Club Belmont

This place used to be an awesome place to go. Always packed with 20-40 year olds, great music and great drink prices.

A bunch of us used to go there every weekend. Not anymore. Now there are nothing but middle-aged and older biker men. It's definitely unwelcoming.

I love Big John (the owner). He is an awesome guy to know. But this bar is not what it used to be. Has to change it up a little and the men there have to be a little more respectful to women. Majority are all pigs.

Never felt so unwelcomed. I walked in thinking they served polish beer . I was told they dont serve imports. What idiots, polish beer  is impoerted beer : ) I actually went there because a polish guy from another bar said there was a cool polish bar with a wide selection of polish beer on belmont east of pacific ave. So I walked in and asked if the bartender if they had polish beer , so a guy holding a kid on the other side of the bar walked up to me and looked at me up and down and said this is not a polish bar, we cater to cops and fire fighters. Every one in this bar was caucasian, See I am latino and the way he said it and the tonehe said it made me feel discriminated. News flash, you are in Chicago a multicultural city in the middle of a polish neighborhood motherfucker.

Not bad - not bad at all.

New to the area and wandered in on St. Patrick's Day night, hoping to find the hockey game on TV and perhaps a drink or two in a place that wasn't wall-to-wall drunken idiots.  It wasn't too crowded and certainly had the "biker" vibe going, but without an overtone of menace.  

Had to holler for attention at the bar but then found a quiet corner to watch the game close to the path to the restrooms.  Other than a few "what's the score?" inquiries I was left alone until the game ended.  I moved to the bar around 10 pm and was bought a round by Big John as a "welcome to the neighborhood" drink.  The few folks I talked to were friendly, the drunks were reasonable, the bathroom was quite clean, and I felt comfortable the whole time.  

Note:  I'm a chubby middle-aged woman who came straight from work dressed in pink button- down shirt, chinos and loafers.  I had zero issues, and will be going back.