The Irish Oak

Broncos bar!
Denver Broncos bar so I love it here! Great atmosphere, great location, great staff. Food is your typical bar food, nothin extraordinary but they seem to always have some drink special going on. It's a different change of pace for Wrigleyville.

I was in Chicago for a weekend, from Philly.  Stopped in here for a night cap after hanging around wrigleyville with some friends, and I loved the place.  Sure it's not super-authentic Irish, but it's a pub, and it's close enough for what I need in a pub.  It was strangely quiet at about 10pm on a Saturday night (maybe half full), but we got ourselves a few seats at the bar, and they had magners on tap (this is good enough for my likings in an irish pub).

Service was great (though, as I mentioned, it wasn't really hoppin in the place), and my girlfriend ended up finding two new drinks she liked thanks to some helpful suggestions by our friendly chatty bartender woman (we'd not yet heard of the Fireball & Rum Chata cinnamon toast crunch drink).  For my own part, I was pleasantly surpised when she offered me the Jameson bottle to sign for putting up on the wall.  Apparantly if you finish out a bottle (I only had like 3 servings on the rocks, i swear!), you get to sign it.

All in all, I was pretty happy with my visit; stopped in for a drink, ended up staying for about 3 hours.

This place has a cool feel to it. I live in the area and this place used to be a good local place to come. Now i feel like it's a top 40's fest. They play the music SO FREAKING LOUD during the week even when there is a handful of people in there. The bass is ungodly too loud. I'm a fan of music at a high volume just mix it better. And music choice? there is non. It sounds like the valley girls who serve and bar tend this place plug their iPod in and play club music. This place has really hit the wall. I'll give it another shot in a month. After that, they loose a customer if it still seems like a living breathing version of MTV. Terrible.
P.S. Turn your bass down!