Save More Lounge

I wish I could rate this place better. It’s a cool building and an historic landmark.
I’ve been quite a few times for lunch. The prices for the quality of the food are just ridiculous.
Today kind of did me in. Roast beef sandwich and ice tea. $ 30 with tax and tip. There was barely any roast beef on the sandwich and the bread was stale.
My friend got the chicken marsala. It tasted OK. I think the sauce was basically the same that was on my roast beef which was pretty funny. I think they use the same for loco moco gravy too. I mean come on. Anyway, the chicken on the marsala was dry and it was plated with the dried chicked breast just sliced over the top like someone was plating a ceasar salad. Overall the dish was too authentic. For $ 20…not worth it.
I’ve had the quiche, lobster roll, chicken marsala, soups, some of the salads, ahi sandwich, and have tried some other things. The ahi sandwich at $ 19.95, is such a rip off. If it was 10 or 11 bucks, maybe, but not $ 20!!!
Again, it’s the quality AND price. I have no problems paying for delicious food, even for lunch. The quality just doesn’t match with the prices.
The desserts are pretty good though and the manager is really nice too.
The service is nice and the venue has such potential. I know they’ve tried a bunch of different things to bring people in. How about a new chef and someone who has a palate for tasty simple delicious food?! And bring down the prices!
I’ve also had catered events, right outside of the café by the pool. The pupu’s were great there and service was fantastic. They did a nice job on set up too. I would definitely do a small reception/​event again. It was a great value and you could byob with no extra costs.
Regarding lunch though, ugh. You’re better off going to the Café at the Honolulu Art Museum or even Mariposa or Town. Food is MUCH better. Heck, go down to Nico’s Pier and for half the price you can get an awesome fish sandwich or a delicious fresh plate lunch!

Awesome bar in a neighborhood over run by yuppies I love places like this Jason is the man Melissa is great and you have to meet Lou reminds me of a bar I’d go to as a kid to visit my grandpa yeah before all these liberal pussies ran this country a kid could still go into a bar check this place out

Best dive in the city, cheap booze and good people. Been going there for years will continue to.

Two buck beers every Tuesday.

What isn’t to like about a dive bar in Lincoln Square? Cheap beer and cash only.

Cheap cheap drinks, a large open area, and a pool table. It felt more like someone’s basement than it did a bar, and that was kind of cool because it just made it feel really relaxed. Also, the place REEKED of really good weed, so maybe next time someone will just offer it up, because DAMN!!!
Enjoy Suckas’!!!

Shots (of whatever) at the Save More Lounge cost about $ 3, and weigh in at around 3 — 4 oz., depending on your attitude (see pic). The clientele and staff represent a largely gone North Side from about 20 years ago, and have been regulars here for at least that long. Very few places like this exist north of Madison Ave. anymore. When you want to be alone with your thoughts but in the company of others, you want a place like this.

This is a great dive bar!
Cheap drinks check (My whiskey ginger ale was $ 2.75)
Friendly bartenders/​owners check
Plenty of tables to sit around check
Clean bathroom check
Walking distance to train check
What more could you want?

Such an easygoing bar! You choose the music, the games, and the tone of the evening. It’s as user-​friendly as you can get! Jason rocks the drinks and the prices are out of this world cheap. Would go with a small group, large group, or even on my own to just hang. Don’t expect fancy or frilly… just an under-​the-​radar, make-​it-​what-​you-​want bar!

Do you want to Save More? Yeah, me too!
Come to Save More! Come drunk though so that the smell of puke doesn’t seem as bad… Went here on a Saturday afternoon. There were like 10 in my group and 3 locals. The locals are cross-​eyed, fun, and like to dance.
Beer is cheap, $ 3 for a bud light.
They have a pool table. They have a rockin ass’ jukebox.
CASH ONLY (But they do have an ATM right outside or a CVS across the street)
The ladies bathroom doors are curtains, just an FYI.

This place is a dive — for sure. But it is a huge dive! With really nice people! Of all different ages/​shapes/​sizes!
I went here to celebrate a birthday and ended up having a great time. I chatted with some of the locals as well as enjoyed there cheap beer prices for a Friday night.
Also — the 3 reasons I give it 5 stars:
1.) The jukebox is incredible.
2.) For the ladies room, you have to ask the bartender for a key. It is extremely clean and that’s how they like to keep it (hence the key to ixnay the smelly guys).
3.) My dry cleaner dude plays reggae shows here regularly!
Enough said.

The real last Honky Tonk in Chicago is how I would describe Save More Lounge. This North Center family-​owned friendly bar serves alcoholic beverages to the working class people. Save More has live bands, great and interesting clientele and has been the place of choice for many of my friend’s birthday parties throughout the years. The bartenders, especially Jason, are great, prompt and most importantly very personable. That much is important, but what I really like about this bar is the very affordable drinks. You can have a great night there and not even spend more than 25 bucks. Cheap (and even cheaper) cold beer, delicious drinks and has some of the best shot slingers in North Center. Come with me to the Save More Lounge tonight and experience the real last Honky Tonk in Chicago. Come by tonight and have a shot and a cold one with me…

The smell of old shoes goes away the more shots of Jack that you do. Trust me on this one. Amanda, the bartender, is funny & kickass. There was a little old guy walking around with a Tupac coat on (awesome). There’s a pool table in the back & a killer jukebox. Can’t say how much the drinks are because I was out with 3 gentlemen who didn’t let me pay (thanks, guys).
Will I go back? Hell yes.

student discount on milwaukee’s beast… in a can. i’m not sure how much more needs to be said.
i don’t want people thinkin’ i’m a hater… i like dive bars. just not this one in particular. its too open, too bright and when we were there (around 11 or so on a friday night) the bar was next to empty.
on the plus side, i did enjoy the rack of antlers laden with bras (eh… see what they did there?) and the pac man machine filled wtih old timey arcade games entertained me for a while. i’m just not sure that that level of ambiance and entertainment can keep me comin’ back.

When I was a kid, my mom always told me to avoid this place like the plague. I’ve seen some shady stuff go down in front of this place since I used to live literally down the block from here. Any time I looked in, all I would see is really sad men drinking away their problems and the no gooders who were just ready to start fights with you. Or hit on you. So, you grow used to avoiding it, just like mom wanted.
Well, now that I moved away from my mom and took a fondness to dive bars, I can finally say I’ve actually been inside. That, and the fact that my good friend also got a job being a bartender here, so on her work nights, me and a few friends would sometimes see her.
Hmm…what can is say? it’s not classy, you won’t find women sipping martinis here, in fact, there usually aren’t very many women at all. There’s the classic pool table and juke box with some pretty good songs on it, and the always wonderful display of salty snacks you can purchase to go along with whatever cheap drink you get. Or, go to CVS and pick up something… no one will really notice. What I still can’t understand is the deer head covered in bras that is proudly displayed above the bar. I really don’t wanna know how those got there, and i really hope no one tells me.
Drinks here are the cheapest around. cans of beer will run you less than 2 bucks each and at one point they had had cheap wines for one dollar a glass. and by cheap wines, i mean they are pretty bad, but you get your dollar’s worth and a really bad headache the next day. also, time seems to speed up here, especially when you’re having a drunken good time, so watch out.
i guess they have done some remodeling, as the bathrooms seemed decent and not what i was expecting from such a run down place. people tend to leave you alone, and the few that do try to talk to you are really just wanting to talk to anybody, so… yeah.
i haven’t been back since the winter, but the next time i go, i hope they have some wine for a dollar ready for me.

Oh Save More, how you have spoiled me.
I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is about Save More that keeps me coming back.
Is it the fantastic juke box?
Is it the wood paneling?
Is it that 190 proof orange juice bottle filled with stuff that looks like Windex that the bartender keeps behind the bar for regulars?
Now we are getting somewhere.
First off, the Save More is a dump. It’s an off the deep end, 50 meter high dive bar. They have card tables and lawn chairs for seating. There are handwritten signs taped to the walls that read, «Specials: Old Style cans $ 1.50» and «Smoking Outside Only». Millions of bottles of dust covered booze line the mirrored bar, stickered with garage sale-​style tags that list the price of each well-​aged concoction. The juke box has every Rolling Stones album ever made.
Did I mention the 190 proof stuff?
Everytime I’ve been to Save More I’ve left more satisfied than the next. You get your pick of Joyce, the stalwart no nonsense «What’ll it be» bartender, or you get Jason, the cool, friendly, young bartender on odd nights. Jason supplies the Windex shots readily if you get him chatting.
There’s always the same type of crowd at the Save More. The no frills, retired war vets, the loner vagabonds, and the rest of the people who love them like family.
No one will bother you here if you are wearing jeans and flip flops. Sh-​t, no one will bother you here if you are wearing coveralls stained with blood, wearing a raccoon on your head.
Prices are cheap. My boyfriend and I once sat at the bar on a Thursday night and drank for two hours… he was having High Life cans and I was having vodka sodas, tall ones, one after another, and our total tab was $ 8.00. Getting to know the bartenders helps. Jason, especially, is extremely generous if he likes you.
It’s not what you expect out of a dive bar, it’s infinitely worse and that makes it awesome.
I’ll keep coming back because everyone is treated the same here and I like that. It reminds me of my Aunt Betty’s basement and I like that. And because no one at Save More has ever told me I’ve been overserved or ever will.
Four stars for Save More.

Think bowling alley.
Now think of bowling alley without the bowling lanes, then you have an idea of Savemore Lounge. Straight up wood paneling from the 1970’s this looks like someone’s basement with a higher ceiling. I mean it’s that faded out light brown with the faux ring pattern on it and the furniture is straightup old and should have been retired during the era of the first Boss Daley
Dive of dives, this is everyman’s dead end or an economical pregame to the good show. If you live in this neighborhood, I would be inclined to disagreement my assessment. There are some senior citizens who frequent this bar, but they’ll stay out of the way and your money is still good with the bartenders.

Save More has the wood paneling and smell of someone’s basement. There is an odd mixture of 90 year olds and 30 year olds and the nonagerians don’t seem particularly pleased with this.
If you are there to see a band you will not save more, instead you will pay $ 3.50 for a bottle of Old Style. The large sized $ 5.00 mixed drinks are a better bet.

My friend’s band played here in the Spring. Good times. Good prices on booze, good music (both band and jukebox). Lots of potted fake plants everywhere. Highly recommended if you like dives.
PS. I witnessed a near fight between 2 drunken senior citizens.** One of them even called the other one a «Buttinski»!! Come on! Who doesn’t want to see that?
**Cooler (less drunken) heads prevailed, blah, blah blah…

This is one of my favorite dive bars to go to. The atmosphere is raunchy, the beer is cheap, and the bartenders take no shit. I first wandered in here just passing by, and had I not had my husband with me, would have never stopped in. I’ve been frequenting this place now for 3 years, and I don’t plan to stop anytime soon. Beers are about $ 2-​$ 3 bucks a piece, and they have 50 cent pool everyday. The bartender (Jason) is a cutie, and always pours with a heavy hand. He’ll also mix you up some killer shots!
There’s a pin ball machine in the corner, and a 2^nd pool table to come soon.
You can also order food from the Horse Shoe across the street whilst you sip your beer.
Don’t be put off by the lack of luster upon first glance, this place is a diamond in the rough. The only bar of it’s kind that stayed true to it’s cheap colors while the Starbucks and condos went up next door.
UPDATE:
Savemore lounge is remodeling! You wouldn’t BELIEVE the changes they have made! Live bands weekly now (and good ones at that!), new storefront, new restrooms, new ATM, and additional pool tables! WOW! They’re sinking some money into this place! I can’t wait to see the finished result!