This place has finally shut down. Word on the street is that they weren't making enough money and their liquor license was about to expire and renewing wasn't an option.
This place was nothing to rave about. Cheap drinks on Tuesday but then they started to charge a cover. The crowd was starting to deteriorate. The bartender women were usually bitch with an attitude. The shot girls were skanks to say the least. I understand you are trying to do your job, but throwing yourself on these men with their girlfriends standing in their arms it's some desperation. Food was good when you have been drinking.
Someone got shot here recently, good thing it's closed
Somehow our work holiday party ended up here. It was planned by gals who live on the southside and because this place had $3 drinks and 50c wings on Friday we ended up here! Definitely no complaints on my end!
The drinks were poured with a nice and steady hand :) and anything you could want was $3!
I did not sample the wings but had a bacon cheeseburger, fries and buffalo chicken bites. All was pretty darn good. Would I go back JUST for the food, nope, sorry. But if I ended up here and was hungry...I'd eat!
Our server was fantastic! We were a table of 10 at 1pm on a Friday. There were only 3 other people in the bar at the time until we left around 5 and she kept running between us and the bar and was GREAT! A few coworkers ended up on the pole, yes they have a "dancers" pole on the stage, and she glady put on fun music for them to dance to.
Don't be scared of the Tiger Lounge....it reminded me of a few of the towny bars from my college days in Bloomington. It was A-OK by me! They also had great shows playing on tv to entertain us...we watched HOURS of Killer Karaoke on TruTV.
If you are used to places like Wrigleyville and Lincoln Park, then you are probably going to hate this place.
It isn't a bad bar, it is just kind of ghetto. We were there for a party. The staff, waitresses and bartenders and door people were all great. Really nice and cool people. The bathrooms were horrible and people were drunk and fighting and stuff. At the point when someone gets like that, kick them out.
You can also see some seedy people come there, but then some really cool laid back people do too.
It is definitely a dive bar, but I like dive bars so I had a great time. The shot and drink specials were awesome too. The advantage to the shitty bathrooms and seedy people are that you can get wasted on $40 easily here and you can look like a baller doing it. Just depends what you are looking for.
Went there on a Tuesday night with a pretty big group. Â We were able to get a table and a few friends were able to play pool.
The bartenders were nice and did a pretty good job getting our drinks without issue.
Tuesdays are $2.00 everything. Â Burgers, Every beer, wells and all shots.
So the $2.00 deal was pretty great.
What I did not like is how the place turns from a decent sports like bar to some strange club where you feel you need a weapon to get out of the place. Â
When we left we had people sitting on our cars. Â
The place turned into a crap hole...
A nice looking bar although it seems to be a heavily Latino bar. It looks like a good place to catch a blackhawks game and I am sure late on weekends it has a much different crowd with DJs and so forth. the place is spacious and has more than one pool table. Plenty of Tv screens although this isn't really a place to watch sports. They likely have lame thumping music most of the time.
Review Source:Ok, kinda agree with some of the reviews. I was invited on Tuesday which I was told is their busiest nights. I'm sure it had alot to do with the $2 dollar beers/ some drinks. Also some food items as well. However I didn't try the food.
In my opinion its a bar. The DJ was ok. The drinks was so-so, but I do think they need to improve on certain things. Such as customer service! One STAFF member might be nice and the other nasty:( I do recommend training the staff in hospitality. The women bathroom was too small, for the size of the bar.
This place has potential but needs to GRADE UP!
I went there on Saturday 7/2/11. Our main waitress didn't ever tell us her name and the first words out of her mouth were "what do you want to drink?" and it was kinda said in a frustrated tone. I wasn't able to keep a running cash tab going to, every time she brought out a drink, I kept a running tip under my glass. Every time I put part of the tip under the glass, she scuffed and walked away. I've been a server for 7 years, and this is NOT acceptable behavior or attitude. My tips are 100% based on performance. Crappy service gets 15% great service can get between 40 and 50%.
I thought this was just one server, but I had the pleasure of coming in contact with 2 others who were just as annoyed as the other. I accidentally spilled my beer and asked the bartender for a wet rag. I started to clean up and when one of the waitresses came over to take over for me she scuffed under her breath. I apologized, b/c I felt really bad, she looked at me, rolled her eyes and walked away.
They did have a DJ playing who was doing a great job but I wasn't really sure what to think of it, b/c I thought it was a sports bar. Then one of the waitresses started to pole dance. Like others have said I think this bar has a case of confused identity.
Based on my experience, I will not be returning to this establishment!!
Is this a lounge? Is this a bar? I'm kind of not sure. Came here on a sat night to watch the mavs game. I HATE when there is a Dj playing crappy music while the game is on. I would rather listen to the game not to top 40 songs. Ordered the sampler platter and it was just the standar bar food, but it hit the spot since I was starving. The drinks are pretty strong though. After 3 cran-vodkas and 1 vegas bomb I was buzzing away! I might check this place out on a Tuesday. My friend has told me that it gets pretty busy and they have $2 drinks.
Review Source:This place is a complete joke.
I got in touch with this place to throw a 30th birthday shindig for my best friend. I was told about a bracelet deal that was open bar with food and tip for $30 for the night. Sounds awesome, right? I thought so too! So I booked it. I spoke with them a couple more times over that week just to confirm the package and the details.
Cut to party time. We get there and start to set up and our server comes by. All of  a sudden, its $30 for 3 hours. But we're told that we can extend it for $5 per hour, per person, for those that want to stay. The 3 hours runs out and we are ready to go for an extra hour, but now we're told that the entire party has to do it if we want the deal. Every time I was told one thing, it ended up being something else.
As for the place, it seems to be having an identity crisis. There are tv's tuned into sports everywhere. The booths are lined with cheetah print. There,s a dance floor WITH A STRIPPER POLE! Hey, I love a stripper pole as much as anybody else, but pick a theme man!
It seems like the only thing that this place has done properly is mastered the old bait and switch. Two thumbs down.
Tiger Lounge really depends on your taste. To someone laid back and from the south side, this place rocks and sadly because there is nothing better in the area. If you are a person who frequents the downtown or northside scene, this place is pure cheese and you might want to come only for people watching.
My personal beef is with the DJ. Now hopefully this place switches different DJ's on different nights but if they don't a word of advice.
Advice: When no one is dancing and the place is packed with females - something is wrong. When these said females request songs (popular ones we know you own) you should probably play those songs to pack the dance floor up. I mean isn't that the purpose of your job? To keep the ladies dancing so the men come and buy drinks for themselves and said ladies?
I hope my point was made and this improves in the future. We went here for a friends birthday and danced 1 song in 4 hours, bummer of a night. We even slipped the DJ money to get songs played, instead he played space music that no one was familiar with and therefore no one danced. I mean no one. Pretty lame night. Even with that stripper pole gleaming in the corner, calling my name....the music just didn't warrant any hip or bottom shakin from anyone with girl parts...I'm just saying.
And as for what others have said, yes this place is confused, it is a dance night club meets suburban sports bar.
The GOOD: The prices for everything were good to average. The food prices are alright. My friends ordered cheese fries, but didn't know it was going to be coming in such a large plate. It's your average fake cheese on thick cut french fries, but they tried to make it fancy by cutting up some green onions to go over it. Surprisingly it worked, well for me at least, but I really like green onions. All that was just $3. Some other friends got the sampler which tasted pretty mediocre as well. The special for the night was domestic buckets for $12 that came with 5 bottles. That's a pretty average special too. Actually, that's probably why this place is getting only 3 stars. Everything was so average and common for any local dive bar in any part of the city. I think they knew this and tried to make themselves above other bars by adding the whole "tiger look" which was high class comedy on it's own. I want to say the scene was kind of dark and dreary, with an attempt to liven up the look with a DJ and brightly colored wall ornaments. Too bad the place did not have much light to enhance the walls except from the multiple large flat screens, which were nice. We went there after a Chicago Fire game and watched the Blackhawks game after. Everyone was fixated on the game except for some younger crowd that were playing pool at the 4-5 tables they had. The crowd is your normal townie crowd. If your a single girl, there's a good a amount of guys. If your a single guy, grab some drinks before you check out any of the girls. Don't really know what else to say about this place since it's so average.
The BAD: Come on Tiger Lounge! How can you guys be that strict about having hats inside your place when your 7/8ths sports bar and 1/8th legit lounge because you have a crappy DJ?
The UGLY: Well the UGLY wasn't that ugly. It was more hilarious. It's nice when places downtown or close to the city have a theme to their place. Not places on south Harlem that try to be a classy establishment. What I'm talking about is the multiple waitresses dressed in "sexy" tiger outfits that look as if they were taken from Josie and the Pussycats costumes. They were just missing the cat ears and the tamborine. How can any woman want to work here? You must really like cats or dressing in costumes to even want to apply. I don't like poking fun at other people's jobs because everyone has to do something to get money, but I mean really ladies.
Just go for a beer and maybe an appetizer, but not a place to go out of your way for. I meet a couple of friends here for a few beers and maybe some food, I should have stayed with just the beer. We had the calamari and a pizza, half mushroom and half sausage. The calamari was passable but not trip worthy but the pizza was horrible beyond my worst bar expectations. The mushrooms were canned (yuck) not fresh, and the crust was not unlike a unholy marriage of a Home Run Inn crust and a high school cafeteria crust, doughy with no crust support. I know that this is a bar and you should not look for 4 star fine dining but you should have a bare minimum expectation for bar food, I do and this was below that. This is for locals only, not that I expect to see bus tours flocking to the Tiger Lounge  any time soon.
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