Tic N Tin Tap

I’ve been past this place numerous times, but tonight was my first visit inside. Nice staff, good prices, great music… Loved it! I’ll be back!

A neat looking scuzzy bar with a bar and a pathetic restaurant area with a pool table and window facing traffic. A dark looking bar in a square with three trashy apartments above it. This place seemed like an average looking suburban bar, but after looking at it for a few minutes it has a certain uniqness that you can’t just find anywhere.

If you are truly adventurous, and you want to feel the pulse of the South Side. Enter this square shaped bar. I love bars shaped in squares because you have to look the guy who wants to kill you right in the eye.
This is one of the most cliché biker bars ever. The epicenter for an ass kicking.
A very great friend from down South entered this bar with me, we wedged ourselves between a 375 pound bearded man with a tattoo that said «tiny» on his arm, and a bald mick wearing a dago tee that stated, «try and burn this flag.»
The bar tender had long legs and deep scars, she climbed on the bar to slap at gorilla sized locals, Johnny Cash was singing about killing a man in Reno, and everyone sang along. I regaled in a tale of my friend getting his face smashed in for no god damn good reason.
My buddy soaked it in like he had entered a time machine, he had seen places like this in his favorite movies, he wondered if they were things of legend, places of white trash mythology. No my friend, they are real, and sometimes a bit too real.
The only thing missing that night would have been if us two nerds would have knocked over the bikes outside domino style.