Leader Bar

Loved this place until new owners and management took over, raised the prices to those of some fancy downtown establishment, and ran off every good bartender they had.  Honestly, I went to this place two or three times a week because it's close to home.  In fact, a lot of people in that neighborhood go there because it's close to home.  We would go in for happy hour and after looking at the amount of money we have spent there in a month, they will be very sorry to lose our business.  They only thing they have "managed" to do is to run off their regulars and bring in a bunch of roided out UFC fans and play really loud crappy rock music like Nickleback.  Sorry, the place DID have some class for a neighborhood that isn't exactly Wicker Park or River North.   I won't be going back.  There are plenty of other bars in the neighborhood with charming bartenders, good food, and cheaper prices.

It's a shame I can't give this place a better review, the food my party had was pretty good, and the service wasn't bad, but that bouncer they got has all the sensitivity of a klansman. Look, I get it's UFC night so your roids are overclocked with how pumped you are to see to althletic bros in panties bloody eachother, but to give Kentucky's American Citizenship Exam to my buddy that has dollars that are just as green as the "real 'mericans" in the place was totally unappreciated. Wise up management, customers don't head out to pubs that offer such tense barriers of entry.

Pros: Legit burger, decent beer prices

Cons: No Blond Hair? No Blue Eyes? No Entry.

Nice place, but if your bartender is Maria K, run away. Not only did she pour my beer and leave it at the tap for 20 minutes, she just left and didn't give me my tab or card. Stay away from her. The rest of the staff is friendly, and I will be going back.