Membership Required. CASH ONLY! Ok, got those two key points…read moreout of the way. Now to rave about this place! I loved it. I've been wanting to check this place out since I moved down the street a few years ago. The bartend was super friendly and happily explained the membership requirement. I also got to chat to a few of the regulars. It is an intimate space, but it was really nice. It is all bar stool seating and there's a step up into the bar and then another couple of steps to the bathroom. So not ADA friendly, but like most bars they're just dealing with the cards they were dealt in the early 1900s when they were opened! Over all, you should go check it out if you're interested in finding your own little local watering hole.

The keyhole is a membership bar but you can just buy a membership when you get there. The day crowd…read moreis older and all regulars. The place is tiki themed. Not too shabby at all.

This quaint little hideaway is the perfect neighborhood bar. Great pizza and appetizers, a very…read moredecent pour, games(!) and a pool table AND excellent service. A fun, low key night out.

Great place to have a cold beer and some good pizza. People…read moreare friendly, atmosphere is laid back,we enjoy this place immensely.

Great little dive bar. Easy to talk to locals. Friendly and super efficient bartender…read more We arrived around 9 pm on a Saturday night. Sat and BS'd the guy with the Harley out front before going in. 2 sides to hangout on. 1 bar with pleasant bartender. Clean bathrooms. Mini beers were frightenly good, dangerous! Decent price on PBR- $3. Basic drinks, in the pricey downtown area.

"Please Don't Feed the Animals" but Please Do enjoy "The Zoo" which I consider the best dive bar in…read moreDowntown KC and the cheapest place to drink for miles. Still cash only, with a handy ATM, but their Mini-beers are famous and they still pour with a heavy hand and have a great selection of canned beer. If you see me there ask me to play pool, I could sure use the practice!

Grabbed dinner and drinks here with a friend early on a Saturday. They were not able to serve food…read moreright when we got there, so we went to the bar and ordered a round of drinks. Once they were able to serve food, they came out to the patio to get our orders. I got a BLT and it was good. I enjoyed my time here!

Love this little hidden gem! The food & service were fantastic...lots of locals, but we felt right…read moreat home. Dive bar vibe, which I love! I'll be back!

Best dive bar around! Cheap drinks and great people! Great…read moreatmosphere! The bar owner is a great guy as well! He's 6 foot 7 and loud, you won't miss him.

My favorite pub in Wyandotte County. Johnnie's is a sports bar that embraces all sports and is a…read moremecca for NFL, MLB, NCAA, MLS, European league soccer.... but I love Johnnie's for its unique decor with thousands of christmas lights and stuff to look at on every wall and the ceiling too. Cheap prices, nice folks behind the bar and a welcoming and diverse clientele. That's a big win for me!

While visiting a friend in Ottawa, KS, we had dinner at Brand N Iron Bar and Grill (now named Brand…read moreN Iron Country Grill), a local favorite. We went on Saturday night and it was packed! We had to wait until guests left, but they are so quick in bussing tables that flow of guests were continuous. The ambiance was somewhat country/western style, the wall of "Brandings" of local Ranchers in the area was amazing, as if it was a tribute to them. Love the vibe, it was apparent to me that this was a very supporting community. Every customer that came in was known to the owners, if not, they were treated with very hospitable service. It wasn't too long that we are finally seated. We started off with drinks. While others had beer and fountain drinks, I had the Kansas Sunset Cocktail and it was very refreshing for the Hot Humid Kansas weather! Seeing that portions were huge, we passed on appetizers and went straight to the Main entrees. Ordered the Prime Rib Sandwich, Chicken Friend Steak Dinner, and the Barnyard Battle Dinner. Each came with 2 sides, their side salad was big, also came with 2 servings of crackers. We also got Mac & Cheese, and loaded baked potatoes as sides. Very generous with the butter for the baked potatoes, I also liked that the sour cream was Daisy, and it was individually wrapped too (my first time ever seeing sour cream like this)! Food was abundant and delicious! The Barnyard Battle is an excellent choice if you want to try both Roast Beef and Chicken Fried Steak. The Prime Rib was tender for the sandwich. I was so bummed that Prime Rib was only served on Thursdays. Hope the owners would consider making it a regular item on their daily menu. After that hearty meal, we were treated to slices of homemade apple pie (a la mode and served warn) and chocolate peanut butter pie which was shared by all of us. Those pies was a delicious way to top our dining experience. I was told it was the owner's mom's recipe, and it's a MUST have! Highly recommend if ever you find yourself on HWY 59 in Ottawa, KS! The restaurant may be easily missed from the highway because it's behind the Shell Gas Station. The parking lot is gravel but plenty. It also appears they are expanding the front outwards that you just have to go through it to get to the entrance. Special shout out to owners Aaron and Lindsay Nichols for their hospitality and keeping Brand N Iron Bar & Grill a great place for locals and non-locals to dine. :)

Can't beat locally sourced beef straight from the farm! Not a fancy over priced steak joint you…read morefind in the big city. This is a right priced steak joint with all that down homemade cooking. The way it should be. Menu has enough options to satisfy the whole family but the star of the show is steak and why mess around with other cut... get the ribeye. But... save room for dessert. Much of which is made by a grandma!!! Owner has been the couple of times I've been and make a point to remember you and make sure everything was excellent!

Interesting spot. I walked over here from the downtown Marriott, wanting to get away from the…read moreconference folks. It's a little tucked away with the entry at the back of the building. The entry way is a little ominous, with a flight of stairs into the below street level space. Once you're in the space, it's cavernous, and a bit of a split personality. The majority of the space is dark and has several clusters of large tufted couches with nailheads, seeming like they'd be nice, intimate spaces, except for the wall mounted TVs in each space. One corner of the space is brightly lit with a round table and some board games on a bookshelf. There's also a toy pool table in the space - I call it a toy, since it's one of those cheap, small pool tables you'd put in a kid's play area. I lined up take a shot, and clearly people have been sitting and leaning on the table, as the top moved about 2 inches to the left before the legs angled back and the table shifted back. When I went to take another shot, could feel the rail was misaligned and caught the sharp edge of what felt like particle board under the thin felt. I wouldn't be surprised if on a busy night in the future, the table doesn't end up losing a leg or collapsing while someone is leaning against it. The bar area is also a little strange, with it being super brightly lit compared to the dark lighting in the majority of the rest of the space, and a bright white counter top. Felt a little awkward drinking at it solo since it was so brightly lit. The second night I stopped in with two other folks and sat in one of the nooks with a coffee table and comfy chairs, as well as the glow of the TV, which was better. Didn't eat, but the split personality of the place shows through there as well, with hot dogs on the menu (which sounded fantastic). All that being said, while the bar seems to be deciding if it wants to be a dive, a speakeasy, or something else, it somehow works, and I could see the place being packed on weekends.

When I saw that a bar had opened at 800 Broadway, my curiosity was piqued since i used to live on…read morethe 700 block in the prior century. The address is Broadway, but the entrance is in the back alley and then down a flight of stairs into the basement of the old Carnival building built in 1903. With it's dark atmosphere and exposed walls and pipes, a prohibition vibe is certainly present. My $6 Tank 7 was priced fairly and my female bartender was friendly. The 7pm crowd was a mix of fans from the earlier KC Current match nearby and a few "club girls" that were starting early. Leather seating, a nice billiards table and several TV's with sports provided entertainment. Probably won't go out of my way to return since I live across town, but would probably have been a regular if they had been open when I lived in the neighborhood.

Great place to stop for a drink on our way to a Royals game. Sam the owner was friendly, drinks…read morewere cheap and the bar was a chill place to hang.

Would of given it 5 stars but because of an incident that happened, to where we got banned from…read morecoming in for no logical reason, I gave it 4...it started one day we were there so a few friends in twn could shoot pool since I'm always suggesting this spot for that reason, plus I like to play music on the jukebox since I like music. Well another group of ppl were hangin out with us since we're cool, an started to play music as well. By almost the end of the night neither one of us heard most of the songs we played so we complained about it. After our party was upset over the situation we left. While outside socializing a chic heard my homegirl say "bitch" an thought we called her one when in reality she was sayn "ain't that a bitch" but the chic was super drunk an heard it wrong. Anyways she went inside an told the bartender (who I guess no her) an he came outside rite as we were twinkling but remind you, there's only two bathrooms in the place that were full an we definitely wasn't gonna pee on our nice clothes, beside the fact we didn't wanna go back in after that incident...he asked us to leave an said we cnt ever come back ..my homies started talkn slick to him sayn they wnt ever be back ..we left and I'm thinkin all is cool so I went back a few wks later only to be told I cnt come back in becuz I was bein disrespectful, like really?? That definitely wasn't fair considerin I took pics on Halloween wit the same bartender guy who said that an he was cool wit my then, not to mention we spent alot of money there, so I felt offended. I ended up leavin an found a better bar up the st called Dewey's in which I no the owner, that's wat better, and dnt jus except 'cash only', it also has a live DJ who plays real good music so we dnt need to spend ours for songs we didn't even get to hear! So I'm not really upset about him sayn I can't come there anymore becuz it's their LOSS!!!

A true dive bar in every sense of the phrase. It's dark, it's a tad dingy, the food is decently…read morecheap and the drinks are strong. There are daily specials every night of the week. My two solid picks would be for steak night and shrimp night. The shrimp are really good especially for a dive bar and you can get them mixed pull and eat and friend which is a nice touch. I personally don't get the shrimp dinner because just the shrimp is enough for me. There are some pretty good inexpensive starters if you need to soak up the alcohol with bar appetizers. It's definitely an older crowd so maybe that's why it's not one of my go-tos but it's not like I've ever had a bad experience there.

Great little dive bar. I've never been here despite going next door to Cupinis frequently. I was at…read morea scotch and bacon party at a friend's house and several of us needed something to drink that was lighter than scotch. Twin City was within walking distance so we made the trek. It's decent sized, clean, and the service was friendly. I went with a PBR and didn't really check out the beer menu. A shot of cinnamon rumplemintz found its way in front of me. But I never actually looked at a menu so I'm not any help there. I did enjoy the fun mystery bag vending machine. It's gimmicky but I bought one and I was pretty happy with my purchase. It's a fun little thing that sparked joy in that moment. Anyway, I'll definitely stop by again and next time I'll be in a better position to share the experience.

We have visited on several occasions. The staff is always friendly without being overbearing. They…read moreare quick to take your order and to check on you. It's a sports bar so it's loud but clean. The food is comparable.

We just moved into the immediate area and we LOVED the bar. I'll admit that the bartender wasn't…read moresuper friendly, but I can live it's that. The food was good and came out much more quickly than I had expected. I got the potato skins, which were lovely, while my husband got the Rueben and onion rings- both of which he enjoyed. We did come at 9 pm, but it be struck us as a very cool, chill place to hang out. Lots of TVS for sporting events.... We really enjoyed our time here.