First barn I've ever been in where the grains and barley are in a cold bottle! All new A.C. Can u say quiet and cooool? Hard to find in this Valley. New owners have stepped it up. Truly an oasis for a cold one this summer. Safe, clean and mixed crowd make for a good time. Worked my way through the valleys usual suspects. We all know the favorites. 'The Barney' is up there.
Review Source:They pride themselves on being a dive.
They are known for drunks, underage drinking, and fights.
I have been there once and hope that was my last time and witnessed all three of those things.
It is dark and gross. Smelt bad.
I know since I've been there they have new owners, so things might be somewhat better, but I would still proceed with caution.
LOVE THE RED BARN!!!
I was there with 6 friends for Labor day weekend for a girls weekend and we had the greatest time at the Red Barn Grill. Â Cheap drinks, awesome bouncer, attentive bartenders and Rocking LIve Music from OTW. Â Everything was awesome, we played quarters the majority of the night before hitting the dance floor. Â Can't wait to make a trip out to Palm Springs again, wish I was a regular at this sweet spot. Â Dang Red Barn, thanks for a great night!
So me and my friends were in town and wanted to go out and this is all we saw around us so we gave it a shot.... Very unsure when we walked in but ended up making some friends and we came back the next night!!
Drinks are super cheap- its a small divey bar but the bartenders and  bouncer are awesome and friendly... Plus  Shuffleboard!
I definitely would go back'
If you like tall stiff drinks and good music this is the spot...but if your on the fancy side this is not the place for you. This is a local dive and always has been. The bartenders are the best I've encountered even on the busiest of nights, and the drinks are cheap and strong!!! We have been regulars here for years and will keep coming back, the music is great and the staff is quick...they have our drinks ready before we sit down!
Highly recommend this bar if you are in need of a good drink and a good time.
I love the Red Barn, I'm in Palm Desert a few times a year and this place is on my list of visits every time. Â Is it a Dive? Yeah I guess, but it's a place that serves a very diverse group of people. Â Whether you're waiting for a table down the street at Castelli's, In there for a quick game of Shuffle-puck/Pool or just want to get wasted really cheap this is your place. Â
Music is all pretty good and definitely Loud. Â No beers on tap but why would you order a beer when the cocktails are all cheap LOOOOONG pours. Â If you're nice enough you'll get a shot or two thrown your way.
If you want cheap beer and a good time with your group of friends, this is the place. It is your typical dive bar. People know each othere, there are a bunch of regulars, etc.
The TVs are not that great but get the job done. There is a pool table that is not in that great a shape and a long shuffleboard table, my favorite. There is space for a dance floor and it looked like a DJ could set up, but on a Friday Night at 8pm, there was nothing happening. Perhaps another night.
Note that there is no draft beer, but $3.25 import bottles sound good to me!!
This is for sure a dive bar!!! Come dressed casual!!
Came around 10 good amount of people here...not crowded but not empty...bar was packed so we easily found a booth. The crowd is loud & friendly drunk people. It is very obvious this is a locals hang out. One of the biggest reasons i chose to go here was due to the novelty of it being in a giant red barn :D
We watched the bartender make our drinks ...some are strong and others are stronger...drinks are about $7 per...fair warning...drinks are STRONG...i can't stress this enough!!! At one point it's like drinking pure alcohol w/no mixer (even tho u ordered a mix drink).
There are pool tables and other games available...the pool tables are free on wednesdays and you need quarters to play..parking is easy to find (though we did come early). We managed to park right in front of Red Barn. The locals leave you alone but are friendly enough to take our picture. If you're looking to get sh*t faced (as a lot of people were there) this is the place to come!!
oh ya they also have a flat screen tv where they play...the news o.O odd...but it works
Checked Yelp first before going here, and the reviews I read are pretty much spot-on: cheap, strong drinks.
I had three gin and tonics (which felt more like four and-a-half gin and tonics), for a grand total of $9.
The bartender was friendly and efficient, and the other patrons were pleasant. Just don't use the word "plethora" while sitting at the bar -- it'll cost you a dollar. :)
There's a difference between a fun, cheap dive and a seedy, character-less hangout for winos wasting away at the bar. Red Barn falls on the wrong side of that divide.
Couple of caveats: we visited on slow Sunday night, so perhaps not the best crowd to base a review on; and as the four of us left after a few drinks (two guys and two girls) someone yelled an expletive at us to send us on our way, completely unprovoked. Classy.
May try again on my next visit to Palm Desert, but Red Barn certainly earned a "meh" review based on this experience.
Alright people. No jokes about this place. It's a barn. Great local spot if you're in the Palm Desert area. It's everything you WANT a local dive bar to be! Cheeeaaaap stiff drinks, casual atmosphere, stinky pool tables, sloppy bathrooms, and local bands with creative names (Shout out to LOS COCHINOS!). The BFF and I definitely caused some trouble here all on the cheap!
If you are with a chill crew looking to hang out and have a random night, and on a budget, it's a must see. And maybe you can get flirty with it! "Hey, there's this big Red Barn...wana meet me there later?" You're tempted.
WARNING! Some random local told the BFF and I about how people actually live above the bar in the barn...I would not recommend going up there...let's just leave it at that. :)
So I'm a big fan of dive bars like this place... If any of you have ever been to Costa Mesa's Goathill Tavern, you'll feel right at home here. Â I came with a bunch of girls for after a birthday dinner and had a ton of fun! Â Like all of the Yelpers below said... Super dive-y but the drinks are stiff, cheap, and tasty (as they should be). Â Also, the bartenders were pretty friendly and never kept me waiting for more than a few minutes. Â The locals are HILARIOUS... They were definitely wary of us OC bitches, but oh well..... We had fun... I would say that this bar was all around fun fun FUN!
Review Source:Friendly locals watering hole. Any place Joe Strummer was rumored to hang out in, is top of the list with us. Â Great stiff drinks, easy on the wallet, interesting cool folks who know the lay of the land, pretty cool jukebox..great patio area......definatly not one of those trendy bullshit bars and thats a GOOD friggin thing... sometimes a good ol' roadhouse bar is whats totally called for.
Review Source:Any place Joe Strummer and Brian Setzer used to drop in to have a beer can't be that bad! Â A nice break from the pompous desert nightclub scene.
Great mix of people, bikers, punks, rockers, barflys, and just general middle class desert folk. Cheap drinks, live music on weekends, Everything from coverbands, desert stoner rock locals and punk and indie rockers, Typical Dive bar in the land of Golf carts and swimming pools. Worth a stop.
When our car full of girls pulled up to the Red Barn (literally) we all burst into laughter. It's pretty funny going from a hotel club to a local dive bar but it was worth the trek (and $25 cab ride). Strong cheap drinks, interesting people, big dance floor, and a functioning up-to-date jukebox.
If you're looking to venture outside of the tourist-y club scene in Palm Springs/Desert, Red Barn is the place to be. You can even play a round of pool if you're into that kind of thing.
I love dive bars, and the Red Barn takes the cake!! Its the best dive bar in Palm Desert!! Â You can't miss the big red barn storefront which makes it easy to find.
The Bartenders pour a stiff drink with cheap prices. Â I think I paid $4.00 for a Jack and Coke. Â I went there last Monday around ten pm. Â At first, there was only a handfull of fellow drinkers there, but at the stroke of 12 midnite, the place was much busier.
They have a cool patio area to kick back in, I really enjoyed chatting with people out there. Â The vibe was laid back with no snobs allowed.
There is one pool table, shuffleboard and maybe some darts to play.
The bathrooms were gross. Â Girls hold your pee till you get home!
I will return again and tell my friends to go.
Just my honest opinion...
People were not fooling around about this dive. Wow. Drinks are crazy strong and insanely cheap (Patron and diet and a whisky sour was $8.50. WTF?!)
Shufflepuck, pool, pinball and a jukebox. Not too bad.
Super local-heavy but fun. Not the classiest clientele - lots of flat brimmed baseball caps (brohams galore!) Major sausage fest, too.
Quote of the night ad I am standing, waiting for the ladies' room from the girl who walked in after me and waited for maybe 12 seconds, "I'm over this. I'm gonna go pee outside."
Minus 1 star for the nasty ass bathroom.
Best dive bar in town and like a typical dive bar you never know what you're going to get on any given night. Â Where else in Palm Desert can you walk in and the first thing you see as you open the door is an incredibly drunk girl lifting up her top & pouring lemon juice all over her breasts? Â Welcome to the Red Barn. Â Well that may or may not be a good thing, but it IS a dive bar after all! Â Honestly it wasn't good either, the girl was kinda scuzzy (go figure) & I was with my wife that night. Ha! Â She wasn't impressed, but hey it makes for a good "Barn story".
It's been our "go to" dive bar for years. Â Good stiff drinks on the cheap, friendly bartenders, a loud jukebox or garage band and an ever changing plethora of weird and wonderful patrons.
Other distractions while you're boozin' it up are a beat-up pool table, a tabletop shuffleboard game, ping-pong tables, a pinball machine (if it's working), a bar top video game & Â keno lottery.
Yep, enough low-brow entertainment to keep you busy for a good spell. Â Well, now I've done it, all this chatter about the Red Barn has got me craving another extended dive-bar drinking excursion....or as I like to call it: a Barn-a-Thon.
I like the feel of this place, but wtf where are all the women? There was like 5 and about 97 different flavored sausages for the festivial tonight. It was way out of control, but the bar keep was pretty saucey and she could make a good drink! First good drink i've had in this area! They have live music there a lot from what I've heard, the band last night wasn't bad.
Review Source:This bar is horrible..
Nothing on Tap, crappy desert locals, reminds me why I moved away from the Bermuda Dunes Area.
The only good thing about this bar is you are able to see straight up street brawls in the back parking lot, and there are some great bands that have played here, Mondo Generator, Family Butcher, Chris Goss etc..etc.. I wish this place would have closed and the Village Lounge would have stayed open.
I used to party in the loft style apartment upstairs with some good characters.
Myself and my friends Cory and Jon made a trip to Palm Desert recently and stayed at the Grand Hyatt in Indian Wells. I called my friend Patrick Sheehey back in San Diego to have him recommend a good bar for us to go to. He said if you want to meet some rock n roll girls this is your place. We ended up taking a taxi to a  restaurant down the street from the bar. After we ate we walked towards Red Barn.
When we approached the building we thought it was shut down and out of business until we heard some sounds come through the cracks of the front door. I pulled the door open and into this amazing dive bar we entered. The place was fairly packed with an amazing mix of desert hipsters, punk rock kids, metal heads, motorcross bro's, skateboard bro's, tweakers and older white trash people. I walked to the bar and ordered us a round. We made our way to a booth and began people watching.
I started noticing that a lot of the girls were looking in our direction. I commented to  Jon how I bet this place has a lot of fights. Shortly after, Cory and I went on the back patio to smoke and again started getting some stairs from the locals. Back inside and Jon tells us all about the fight we just missed at the pool tables. This place was getting fun. After a few more drinks we had met several people int he bar and I had a flock of girls following me around.
At around midnight some really bad band from New York went on, which actually went well with the atmosphere of the bar, which still made them enjoyable. I must say coming here was the best part of our trip to the desert. We all had so much fun there and will go back next time we head to the desert.
Total dive bar, which is intended as a compliment. Â Wasn't that happening a place when we went around 1am on a Saturday night. Â And the crowd was a little old, but I'm used to college bars in Tempe so this is probably just what adult life is going to be like from now on...
STRONG drinks though. Â Just didn't feel like that friendly an atmosphere even after several of them. Â We'll be back regardless.
If you're looking for a greazy bar to hang out in then the Red Barn is definitely a top choice on the Hwy 111 corridor in Palm Desert... This is the kind of place where drinking a "mat shot" (having the alcohol from the mats which cover the bar poured into a shot glass) can get your bar tab paid depending on how friendly the bartender is feeling. Â This is a good place where local bands and hip hop mc's can show up and get down... Anything pretty much goes. This is usually a week day hang out spot for when you just want to go out in shorts and flip-flops and not give a crap because no one here does... Good ping pong tables, average pool tables, decent juke box, cheap drinks, dark/dank back patio with TV's where you'll usually find cigarette fiends puffin away like there's no tomorrow...
This place is actually fun to hang out at around the holiday season when the regular clubs/bars are closed in observance of say, Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve...
Definitely not a place I like to go to more than once every 2-3 months and certainly would not take a random stranger home from here...
I live in Portland and visit Palm Desert a couple times a year. The Old Barn is my favorite dive in Portland, so I was ecstatic to find the Red Barn in PD - which just  so happens to be a lot like the Old Barn in PDX.
I'm glad I have found my replacement dive since the Beer Hunter in PD is no longer.
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