Down Under Pub and Grub

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  Went on a Friday night and it was empty with a $5 cover.  The place is large and has a few pool tables.  Often there is live music.  I'd wait and go on Wednesday or Saturday for $1 Natty light.
  
  Decent place for Tyler, TX?

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  Posted on 11.08.10 Charlie Y.

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  After a fabulous birthday dinner at Yamato, 8 of us decided to hit the town.  I had just moved to Tyler about a month ago, so I was unsure of the happening nightlife spots.  Well this is not one of them!  I really didn't like paying the $5 cover, I hadn't paid cover since I was under 21.  Besides my group, there was exactly 7 other people in this place at 11pm on a Friday  night.  The cover band was okay.  The place closes at midnight, I guess I just miss Lubbock where everything closes at 2am.  I do agree with Joe, the bar area reeks of a sewer.  Where the heck do you go in Tyler for a fun night out?!

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  Posted on 08.04.10 Kristi S.

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  "Negative stars."  
  
  I walked by with the 8 friends at 11pm on a Friday night a July weekend.  This place was EMPTY except for the five dudes standing around.  It looked like a scene from Night at the Roxbury.
  
  Lame-ass place, it smelled of a toilet inside. We took off, this place hasn't remodeled since it was opened 70's and is dated.

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  Posted on 07.28.10 Joe N.

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  Down Under is five-star if you want to survey the East Texas meat market  and feel most comfortable wearing boots and listening to Rascal Flatts.
  
  Down Under is a one-star if you enjoy music outside the generic Southern rock and country. It's also a one-star if you enjoy conversation, which comes in short supply with music that loud and people that drunk.
  
  Thus, Down Under is a three-star joint, depending on your point of view. Drinks are cold, food is hot, karaoke is awesomely corny, ambience is classic twenty-something Texas bar. Alas, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Australia.

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  Posted on 06.16.10 Lindsay B.

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  So, considering I expected Tyler to only have one stop light, I was overall pretty pleased to find a bar confident enough to be the size of an indoor soccer arena when I needed to hang out and unwind. When we walked in, there were more staff than patrons, which I mistakenly thought was foreshadowing.  It did fill up as the night progressed.  I guess that is to be expected on a Friday.
  
  Half the bar is devoted to pool tables and sports watching.  The other half is filled with tables and booths for eating and watching the band.  Yes, I said "the band".  It may have been a cover band, but it was live music.  Impressive to an Austinite, you know.  I did snobbishly giggle when I saw them setting up and when they began with a poppy little ditty, but I warmed up to them quickly.  Who can resist "Blister in the Sun" or "Superstition" when sung and played like the originals.  I couldn't; the very diverse-in-age crowd couldn't.  Grandpa was dancing and so was UT freshman girl...sometimes together.  You can wear jeans or you can wear your hottest "Gonna get me some" attire, and you will fit it in.  My kind of place in that regard.  No country music either!!!!!!!!  Yea!!!!!!!
  
  I took off 2 stars for the scatter-brained and inattentive wait staff, although, in case you are reading this, whomever you were, bald bartender, you rock!!   I guess someone has yet to teach you to bring napkins when food is ordered, silverware, too; ask your customer if they want another beer when taking away the empties; be nice on more than the one occasion when you are bringing the check.  We remember what you did before, and your tip will reflect it.  Oh yeah, also don't make them seek you out to get menus when they are clearly in your line of sight for 25 minutes.  The second star is for the sparse menu.  I know it's a bar, but they advertise food in their name (Down Under Pub & Grub).  We were hungry, too, but there was less on the four-page menu than at any bar I have ever been to.
  
  Okay, I can't end on a bad note.  Not a bad place to go if you are visiting Tyler for work and need to chill out for a bit and sing a long to some cool little ditties, watch some funny and happy dancers, and drink decent beer.

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  Posted on 02.09.08 Jennifer M.

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