Johnny's Bar

Just great.  Go

It's a good solid 4 stars, not because it's one of the best bars out there... but for it's purpose and for what it's intended to be.

What it's intended to be is a local, easy going, fun bar.  I hesitate to use the word dive, because it's so overused and dumb.  They're not TRYING to be a dive... I would assume they're trying to get as many customers as possible for what they have to work with.  

I must mention the ping pong table:  It's covering the pool table which one reviewer disliked... but hey, highland billiards is literally across the street.  I think the ping pong thing was a good choice.  I hate playing ping pong at johnny's because I don't get to exercise my true ability (which isn't great)... but I still like that it's an option and it's fun.

Good bar, staple of Highland Park.  I hope it never goes away ever.  

(and the only reason it's not 5 star, is partly because of things out of their control, and partly because if I were choice-maker, I might do a couple things different, but they're great... Not five star.  But good fun neighborhood bar.)

Definitely a dive bar.  Dark inside.  But had one of the best beers... Hazelnut Brown. I'm not huge beer drinker but the Hazelnut Brown was really good. Great nutty flavor and not too dark.  Would go back just to have that beer, assuming they still have it on tap.