Galway Bar & Grill

So originally I would never do this. I have been coming to this bar since I was 20. I am now 27. Me and my friends have done many birthdays here. I have always loved this place. But this week I went in for my 27^th birthday. Me and 20 other people walked in at around 930. The bartender charged us 3 $for a blue moon. A hour later we were charged 7 $. We ordered a round of 11 Vegas bombs a miller light a mgd and a long island. he had no clue what a Vegas bomb was. I paid for 5 bombs and the miller light. My friend paid for the other 6 the mgd and the long island. We were both charged 40 $. Where does that math add up. Two more friends came in and bought 2 more Vegas bombs and was charged 18 $. Shaddy right. The place was raining inside. Buckets everywhere full of water puddles in the women’s bathroom. Not ONE wet floor sigh. What makes me write this is I called to bring it to the owners attention and she didn’t care. Told me I’ll call you back my phone is ringing.

I don’t know what’s up with the haters. This place is fine if you like beer, good music and chill. Sorry if there isn’t peach infused saison or bougeaulais or steamed mussels or whatever.
Edit: the carpet does kinda smell like pee

This place will say there is no cover so you waste your time then they charge you at the door anyways. It’s a shit show full of shitty people. Don’t waste your time. –2 stars.

I live in the area and I frequent the club late night when everything else is closed. It’s a pretty mixed environment of people, with mixed types of music. They stay open late until like 4 or 5am. The kitchen stays open as well. I’ve eaten the burgers and wings. Pretty good food especially when you’re drunk!!! Their staff is cool most of the time. Chicks in the bathroom get under my skin, but I have good times here for the most part. I’ll continue to patronize.

If you want to pay $ 7 for a beer the go to good olé GWAYS!!!

This. Place. Is. Rachet.
The bad things about this place far outweigh the good. One thing rescued this sad excuse for a «bar/​nightclub» from being a 1-​star stinker – they have something I’ve not only never seen in my life, but have never even heard of. Unless you live under a rock, you’ve likely seen those ‘claw’ games in the arcade where you have to use a joystick to maneuver your robotic hand to pick up candy, a Hello Kitty plush, an iPad, whatever. Well.
+ Galway’s has one of these, but it’s been modified as an aquarium… full of live, fresh lobster. If you feed in $ 2 and are lucky enough to ensnare one, the kitchen will cook it for you with butter and lemon. I’m still in shock at how cool of a concept that is; partly because I’ve traveled the world over and never seen anything remotely similar, and partly because a dump like this has one. Is it cool? Absolutely. Is it out-​of-​place? Without a doubt. +1 star for the novelty.
aaaaaand now the bad. There’s a lot of bad. A lot.
— cover to get in was $ 5. There’s no way they can justify charging FIVE BUCKS COVER FOR A LOUSY DIVE BAR, unless they think of themselves as one of Elmhurst’s premier night clubs. Tip for ya Galway’s: a dance floor and DJ do not make a club. Were it not for the fact that the birthday girl’s group really wanted to go here, I would have done a 180* and left. Had I paid the cover myself, it would’ve been the worst $ 5 I’d ever spent.
— the floors were all messed-​up in a phenomenon I like to call ‘bubbling’. The floorboards literally weren’t held down in areas, so when you walked over them it was like stepping on an air pocket. It was fun at first, but yeah. Major safety issue.
— the speakers were badly blown. I’m no audiophile, but even I can tell when the music quality is poor, and at Galway’s it was downright shitty. Just awful.
— creeps galore! There was no shortage of sketchy-​ass dudes and dudettes gettin’ their twerk on.
After a few drinks, this travesty of a bar begins to resemble a funhouse: it’s got scary carny-​type people, goofy fucked-​up floors, loud noises (actually just incomprehensible music with the fader maxed out), hilariously out-​of-​place sea creatures, and a generally rapey-​vibe. Galway’s is the kind of place you might go home and have nightmares about.
Candice G. awarded them a single star, and I can see why. It’s grody on about a hundred different levels.
As original of an idea as the lobster tank is, you couldn’t pay me to come back here. It’s the pits.

Okay so the cover is pretty ridiculous, you’re basically paying $ 5 to (drunk) people watch. It’s only scummy because of the people who inhabit this place. But really, what would you expect from the only bar in the western ‘burbs open until 4? I’m not going here to mingle with business executives, I’m here to get my drink/​dance on.

Wouldn’t come back here if my life depended on it. This place doesn’t need more of a review, I think the other 1 – 2 star reviews covered this place’s reputation pretty well.

I love this place. if you go early, around ten, you have no trouble finding a pool table and that is what I mainly go for. I love the live lobster tank and the photobooth. As for the alcoholics, god luck finding a bar without any. You are a bunch of hypocrites. You don’t like the place? Don’t go! Simple as that. If you keep to yourself and have an attitude the drunks will leave you alone. plan on going here on a first date Saturday to play pool and drink, if anyone hits on me I’ll put them in their place
EDIT drove here on 1÷11÷14 and they were closed at 10. WTF? did they go out of business? Was so looking forward to playing pool

I used to come here ALL the time when I was 21, so it’s been a few years since I’ve been here.
I love the upgrades that they did on the patio and on the inside. The upgraded the bathroom too, but that first stall in the ladies room is still way too dark to even unbutton my pants! lol
I’ve found out it’s quite nice to go when you’re watching the hawks games, I mean lets face it, it’s a late night bar so it doesn’t generally pick up til much much later!
The bartender there is such a sweet man, he’s is so delightful! He definitely was not there back in the day!
I don’t know what the crowd is like now a days, but if you’re looking for a place to go watch a game, this is the place to be!

Well everyone is giving this place a bad review. I never bothered to go into this place until recently despite living in the nearby area my whole life. So I will give it a five star because of one cool feature and all these snoby reviews. The place is unique and pretty hip I thought for the West burbs. By hip I mean the dive look. I really don’t know what type of crowd hangs here. The food is definately Aldi frozen meal type. They have beer and it is a rare bar in the location it is located within. They have a pool table and a live lobster vending machine where they will cook the bugger if you are lucky to grab one with metal claws after putting two dollars into the machine. It is the only fresh food they offer here. This machine is enough to warrent a five star review.

If you find a better bargain for lunch, please let me know.
At least five daily specials and they are all $ 4.95 each.
As good as the food is, the service is even better.

Hmm… almost everyone here has got it right…
Went on Black Wednesday cause nothing else was open, and BIG props to the guy that said it looked like the bar from Star Wars.
Soccer moms, guys in Best Buy shirts with their blue collars popped, ghetto thugs, lowlifes with greasy hair looking to score (what I don’t know), women that looked like they were «ladies of the night»… (I’m being nice. they looked like nighttime prostitute extras from a bad 80’s movie) creepy drunk guys trying to pick me up while my husband is STANDING next to me laughing his balls off…
I was beyond tipsy, but had the recognition to know they played 2 songs both at least 4 times each within the 2 hours we were there. WTF? I couldn’t even dance because I was laughing so hard at the poor souls that believed that the cabbage patch and the fist pump was still en vogue. And to the 2 soccer moms that were there, I seriously was gonna try and stick a wallet in their mouth thinking they were having an epileptic seizure. «Are they OK?»… «Yes.»… :whew:
At least the gin and tonics were strong.

Nice dive bar. We were there for the Ride F.A.S.T. motorcycle run. Service was fast and friendly. There were at least two hundred bikers that swooped in and we didnt have to wait. They also had Sierra Nevada Pale Ale which made us happy. The band playing was killer as well.
Big thanks to Gallway for hosting the F.A.S.T event.

Galway is a late night bar that all the alcoholics go to when they’re in the suburbs and still wanna drink til 4am. There’s nothing spectacular about this place. It’s just a divey bar with a $ 5 cover, a DJ spinnin tunes for the drunks to dance to, and a kitchen that makes a bunch of greasy stuff for the hungry drunks to puke up later.
I give Galway two stars because it’s open late and because you’re guaranteed to pick someone up here and get some action. The action will most likely go down on site, but if it happens off site after you leave, you can still count it. ;-)
Holla!!!™

I wish I could give this place zero stars, but I’m sure you get the point with one star.
Now, let’s get on with the disclosure: it’s been about 6 years since I’ve been here and I’m still ashamed. I’m writing this review because it popped up in my screen somehow, but I figured if I could help save another poor soul from this place, it can be good karma for the day.
Save yourself.

HAHA I just almost spit out my food while reading the reviews for this place. Wow, I think everything I would have wanted to say about Galways has been said. No point in adding. LOL

Have you ever wanted to be in the Michael Jackson Thriller video? Come to this place and you will see all the freaks right there in front of you…
Dirty, filthy… everyone else seemed to hit the nail on the head. If you want to hang out with douche bags and feel like you are in the Star Wars bar scene then this is the place! If not? Go home… you will be better off…

Bad bad place.
I cant believe I use to go here. Actually I wouldnt say «go here» like I would frequent this place but back in the 21 year old days we would hit it up once in a while because its open till 4 and we didnt want to go home. Now that I look back going home is a much much better idea. Rather go home and drink in your room alone then enter this poop hole.
The greatest part about Galways is that they charge a $ 5 cover! F that! I refused to pay cover. They should be embarrassed to charge people to enter a drug ridden, rapeist haven like this.
Run!

One star is too kind for Galway.
Are you a lowlife? Degenerate? Pregnant and looking for a baby daddy? Got a fresh pack of roofies you’re looking to try out? You’ll probably love this place.
Galway is pretty much the only bar in the area open until 4 since the beloved Brauer burned down. With that being said, most people who come here come around the 2:30 hour where they’ll pay between $ 5 and $ 10 just to get in and be groped, puked on, or roofied. The times that I have been dragged here, I am happy to say that I was fairly blitzed and do not remember all the details of this horrid environment… PS, you’re not hallucinating… the roofies haven’t kicked in yet, this place really does share a property wall with a cemetery. Perfect… Galway and dead stuff go together like… well, Galway and date rape… okay maybe milk and cookies is a better analogy.
The music will feature your standard Kiss Fm hits and the bar couldn’t make a cocktail if their life depended on it… you almost need the roofie to taste anything.
Save your soul and just go home. Nothing good will ever come from going to Galway’s.