This place is a townie bar, hole in the wall. Â That being said, I love it. Â It is no frills, just laid back fun. Â The drinks are a decent price and their long standing pizza special (2 pitches, one pizza for $17) is great. Â
The pizza is a little greasy but fantatsic. Â It is a chill bar with pretty good pizza. Â I would definitely go if you were with a group of friends. Â During the day it is pretty slow in there, so you can have your choice of seat. Â
They have a karaoke night and pool tables for entertainment. Â I would NOT, I repeat, would not use the bathroom in there. Â As a lady, my advice is just wait until the next bar.
Dont wash ur hands here. The soap bottles were filled with some drunk guys pee. Remained that way for over 2 hours and the bar closed... Not one employee changed the soap so countless people washed thier hands with some guys urine... I had informed 4 bartenders through out the night. Abd no one got rid of the pee soap......... Dear fda...
Review Source:Great little dive bar, don't expect the bathrooms to be gleaming or the paint not to be chipped. Â It's been like that for years and remains it's character.
The pizza is great! Â I agree with the others that you need to order the 2 pitchets of beer and a large pizza, but as of 6/9/12 it was $18 not $16. Â Still, well worth the price. Â Pull up a plastic lawn chair, throw on the game and just relax with others in a non-judging atmostphere.
I love the beer and pizza special. Two pitchers of beer and an XL one topping pizza for $16? Sign me up! The only downside is that every time I've been there you have to wait ~20 minutes for the pizza. However, when you have the Blackhawks game up on one of their many big screen t.v.'s and a couple of pitchers of beer sitting in front of you and good friends around you the wait isn't so bad. Just make sure you don't go there starving.
Review Source:WOW these drinks are CHEAP!
The bar is a dive that's for sure. But you cannot beat the prices in this "get drunk," atmosphere. There's a few pool tables and you can play darts, but the place it usually too packed to actually get a table. They have an amazing deal, it's $17 for a pizza and 2 pitchers of any domestic beer. The pizza isn't the best in the world, but - again - you cannot beat the price. They do NOT card at the door. This means all ages can come in and out of the bar all times of the night, but be prepared to be carded at the bar.
The downside of this bar is some of the people that occupy it. I received dirty looks walking into the bar on several occasions because they don't consider me a "regular." I love that very few under graduate college students go to this bar. It's mostly townies and graduate students. However, some of these people are "protective," or "possessive," of their bar. It constricts on how comfortable I am when I first get there. Of course, after a few drinks this awkwardness tends to disappear.
Some of the best pizza ever. I have gone to this bar a lot and I like it a lot. It is a townie bar but who care. They don't play loud crappy pop music and it a good place to watch hockey and other sports. The 2 pitchers of beer and pizza deal is amazing. The pizza is a thin crust and it really good and tasty and extra greasy. I have not tried anything else but the breadsticks which are pretty good aw well. it a great place to hang out. Yes it is kinda dirty and has a dated look, also its a cell phone blackhole
Review Source:So last night I was in Dekalb (don't ask, it happens). Â Since it was dinner time, we were hungry. Â I figured a college town should have good cheap pizza. Â We were close to this place, and it had good reviews, so we stopped in.
1st this place is big. Â It is a bar, and a cheap one. Â So obviously I wasn't expecting much. Â The tables were a good size (very useful for sharing food, and setting pitchers on).
We ordered fries, onion rings, and a large cheese pizza. Â Its was $22.50. Â (And it would have only been a few dollars more to add a pitcher of beer, but since only 1 of the 3 of us drinks beer that didn't seem so useful to us). Â I also got a rum and coke which was big and strong and $3.
The pizza was good, and it was big. Â The fries were decent, the onion rings so so, and neither was very large. Â The pizza was a way better deal.
The bartender and cooks (who brought out the food) were really nice and friendly.
All in all this was a good choice.
(The only sketchy thing was the bathroom. Â That was one of the scariest places I've been in a while. Â Not that it was any grosser than any other bar bathroom, but it was seriously creepy to be in there. Â There's one bright light over the center stall, and the rest of the bathroom is dark with the light spreading out in weird ways. Â This doesn't sound scary, but it was creepy to be in there alone.)
LOVE THIS PIZZA. Â Once I discovered that they offer a large pizza and 2 pitchers of beer for $16 I WAS HOOKED. Â It is definatly a weekely stop for my friends and I. Â The inside is dark and smells like everyone USE to smoke inside. Â There are a good number of pool tables and places to sit. Â
As other yelpers have stated they make good drinks at great prices.
If your in the mood for greesy pizza and beer while in Dekalb, you definitley need stop at Lord Stanley's!!
The star is only for the pizza! Â This place is a dive and the staff could not be more unprofessional. Â Example: they thought someone had stolen the remote to their jukebox. Â So they repeatedly searched my friends (hint: if they didn't have it the first two times you looked through their pockets, would they have it the third time?) and then stood around staring at us like baffled idiots. Â Order your pizza to go to avoid the horrible service and the extremely dirty bathrooms. Â I'll never go back again.
Review Source:It's a dive, but a very good one. Red Hook IPA in cheap, delicious pitchers and Bell's Two Hearted in bottles. You could certainly do worse, especially in Dekalb, IL. The music can be downright awesome, especially Thursdays when Nate is behind the bar (older punk, indie stuff). Surprisingly good pizza as well, though I would recommend that for take out, ya' know, because it's a dive.
Review Source:You'll need to know where this bar is if you're going to a show at the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb. As I found out last weekend, it's a DRY theatre. Get there early, saddle up, order a pizza (no wings- yuck!) and get your drink on before hitting a show. You'll have time enough to sober up before the hour long drive back to the city.
Review Source:This city girl went on a little getaway this weekend to the lovely town of Dekalb, Illinois. Dekalb is a little farming community, but also is home to Northern Illinois University, which means lots of fast food restaurants & bars. Hurray! I think I ate & drank my way through Dekalb & my tum-tum is not thanking me now, but I pleasantly stumbled upon some great pizza, beer, and tunes(yes in Dekalb..blasphemy!).
Ryan told me about this awesome pizza & I have to say I was quite skeptical. He knows of my pizza addiction, however, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt & boy am I glad I did. We had a HUGE sausage pizza that had braided crust dusted with some sort of corn meal & perfect sauce-tomatoey, salty, and just a bit sweet. Â Perfection!
Stanley's itself is a hometown bar filled with a good mixture of townies, students, and randoms. There are 2 different rooms, which I think minimizes townie & college interaction. The interior is a bit dirty & has lots of decorative wood, which made meIt's cash only, so beware! Beers are cheaper there than here, obviously, and the serve it in cans. Love it!
Mir was playing on Saturday night & you better believe I got my groove on. Everyone was on their feet after a few beers  moving and shaking & I couldn't help but be sucked into the appeal of a small town. Somebody pinch me. Please!
This is definitely a great place to come if your short on cash. Â Not many bars give you as much for so little. Â I come here all too often for the beer and pizza deal.... Â For those who dont know, you get a 16" pizza with 2 pitchers for $15 bucks. Â You can always expect the food to be solid, and the drinks cheap. Â Dont expect any frills, though. Â The beer coming out of the tap can taste a bit funky and the bathrooms are worse than using a porta-potty.
Not sure why, but despite the dinginess this place has a certain comfort factor that other bars dont. Â Most of the patrons and bar staff here are pretty laid back. Â You dont feel rushed and can come as you are.
I was looking at the earlier reviews and noticed about half of the reviews used "townie" to describe the patrons.... Â I realize that the reviewers on this site are almost exclusively NIU students, so its written from the perspective of student vs townie. Â However, I think its kind of crazie that any student would alert others that an off-campus bar in downtown Dekalb has actual Dekalb townies in it! OMG!!!! Â
As an NIU grad and local dekalb resident I gotta say this- Get a grip people. Â Come there with an open mind and have good time.
After living in dekalb for a couple years, I finally checked out Stanley's for the first time. Â All I can say is the drinks were nice and STRONG...I'm a big girl, and I got pretty tipsy after just 2 drinks. Â Now that sorta says a lot! And the pizza...I think it's World Famous Pizza, but anyways, was probably the best thin crust in dekalb!! I like how there's plenty of seating, so you're not standing there the whole freakin time like some bars. Â Definitely a nice mix of people too! Definitely worth a try...atleast get some pizza!
Review Source:Top notch. Â Now that I'm no longer a student I can't enjoy it as often, but I revel in the chance.
Thursday night 14" pizza and 2 pitchers for $16. Â Great "meal" for 3 people. Â We usually get pepperoni and jalapeno with pitchers of killians. Â Total cost is $3.50 more, but nobody has topped the pizza yet.
Be careful though, fresh is fresh! Â Let the pie cool down a bit before you dig in :).
I only come here on Homecoming weekend now, and it's to see the hilarious Footstompers. Â They're a polka band that specializes in dirty songs. Â Seems like Stanley's has gotten a little less "townie" over the years, but it's still as dirty and smoky as ever. Â They've also gotten a little less generous with their drink pours, which means they now pour the same amount as every other bar, as opposed to serving Black Russians in a Big Gulp size cup.
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