REBELS! The best, most favorite dive-bar I have ever been to! Juels is the best bartender! She's fun, down to earth and with a little hood in her. She also has a great rack. Lol. I always have the best time when I go. The drinks are delicious and cheap! Can't beat that with a baseball bat!
Review Source:A small step up from T C's cocktail lounge.
But if you come here, you are still going for the bottom of the barrel.
Good place to go and get credit for going there and leave it at that. Â
Go there once, drink your drink as fast as you can, then get out of there and forget that experience just happened.
Small bar with shuffleboard. No seating other than at the bar. Good prices. Bartender was very friendly. Not a people watching, dancing, party type place. This is where to go if you want to drink and listen to some laid back music. They got a bonus half star because it is walking distance to my house.
Review Source:Walking up to this place I see a guy out front selling his random old stuff in between walking back inside and sipping his Budweiser. As I walk in I notice a lady sitting at the bar with a German Shepard(I'm not kidding). She proceeds to tell me "This is my best friend, he's wearing a leash, and he doesn't bite". If nothing else this bar has some colorful patrons. They have shuffleboard(Sweet!) & Guinness(in a bottle not on tap). The roof is covered with dollar bills that people have written on. Oddly enough I sat right under a bill that said Frankie and another that said R.I.P. Pancho(yikes). All in all it was an Interesting place to start a Saturday and good material for a story. I would throw one or two back here again.
Review Source:Reviews are subjective to the writer's tastes... That unnecessary disclaimer added, I give my review of Rebel's Cocktail Lounge.
First, if you go to bars to hook-up or people watch, this is not your place. If you go out to see & be seen, this is not your place.
If you like a bar with no pretensions, shuffleboard, an honest pour & interesting conversations while getting inebriated at 1 AM-this is a good bar. I like a good conversation, and this place has always delivered. Â On the rare night when I don't feel like tucking in with my wife, I just stroll down to Rebel's and pull up a stool. There's no crowd of guys hoping to get laid lining up around the bar, no yelling to be heard (unless the guy who picks Slayer on the jukebox is there), & no BS.. (Well, maybe a little).
So shoot me...I gave it 3 stars! Aaah! I shouldn't really say that here in Pedro, or anywhere this close to Rebels, should I? Okay, so here is the scoop. Â I saw a review of Rebels, saw all the 4 and 5 stars, thought to myself, they must be kidding right? Â So...headed over to read what all the raves were about and think back to the last time I was in Rebels...wow!
Well after reading a few of the reviews, I still feel a bit clueless on the 5 star thing? Man has my memory failed me, I mean, I think I might be headed down dementia lane quicker than some of the patrons in Rebels! I also didn't know that you could actually mix a good vodka tonic, really? What? hold the tonic maybe?
I also read that they have an awesome jukebox, this would be great if you could get near it! I dare you...really! Have you ever tried to put on Guns N' Roses or Slayer in a bar with 8 cranky old men who swear its too loud with that racket on (you know damn well they can't hear anyway) and they are trying to tell you how far they had to walk in the snow with no shoes in 1937? I have, and its mighty dangerous! Add a couple of old school chrome cowboys to the mix and well, it could get plain ugly in that little bar.
I do recall the drinks being cheap, and by golly, that's how you will feel if you choose that place as your night out. Â Back in the day, the guys that patroned the place were much younger, I actually think they are the same guys still, now they just have longer, whiter beards! Some of them take up two bar stools instead of one these days and heaven help you, should you not tell the barmaid she hasn't aged a bit!
Don't get me wrong here, if dives are the happening thing these days? Â Rebels gets an A+ Â Who am I anyway, just some chick who doesn't even go to bars anymore, so my opinion could be considered pretty lame anyway. Â Now, if nostalgia is what these reviews were going for, they may have been accurate, Rebels has been around just about as long as its patrons...Lord knows Pedro is known for its dive bars and Port "holes".
I went here with a friend on V-Day. Â It wasn't very crowded and the jukebox is freakin' awesome. Â After a few, very tasty, and well mixed vodka tonics, I was playing shuffleboard and kickin' ass. Â By the end of the night I'm surprised I wasn't using the shuffleboard as a Slip 'N Slide. Â Maybe next time...
This place is a gem. Â The bartender, Megan, was very nice and attentive. Â She also didn't blow any sunshine up my ass, which I certainly do appreciate.
All in all, a great experience!
I used to live about a 5 minute walk from Rebels. Â The first time I went there it reminded me of someone's back den, with a bunch of weird friends hanging out. Â The second time I realized that this is the kind of place that people are constantly buying the bar drinks, sometimes the bartender lines up the bar too. Â The killer here is the "mind eraser". Â Everyone always says to be careful with those. Â And it's true, Â 3 of those and you are .. well, erased. Â This place along with Harold's produced many a drunken haze. Â Just be careful because both attract some pretty shady clientele. Â But what the hell, I'm shady too!
Review Source:This is the dive of all dives. Â
It stinks kinda like a mix of sweaty feet, b.o., stale beer, Lysol disinfectant, and cigarettes. Â And you can smoke inside. Â If you are a chick (hot OR not), nasty old Croatian dudes will hit on you the moment you walk in and try to impress you w/ how much money they make working the docks. Â It's fun to watch your lady friends squirm sometimes, isn't it?
If it's so shitty, why the Hell do I come here? Â Most of the time it's peer pressure. Â They also have cheap and stiff drinks, an Internet juke box, shuffleboard, and lots of crazy characters to make fun of (which BTW, is why I give it such a high rating).
Should you come all the way from Long Beach or Lomita just for Rebel's? Â Good God NO! Â But if you live in San Pedro (I know you know about this shit-hole) it's good times for at least a few drinks before going somewhere else.
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