Chicago Rock cafe

No longer situated in Tamworth.

The appeal of the Chicago Rock Café cannot be denied, especially on Wednesday, which is Student Night. Even for non-​students, it’s £10 All You Can Drink. And if you can’t have fun blindingly drunk, can you really ever have fun? Instant personality in a bottle!
Student Nights work like so: patrons get a drinks card. They can have a drink every fifteen minutes, and there are spaces on the card for the quarterly sections of time. After every fourth drink, you have to have a non-​alcoholic drink, and then the fun begins again!
The Chicago Rock Café is utterly and completely, in all ways, a big pile of unapologetic cheese. From the 80s themed nights to the typical Saturday night musical fare being «dance anthems» that your mother is embarassed to listen to from 10 years ago, what’s not to love?
The bartenders do a very good job of not being stressed out or rude, despite a constant crush of people at the bar. The bouncers aren’t too creepy either.
Now the clientele is a different matter. Ages range from «proudly displaying my first chin pube» to «desperately seeking for pool boy after my husband left me for his Romanian secretary». It’s definitely a meeting of the Mrs Robinson’s and the meat counter boys.
But it’s all good fun, the crowds are friendly and the drinks are cheap. Sometimes, the crowds are a little TOO friendly; every time I’ve gone, it’s been a bit of a «hands on» walk through the crush to get to the loo. But everything’s harmless and good, messy fun.

Chicago Rock is ideally located in Tamworth in the town centre.
The building that houses Chicago Rock used to be the old Electric Showrooms and is quite a big venue in comparison to all other pubs in the town. It has the benefit of joining the two halves of the towns nightlife together and this is one of the reasons it is quite popular.
Chicago comes with great meal deal offers and decent food which attracts many lunchtime customers.
Then at nightime it turns into a lively atmosphere but not a rowdy one.
They tend to run frequent promotions with special offers on various drinks and they have fancy dress evenings and New Year Party etc.
Chicago Rock with it’s friendly staff is well worth a visit whether it be in the daytime or night.

Great place with great food and helpful staff

Locals quite often refer to this place with the ‘R’ replaced with a ‘C’ and it most certainly has a reputation for both cheesy music and debauched shennanigans. The place is good for three things alone; 1/​getting drunk and leary and pulling other such inebriated singleton folk 2/​watching aforementioned singletons with beer goggles getting in on in embarrassing fashion to amuse oneself, 3/​thrashing round the dancefloor with abandon to eighties power ballads not caring who sees you as its such a sad place to be anyway!
Accounting for the fact that all of the above require fueling with ridiculous amounts of alcohol its a good job the drinks are cheap — with loads of special offers and freebies for the ladies at times. Its mainly bottles and shots.
For saying this place is so seedy at times its always jam packed and is especially amusing when there is a hen-​party in full flow. I think its a case of its so bad that its good. All this said I have had a few really funny nights here — but you really have to be extremely drunk and in a pretty full-​on mood (if you have been a student think freshers week and then some).
They do actually (weirdly) serve pretty decent food in here in the day time and up to about 8pm, and the service is good. Its mainly burgers, chips and pub food but its always quick and well made.
Worth a visit once in a while just for the amusement value to spot quite who is embarrassing themselves — just be warned if you are female you will get your bum pinched — its not very pc in here!