I come here often with my girls have our lil get togethers here. And being that I live up the street awesome cause I can always walk home afte a great time The beer and alcohol is cheap the atmostphere is nice you never have drama or situations people look out for you if you know them from frequent visits lol. all in all it's a really nice place u can grab something to eat relax watch a game listen to great music I love The Falcon Inn come join us meet some new ppl. read more

Went there for Karaoke night. I've actually gone several times. They don't follow the list.....if you're white you get to sing - CONGRATS. If you're black and straight and not corpulent- you're gonna wait.....and possibly not get called. VERY STRANGE VIBE. read more

how are you gonna cut off drinks 50 minutes before you close on a friday night? also one time we came here and spent money on the touchtunes to play a song and the bartender yelled at us NOT to play any music? and they didn't let our song play. they let their own music play. turn off the setting to let people play their music if you're not gonna let them. what a waste of money. overall hostile vibes. and the food they serve in the window to the pizza place isn't good read more

It's an East Hyde Park dive bar where you can get a pitcher of PBR -- and cold frosted mugs! -- for less than $10, cash only.

Very hostile staff, kicking us out before even closing time , almost 40min before . Not welcoming or proper greeting

This is a great inexpensive bar that is cash only. They have karaoke Friday night and other nights it's just a dive bar. People are friendly and it's cheap. This is a great place that's open late and within walking distance to most things in Hyde Park. $3 PBR tall boys read more

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Cold beer and a delicious margarita. What else do you need from a dive bar. Did not try any of the food served through the literal hole in the wall, but that is not why you come here. read more

5.50 Jack and walking distance to my hotel- you have my heart while I'm in town ! Very dive and I love that. I travel a lot and I always try to find hidden gems like this. I didn't try the food YET... but the night is young! read more

Stopped by for a quick drink with friends . We played music all night from the boom box thing . Drank a lot the bartender was great she made a killer Long Island iced tea . There's also a food counter I can't remember the name but it WAS GOOD . Tacos was good pizza was good ! read more

It *was* perfect, once. Alas, even the best things obsolesce. Time makes fools of us all. read more

Very very friendly place that are taking COVID seriously. Lots of social distancing and great prices. Will definitely be back

No pretentiousness allowed! Layed back and excepting. Be sure to catch Friday nite karaoke. read more

Pretty much the diveyist of all dive bars....which is what I like. The prices were hella cheap. The interior was odd but it was fine. I will be back if I'm in there area. read more

Falcon Inn - Bar - Dive Bars Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

Don't come to the Falcon. It is the finest place in Hyde Park to relax with a $6.50 pitcher of Michelob Amber Bock and a bunch of friends, and I don't want the rest of you to ruin that for me. If you do darken the doorway of Hyde Park's only Irish/sports/dive/sometimes gay bar, make sure to generously tip the bartenders. Ray might be the finest man ever to pull a pitcher, and he deserves your respect. In fact, all of the Falcon's bartenders are great, friendly people, many of whom frequent the place on their nights off and can generally be found at the far end of the bar. One doesn't come to the Falcon to enjoy a fancy night out; one comes to drink cheap beer, eat cheap pizza from Cholie's, and to hang out with the chillest, dankest group of people in Hyde Park. Please, if you're scared of black people, hate rap, or dislike uncomfortable chairs and sticky floors, go to Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap or Bar Louie. Come with an open mind and you probably won't be disappointed. read more

Memories of getting completely wasted here and dancing around like an idiot. Good times. If I lived on the South Side, I'd probably live here. Also, it's a cool bar if you like diversity as there's a good amount of both white and black patrons bonding over beer and Bulls. read more

What an awesome Little place. I wish I had found it sooner and knew more people in Chi-town to tell and take here. $1.50 drinks feels like Wisconsin!!! All I did was grab a beer in here I wish I was in Chicago longer than the summer. Man, I just find things too late. Oh well I'll try to party in these regardless. read more

This place is CHEAP, and it is a true dive. They don't serve food, BUT there is a hole in the wall through which you can order pizza from neighboring Cholie's -- greasy, delicious pizza. The beer selection isn't great, but it honestly doesn't feel like it matters what you are drinking when you are paying ten bucks for a pitcher. The bartenders are nice, the fellow patrons are chill (agreed with some of the other reviews here -- definitely seems like there are more people not affiliated with UofC who come here than to the other Hyde Park bars). There are tvs usually playing some sort of game, and a jukebox, and I've heard awesome things about karaoke nights (but those rumors have as yet been unsubstantiated). Walking by this place at night can be a little bit off-putting since there is often a group of men hanging out who often shout at you when you are walking by. For a long reason that intimidated me from coming into this place. But, I eventually did, and among Hyde Park's 4 bars, I'll rank it a solid 3rd place. Come here when you just want to drink with your friends. read more

Such a good dive bar. Cheap drinks. Good selection of beer. Dark and dirty. Lol. Karaoke on Friday's is always fun.

I've been in here twice now, and I absolutely love it. They have sports on the tvs, a great bartender who remembered our beer preference from the first trip, and friendly people all around. It's a very laid back bar with locals who all seem to know each other. There's also a window in the wall to Cholie's Pizza, where you can order anything from pizza to salad to fried chicken to sub sandwiches. The drinks are reasonably priced, and the jukebox has the best selection I have ever heard. read more

This place is, in one word, hilarious. First and foremost, the cigarette machine is stocked in its entirety with menthol cigarettes. Newports, Kools and Salems, to be exact. I thought I was safe when I spotted some Camels in the bottom corner, but alas, they were Camel Lights Menthols. That's just fine, I can buy my cigarettes elsewhere in order to have that kind of chuckle. One night, my friend Emi and I took a couple of her friends from her hometown on a "Hyde Park bar crawl", and anyone who's lived in Hyde Park knows how hilarious that idea is. Our first stop was the Falcon. Picture this: Four white girls in their early twenties sitting around, sharing a pitcher of High Life (which I believe was six dollars, and definitely came with literally frosted mugs, which is fantastic). We see the silly old man in the pimp hat eyeballing us from the bar, but we ignore it. Eventually he saunters over and says to one of Emi's friends "what's a pretty girl like you doing in a place like this?" Her response, deadpan, point blank: "Feeling uncomfortable." HA! read more

Writing this during the first intermission of Stanley Cup Finals Game 5, which I'm watching from home because I was just kicked out for asking to open a tab. I'm not exaggerating. Hey, barkeep, I've been here for every game of the series. We talked about how the last bar you worked at went out of business and how you got to Falcon Inn. I always tip - point is, you know me, I was just asking because I figured I'd be drinking more than a few. "This is cash only." Okay, but what if I leave you my ID or card? "This is cash only." Okay, fine. Here's cash, I have cash. Fine, I'll leave after this beer. Great I have to miss some of the first period. But there wasn't really a need to remind me that "This is cash only. You pay as you go." Okay, fine. I understand, I was wondering if you could write down my drinks because I was just going to get 3 or 4 of the same pint. That's when "Well, you can just finish THIS beer but--" No thanks, I'll leave now. "That's it! Get out of MY BAR!" I left with the bartender yelling at the bouncers not to let me back in. It's okay, I don't need to come back. I don't need to talk to the 4 people that are there. It's sad because I really thought I could go here regularly. I mean I caught 4 of the last 5 Blackhawks games here. I figured I would be welcome, but this is a little ridiculous. read more

I like this place. Cheap drinks.. Laid back. Interesting people. If only I was in the area more often... read more

Seems like the best dive bar in Hyde Park is either this place or the Cove, especially ever since the TIki bar closed. When will you reopen, oh Tiki bar? The Falcon inn is a great place, cheap beers, friendly locals, not too crowded either. A good place to go if you want to escape the usual college crowd, I think. read more

This is one of the nicer dive bars in Hyde Park. The drink specials are comparable to other neighborhood bars. There is no kitchen, but they have a service window inside the bar that allows you to order food from Cholie's. This is a great partnership! However, the noise level in this bar is terrible. The music is turned up so loud that you can't hear the person sitting next to you... even if the bar is empty. Ask the bartender to turn it down... answer is always no. read more

This place is the last bastion of "slum." And I mean that in the most complimentary way. No one stands on pomp and circumstance here. No one will judge you. No one will notice what you are drinking (except the barkeep). No one will care if you are drinking. Men: no one will give a damn if the last time you showered or shaved was before you met your family for dinner for Mother's Day. Women: no one will notice you are a woman - period. Good place to drop off the radar and be inconspicuous if you are famous. Or semi-famous. Or formerly famous. Or not feeling famous for the day. If you are famous AND Amos, then please feel free to share extra cookies. Good place to wallow in self pity if you are no one at all and do not wish to ever be anyone noteworthy. The sort of place where you get the jones to hear "Touch Me I'm Sick" followed by "Somebody To Shove." Except all you will hear are the sounds of silence and the sound of your manic depressive companion belching up her miller genuine draft. Then ponder "mud n' honey" and how Matt Dillon was never believable as neither single nor a grunge band member, and how karma came to righteously bite Winona in the ass after she destroyed Depp and unceremoniously dumped Pirner. Fie on the witch. Last time I was here was on a Sunday night with Kate a few years back during a life threatening snowstorm when it was too hazardous to travel westward back to Archer Heights. We wanted beer and pretzels so we just threw winter coats on over our pajamas and slushed on over to cop a squat on one of the hard stools which make you feel as though you are riding a mechanical bull after a few hours. Good place to just relax and be yourself, but be warned if you think that slumming it will make you a "man repellant": the worse you look, the more jaded you act, and the less you give a shit, so much the more will you be hit upon. So study up: It's like Murphy's law for broads. read more

Hands down my favorite Hyde Park bar. They have $7 pitchers of beer. They got ball on TV. They play rap/r&b, and sometimes people dance in here even though it's a dive bar. They only take cash though. There is also a pizza place next door that is connected. This bar is more neighborhood locals than University of Chicago students. read more

Yes the beer is good and cheap. But the music is ridiculously loud and my friend found a centipede in her drink. (A rum and coke.) YES. A CENTIPEDE. read more

The regulars used to refer to this place as the star wars bar due to the unique people who walked in the door. I have seen noble prize winners drinking next to what looked like a homeless man on more than one occasion, something you would not see on the north side.The drinks are cheap. It used to be a great a great place to see a Bulls games, but things may have changed. The people are for the most part friendly drinks flow freely. Tip your bar tenders they are very under valued there, a $5.00 tip will go a long way to your night of drinking. A couple of things if you are a history buff, the bar is a Louis Sullivan and if you are standing at the bar turn around and look up, there is a great painting from the columbian exposition. read more

The most underrated bar in Hyde Park. A slew of $1.50 pints available every night. Wonderfully tacky decorations like giant football helmets, Christmas lights, and Corona banners from the 70's. They just got a new digital jukebox with a massive selection as well. You can get pizza and other snacks from next-door neighbor Cholie's Pizza via a window in the west wall of the place. Usually not too packed. read more

What could I possibly say about the Falcon. It didn't take me more than a few months of coming here every week with my friends to become a regular, way before I started coming here on Sundays and some Monday nights for football. I have long since moved out of Hyde Park, but even though there are plenty of decent bars in my new neighborhood that are significantly closer, I would still rather trek all the way down to Hyde Park just to go to a warm, friendly place like this. The person below me who said that, "Ray is the finest man to ever pull a pitcher" was grossly understated. He knows your name, your drink, your football team, and all kinds of random things about you that you didn't even know you told him. Just the other night, I'd had a few too many and was offered a ride home by one of his other regulars and I asked him if he trusted this guy, and he said he did. Ladies, you can absolutely trust Ray to keep you safe in this place. I've seen him throw out obnoxious drunks who were inappropriately touching women and he's come over to my end of the bar to warn me whenever such a character has come in. He'll take good care of you. He even went a step further, gave me his number, and told me to call him to let him know I got home safely. Not only is Ray a fine bartender, but he's very intelligent, and I proudly consider him my friend. You get all kinds in here. It's the kind of place where you know you're going to run into the drunks in Hyde Park, but you can still feel safe here. Go to the Falcon. Watch a game here sometime over a pitcher and some delicious Cholie's Pizza. I promise you won't be disappointed. read more

This is the best Bar in Hyde Park hands down. Cheap beer. Nice bartenders that will help any way they can. Great for Friday nights starring "Funky Fingers" karaoke and live mic. And on Sunday night with live mic and an other dope dj. My go to with just a relaxing night after work to let loose or to have a few friends come and drink. But when drinks are cheap you can't go wrong. It's my regular bar. Love the Falcon. Amazing spot. read more

It's not the best. its not the worst. Its just fine. Nothing to really write home about though.

Friendly, cheap, and really civilized. It also preserves to a remarkable extent the decor of the late, great Eagle Pub, including its 1920s murals and the intricately carved bar itself. This stretch of 53rd Street has been kind of desolate, though not menacing, ever since the shops and restaurants on the north side of the street were shut down to make way for new construction, so it's especially nice to have a friendly place like this still open for business. Makes for a more cheerful environment. read more

They don't know math. We ordered 4 pitchers including an IPA and got away with $35 for all of it. Highly recommend to get trashed. Do not recommend if you are classy in any way. read more

This is by far the best spot in Hyde Park to chill and have a few drinks. Every day of the week you can find cheap beer, and the regulars at this place. The bartender "RAY" is really nice and will remember your favorites after the first vist. If you aren't much of a drink but are going out with your friends anyway the jukebox has tons of great songs, and if what you want isn't there it will download it for you, plus CHOLIES is sooo good! read more

By far the best bar in Hyde Park. The friendly staff with greet you with cheap beer and wide smiles while you watch a sports game on one of the two tvs, or listen the wide range of funky music. If you get tipsy and need some grub...you are in luck as the pizza joint next store has a side window to order. Love it...only in Hyde Park! read more

Great sports bar and good for good juke box songs and Ray the bartendar with dreads makes the best drinks.

My friend had a get together here. It was nice. Everyone gets along with everybody. It's comfortable and smells fresh, not like a boz of cigars! Pizza and beer makes everyone smile. read more

All the pros of a dive bars without the cons. Cheap beer, friendly service, attractive old-style bar. Next time I'm back, I'll get something from Cholie's Pizza through the window that runs directly into the bar. read more

This is my favorite bar, it has a lot of character, and many characters, too. It is a safe, welcoming place where you can have a few drinks, or sit all night drinking and talking. Everyone is welcome here and as long as you don't cause a ruckus, you can feel like a regular, right away! No jaegermeister available, but don't let that deter you... Jimmy's is over-rated! Check out the Cholies Pizza takeout window for a quick meal, too. read more