Pretty decent little place, with one of the best beer selections in Knoxville. Â Basic but cheap and tasty bar food, and a simple kind of British hole in the wall feel. Â They usually have a rather off-the-wall draft selection, with a fair number of brews from little-known North Carolina breweries who happen to make some pretty great stuff. Â They also have maybe 80-100 different bottle offerings, making their list rival some more storied places like Flying Saucer. Â I can't recall though if they've gotten the requisite liquor license to be able to carry high-alcohol brews. Â
The staff has been the same for years. Â I'd say a couple of them have been there over a decade. Â Never incredibly friendly, but efficient, professional, and perfectly decent at what they do. Â
It's a nice, dark, relaxing place to hang with your friends and get some good beers and a snack on days when you really don't care what you look like and have no one to impress. Â Good, wholesome basic fun.
It's kind of a dive bar with minimal seating. There's a jukebox, darts, pool tables, and a backyard patio.
They allow smoking inside.
They have an AWESOME beer selection (no liquor) with a cooler full of great brews.
The food is surprisingly good. Â I HIGHLY recommend the pub dog- a brat with hot mustard, homemade relish, and sauerkraut. The sandwiches are good- you can customize your own and though the selection isn't huge, it's adequate. The hummus is tasty as well.
You have to go the bar to order anything so don't feel like you're getting bad service if you sit down and no one visits you.
Definitely a cool place to hang out.
Want to go on a beer adventure? Try Union Jacks. I love cozying up to a booth, drinking some exotic label and playing with the jukebox. Can be a good, casual first date kind of place, although sometimes loud and crowded due to size. If it's crowded, it can be uncomfortable and I'd recommend going elsewhere but on slow nights its dark, cozy, and comfortable.
Review Source:This is an awesome,homey,little bar! You always see the same people and everyone is really friendly. They have a wonderful selection of beer both on tap and in bottles. Even a few you can't get at any other bar!
They have a Juke Box full of fun music, pool tables, and darts.Plus the food is pretty good!
The only down sides are that they only serve beer, the place is really tiny, parking sucks, and the bathrooms are filthy.Service can be a bit slow too.
However this place is tops when it comes to beer selection,atmospheare and friendliness.
Best beer selection in Knoxville. Â This is a good hole-in-the-wall bar where you can enjoy a drink and make a friend and don't have to wade through a meat market unlike some other bars in town. Â This place can be smoky and they could stand to improve their service and outdoor patio. Â The service is friendly but slow. Â However, the beer selection and laid back atmosphere make it worth visiting. Â The jukebox is awesome.
Review Source:Somehow when I'm home we always end up at Union Jacks. I've had good times there. I've had bad times there. I've had just A-OK times there.
I am not a smoker, so if you are not a smoker and hate smoke you're going to hate this place. Hate. It lets you smoke inside. Eventually you just get used to it, but then when you're headed home afterwards you smell like you've been smoking for decades.
The beer selection here is freakin phenomenal. They offer so many kinds of beer and have a great selection of local and distant offerings. Don't be an idiot and order the same gotdamn beer each time. Branch out. Try something you've never had.
The bar food here is just that. Bar food. Though I must admit I dig the pub dog quite a lot.
Be ready to duck as you head to the bathroom since that one-stall filthy affair requires you to walk the dart-range to get to. If you lose an eye remember that David M. warned you as you sit and wait for half your life in one of Knoxville's craptastic ER waiting rooms.
So. 3 stars. I'm unable to be a regular, but I usually end up going there when I'm in town to catch up with friends and have a few brews. The bar staff, 9/10 times, is good and friendly. It's just not the greatest bar in existence for me or anything.
Quite possibly the coolest bar on the planet...maybe more because it was the first bar I went to as a regular before I turned, 21. That was years ago and this bar is still the best in Knoxville. Â
It is normally the first place I go come back in town. Â Its always nice to see the same familiar faces sitting around the bar or playing pool. Â Add to that the bartenders are always friendly, enjoy their work, and, perhaps of consequence, have very low turnover.
The jukebox is second-to-none!!! Â I can always hear Tom Petty's "American Girl" when I think about hanging out there. Â Mostly classic rock, 80s, jam-band, and 60s funk, but really what else to you need to pound back bitter pints in a smoke-filled cinder block room in the end of a tired string of sporadically occupied storefronts.
As I mentioned earlier, this bar has played host to countless epic battles on the pool table. Â If you are wont to find a competitive game of pool, there is almost always a good crown playing in the back room. Â Standard rules: winner stays, loser buys the beers.
On occasion, Union Jacks has on the offer some live music. Â I remember Thursday night's when a little known band called Robinella and the CC String band used to play every week. All my friends forced ackward conversations with Robinella during set breaks. Â
They only serve beer, but they offer quite an ecclectic collection. Â And not, in that crappy way like, "Yeah, we're the new Turkey Creek brewery with 300 beers on top." Â This is a small, cozy bar with a limited amount of taps and refrigeration space. A beneficial consequence is they are always cycling in-and-out new beers. Â After being gone for several years, I was amazed to see beers from many of the random countries and towns I'd been to.
Then there is the food. Outstanding!!! The best Roast Beef sandwich I've ever had, I swear. Â Typical English fare, but the execution is simply sublime. Â I had a conversation for an hour onetime about what they put in the mustard on my corn-beef sandwich. Â Try that at Jimmie Johns!
In the end, this place will be dismissed by many, and that is what makes it so special. Â It is a place that is truly for those who like to taste what they drink.
This place is a cool little English pub. Â They only sell beer. Â FYI that is no problem because they have such a selection of beer that I'm sure the knowledgeable bartenders can help steer you in the right way. Â They have plenty of drafts and a large variety of bottled beers. Â It can be a little smoky in the bar but it is a bar, right?
They also serve food. Â I have tried the hummus, which by the way is pretty darn delicious and their pub dogs aren't to shabby either. Â The pub dog is a bratwurst topped off with sauerkraut and served with wavy lays. Â There is a soft spot in my stomach for wavy lays. Â If you get hungry while your at Union Jack's you could try the hummus or the pub dog because they are both pretty good. Â I have not tried anything else on the menu but I'm sure that it has to be pretty good.
There really is not a particular night to go but the weekends are of course busier then during the week. Â This little place is a neighborhood bar right next door to Rhouxbarb on Northshore Drive. Â
If your in the area craving a nice cold one then stop into Union Jack's little dark English pub and give it a shot. Â They also have a pool table, dart boards, and a juke box. Â And like most juke boxes go, make sure you push play mine first because you never know what some people might play on it. Â Cheers and Enjoy my friends!
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