Chuggin' Charlie's

This place changed its name to Lord Louden's Pub or something like that and is now closed. There was a shooting here a few months ago.

I almost feel ashamed to admit that I've been here...more than once. This is def a bar that is outside of my comfort zone.  We have several friends that live in the Spring area and love coming here, so we are occasionally required to attend birthday night out's here.

As soon as you walk in, you are usually hit w/ the wall of cigarette smoke before the door guy gets a chance to card you. I'm not sure if they have the proper (or any) ventilation, but it could stand to use an upgrade. As the night goes on, my eyes usually start to water because the amount of smoke gets so thick it burns my eyes and you can barely see from one side of the bar to the other.  

The upside is they have excellent prices on drinks- beers are usually around $3 each for domestic and shots are also pretty cheap- not the $8 per shot like you'll pay inside the loop.  For an entire night of drinking for my husband and me- which included a couple of shots- our tab was like $40.

So, we come here when we have to- because of friends- but we'd never choose to come here otherwise. At least the silver lining is cheap drinks.

This place has fast service, a great layout, and awesome drinks.  They have live bands that play on the weekends, but it is not so loud that you can not talk and visit with your friends.

One thing that is odd for a bar, is that this place is clean!  It also has a few couches with coffee tables so friends can sit together and have fun and know that if a party foul is committed like a dropped beer, someone else will have to clean it up in the morning.

The thing that really makes this place nice, is that is it an upscale bar, with out the high drink prices and the horrible cover charge.