O'leary's Public House

A few months back my buddy pulled a dirty trick on me telling me to meet him here for the Bears/Packers game. Stoked as the season had just begun, I threw on an Urlacher jersey and jolted off to O'leary's only to find a sea of green and yellow.

We got our ass kicked that game (as usual) but I made it out of there without a scratch on me. Combine this with the fact that the food and booze are pretty cheap for River North and I guess I gotta give em' a little love.

Still...it is a Packers bar.

Not top on my Happy Hour list, well ok, maybe it didn't even make the list.....because there is NO HAPPY HOUR!  Who doesn't have some sort of special for happy hour?? Come on, that's just being lazy with your marketing people.  We stopped in here before Trivia at Bull & Bear, I wish we hadn't.  

Mike thought it smelled really bad....I thought it smelled like a bar.

They had no specials, so we decided on Blue Moon, the really amazingly friendly(sarcasm) bartender let us know that they were out...can't you just go hook up a new keg?? So we ended up settling for 2 Miller Lites....hard to screw up, so they were fine.

We finished our beers and were heading out, but when we got to the doorway there was a cloud of smoke from the staff members smoking outside of the entrance....I couldn't find my way out, it was so scary, I didn't know what was going to happen to me!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

We finally escaped unharmed and sober....so to Bull & Bear we went.

The only plus to this place was the fact they had Packers stuff up....big plus for me, but like I said, THE ONLY PLUS.

Ashley and I came here before our Tuesday night trivia dinner at Bull & Bear and only had one drink.  We were looking for a place with a happy hour and/or drink specials.  There were only a handful of people in here and one bartender.

We sat at a table and found out that they didn't have any specials...to put it a different way, this place was nothing special.  I thought the smell was very "college bar-ish."  It made me kind of queasy from the moment I walked in.  If we wouldn't have felt so weird about walking out after we sat down, we would have.

We both ordered a Blue Moon.  The bartender went to the tap and pulled the handle...nothing came out.  "We are out of Blue Moon," she told us.  Ugh, I don't even know what we ordered.  And to pile it on, we walked outside into a cloud of smoke from the workers of O'Leary's.