The Lantern Tavern

I like this place. It's non-smoking. The food is good- those mozzarella sticks are super tasty but man, could they have better happy hour prices for drinks or something? The beer selection is good but it isn't cheap. And honestly for the zero ambience you get out of this place I'd rather pay that much for a beer that's half priced.

The Lantern is great.  It's non-smoking, which is surprisingly unusual here in Lubbock for a beer place.  I really appreciate that, and would remain a customer solely for that reason.

On top of  not including cancer with your beverage or food selection, their draft choices are decent and their food is good.  Plus, they have a GREAT patio when the weather is nice.  The indoor atmosphere is nice too, especially when they have some live music going (that has never been too in-your-face; it's a medium/small place).  Seems like it has a great mix of clientele, maybe leaning more to the young professional crowd.  

My only complaint is that they don't open until 4pm.  Many early weekend afternoons my husband and I are looking for a nice cold beer on a patio, and we are always disappointed the Lantern is closed.  :-(

This place is fine for bar food and cheap drinks, nothing special but an ok patio. Service was great until the waitress screwed up our bills when we paid out. Which we still didn't complain because it wasn't a big deal, we fixed it ourselves. It was me and another couple. When we paid out, the waitress put my friends tab on my card, so the way we evened it out was they tipped for the entire bill on their card and I zeroed mine out. Tipping 14 dollars on a 60 dollar tab I think was great. The waitress took it upon herself to add an additional 12 dollar tip onto my card, ummmm I'm pretty sure that's  stealing. When I noticed on my acct a couple of days later, I called the manager, who acted like this was a common thing and said he would notify the owners who apparently do the accounting. I never heard anything back and they did not credit my card.  How dishonest and greedy can you get? If you want to be stolen from, go there. Otherwise, good service doesn't compensate for thieves. I would like to add that this is the first negative review I've ever written.