The Hub on Main

I've got used kleenex with better personality than this place. The potential was there but it was just horrible. Bartender was cold and pre-occupied while the other customers seemed very shady. Not a very friendly place, expensive, and you won't see me back.

Showed up during some thing called "Triple Bubble" where they gave me three beers for the price of one.  Five stars!

Too bad there is no "incomplete" rating for joints on Yelp.  I've been to my share of bars in my xx years on this planet, and I have never been to a place like The Hub on Main.  It's as if we had stepped into a David Lynch movie.  Tony, the barkeep, was playing darts on the mechanical board and we were the only people in the place.  He reluctantly came over to take our drink order.  I'm used to Virginia, where bars are legally obligated to have a functioning kitchen, and apparently in Iowa that's not a law.  But he suggested ordering a pizza from the place next door, and bringing in to the bar.

The bar was long and clearly made for live music, which they didn't have on the Sunday night we visited.  Instead they had Comedy Central blasting on the big screen.  There was a painting of JFK that adorned one of the walls; not quite the decor you'd find in a joint like this.  Tony told us the crew who renovated this old warehouse to open the bar found the painting behind one of the sealed walls.  

At some point in the evening, downtrodden Iowa ladies came in:  They were either pot growers, pot dealers, or unkempt hookers.  They talked trash, looked like trash, and seemed intrigued with us.  OK, time to wrap up that strange Thai pizza we ordered and get going.....