This is one of those places that it might take a couple of visits to feel that you fit in, as most of the customers are regulars. Â However, they do make everyone feel welcome. Â As other have said the age group of the crowd is very diverse, especially on Saturday nights when ther is karaoke. Â Then it can get very crowded as well. Â The prices are reasonable and the drinks are definitely tasty. Â Ask if they have any jello shots, as they are the bomb.
Review Source:God's waiting room???!!!!!
I don't know about all that, but then again I've never been during the day. Â My few visits have been on Saturdays with a couple of friends of mine. Â They go every Saturday night for karaoke and I go occasionally with them. Â The Saturday night crowd is very diverse. Â It's a wide age range with all types of characters. Â It depends on what you like in a bar and your surroundings when you go out. Â I personally prefer to surround myself with a somewhat older crowd and people who wear clothes that fit them and speak proper English. Â I'm not the biggest fan of the Saturday crowd, but Tracy the Saturday night bartender is really nice. Â It's a small place that gets packed so be prepared.
Wow. I LOVE dive bars. Ernie's has LOTS of regulars, great bartenders, delicious popcorn & a bad ass juke box. All that's missing is somethin to nosh on. Karaoke nights are FUN (even if you're not a regular), sporting events KICK ASS, and when the old guys get their drink on.. clear a space to pass out!
Review Source:my favorite! love the lude. was introduced by my father in law. i cant stand going to bars and telling guys to back off at least once every trip out and this is def. one of the places i can just go and be comfy, hide at a table with my friends and eat popcorn. great little smoking patio in the back too. did i mention they have a lending library!!!? I always know it was a good night when i wake up with a random book I got from them. cant forget the drinks are verrrrry strong and cheap
Review Source:After years of driving by it, I finally took the 'Lude! To me a good dive bar will have most (if not all) of the following features:
- low lit cave-like interior, windows optional
- cheap prices and stiff mixed drinks
- relaxed crowd who aren't there to be seen (little or no hipsters)
- a jukebox
- shuffleboard, darts, or similar game
- popcorn, peanuts, some kind of bar snack
Luckily Ernie's Interlude met my dive criteria perfectly! I'll be back for sure :)
Oh Ernie. Why weren't you living up to your Yelp stars when I visited? Maybe it was because I dropped in on a Sunday night. Maybe it is because people were fulfilling new year's resolutions to stay on the wagon. Maybe because...I've experienced better?
Kind of intimidating from the outside, there are no windows so you don't know what you're walking into! I saw a cute cat hanging out in the parking lot and saw this as a good sign.
Walking in, there were four people in the joint. The bartender - while not unfriendly - didn't seem like he was too happy to be there, or maybe that's just how he is. Like the fact that there are video cameras showing the parking lot bordering the fence. I also liked watching the cat running around the parking lot on the monitor. That was pretty much the extent of the action.
The jukebox is one of them newfangled machines where it is touch screen, and songs cost $.50 to $1. Gimme one of those relics that plays seven songs for a buck! This one was a lot pricier. I think we got maybe seven songs for FIVE bucks! And they don't have R.E.M. on this jukebox either. But they do have Grandmaster Flash!
Two well drinks set me back $7. It will be a long time until I try this spot out again -- unless you're buying!
No no no, a thousand times no. Â Creepy, over priced, all around lame, kinda smelled funny too. Â I went in for one to see what it was like and couldn't drink my beer fast enough. Â Its a shame because this place is so close to my apartment, but I'll willingly and literally walk the extra mile to go to a good bar...
Review Source:The 'Lude is a pretty fun, pretty chill place. Not much remodeling has been done since...oh say the 60's, and that was just fine with us. Good, strong, cheap drinks. Excellent jukebox. There was even an impromptu whole-bar sing along when "Poppa Was A Rolling Stone" played.
You should go. Soak up the scenery. Meet the excellent bartendresses. Chat with the regulars. And order an real old school drink like a scotch and soda or a Tom Collins. Check out how they used to do thing pre-Red Bull.
Do you really want to hear ME sing?
If you show up here on Karaoke night, it could happen! I'm really terrible, but that's not going to keep me from inflicting my savage auditory pain on you!
This place is full of semi-hot barflies who smoke way too much, and drink even more. So if you're looking for that, here's another option for you. Not really my cup of tea. Still, if you want to get your Karaoke on, on a Wednesday night...it works.
They have regular Coors in the bottle. That's one of the last really pure party beers. You can drink a lot of Coors and not have a hangover the next day...I'm diggin' that!
I love Ernie's because it makes me feel so darn alive and young. Â Most of the places we drink at, I'm the oldster. Well, at Ernie's I'd have to be damn near 50 years older to be in the running. Â Did I say running? Well...shuffling at least.
Free popcorn...who doesn't love free salty popcorn whilst they are drinking?
Cheap stiff drinks, my fav.
Stale, dank air. My second fav.
We'll be back. Â I figure even if we're not regulars NOW, give us 45 years.
Oh the Lude..... What can I say about this place that hasn't already been said..... Well first off the crowd is defiantly older but they are some of the nicest old people around..... There are new owners so at night this place is really starting to liven up and they even have started doing Karaoke which is always fun to watch.... As for the drinks they are cheap and strong.... I love Vodka Red-bulls and when you order a double they give you a pint glass full of vodka and a red-bull on the side all for $6!!! I love it! Jeff, Diane and Diana are great bartenders, they remember your name and what you drink and they are usually pretty good at it..... All in all if you just want a good drink and a nice place to have it in, this is a great place to try.
Review Source:I drove by Ernie's every day on my way to High School and was intrigued from the get go. I must say I was a little let down when I finally made it inside, as I had been anticipating something similar to it's eerie exterior. But, that being said, it is actually rather nice inside. And has a popcorn machine. YUM! The clientele is a bit older than I, but that's how a bar like this is supposed to be anyway. Be sure to check out the creepy clown paintings on the walls. And beware, beer is a bit pricey and only in bottles.
Review Source:Ernie's Interlude is Old School Sacramento. Like Mattie sez, from the outside it looks like a crappy old neighborhood bar. Once you walk in it's actually kinda nice and classy. Lots of polished wood and brass. Very 1970's classy. Plenty of seating at the bar as well as high bar stools and tables against the wall. Ernie's also has it's own mini-library where you can read some classic books while sipping a classy adult beverage. Where for art thou Romeo? Passed out in the bathroom? Even the bartender was dressed all snazzy. He was an older gentleman with a crisp white long sleeve dress shirt. He also sported a fancy bartender's vest. It make getting liquored up at Ernie's more "official". I bet Ernie's was a good place to make a lunchtime business deal back in the day.
Review Source:David Lynch would love this place. Â From the outside it's a nondescript windowless box at the end of a strip mall. Â Ernie's used to have a snazzy 50s-looking sign with a martini glass in the logo; now it has a new, generic sign that offers no clue to what's inside. Â From the parking lot, it looks like a run-down dive bar. Â It's not. Â Inside, it's a cozy room that's pleasantly lit with tiny lights. Â The U-shaped bar is clean and the bartender is quietly professional. Â The patrons are...there's no other way to say this...old. Â A gentleman informed me that we were, in fact, hanging out in God's Waiting Room. Â My friends and I were a novelty to the ancient regulars, who had probably never encountered anyone under the age of 70 in Ernie's. Â It was a surreal experience. Â Not bad, mind you, just strange. Â One of our party played an Elvis song on the jukebox that woke the crowd up momentarily. Â I'm sure Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra are more their style. Â We had a good time, although it was odd to be the center of attention merely because of our age. Â Will we go back? Â Hmmm. Â It was a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to spend my last days there.
Review Source:Been driving by this place since I moved to Sac. Intrigued, but scared. Â Just seemed like I didn't want to know what was going on behind those doors. Â Finally, the wife talked me into going here for a drink before dinner. Â
First of all it wasn't scary at all. Unless your scared of the Geritol. Â We were the youngest people in this bar by thirty years. Some of these people were close to dead. Â The young bar fly trying to get guys to buy her drinks was well over fifty. Â This place is crazy. Â A one man band was setting up in the corner. Â The drinks a stiff and cheap. Â Why water down drinks when your customers have bladder control problems.
Anyway, an adventure to be had. Your not going to spend all day here, but at least you can say you went.
P.S. Â Â just a side note, but have you realized all the best bars have no windows. Â There's nothing like going into a bar while it's light outside and forgetting what time it is because you haven't seen the sun. Â Just try this experiment and see if the best bars you go to have windows or not.
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