People who talk shit about this bar are most likely not from slo and have only been to "hip" dive bars in LA or some other place where everyone is wearing flannels and fake glasses. Â This bar is great for cheap drinks, cheap pool tables, and a real old school juke box.
I've never felt scared or threatened! The old people have to hang out somewhere too. Â And sometimes they want to start a conversation. Â I'm happy to get away from the downtown scene where immature frat boys try to hump everything with tits.
And FYI they do only take cash but hey go next door and get some from Manuels or go somewhere else where you can use a card.
I love this place!! It is the epitome of a dive bar.
If you're looking for the flair of the downtown bars in slo, DO NOT come here. You'll just mess up everyone else's good mood.
If you want a casual experience with nothing but a cheap, strong drink then this is your place. You can chat with the friendly, somewhat alcoholic, locals and just sit and have a great time!
Amazing, I have been to many dive bars in the county and this is my favourite by far. And there is an Indiana Jones pinball machine which I recently discovered and am obsessed with. Cheap, strong, good drinks. Funny bartender. Bathroom isn't terrible for a dive bar. Bomb bloody marys, and if you ask for your drink to be altered in any way he always obliges without question. Awesome local hang out, far from the downtown sleeze, always an adventure in itself.
Review Source:There are good dives, and there are bad dives, this one is more towards the side of bad.
The somewhat disagreeable dirty old man and homeless clientele aside, this place smells strongly of urine the moment you walk thru the door, you'd think it's that they left the bathroom open, but it's just the gaslight being itself.
Thankfully this place makes no attempt to take itself seriously, the beer is cheap, the pool tables too, and if you get 86'ed from every other bar in town, this is an acceptable watering hole. A dirty hole at that.
Believe it when all the previous reviews say that you love and hate this place at the same time. Things that I loved? Cheap beers (bottled/canned only), cool bartender (with quite the heavy hand), and mellow atmosphere. Things that I hated: creepy, drunk, old men who try to talk to you. Still pretty chill though, so I wouldn't mind coming back here to throw back a couple cold ones, plus it's walking distance from Shalimar, a really good and not overpriced Indian restaurant!
Review Source:Geezus, this must be a real tribute to all the snobs and prudes in SLO. Â This place isn't disgusting or gross at all! Â The inside is spacious and clean with two full functioning pool tables, but at the steep price of 4 quarters a game. Â
Given, some of the patrons might not have all their teeth, but so what? Â I don't think you want to try and get laid here, but if you want to get your drink on...they'll suffice.
It cracks me up that people like this place, rather, that out of town college students think it's "cool" to go here - like white kids listening to hard core rap. Â I've always known it as the hangout where old men who are {in the closet} and terrified to come out spend their time in addition to parolees...i.e. the hardcore seedy types (parolees). Â Yes, scenic SLO does have a prison which does release inmates |here|.
The businesses on those two blocks facing Broad Street are pretty funny in fact if you think about it - we used to walk there from the elementary school and buy candy after school (and of course DID NOT tell our parents we went to Manuel's).
Gaslight and Manuel's Liquor... too funny; last place I thought I'd ever come across on Yelp!
Nitpicking: Â Gaslight isn't located in the "downtown" bar area; it is almost 1 mile to downtown SLO from Gaslight (i.e. Frog & Peach or Mother's on Higuera or McCarthy's on Marsh). Â Gaslight is in more of a residential area.
I can't tell if I hate that I love this bar or if I love that I hate it...
The bf is very proud of his local roots. and very hating against all that is "poly"- namely, all the douche bag, underage accepting, fratastic bars downtown.
Him and his posse are all about Gaslight lounge. Â
I hate: it stiiinks, not a great selection of booze, the creepers at the bar
I love: the creepers at the bar, bud in a can, pool tables, the smell (love.hate relationship with dive bar smells).
It's a DIVE bar for craps sake. Â The bartenders pours em stiff, I don't even WANT to know where the guy sitting next to me came from he scares me so bad, and probably the only place where I never win a game of pool...
To the 3 "poly dollies" sitting next to me at the bar- PLEASE never ask a bartender to add more soda to your vodka because he "made it too strong." Â Good grief.
This is, without a doubt, the best dive bar in SLO. I can tell you what you will and will not find here. You will often see the bar dog, who is as old and decrepit as many of the patrons. You will not find any fancy new fangled flat screen tv's. You will find pool tables and a juke box with journey. (does a bar need any other song than "dont stop believin" ?) You will not find anyone ordering a martini in a business suit. You will find stiff drinks and friendly bartenders. (for the most part, i haven't met all the bartenders) Check it out, if only to laugh at the the anti establishment hipsters that are trying to make the gas light into a new "scene".
Review Source:I have no idea what you guys are expecting here. Â Its a dive car with 2.50 coors light. Â
Other than a Cougar's Grand mama leaning on me asking where she could get smokes, on a Tuesday at 10 pm (hey, I was on vacation!) this place makes me smile. Â In a town full of crazy kiddie bars, its great to have a dive bar in town.
Funny thing happened as we were about to leave, the bartender and a patron start arguing about what to do about the Patrons "non moving " arm. Â The bartender says "I will call 911, but the cops will probably come and ask you how you got hurt"
She responds "you should have helped me a hour ago when it stopped moving, what should I do!!???"
Bartender responds "so am i calling the 911 or not?"
That was my cue to leave.
THIS is a dive bar and it does well at doing just that. Â If you consider bars located in the downtown area dive bars, I would have to disagree. Â If you are looking to get away from loads of college kids and a club type atmosphere, this might be the place. Â It has two pool tables, a Jukebox, and some interesting characters.
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