The Club

Best bar in elmhurst hands down. Great staff, atmosphere, and crowd. Can’t beat it.

This is a dive, but a really fun one! Karaōke Wednesday is the best. The prices are cheap and the crowd is welcoming.

Turtle Races every Saturday night along with the cheapest drinks in town. How can you go wrong? They also give away a $ 20 gift certificate for best Golden Tee 2015 score every Tuesday. On Wednesdays there is Karaōke and the place knows how to poor a drink. The Club isn’t for people that think they are important. If you think you do, then you won’t fit in. The place may be an old school tavern, but they are making the place one of the best places in town to watch the Blackhawks game.

What’s not to like? It’s a local bar with booze, beer, and for the most part, great people. It’s been really packed at night lately every time I go passed or stop in. Want to get drunk? Great spot! Hungry? Well there’s a pizza place next door that’ll bring food over. They have darts and T.V.‘s to watch whatever games are on and one of those digital jukebox’s with tons of music. What more can you ask for?

I am lonely. Not in the way of emotional distraught or some great human pain. (Though I do maybe have that crusted within somewhere); no, I am lonely in a way that misses something. Like, some lost friend, but a more successful friend. Like, an old pet, but one that was let loose in the wild. Something is deeply missing from my soul, lonely. Sure, it sounds melancholy, but it isn’t. It is happy. It is introspective and mysteriously present at times of exhaustion and mirth. It is deeply warm and reassuring in its ever-​presence.
The cure, I believe, is this easy prescription: an hour glass draft, a pock-​marked bar; same tender, same drunks, same juke, and same strange occasions. The Club is where those those not quite forgotten can find life again, and reconcile with the warmth of this modified, content loneliness. My contentment is sitting quiet, spinning from my glass, leaving the cash on the counter, and waiting for some sort of excitement to walk in the door. This is an occasional necessity I require shoveled into the hole of trendy foodie joints, college-​esqué beer parades, and craft Meccas. All fine places, sure, but The Club? It’s family. A place where the lonely dissipates, and you realize you weren’t lonely at all. You just wanted a place frilless and present where nice people come to have nice conversation and everyone is one bummed cigarette or spare pour from a pitcher away from a new friend.
There is a million like em, and none the same. A holder of people, and drink. Lots and lots of drink. «Put theirs on mine» kinda place.

Tis a bar to go if you want a cold beer, proper shot, or a free poured mixed drink. It’s also a place to find a crowd that doesn’t put on airs but is simply there to have some cocktails, maybe shoot some steel tipped «real» darts (leagues play here some nights), play the vintage Strike King bowling game, and/​or enjoy some conversation. Nobody is unwelcome but if you’re wearing a suit, it may be best to remove or loosen your tie because formality is out the window here. Plenty of TV’s in a not extremely large space so there’s always a good view of one. Friendly staff and walking distance from the Metra train station and Elmhurst College.

If you are looking for an old school bar with no frills, but bartenders who poor a good drink (not fancy Cosmo’s either) and serve cold beer, than this is your type of place. They have a «for reals» dart board and an old school bowling game. If you don’t want to dress up and just want a very casual night out, this is your kind of place. Be prepared to hang out with the «regulars» when you stop in!

This is a dive bar with the battle stations manned by the likes of an Ann, Ed, and John. You get years worth of stale aroma (cleaned up a bit by the smoking ban). Not quite a «star wars» bar but you get all types with no trouble and great bar stories going back and forth. Even better, f you want a cocktail and don’t want to be bothered, the bar in its entirety will let you do your thing without bother. If not the top dive bar in Dupage, it sure is close!

I used to visit Elmhurst often and hang with friends — this was my favorite place to go. Way better the the yuppie, preppie other places in town! Awesome dive bar.

After a bad experience at first, I really came to enjoy this place. If you’re tired of bars that have «Fitz’s» anything in the name you’re going to enjoy this place.
It’s pretty low key and has a log of regulars, but it’s probably the best darts bar I’ve been to, they take their darts seriously, it’s free, and there are three always empty boards.
Their mixed drinks aren’t amazing, but they have great old fashioneds. I hate how it’s cash only, but free darts and a semi cheers atmosphere is something that grew on me. It also helped that the «warmest bar» experience seemed to be a one time thing.

IT’S A BAR… a neighborhood bar, next door to Pizza Palace, ½ block to the train.
IT’S A DARTS BAR… no, not a gentrified darts bar. Not a bunch of 20-​somethings chugging beer and throwing darts to impress the girls. A Professional Dart Bar. These guys actually hit what they aim at. (After 10 PM, if you can’t hit a bull with three darts, go elsewhere.)
Elmhurst is known as a bedroom community full of gentrified young people who can’t afford Oak Brook — yet. Most of these budding commuters would prefer River North but they have kids.
They don’t come here.