does not close at 9 pm on the off season. If you want to have a cold beer while playing pool and listening to the juke box .THIS IS THE PLACE.

This place was okay. It is your typical, hole in the wall, dive bar. They offer a very limited menu. I ate a hot dog… it was a hot dog. The woman working the bar/​taking orders was a little rough around the edges too. Not the friendliest person we dealt with.

Went in to just get a beer. This place is very scary. Two people besides us in this hole. Bartender never got off phone to ask us what we wanted. After her staring at us and us staring at her for 10 minutes we left.

I figured this was a quick easy place for me and my girlfriend to grab a couple of burgers and get back to being tourists. What a nightmare.
Cash only, and I’m fine with that. We only stopped in here because we were going to save a few bucks on food and be on our way. Sometimes it is not worth saving the money, as was the case with this place.
We ordered two burger and fries to go. Took well over 30 minutes. Tried to find a clean table to sit at and mission unsuccessful. Went to sit at the bar with the same results. During our wait, we got to savor the smell of this place that resembled a combination of smoke and sewer. Sure, I can understand keeping it «Tombstone O.G. original» without cleaning anything but this place flat out sucks. I could have bred a cow, raised it, slaughtered it, and cooked it faster than I got my food from here.
I went to take a piss on the exceptionally long wait for my food and didn’t bother washing my hands because I figured it would do more harm than good. There isn’t enough room give in a review to describe the facilities in this hell hole. Oh god, I saw a kid go in there to use the john, you know because I had all the time in the world to kill as I was waiting for my food. I actually said a prayer for him.
Once I got my food, the condiments are all on a table off to side in a ice tray, or what should be an ice tray. It was just a pit of water with plastic trays of condiments. I put some lettuce on my burger and find hair on it. A guy walks over that is staggering drunk, grabs a handful of pickles out of the tray and crams them in his mouth. The tomato tray has an empty beer bottle in it.
Don’t eat here, it sucks. This place made me choke more than Tony Romo last season.

I only gave this a 1 star, because you can’t leave it blank. I was with a friend who was starving and, being as it was HellDorado, everywhere else was packed with huge lines waiting out the doors. This was the first indication that something was not right in a Deliverance sort of way. The smell that we were assaulted by was the second HUGE warning. Old grease permeated the building. Nevertheless, our friend insisted he was starving. He ordered a burger and beer. They do not take credit cards. He went across the street to an ATM and returned. 25 minutes later, no burger. Further investigation revealed they were not even cooking. There was NO food coming out what passed for their kitchen and the grill was turned off… ostensibly for cleaning (Maybe they do that once a year?). A server then yelled to someone they were out of burgers and needed more. After much grumbling and unintelligible mumbling by staff and the owner (?) they finally slapped a refund on the counter. We could not exit this building quickly enough. DO NOT EAT HERE!

Thank God for Unilocal’s phone apps! Even if I hadn’t seen the reviews, the smell alone would have scared me off. In all fairness, we didn’t even go in, but it smelled awful, and the cook was visible from the street, looked like the truck driver from Futurama, and smelled worse!

Vogan’s is totally dive-​y. The food’s kinda cruddy, spendy for poor quality, but it’s a cool place for people watching and belting out some tunes heard on the jukebox.

Vogan’s is a really old Saloon! The décor is NOT tourist oriented — it has maintained it’s character and is a very interesting to stop and have a draught on a hot summer afternoon.
The help is very friendly and the food is not gourmet, but tasty and filling. If you’re looking to be pampered — go somewhere else. If you’re looking for some old west charm — this is the place.

This might have been the scariest place I have ever eaten!
We tried to get a table at Big Nose Kate’s but it was so packed we decided to get a quick snack somewhere else.
I am not even exaggerating, we walked to literally every restaurant on Allen Street and they were all packed except Vogan’s — shocking! We should have known better but we were starved.
We ordered some burgers and chilli dogs, and honestly they were the worst things in the world but the environment really terrified us. The only pic I took was of the tupper ware of limes I was given for my Corona. Thats right, she brought me a tubber ware container of nasty, brown, dried up limes.
We also ordered a hot chocolate and when she brought it to the table, the powder was still floating on top, she didn’t even bother stirring it.
In conclusion, stay away, just wait for a table elsewhere.