Great bar and good live music! This bar will grow on you and seems to attract a crowd ranging from every age group... that is every age over 21 years old. Â They have live music on weekends, open mic night and karaoke. Â They just added an outdoor area which is pretty big and I'm told they will be doing a happy hour music special out there. Â The servers and owner are top notch!
Review Source:Our trip to the West Side begins at The Holiday Bar (801 5th St). It's one of the oldest businesses in Grand Rapids. Great grandfather opened the Ideal Tavern 105 years ago on Stocking Avenue. The bar had to move when the Arsulowicz Brothers built their mortuary there. It has been on 5th Street for only 60 years. The next generation of the extended Arsulowicz family has taken over and brought the bar up to date. They added hi-top tables, two new pool tables, nine HD TVs and a coat of paint. But they still have the classic 40-foot horseshoe bar. The Open Mic is hoppin' on Tuesdays and there's Gong Show Karaoke on Wednesdays with $4 Jager Bombs. Just make sure you try the Holiday Shot -- Bailey's and Rumple Minze. It's a holiday everyday at the Holiday Bar.
Review Source:I'm a fan of the good ol' Holiday Bar. I like the newer look and staff. it's still a dive but God Bless them for trying. Cheap beers and pretty solid drinks. you get a decent crowd on the weekends. Full of regulars, college folk, young pro's, and dirtballs. Overall a swell time on the Westside.
Cheers.
My friend Krueger and I found this place by chance. Â We were actually on a hunt for a different west side dive that my dad used to go to when I was a kid. I would be dropped off every other Friday, and when I asked my step mom where my dad was, she would always say "Oh, he's down at the Triangle."
Anyway, on our way to the Triangle, we passed this awesome looking gem, and decided we would have to stop there on the way back. The Triangle sucked, so we were back there within a half hour.
It was Tuesday. JUMBO Tuesday! This is the only bar I've ever been to that served 40oz beers at the bar for under $4.00. They even served them with a tiny glass. I felt classy.
A quite large place, with very few people inside. No one under the age of 40. Dirty, with what I thought was a hardwood floor the first two times I was here. Until once, we hit a pool ball off of the table, and when it hit the ground, it didn't sound like wood. It was then I realized that it was carpet that had a print to look like hardwood. Again, pure class.
The juke box sucks. But if you put in a five, you can play the entire Abby Road album, with one play left over for a Cheap Trick song. $1.25 drafts, and cheap strong mix drinks. Cheap greeeaaaassssyyy bar food, i.e. deep fried pickles, wings, fries, mini tacos, etc. Â No kitchen, but the ever convenient Auto Fry at the end of the bar.
The mens room smells like ass, and often there is vomit in the sink, but the ladies room smells just like Fruit Loops.
Being one of the oldest bars still in operation in the area, you're sure to hear some stories from the old timers who are there every day.
I liked this place so much, I ended up slinging drinks here for two years. And even almost getting into my first fight, with two white trash gangsta girls covered in jailhouse tattoos. I ended up getting off easy, by dodging a burger to the head, and having a rock thrown through the window. Whew.
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