This is the crappiest bar in Eugene, and proud of it.
The last time I was there, the manager told me, "We're gonna get liquor in here, but no mixed drinks! Â This is a working man's bar, and if you can't drink straight whiskey, go to some hipster bar downtown!" Â Or something to that effect. Â
If you want cocktails and mood lighting, go somewhere else. Â If you want live music (sometimes good, sometimes not) with no cover, a profoundly weird mix of people to chat with, and a stubbornly run-down atmosphere, this is the dive bar for you! Â It's not very nice, but it's never boring.
This is the perfect little low key dive bar to stop by when you just wanna let your hair down. They only serve beer and wine and the beer on tap has a definite off flavor. But they do have quite a few in cans and bottles. The place is cheap! $2.50 micro pint happy hour (remember the off flavor though). All in all, if you just need a beer and don't want to deal with the rest-stop in.
Review Source:"Tiny" is an accurate descriptor for this place, though "tavern" brings to mind a place with a little more warmth and charm. If you're into true dive bars, look no further and run for Tiny Tavern. The beer is cheap and so is the entertainment...last time I was there, one of the colorful Whiteaker wanderers was dancing solo with a cat toy in the middle of the floor.
If Sam Bond's is closed and you're waiting on a reservation at Papa's Soul Food, venture in for a cold one, but only if you bring enough people to balance out the rest of Tiny Tavern regulars.
LOVE dive bars and this place is the best of Eugene in that category. I studied physics at U of O before going up to OSU and would study with a buddy of mine who lived around the corner from the place. Â I think about twenty years ago they had a pissing contest in the middle of the room and someone forgot to clean up, so the aroma wafts towards you as you walk in. The house band is Christy and McCallum and they play the best damn covers of Johnny Cash and Cheryl Crow yall ever hear. No credit cards allowed, from what I've been told, in order to keep the cost of the brews down, and the crowd is eclectic, from law students, drunk physics students arguing mechanics, 50 year old hookers, punks, hippies, rasfatarians, tweekers, smack heads and folks who just love damn good rock flavored country western.
Review Source:College bar. Â College bar. Â College bar. Â There is nothing wrong with a college bar...if you are in college. Â (When I stopped by there were three 50+ year olds that looked like they bellied up there since 1989...no college kids. Â Although...they may have been 30 yr olds on the pabst retirement plan.)
This will go in the TMI category- so read on only if you're brave, college educated, or otherwise curious. Â My friend and I were talking about why urinals have those tums looking things on the bottom. Â I didn't know why and he was trying to explain this weird man-thing. Â We walked into the Tiny Tavern and my friend said, "THAT'S WHY!" Â The poor little Tiny Tavern needs to invest in those tums-looking smell-stoping urinal mints. Â Walk in, take a deep breath if you dare, and learn what happens when you don't clean the bathrooms much/at all. Â I could stomach that smell when I was in college (The Corner Club!) but I think I've moved past it. Â I like my beer to smell of hops, not craps.
Granted, people, I am not a college kid anymore. Â My perspective is of an employed woman who's past the whole cheap-beer thing. Â Take that into account. Â For college kids (and total boozers) this place is The Shit. Â (Literally.)
For all you Oly lovers.... the last stand has fallen and that old gold tap will sit on that back wall with the rest of the junk forever more.
I really, really like Tiny Tavern. Having always been a fan of the dive bar, Tiny's is that but... kinda hopped up. The bartenders are all these bad ass chicks that hold down that sometimes rowdy fort and they're pretty darn hot, too. Many local bands hold 'live practice' there for free beer. There's big booths to sit in. They serve Ninkasi. Mmmmmmmmmm Ninkasi. They hosted the Soul All Nighters for a full year!! Fucking AWESOME nights those were. I have no issue about going alone. It's actually fun to sit with the regulars and amuse myself with their antics. So , ya... it smells faint of piss. No worries tho. It's gone by the time you finish your first PBR.
My buddy Paul & I used to love dive joints, ya know that place where all your nice but head up their ass Friends wouldn't find you and talk about work right through your drunk kinda place. Â "This is that place" Â
  For years, I loved to go down to the Tavern back when Eugene was crowned by the media as the anarchist capital.  Tiny's was the Wednesday night Cascadia alive hang out for would be rebel poets and lackluster philosophical pandering to feminist chicks who swore they didn't dig you. Â
  The music can be fantastic there with bands that can't gig in a better joints playing their hearts out and usually for beer.  It's a great venue for punk shows but because the space is so small it can get really loud so bring ear plugs. Â
  Now to touch upon the hoods characters I'd have to say yes Virginia there are creepy people about but remember that this is why we love dive joints & besides the really talented musicians who still care are playing there so hey let's go get a PBR.
This place lives up to the name, Tiny Tavern. Despite the bar stool tops coming apart and the smell of stale smoke drifting from the parking lot..I actually enjoy this place.
It's a local dive bar, with bartenders who don't seem to blend in. The last two times I have been there, it's been preppy men, weird.
But the live shows are good, and happy hour is from 4-6 with even micro brews at $2. Yes, Dead Guy Ale for $2!! One of the few place with Oly on tap as well. Not my thing, but my friends seek the place out for that reason.
I've eaten meatloaf there twice and it was really good. Not sure about any other meals.
I've been to Tiny Tavern several times to see some fucking amazing live shows, and I've never noticed any crackheads ruining the fun. It's a little seedy, but that happens sometimes when places have personality. I think there's a strong (and misplaced) current of Whiteaker-phobia in Eugene. (The ghetto? Give me a break.)
If anything, my major beef with the place is some absolutely out-of-line antics the owner has pulled in the past. I have trouble patronizing a business run by someone who perpetrates a lot of fucked up shit. I remember a big boycott, which was truly sad. It absolutely needed to happen, and for very good reason, but it's a shame for that kind of thing to happen to a spot with the potential to be so much fun.
I can't really give it a very good rating, because I don't think there has been a change of ownership. No one should have to wonder whether they could walk out of their watering hole needing stitches because the boss wants to charge in and thrash the place with absolute disregard for his own customers.
It's just unfortunate, because I do have some fond memories of this bar.
Tiny Tavern is, as its name strongly suggests, tiny. Â
Cable television, lackadaisical bartenders, crappy food menu, Oregon Lottery video poker, and OLYMPIA ON TAP.
Wow. Â Really, what else do you need? Â Located in the charming Whiteaker neighborhood (well, it's charming when the crack and smack addicts aren't roaming the street), it's a piece of Eugene history. Â
Sometimes, somewhat good bands play here on the tiny stage as well.
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