Tavern on the West End

My friend decided to have his birthday here. I had never heard of this bar, and neither had my other friend who is a frequent Oak Lawn bar hopper. It was pretty hard to find. Technically it's on Sayre and 95th, but it's actually across from residential houses, across 95th from the water tower. You have to turn onto New England in order to get to it. Look at a map before you come.

Plenty of parking everywhere. The bar itself is pretty solid for a dive. It's fairly new, only having been open for almost a year. You can tell it has been newly painted, new tables, etc. Other than that, it's pretty divey. Not a craft beer in sight, a sad affair for a craft lover like me. Oh, well they do have 312 and Blue Moon, so I guess that counts? They just have your basic domestics and imports and a full liquor bar (or so it seemed). I had a bottle of Coors and it smelled like vomit. I couldn't even drink it it was so bad. Returned it for another. They also are lacking on the bartenders. They only had two and it took almost 10 minutes to get a drink.

They have a pool table and a dart board so if you don't want to watch the game, you can play one yourself. They also have one of those music play things so you can pick songs to play. I highly recommend doing the "use a credit to have your song play third" option because I never heard my song and I was there for 3 or 4 hours.

The crowd was surprisingly young, but that may have been because there was a lot of us from the same group. A group of 20 will pretty much own the bar. The bathroom only had one stall for the ladies but it was nice enough. What was strange and surprising to me was that on the sink, they had a bunch of products for you to freshen up: lotion, hair spray, perfume, etc. It was weird, but nice if you want to keep up your appearance for the night.

Overall, it's a solid option in Oak Lawn if you're looking for a quiet dive. No one will bug you here.