The Engine Room Alehouse

If I am here, it's to meet friends, and they chose this place. It would be better if they ran fans so the second hand smoke wasn't soo bad/stationary. Drink prices are reasonably cheap. There is only 1 bathroom stall. Music, via jukebox, is all over the board. You can go from Bone Thugs and Harmony song to Lady Antebelleum song, then into a heavy metal song. Not my first choice for a night out, but I go for certain people who live out that way.

its an ok bar in a strip mall....a little over priced for NW Indiana though.....bartenders seem more into talking to each other than serving you....
a lot of different import and micro-brew bottles...but i just care about a new drink when mine is empty, i dont want to have to yell to get served......
no food, BUT there is a Zuni's Pizza place at the other end of the parking lot and you can get them to deliver your pie to the bar, which is a cool deal....and Zuni's makes a really good pizza ( Zuni's review comming up soon )
the actuall bar is kinda cool.... all sorts of tools, i guess the engine part of the name, laquered into the bar top.....
lots of tables around..... and a view of RT.30 right out the window... how can you beat that?  
oh and if your lucky as we were one night, you can see Mr. John Jurkovich of ESPN Radio, TF North, EIU and NFL fame holding court at one of the tables.....he actually played *My Name is Sue* by Johnny Cash on the juke box one night ....lol
its an ok place...not a destination.... but if your in the area, worth a look... and again, its Indiana, so NO happy hour and smoking IS allowed