Located on Arden & Eastern.
I know some regulars.
It's a small bar with a mixed crowd.. but I assume it's a mixed crowd of the locale, the young and older of Arden-Arcade. There's a familiarity amongst regulars like everyone knows Sir Richard in the tiger shirt that always sings Secret Agent Man on karaoke nights or Brian the guy that runs karaoke nights there..
It's just a regular bar. Not slummin' it or trying too hard.
I dig it!! Â I love a good dive bar. Â I only visit on Fridays or Saturdays because there is karaoke those nights with the best KJ in Sacramento and the crowd is pretty cool. Â The crowd is very diverse in every aspect and is very chill. Â The prices are just a couple quarters more then other dive bars I frequent, so you're not breaking your bank to go have a good time. Â It's very clean, the bathroom is always stocked, and you don't feel like you're going to catch something by being in there. Â The staff is pleasant and friendly. Â A couple times I've been there it seemed like they should have had two people behind the bar instead of one because they were so busy. Â However it's worth the little wait for the respect and attention you get. Â The bartenders and owner are very personable and take care of their customers which in my book is a 10. Â If you're a beer drinker (specifically draft beer) then this place my not work for you because they don't have a wide selection on tap. Â Oh yes and come prepared with cash because they don't take cards. Â The reason it got 4 stars from me is because 2 weeks in a row now they have ran out of Sierra Nevada which they have on tap and they don't carry it in the bottle. Â So if you're a Pale Ale drinker be prepared.
Review Source:Great place! Fun crowd and great prices. Only reason I didn't give 5 stars was the karaoke. The sound was bad, could barely hear the music or any of the singers, and the KJ was begging for tips. Oh and the really long smoke break. Won't be back for karaoke but would come back to the bar. They need to lose Brian the KJ.
Review Source:decent place, I wouldnt call it a "dive bar" by any measure but its certainly a cute lil hole in the wall with a full bar if you feel in the mood for a cocktail and want a little more atmosphere than my personal fav, Ernie's Interlude up the street!
pros: full bar, great drinks with a strong pour, friendly employees, darts, jukebox, and a nice big bench outside for the smokers.
cons: the few times I have come out here its mainly been at night and late night seems to draw a bit seedier of a crowd. lots of guys looking for a friend for the night if you know what I mean, which sucks when your just a girl that just wants a dang beer before bed. SO, I now recommend just coming during the day its always quiet and nice and you always get good service when its empty.
I noticed people calling this a dive. Ok, not gonna debate it, but lets just say its the nicest, brightest, least-divey dive bar ever. Its clean and well stocked bar matched with a polite a speedy bartender. It has a new touch screen juke box/ computer thing. Digital dart boards that do the math for you, and a squeaky clean and odor free bathroom. This place is a super cool lounge spot. Oh did I mention 3$ sierra nevada beers all the time? Its worth checkin out,Fo Sho!
Review Source:This is to me the best dive bar to go to if you want to hangout with your friends, get shytfaced with their strong yet really cheap priced drinks, play some music from the jukebox, or sing some karaoke.
I was recently there on friday for my b-day with a couple of my friends & it got crazy in there. It was so worth it!! Been there a few times before. I always refer my friends to go there if they want more for what they normally pay for on drinks. I dont care if they dont serve food. iTs all good for me!
The Long Shot will mos. def. have a reg. customer from me! LOL!
This is a good place to get drunk. The drinks are very deep, very cheap, the bartenders are very nice, and its filled with a lot of younger locals.
The bathrooms are always very clean, even when the bar is filled with drunks.
They do not serve food. They are cash only, and have an ATM with a surcharge. Darts, Jukebox, Karoke, and televisions.
The only thing I don't enjoy is how sleezy the bar can get late in the evening; and how accident prone the bar can be, but that comes with the large crowds at any bar any night.
I actually love this place when it's quiet.
If you're looking for a grade/middle/high school reunion, this is actually the place to start.
I'm sure I'll always frequent the long shot.
My favorite little watering hole. The bartenders are fantastic and the drinks pack a punch for dirt cheap. Although the dance floor is a small patch in front of the dart board, there are plenty of tables, seating and people having a good time while listening to the jukebox. If you come early enough I even hear they serve food.
Review Source:Gotta agree with Nicole, it is an El Camino & Rio Americano high school reunion every time you go here... but for some reason, I don't find that to be so much of a sh*t show! Â Granted the people I run into there are the kind of people that I don't keep in touch with, out of general lack of interest, from high school... but it satiates my need to know what they've been up to for the next 5 years, and accepting an obligatory Facebook invitation to someone I don't give a rat's a$$ about.... haha, just kidding (well, kind of.)
They do have the stiff drinks going for them, if you wanna get plastered for cheap, go there. Â Some of the regulars (from HS) even have made up drinks there that only these bartenders make... ex: The Bakersfield. Â I believe it is peach schnapps and redbull and you drop a shot of vodka in like a bomb-style drink. Â (I was already a little schwasted when it was ordered for me, so serves me right that I cant remember what was in it.)
Either way, it's always a good place to stop by if you have a DD and dont have much cash, and are looking to get a little more than tipsy. Â But other than the stiff drinks, it doesn't have much going for it. Â Seedy and divey as hell.
Yes this place can be called a small box, but oh the fun you will have in the box. The drinks are always good, not watered down, and staff friendly. It can get busy on Saturday nights, but if your just looking for a place to stop in and have a drink or two this is the place to stop. It's a bar, so don't expect anything fancy or over the top. More like a smaller Cheers.
As my friend puts it, " the most fun you'll have behind a gas station!" It is located behind the Valero gas station across from Whole Foods.
Stop in and give it a try.
Holy Crap, I got blasted off my ass with one drink here.
The bartenders are young and so is the crowd. The drinks are extremely stiff. The heaviest I've had. It is a tiny square bar with, thank God, only one fucking dart board. Karaoke on Friday nights as well.
This is a great place to get tore up simply by the fact that if you go to bed at 2 with a 10, you might wake up to a 4 or higher rather than lower. Not a lot of cotton top blue hairs in this place. The lighting is good for a bar also. Beer goggle vision kicks in and you really need all the help you can get. Low dim lighting is not the answer. It is not extremely bright, but you can tell what your in for within 10 years here.
This place is a black eye on the Arden Park/Arden Oaks area. Â This isn't "Cheers" type dive bar...with a cool mix of ambiance, patrons and customer focused service. Â The Long Shot is none of those things. Â It shouldn't even be considered a dive bar (in the cool sense) but a skeezy bar with literally no redeeming qualities. Â
A number of classy establishments such as Cheffrey's restaurant have tried to make a go of it as next door neighbors of the Long Shot and each have left. Â They have all left (including recently closed Cheffrey's) in part because of the fights, grafitti, vandalism, loud Harley's/cars and idiotic people over indulging on cheap booze....puking on the door steps of Cheffrey's and other nearby businesses. Â
The Long Shot is not a local area business that should be supported. Â Bottom line - the County should revoke their liquor license and they should be shut down for good.
The only thing I have to say about this bar, is that it should be renamed Long Sh*t. Â Granted, in my younger days I did spend quite a bit of time (and money) at this classy establishment. Â However, I quickly came to realize that it is an El Camino & Rio Americano high school reunion-- and not in a good way. Â It's those people that you never really cared to see, especially three sheets to the wind. Â Rich & Matt are awesome, but the drinks are WAY too strong, which often leads to a clusterfu*k of idiots starting fights in the parking lot. Â It is not a safe place, nor would I consider it to be "fun" if you are over the age of 21.
Review Source:If I could describe the Long Shot in one word, it would be "skeezy."
Unfortunately there aren't many other bars in Arden Park, especially if you're seeking a younger crowd, so I've been here more than I'd like to admit. One of my main goals in life is to do everything I can to NOT become a regular here because the regulars are really trashy and/or creepy.
The good: cheapest and stiffest drinks I've encountered. I like my drinks stiff, but it was a bit much for even my drunk ass. I was tempted to ask the bartender for some more tonic in my Tom Collins.
The bad: shady and/or sloppy drunk patrons (see the aforementioned stiff drinks), small and unexciting building that almost never has enough room for the amount of people there (weekend clusterfucks), bartenders who pick and choose who they'll serve first regardless of how long they've been waiting for a drink, general bartender douchebaggery, the lack of a pool table making its "Long Shot" name disingenuous, and a jukebox with a good selection but costs $1 per song -- too rich for my blood.
The Long Shot's only real highlight is the ability to get trashed for cheap, which is important and earned it its second star, but if you end up here, be prepared to deal with the questionable clientele.
Since everyone turned 21, the only reason anyone I know frequents this place is because we can walk there so it's good for a few quick drinks. When one of my friends told me that someone took her there for her 21st birthday I cringed my nose and asked why. I know all about creepers in bars but this place seems to have some winners. They don't care that you notice them blantantly staring at you. It's like they are undressing you with their eyes.
Review Source:I would not drink here in a box. I would not drink here with a fox. I would not eat green eggs and ham. I would not drink here Sam I am!!!!
Really...this place, granted it is basically the only bar in the arden park area, is like drinking in a box. It is all of those people from the area that never got a job it seems like that you knew in high school or middle school. And if it isn't those people, on fridays and saturdays a few of the random old men go here to look at all of the "21" year old girls here, because I swear on those nights, especially karaoke night the average age, minus the old wrinkly perverts, is probably around 19!! I never felt old in a bar before until Long Shot, and that is just weird.
Oh ya and my drink was not good either. I guess everyone was nice and everyone seemed to be having a good time, but it literally is drinking in a square box because this place is so small and so packed on fridays and saturdays with dumb people, that you feel like one of those mimes trapped in a box, only with a bad drink in your hand!!!!!!!
Oh, The Long Shot. I remember when you used to be the Shadowbrook, aka "The Shadybrook" back in the day when I was 16 and would come in and have a drink every now and then and not get carded. I thought I was pretty cool. But things have definitely changed a lot since The Shadybrook days.
Susie and her husband who passed away about a year and a half ago (don't remember his name), took reign over this dive in the Arden Oaks/ AP neighborhood and made it infamous for being "the most fun you will ever have behind a gas station"- and it really is.
This is a great place to come with friends, family or both. Rich and Matt are a great team of bartenders and really engage with the bar goers. Susie bartends too and loves for everyone to have a great time, but won't put up with anyone's S if they are getting out of line. However, since it's popularity has risen so much in the recent 2 years, (probably due to the clientele's convenience of its close proximity to their neighborhood), there have been a lot of fights and drama that have gone down at The Longshot (and NO, it is not Longshots and YES there is a difference). Susie has had to regulate and close the bar early against her will but I don't blame her. The last time I was here with my mom in August there was a fight and it totally killed the mood. Susie threatens, or actually does, shut down the bar and what could have been a fun-filled night is totally killed by a bunch of drunk idiots (In this case it was a 70 yr. old dude against some biker skin heads)- random crowd for sure, but not unlikely at The Shot.
I met my bug here so I am little biased when I say how much I love this neighborhood bar, because it really only brings back great memories for me, especially after I turned 21 and could legally enjoy it. The crowd on Fridays can be older and a bit ecclectic as it is Karaoke night, but if you come past 12 you should be safe!
Great people, cheap drinks and great times= The Long Shot, it will always have a special place in my heart :-)
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