The Crease Restaurant & Bar

Somebody put this place out of its misery already. It's a dirty dive full of kids...often underage with fake IDs. It's dead most nights of the week so if you're looking for a quiet place to drink, this is where you'll want to be. Wednesday nights are a hot mess. The bartenders actually seem decent, but they can't make much money from the college girls who come in to drink all they can for $5 bucks. I don't recommend this bar at all. There are plenty of better options surrounding it.

I'm writing this review after 3+ years of utter disgust with this place. If I could give this a half star or no stars at all, that would be ideal.

Just out of college, my boyfriend and I went here to check it out based on suggestions from coworkers. When we walked in, everyone just turned and stared. It was weird, but whatever -- it was a long bar with a few people at the far end.

Anyway, we go up to the bartender, ordered a couple of drinks, and handed him our IDs -- which were from NC and MS. He looked them over, then said he needed to scan them. That's fine, we do look really young, but they are legit cards with holograms. So he goes to "scan" them and comes back saying that they won't work and that they are fake. We tell him that they aren't and we have multiple forms of proving that those are us -- however, we don't have like our passports or anything. We have credit cards, work IDs, etc.

He gets all testy with us and says we have to get out because we are liars. Makes a scene and kicks us out.

I know that a lot of Towson college students make fake IDs and that that's been a problem, but he was really disrespectful and wouldn't check for other forms of identification. We went next door to Lil' Dicky's where they also checked our IDs, and they said that the Crease was no good.

Ever since, I've been telling people not to go there because they staff horrible people and are just plain rude, and now, after reading the post below from Zach S. ("I asked the bartender why they have so much racist stuff all over the bar. He said, "Because it's funny."), I stand by my decision to hate on this place.

What's with all the racist Jim Crow memorabilia all over the bar? Cartoon pictures of black people with giant lips eating watermelon and stuff. This is Baltimore, we have a fairly large African American population. Its weird to see so much racist stuff proudly displayed. How have the other Yelp reviews for the Crease not mentioned this?

I asked the bartender why they have so much racist stuff all over the bar. He said, "Because it's funny."

On an unrelated note, my sister in law had her purse stolen at the Crease once.