What a great dive bar! Â Is it the Four Seasons? No but I wasn't look n for that. Â But it is FUN. Â Great staff wonderful tude friendly vibe. I felt welcome right away, they helped my little group find some seats. Â The cliental was there to dance get drunk and have fun and that is just what they were doing. A wonderful diverse group of people from all walks of life. Â I cant wait to go back and try the pizza it looks yummy. Â Thanks for a great time!
Review Source:This place is a really great dive bar. Â It's spacious, has a pool table, serves delicious pizza and has live music. Â The owners and employees were all awesome and added another layer to the laid back atmosphere. Â The only real downside is there were only 4 beers on tap, and I wish there were more and certainly more of a variety within the four.
Review Source:Came here for a concert (Truckstop Darlin').
The concert was pretty awesome.
The bar is kind of, eh. Â They have no taps and very little beer wise (Fat tire, newcastle, and Guinness if you don't want domestic macrobrew). Â It is a dive, no doubt. Â Like a real dive, not a new bar where they've antiqued everything.
That said, the patrons seemed fairly friendly and were having a good time. Â They seemed to all know each other. Â Might be a better place if you come here often.
Yes, the people looked mostly like hipsters, but the band was from PDX, so what did I expect?
While I enjoy dive bars and this place, on occasion, hosts interesting bands, it just sucks. Â Old alcoholics line up around the bar and wreak of sadness and despair. Â The ambience does just as well. Â The tragedy here is that it would take very little effort to fix the place, but the owner clearly could care less and phones it in (from out of state, from what I hear)...
Review Source:There isn't really anything I can say that hasn't already been said.
Yes, this place is janky. Â Smells of stale cigarettes, the booths and tables are always sticky, and the restrooms aren't very inviting. Â Who cares? Â
On a good night some of the better local bands are playing or a DJ is playing some of the best tunes you could possibly hear at any bar in Ventura. Â On a bad night, it's full of weirdos. Â On a glorious night, it's full of weirdos acting out.
The staff is friendly, the drinks are strong, and overall it is the least offensive bar in Ventura/
This place is amazing except for the weird vibe from the bartender. He could've been sweeter but the drinks were delicious and in awesome icy glasses. The jukebox also could do no wrong. If you like a place that smells a little like stale cigarettes and daily patrons are at the bar, do your drankin  here.
Review Source:what up with all the dissing. ya its a dive. and stale. I came across billy o's by accident one night. I saw beautiful girl inside singing, so I went in. damn there were some real lovely women in there. I had a few drinks and left. went back there the next day only to the place packed with alot hot ladies. tell you what there are some off the wall people in there. but everybody is friendly. I will go back as soon as make my way to six flags.
Review Source:Definitely a dive. The kind of place that David Allen Coe sings about in his  songs that include bikers, hippies, and outlaws. That being said, I like to hang out here from time to time. Ventura is the kind of town that needs a couple joints like this.
Drinks: Cheap, strong, in plastic cups
Beer: Reasonable, I used to go for the 24oz. bottles of Fat Tire.
Food: Greasy Spoon, only eat after getting wasted.
Atmosphere: Think 70's movies; dudes flying through juke boxes (Just kidding) Its not so bad, it can get rough, but so can the lounge at the Holiday Inn, I saw that happen in Albany, GA.
This has to rank at the top of the dive bar scene in Ventura. Â If you are into cheap drinks and even cheaper ladies, then this is the place to go. Â You'll also dig the 80 year young gal running the karaoke on Fridays and the various cougars who are eyeing the younger guys that sit at the back and who are undoubtedly there only for the pabst blue ribbon.
This is place to go for funny stories to tell 5 years later, though its so damn recent that I still get shivers thinking about it!
I've mountain biked through 30 miles of mud.
I've played soccer in the driving rain.
I've been on a cross country run through the Irish countryside in the middle of a winter storm.
I've had a toilet explode on me when I was trying to unclog it.
I've been up to my knees in sewage while volunteering on cleanup.
But for all that - and more besides - I have never felt the urge to shower as much as I did when leaving Billy O's.
But a bonus star for a good buddy of mine drunkenly sucking face with a woman old enough to be his mother. (And getting photographic evidence to prove it!)
You'll laugh.
You'll cry.
And you'll definitely want to wash the shame of it all off the next morning.
Strong drinks. Â Colorful crowd, especially if you sit at the bar. Â Not a place I like to see live music, but some the DJs can make it worth your while. Â I have seen several people munching on popcorn and snacks from the kitchen, but have never been brave enough to indulge myself. Â Â
In a nutshell, when the O's is good, it's great. Â But when it is bad, it's oh so very, very bad. Â
p.s. Â I miss having the ladies room all pink. Â The whiteness of it now gives me a headache.
Oh Billy O's. Â You are the best dive bar in town. Â Debauchery and inebriation go hand and hand with you. Â I heart your $1 dollar mystery shots aka 'liquid courage' for when I get up in front of suburban hipsters and karaoke my dignity away. I heart your dirty popcorn machine that probably pop's diseases straight into the buttered corn. Â I heart the local bands and DJ's that provide excellent shows. Â I do NOT heart the fact that you set your clock ahead half an hour and do last call at 1am (Billy O's time). Â Hearts to you, Billy O's.
Review Source:If you want a night full of randomness, this is the place to be. I came here to see my date's band play. I was stuck sitting at the bar alone when he played and ended up sitting next to a UFC fighter whose head had probably been kicked at way too many times.
I also sat next to a woman who I was sure had developmental disabilities. She threw back 4 or so beers before walking home. It was kind of depressing and weird and just seemed kinda wrong.
If you go, give my respects to Luna and his cousin. They sit at the north corner most Saturday nights. He kept asking my date to "play a slow song for Luna" so we could dance. Luckily my date did not comply.
It was a unique crowd. I don't know if I'll be back to Billy O's since I'm no longer seeing the band guy and that was the only reason I went there in the first place. Actually, I can tell you for certain, I will not be back. But the memories will live on in my heart forever thanks to Luna.
I think all dive bars want to grow up to be like Billy O's.
How divey is it, you ask? It's so divey, they have a popcorn machine that looks so sketchy, I don't even think about getting popcorn from it (and I love, love LOVE popcorn). The booths have springs all busted and the upholstery's ripped and the stuffing coming out, and the pool table has seen better days. They've got a little spot where they have a projector and they show UFC fights, and at some night during the week they have karaoke, apparently.
But you don't go for a dive bar for ambience. You can get plenty good drunk here, and even better, they've got a decent selection behind the bar.
File under: failing dive bar gets new lease on life when adopted by suburbanite hipsters desperate for irony and cheap drinks.
Subjects: smoking (allowed, indoor), tattoos (stars, bluebirds), karaoke, 80's night (avoid), largest group of drunk hipsters etc between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, melon liqueur special (avoid), free popcorn (avoid).
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