If you are looking for a local spot that is old school look no further! It is definitely a local spot that has not been updated in many years but that is part of the charm for me. They also have a taco truck out in the back parking lot and the drinks are affordable! read more

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My entire life, this place has hung in the background of my mind. Having never been there, I finally bit the bullet at 48 years old. When I walked in on thanksgiving day, it wasn't as busy as I thought it would be, but it was full of regulars having a great old time with a full turkey buffet, complimentary even to us! What a great surprise. I'll happily go back here ;-) read more

I would give 0 stars if I could, the door man was very funny and welcoming I would give him 5 stars alone. Once we got in it was a completely different story. The middle aged black hair lady bartender was extremely unwelcoming and very bitchy. Ruined my night. Seemed clean and alright. The doorman was really funny and made me think it would be fun in there, that witch behind the bar really ruined the whole place for me. It's cash only. I'd advise tell people that before they order. read more

Shitty little hole in the wall with cheap drinks. Lot of locals come here. Not much to it. Service is ok. read more

This is a great dive bar. Second best dive bar! They made us feel at home I highly recommend read more

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A perfect bar, for a perfectly timed drink during the holiday season. One of my guilty pleasures is going into dive bars on Christmas Eve. This night hit both perfectly. You will find the older family members that have gathered together for a drink reminiscing. You find the younger bothers,sisters,cousins getting together and comparing stories. Then you have those of us with very few or nonexistent family members. Throw in one very seasoned bartender and that mixes into and amazing evening. The bar had plenty of seats, patrons were friendly and the bartender was on her job! ! Drinks were great. Comfortable surroundings. Do recommend and would love to go back in the area. read more

The Green Door - Cocktail Bars Near Me - Napa, California

It's your friendly neighborhood dive bar, not crowded on a Saturday night, nothing too noteworthy, none of your typical game offerings (ie darts/shuffleboard), but they do have one golf arcade game (Golden Tee PGA Tour), a snack vending machine, lotto, and an atm machine. Oh yes, it's cash only at the bar. They play random music (rock, country, pop, etc.). Drinks are okay, we got standard cocktails, and although there was enough alcohol, the flavors were not great. The service was fine though. Also, it's one of the few bars open late in Napa, and they have a small parking lot, as well as a food truck in the back of the lot when we visited this past weekend. read more

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Bartender had 3 customers plus us... she sat and watched tv. Spoke only to the locals she knew. And she cussed every other word...plus $7 a beer ...nope not my vibe. read more

For a region famous for its wine, there is a real shortage of good bars in Napa County. Fortunately, there is the Green Door. Good service. Food truck in the parking lot. Lots of older folks as customers. One of the country's last working pay phones by the bathrooms. Recommended. read more

This cash-only establishment embraces its dive bar status. (There is an ATM inside.) It's a minimalist bar with a few TVs and a modern jukebox that provides the tunes. Overall, the prices are surprisingly low for Napa, and the bartenders are attentive. Most people drink mixed drinks and bottled beer, but they do have a few standard beers on tap, which are about $5.50 a pint. I'm no stranger to dive bars, but the Green Door's best attribute is its jukebox. read more

We have frequented many a drive bar but please, Green Door, don't take this as a compliment.... You are racing to the bottom. After a very nice dinner at a very nice place we were looking for a place for a late night drink. Unfortunately for us this was the only place open at this time unless we went further into Napa. And even then seriously limited late at night. WTF, why isn't anyone open????? Anyway, after being accosted by people cause I got long hair and look like someone we are done. So this is a crowd just looking for a fight or a problem. Passed out people on bar stools, tables, prolly in the rest rooms. I don't need this shit in my life. We should have listened to our Uber driver and gone home. Closed out, changed tables, called Uber and gone..... Never to return again. Seriously, Napa, figure it out. People come here from all over the world for the best wine in the world during the day and late night all you deliver is trash. Figure it out. read more

Cash only. Know that up front. There is an ATM. This is primarily a locals bar. We throw around "dive bar" but this is a locals neighborhood bar. There was an excellent food truck in the parking lot with pretty tasty burritos. Not sure if it's there all the time. Nice parking lot. Drinks were cheap. Service was good. Not a lot of chatting from the bartender but it's a neighborhood bar and I'm not from the neighborhood. I love places like this. If you want a $25 manhattan made with organic small batch whiskey from Japan, Napa has you covered...just not at The Green Door. If you want to have a couple of drinks and pay cash in 1965, the Door has you covered. read more

You don't take passports as a "California law" and you need to have a "California license". Please try again mam'. What do you think I'm doing out in Napa?! As someone who knows the CA law very well this is complete BS and laughable. Hella embarrassing for you. DON'T recite the law if you don't know it. Instead, be real, and say you don't want to serve two brown folks or whatever your problem is- we'd take it better if you just kept it REAL. Keep it real Green Door. You're in California. Your loss...if you're anything brown, and ain't a regular I'd probably stay away. As some form of feedback, if it's really a "policy" not a law you should post a sign and put that shit on the internet. It'd work wonders for people that are literally traveling without CA IDs or just waiting for their REAL ID ya fucks. read more

Best bar in Napa, hands down. Huge props to Kris, she the best mixologist I've ever seen. read more

The Green Door - Cocktail Bars Near Me - Napa, California

I see very mixed reviews, and that is very understandable. Obviously, this is a dive bar. It's probably OK for people who live in the area and understand the vibe. If you're not a local and are visiting the area as I am, I would recommend against going there later in the evening. Maybe it's fine earlier. I don't know. Maybe it's spectacular earlier, or if you're a local. The bartender was friendly, but it is cash only, and, running a tab seemed like somewhat of a foreign concept. Having to use cash also make many people have to use the on-site ATM and waste a drink's worth of money on ATM fees. That alone tainted it somewhat for me, so take my assessment with that in mind. If a cash only bar, which has an issue with running a tab seems normal to you, then this could be your place. Frankly, it didn't feel really safe there, which may or may not have been an accurate or fair assessment, but it just has a rough feel late overall. It's unfortunate, as there is not much open late in Napa. read more

Great dive local bar ! Friendly bartender and locals were very nice ! Drinks a heavy pour

Amazing service on a busy friday night! Casey was amazing! She remembered our drinks which made her efficient. She's a rockstar!!!

Great MCM dive! Drink prices more in line with modest budgets compared to other Palm Springs drinking establishments.

Darci, is the asset the green door needs to stay the course for the new owner, she is very attentive to all the regulars and any new people that show up here from out of state and out of country, also is very good at being a great hostess and makes everyone feel welcome to the green door, in closing this is a fun place to meet new people have birthday gatherings or anything with the updated juke box to the California scratchers to the Hot Spot keno that runs every 2 minutes, stop by and join the family at the green door, read more

Best bartenders in the valley!!!!!! Cheap drinks & great service ! Why would you want to go anywhere else ?!!! Been coming here for years- Kris is the best ! read more

Best hole in the wall bar!!!!!! Cheap drinks & the best bartenders. Kris is the most welcoming bartender. Have been coming here for years

We stumbled into this bar when my friend Bernadette married earlier this year... It was a great place for the entire bridal party to drink and take awesome photos... Our hour at the Green Door has to be my favorite part of the entire day! Juke box playing and cute old men to talk about baseball with... SoCo shots were soooo cheap and drinks for everyone definitely did not break the wallet... I am looking forward to visiting this place again! Thank you for the hospitality (and the free Green Door shirt you gave the lucky couple!) ...Check out the photos I uploaded! read more

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Gray Goose with club soda tall glass .... $5.50. What a deal!! Lots of locals and a jukebox. If you are tires of the wine tasting fooo fooo.....try this place. And listen to some Red Hot Chili Peppers on the JB. Cheers! read more

Now, I am a bloodhound when it comes to dive bars. I can sniff the scent of stale beer, the aroma of cheap booze and the perfume of cigarette smoke while on a passing train - or in this case, our rental car. We were going 70 mph on the freeway coming back from Bistro Jeanty our very first night in town, when my nostril flared like Wolverine and my senses began to tingle. I saw what looked like the making of a sign, hidden by the tree line running parallel to Route 29S. "Get off the next exit! I think I found one," I yelled. We had not twenty minutes ago spoken about the non-existence of bars in Napa. Coming to wine country for years, my gal had never seen one. I tell ya, drop me on an island, a mountain, shit, drop me in Afghanistan and I'll find the dive bar. Behold, not five minutes later we arrived in the parking lot of The Green Door, a local dive bar for the people that actually WORK in Napa. Now, I am dating myself here but look up Behind the Green Door. It was a soft-core porn film made in the early seventies. One that made a HUGE impression on me as a young teen because of its visual reference in the Burt Reyonld's movie The Cannonball Run. I have seen that movie dozens of times and have watched the opening sequence of Behind the Green Door cut off just as it was about to get nasty. This pornographic film carried with it a certain level of sexual mystique because I never got to see it. But I always wanted to know what was behind the green door, and now I know. It's a cool ass dive bar. I was just as erect by the finding as I was itching for a bourbon break after a long day of wine. Upon entering you get the feel of a salt of the earth, country dive bar. Coming To America was playing on the television screen above one end of the bar, and Dickey Betts was singing through the jukebox at the other. But wait, is that smoke I see rising from the hands of the patrons?! Holy shit, we had hit pay dirt! People were casually lighting up everywhere; it was like Vegas. F'ing score. We took two seats at the bar, ordered our whiskeys and inquired with the bartender as to how they were able to get around the state law. Apparently if a bar is owner-operated, that is if all the employees have part ownership and they all agree to allow it, the state has no right to interfere. Loop hole, bitches! I finally found one to work with me and not against me. We were in heaven and indulged and took delight in being the only tourists in the place. Many whiskeys and many cigarettes later we left, but only because I knew I was coming back the following night. Never take a good thing for granted. read more

When you think of Napa, what are the first words that pop in your mind? Pretentious? Full-Of-Winos? Expensive? Well let this place de-bunk ALL those myths! This place is pretty much the opposite of all the misconceptions about Napa. It's dive-y, casual, rowdy. It's like the fun-loving-alter-ego-that's-been-exiled-to-the-boondocks-to-go-in-hiding to Napa's more elitist, pretentious bars downtown. It's the kind of establishment that I can see Guy Fieri randomly popping in to just for a quick drink or pit stop to Flavortown. It's the kind of establishment that doesn't care if you're a waiter, or the owner of the restaurant it's all good in this neighborhood. I guess the copious amounts of alcohol helps too... I was brought here unexpectedly by a friend. I was a little bit mortified when I found out this was the, "cool poppin' little spot no one knows about." I've always seen the green sign on the side of the highway on the way back from high school, and it wasn't until then that I went inside. The decor was typical of any regular dive bar, there was a jukebox, a couple of sticky tables, sticky floors, and a vending machine that vends those American Spirits. Don't come dressed to impress. Just come as you are, as a friend, as an old enemy, come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach, as a trend, as a friend, as an old memoria, memoria... Speaking of Nirvana, you'd hear an eclectic mix of music here. Sometimes there's a live band, and at times its at the mercy of whoever has the quarters for the jukebox. But let's be real here, you don't go to The Green Door for the music, you come for the drinks and stay for the entertaining local flavor. The drinks are strong. I ordered my go-to gin and tonic. I kid you not, it was gin, with the tiny-est splash of tonic, and small wedge of lime. It was great, what a big bang for my buck. Come here for the local flavor and see what's Napa's really like beyond the pages of Bon Apetit or Sunset magazine. We're not always classy, we have our sloppy days too (and here's where we go on those days.) I'd go here again for the kicks and giggles... or if I was having a Don Draper melt down (I'm hoping that won't come for another thirty some odd years.) Until then Green Door. Keep it classy, or not. read more

As a man of a certain, off-white color and conspicuously slanty eyes, I'm no stranger to joking with my friends about walking into a bar and having everything stop; the record stylus scratches to a halt, a barfight wherein a man is being slid down the bartop momentarily ceases, and the bartender overflows a beer in amazement as we walk in. All mouths are agape. No joke though: I've had it happen before. And it sort of happened again. But undeterred, I walked up to the bar and ordered a Bud, a PBR for my friend, and asked WTF is up with the Giants. Everything was cool. It's a smoking bar, but my neighborhood joint is the Geary Club, so I'm used to smoked out bars. As such, this didn't really bother me, but I can see how it could bother some. The beer is cheap... and it should be. Cash only. The company is very familiar with each other, so be cool. If the barstools could talk, they might tell stories, or maybe they would just out you for farting on them. Vast and wide is the universe. Endless are its possibilities. read more

We met some restaurant people that work and live in Napa after our deathly boring first night. They took us here to keep us from having nothing to do and falling asleep before 10. I loved this place. The drinks were damn cheap, it was loud and noisy and filled with the locals from the area. Oh and you can smoke inside!!! huge plus!!! if your in Napa and bored this is 1 of 2 places i would recommend. read more

We stopped here after a nice dinner on a Saturday night(10/23/10). There were 10 people in our party - 5 couples. There were maybe a dozen or so people in the bar when we arrived (10pm ish??). Well, the husbands went up to the bar, were watching baseball, and the wives went and sat at a table near the juke box. Everything was fine. The old guy performing his "live music" was ok. We were entertained watching some older folks perform their dance moves. We had just texted the hubbies, telling them we were ready for the next round.......... and all of a sudden a good-sized guy walks in, stands conspicuously in the middle of the bar, takes off his red bandana, spends about a full minute folding it while he glares around the bar, sticks it in his back pocket - carefully making sure it's hanging out where it can be seen, and then he proceeds to the bar. WHAT????? What just happened? Are they filming a movie?? It was bizarre. It was SO obvious that he was making some kind of point of flashing his "colors". More people had filtered in from the time we first got there, and the whole atmosphere kind of changed. When he did that there was a different current going through the place. Nothing "happened" when we were there, but we promptly left. We weren't going to hang around to see if it would. Sorry, Green Door. I missed the warning in the Napa tourism brochures about there being a gang presence after 10pm!!! It was completely bizarre & creepy. read more

All I can say is that this place makes me happy! Take it for the brilliant little dive bar it is and you will love it too. Everyone there is really friendly and the one man band is amazing. It's actually not really worht going unless the one man band is there b/c it's just not as fun. Eventhough his songlist is somewhat limited, he keeps the dancefloor full and will play whatever you want as long as he know s it. Gotta love the Door!! Just writing this makes me what to head down there tonight! read more

The bar tender last night was incredibly unprofessional and rude. My girlfriend ordered a drink and ordered a water for me. It was clear that the bartender was only concerned about her tip because she not only took forever to bring me a water, but also thought it was necessary to deliver a lecture about drunk people being in a bar. We caused no problems at all, just wanted a night cap. This bartender was terrible and we won't go back. I hope the bar owner finds better help. read more

The cool things about this place is that it isn't crazy, loud and crowded like some other bars are in town. Waiting a long time for a drink or to use the bathroom is never fun and you don't have to worry about that here. The one-man band playing can be entertaining and when you've had a few, you'll actually dance to his limited song list. The drinks are strong (huge plus!) and the bartenders are pretty nice. The downfall of this place is that they allow people to smoke inside. Remember those days in California? Going home and reeking of smoke - its in your hair, clothes, etc. And sometimes you get a smoker's voice upon waking up in the morning - no bueno. Not my favorite at all. read more

I spent almost 4 months in & around wine country. It wasn't until my last few days that I FINALLY entered The Green Door. I'll tell ya, I wish I'd've popped in the 1st time I noticed it while driving by. It's a chill, relaxed, down to earth, come as you are, dive-type establishment. Mo (behind the bar) was fantastic! The patrons (all local I believe) we're fantastic! I felt right at home in no time at all. I'm sorry to type I didn't get in there sooner. I'm happy to type I'll be back again! Hopefully sooner, not later. read more

I love the door. Great bar, real alcoholics use it from 10am till 6pm. I tend to arrive around 10pm, Weekends get the Rick, the "one man band" hes a badass. I like to request the Eagles and Dire Straits. Good strong drinks, only qualm is the drinks go up $1 when the band starts to play. Bull shit I say... Kyles a good bartender. Nikki is rad too. Buy some lotto tickets, tip your bartender well. = read more

Best bar no fuss bar very relaxing!!!!! They have hooks for your purses and live music on Friday and great drinks Nice big parking lot. And you can still smoke inside and a nice juke box . Seats are pretty comfy too. ( = read more

I could say something bad about this place, but it would really be about me - so why lash out? For real though - I remember coming here, but don't recall leaving; I do remember it was fun.... now a year and a half later I'm finally able to collect my thoughts about that whole weekend and do some reviews. Thankfully I had friends with me, as we were in Napa for a wedding and were definitely celebrating a little "extra" - the Green Door was suggested by a local who knew about the place but didn't know that my group of friends didn't need another round after everything else closed early on a Friday night. read more

Ya know, we went here to watch the SF baseball game after someone told us that it is the 'local dive bar.' We were looking for somewhere cheap since we'd been spending so much in Napa and we sure found it. I mean, I really have nothing horrible to say about this place. We didn't experience anything like some of the other people have posted, it was a fun atmosphere during the game, and yes, the big "Hulk Hand" was in the bar ready to be used (too bad the Giants lost). Downside: it smelled like I smoked 2 packs when I left the place which made me change before heading to the next place...not something I love doing. TIPS: CASH ONLY. They do have an ATM in there, though. Oh, and the drinks are strong, so ya know...2 drinks is really 3.5. read more

Worst experience ever at a bar in Napa. The Asian bartenderr was super rude didn't even make me my stop light that I asked for, gave me other shitty drinks with the angriest manners ever starting to think because I didn't tip her at first but I wasn't even done anyways If shes there DO NOT GO! read more

Nothing good happens when you go to the Green Door. Strong, cheap drinks, and music on the weekends. I love that Napa still has a dive bar, just wish the city would crack down on the smoking inside there. read more

Best dive bar in Napa. People here are awesome. Shame on the people giving this place a low score because they don't appreciate a good dive. read more

Good bar, friendly & fun place for late night beers, we were there 11pm-2am on a quiet Wednesday, town was quiet so we headed here found some life. All good, especially the apple cinnamon shots. read more

The Green Door - Cocktail Bars Near Me - Napa, California