Who doesn't love a good dive bar? If you like strong drinks, year-round Halloween decor, Ronald…read moreMcDonald (go find out what I'm talking about) and pinball Deadbeats is your spot. They also have a great jukebox. Bartenders are friendly and quick. There's usually some kind of punch available with a name like Ecto-cooler which is a weird color but completely delicious if you're into that sort of thing. They sometimes have pop-ups there, one time they had fancy grilled cheese sandwiches. Definitely a fun spot! It's pretty small inside so just know that and don't roll in with a huge crew...

So if you have lived on the west side of Providence for a while, you surely are aware of the legend…read morethat was the E & O . So, I was understandably hesitant about a new bar moving into what was considered by many to be hallowed ground. Since I walk by it on my way home from work, I decided to stop in soon after it first opened to see what it was like. And now I am a regular and it's one of my favorite watering holes in the city. Super cool atmosphere, with tons of horror movie memorabilia on the walls. A couple of pinball machines ( including a brand new Evil Dead one which is really sweet), and neat liitle outback area for nicer days. They also occasionally have music and drag shows inside, and in the summer months cool shows outside in the parking lot next door. You can also grab a grilled cheese or a hot dog from Puggles Grilled Cheese most days of the week if you're feeling peckish. And my favorite thing... PICKLEBACKS.... !!!! All the drinks are cheap and they have a good selection of beers and ciders. Maybe most importantly, the owners Jeff and Courtney are absolutely lovely people who really understood keeping the locals vibe of the E & O era but also being it's own thing. Definitely support this great establishment.

I visited as part of #RIFoodFights #LordoftheWings competition and this was my first time ever…read morehere. Set up as a biker friendly roadside bar and certainly look the part. Visited on a Saturday afternoon and was impressed by the amount of beers they had on tap and selection of local craft options. I tasted the barbecue wings and they were solid. My only negative for them would be they charged me extra for my side of ranch sauce ($.50). But I'll say that's outweighed by how cheap the beer prices are there, so overall net positive bonus points!! it's pretty far away from where I live, but wouldn't hesitate to go there again if I was ever in the area.

Unfortunately the day has come for my first ever 1-star review…read more A few weeks ago, I arrived (so hungry) at Cady's Tavern with a group of friends (also so hungry) for a quick bite to eat. At the door, we were stopped immediately & asked "do you have tickets" with no explanation to which we answered no. We were then told that the show inside was a ticketed show & therefore we couldn't come in. We explained that we were just there for dinner. The door person said we could order food out on the patio if we insisted, accidentally hitting me in the face as she was gesturing. So we maneuvered our way through the busy bar to the patio out back to scope out the scene. There were a few available picnic tables, so my group claimed one of them as I headed to the bar. I asked the bartender "can we order food here with you?" to which she answered yes, while eyeing me up & down. I asked for a few menus & 4 glasses of water for my group. The bartender instead gave me 4 bottles of water. Ugh. Back at our picnic table, I remarked out loud to my group "do I have something on my face?" because from the moment we entered the tavern, I felt like everyone (both staff & patrons) was examining me like a bug under a microscope. We fell into hangry silence as we checked out the menu & I noticed immediately that there were no allergy markings anywhere on the menu. I can't have gluten. It makes me very sick. I'm not happy about that - believe me! One of the greatest tragedies of my life was learning that I couldn't drink beer anymore. The menu is mostly pub classics & I really wanted a burger (I saw recently that Cady's Tavern was listed on a Yelp Collection for great burgers in the state). The menu said to "advise" my server of "any food allergies" & so I returned to the bar to ask about gluten-free accommodations. I explained the situation & asked very politely if there was anything they could do so that I could have the burger. I really miss being low-maintenance, but I know (having worked in the service industry for 15 years) that major changes are happening surrounding allergy awareness & accommodations. I've had burgers on lettuce "buns," burgers without buns, burgers on gluten-free buns, & other creative modifications at the most unlikely of places. So when I politely asked the bartender if they could modify the order because of my situation, she reacted like I had asked her the most outlandish question imaginable. She looked me up & down again, let out a rude "pffft" & said, "we don't do that kind of stuff here." I said "oh, okay" & walked away. I was shocked. I relayed the interaction to my group & we decided that we had no interest in ordering food. We paid for our bottles of water (UGH!) at $2 each & made our way back through the stuffy bar & out to the (unpaved) parking lot. The feeling that Cady's Tavern gave me was really horrible. The covert judgement, the overt impudence, & the implications on food safety & allergy awareness left me with a pit in my stomach. I always try to give businesses & their employees the benefit of the doubt when things go awry, but I don't think I can do that here.

Best bar on the west side. The drinks are good and cheap, and the staff is really lovely.read more

Who doesn't love The Dog?…read more A fully black painted build at the of a highway on ramp with no windows. Check Dimly lit with reddish hue lit dive bar. Check Great strong drinks and good craft beer and liquor selection. Check Great heavy rock and punk music billowing through the place. Check Friendly bartenders who enjoy talking to the patrons. Check Always some strange movie playing on the TV's. Check A dark dive bar that checks all of the boxes. What more can I say? Tip: Don't be afraid to order a specialty drink, they enjoy pouring them. Thanks

Talk about a dive bar!…read more We came here for a wedding party for a celebration near treehouse brewery and I ordered a margarita and I guess the bartender was MIA so another dude was subbing and the drink were 90% tequila and 10% juice which just wasn't the vibe for the night. Interesting dive bar though!

Just passing through town, had a super quirky, fun, memorable experience here. If memory serves the…read morebartender was on roller skates and there was a zombie mannequin sitting beside us at the bar ‍

The first thing you notice at Lucky's is the noise. Country and classic rock pour out of the…read morespeakers. Pool balls crack. Laughter runs into arguments about nothing that matters. The room is full of people whose hands do real work, now wrapped around pool cues and plastic cups while they forget about roofs, engines, kids, and bills. We stayed for about an hour. Long enough to see this is a regulars' bar, the kind where people walk in already laughing at a joke that started three nights ago. Alli clocked us as soon as we came through the door. "You're Tim, right?" She then began quoting the parts that she liked from last year's RI FOOD FIGHTS Lord of the Pies review back to me. Sometimes word for word. Out of the blue. Nodding as she went. She agreed with it. Lucky's knew they'd landed near the bottom of my list. No excuse making. Just a little hope, I think, that this year would read differently. I wanted that too. They know exactly what they are at Lucky's: a bar that feeds and waters the people who live nearby. The neighborhood's living room. The staff and the neighbors have always been the stars. The pizza finally caught up. They make their own dough on site every day. As far as I can tell, that's how they've always done it. What changed is how it all comes together on the pan. The pie that landed in front of us looked like exactly what it is. A really solid Greek pizza. Crust on the thicker side, with a soft chew and a clean crunch at the back end. Sauce with an herby backbone. A little sweet but with enough acid to keep it from feeling heavy. Cheese that melts into browned, salty pockets you hunt down at the edge of the crust. Greek pies don't try to innovate anything. They just have to be honest. This one is. Last year, Lucky's was dead last on Lord of the Pies rankings. This year it climbed to dead center. Twenty one out of forty. That doesn't sound heroic until you remember nothing else about the place changed. Same bar. Same crowd. Same noise. Same staff. The only difference was how good the pizza is now. I have no confusion that Lucky's is a bar that serves pizza, not a pizzeria that happens to have a bar. The difference now is that THIS pizza can stand right there with all of the other places that put "pizza" in big letters on the sign. But how many of those places are this fun or friendly? Alli told us maybe a hundred people had come through with coupons. She laughed and said you can usually spot the "pizza people" as soon as they walk in. She wasn't wrong. We were those people. What mattered was how her regulars handled it. Our friends ended up spending most of the time talking to the guys at the pool table. People at the bar asked where we were from, how many places we'd hit, how this pie stacked up. At no point did we feel like outsiders passing through to collect another stamp. If you live nearby, you already know what Lucky's is. If you're cutting across Foster on your way to a casino or just trying to get lost for a bit, you can walk in, grab a pie, and sit at a bar that doesn't treat you like you're intruding on an inside joke. The pizza moved from forgettable to solid. The time we spent there felt like a little redemption story. And everyone in the building had a hand in writing it. And who doesn't love a nice, hot pizza or a happy ending?

They advertised an adult Easter egg hunt on Facebook. It appeared in my feed and immediately…read moretapped into my competitive side and love of winning things. Also a win for my husband, the egg hunt is at a bar! Cost of admission: a canned good. Marked in the calendar! We pull up about 50 minutes prior to the egg hunt and only 5 cars in the parking lot, one hood up and being jumped. We questioned if an egg hunt was happening? We left the canned goods in the car and walked in. Wasn't expecting much but this place has small bar charm! A bar that seats around 15 people. Wood paneling, pool tables, from the looks of it a highly used fireplace and a little pizza place. Just enough. Still didn't look like an egg hunt was going to be happening but I noticed a table in the back corner that looked like raffle prizes. We sat, started with drinks. Ordered food. Small pepperoni pizza, fries and buffalo wings. Everything was ok. The wings could have been better (small) but the other food and kind service made up for it. The locals were energetic and animated. Other people started piling in for the egg hunt. Think some with real Easter baskets. Some with plastic bags (like me!) Some had chia seeds to donate and others had donettes. Just an FYI- if you plan on going next year make sure to support the bar as well. The backyard has a fenced in area but the egg hunt was inside that area and on both sides leading to the back woods. When we left at least an hour after the egg hunt had begun, there were still 7 eggs and prizes still hidden. What did we win? 1 six pack of Whalers seltzer, 1 six pack of Whalers beer, one pint glass, one 2nd annual Lucky's sticker (it was legit) and candy. Now what did we also leave with? Someone leaving passed us a gold token for a free beer from the bar and the bartender gave us a jumbo egg filled with nips. I declare I love Lucky's Adult Easter egg Hunt I had a lot of fun. This place has won me over.

PSA - 33 redid the back room & it's literally so swanky. They re-felted the pool table, painted the…read morewalls, hung some neat art, redid the floors, & upgraded the lighting. It looks & feels SO good in there. A game of pool will run you a dollar in quarters. The table sometimes gets stuck, so be firm when you cha-ching the quarter holder thing. If it sticks & you can't get it to un-stick with some gentle smacks, the very sweet bartender will unlock it for you. There was a band playing when we were there - I think "City of Meriden" was the name? Super good, super funky, super weird. The cover was $10 per person. Worth it.

What's not to love about 33? It's everything you could ever want in a dive bar…read more The bartenders are all extremely friendly and accommodating, the live music is great, the pool table is (mostly) level and typically uncrowded. You can also put quarters for the table on your tab if you don't have cash, which a lot of places won't do for you (the table is free some nights too!). I don't believe they serve food, but the beer and liquor is very reasonably priced and hits the spot every time.

We recently tried the Dark Horse Tavern on a Saturday evening. We got there at opening (5 o'clock)…read moreand it was already dark out, it was confusing where the entrance was, but we found it. We entered and were immediately impressed by the decor and setting. You really feel like you entered a time capsule from a different era, everything is beautiful. We were seated in a cute little area. We ordered our drinks and we really wanted the fish chowder for our app, but they didn't have any (so disappointing). My husband decided on the chili and nothing caught my eye for an app, but I had some bites of the chili and it was very very good! For dinner my husband picked the Beef and Guinness Stew and I picked the Fish and Chips. My fish was very good, but it said it came with hand cut fries and there was no way they were hand cut, they tasted like everything other frozen fries I've had and they were really skimpy on the fries. My husband's Beef and Guinness Stew was awful, he said the meat was very grizzly and tough. We really enjoyed our experience dining in such a beautiful place, we might come back in the summer and give them another try.

Amazing waitstaff, great ambience, and terrific food. I wish we lived closer. It has a sort of…read moreclandestine/hidden gem vibe. My husband had the beef and Guinness stew and I had the classic wedge salad - both fab. Our server was so attentive. I recommend trying the cocktail of the day, if you happen to be a cocktail person.

Passing by and was so glad this restaurant was chosen! Nate the server, was friendly and fast will…read morehis service. The food came out quick and the atmosphere was calm/pleasant. The place seems quite large inside and was surprised to be seated immediately. Never this type of burger before and thought I'd take the chance ordering the blueberry BBQ bacon cheeseburger. The burger was perfect and tasted amazing. Wouldn't change anything about it. The fries were crispy and had soft on the inside. Everything tasted fresh and flavorful. The draft beer was delicious and paired well with my meal. Will definitely find my way back here in the future!

Update. I didn't think my last review was too negative, however a manager still contacted me to…read morediscuss our experience and wanted us to be 100% satisfied. We returned today and had impeccable service. My burger & my Wife's cuban sandwich were both excellent....

This review is way over due. It's from my Jan visits. I came back again since my uncle passed away…read moreand he was a regular here and this was his favorite place. He would visit every morning right when they opened. His favorite was Jack Daniels honey Whiskey so I made sure me to always take a shot while I'm here. I believe I stopped by 4 times while I was out there on Vacation. My family lives right across the street so it's very close to me. The bartenders are all very nice and welcomed me in. Everyone there has nice stories about my uncle so I loved going there every day! Had nice convos with David, Linda and Andrea. I wish we had bars like this back in San Diego. I will be back on my next trip!

Eh. Went here previously and didn't feel like we weren't wanted but the last time we went it was…read moreobvious that they prefer the regulars. No great loss, plenty of places in the area.

After enjoying hiking in the area we came here and enjoyed the pulled pork poutine, wiener…read moreschnitzel and beers! While their IPA was pretty average, the strawberry rhubarb brew was great! The schnitzel was nicely prepared with a side salad that was tasty and a decent mustard. The poutine fries were nicely done and fresh, but IMO, there was a bit too much gravy and not enough cheese curds on the poutine. That didn't stop us from devouring the whole thing though, it definitely was not bad. Ambience is chill with music playing at a lower volume. Mostly couples and small, chill groups in the spot. There was one small group with a baby but the baby was not overly loud or disruptive. Outdoor seating is available but we opted to be inside with the AC. Bartender seemed to be the only employee working both the tables and the bar and a little overwhelmed, so service was a bit slow. Would definitely stop back here and highly recommend the strawberry rhubarb brew! Clean, gender neutral restrooms.

Went here on a whim to attend the book fair hosted by a local bookstore here in their event space…read more I cant lie this book fair was pretty lackluster and overpriced, so we decided to grab food and drinks since we were already there anyways. The brewery was very busy and the line was long, with slower wait times, but the food and drinks were worth it. The buffalo chicken tenders were great quality, not overly spicy or salty, and came with a chunky, house-made blue cheese dressing. The bacon cheesy fries were a standout. The beer cheese was perfectly smooth and flavorful, topped with crumbled bacon and thinly sliced purple onion, which was surprisingly really good. I also tried the pomegranate Down East cider, a flavor I hadn't seen anywhere else, and it was my favorite I've had so far. Atmosphere was decent but on the smaller side. Overall a good experience, though not somewhere I'd go out of my way to return to