Whiskey in the Jar

I really liked this place — it’s like a cozy basement. One of the bartenders had a magical Mary Poppins bag perfectly attuned to our needs behind the bar that supplied us with delicious cookies and games, which was lovely.
Free street parking is ample.

I can’t believe it took me this long to come here. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?
I love this place. Staff is great. I’m a fan of any bar that makes you take a shot when it’s your first time. haha

I’m feeling this place. Yeah it smelled a bit funky, but the bartender was very nice and the drinks were cheap. The tunes were good and the walls were decked out with funky and kitschy stuff. No doubt I’d return.

I was really pleased with my first visit to this bar. A hole in the wall place, and you have to find parking on the street, but we had a great time. Mike was our bartender, and was really nice and sociable. He made us all feel very welcomed and never made it seem like we weren’t ‘regulars’ (we have found that a lot of these hole in the wall places completely ignore you if your not a regular, but not here). They have pool, and the drinks are very reasonably priced. Look forward to visiting here again.

Best bar in Hamtown.

I can’t really review this place, because I’m here all the time.
The best is daytime drinking and bullshitting with the bartenders (Alana is amazing, but I have a soft spot in my heart for Laura, Tony, Augie and Mikey too). It’s a great spot to watch a game as well.
The worst is when a busload of people from a bachelor party or a bar crawl come in, be general jackasses, then leave (if you’re lucky, they’ll only stay about an hour). You can sometimes feel the collective sigh of relief when they go.
Tip your bartenders well!

3 stars but that’s not a bad thing. It’s your average (Polish) dive bar.
Sometimes cheep beers. Sometimes prices are not as low as I think they should be. Pool table, darts, jukebox, TV playing Boondocks Saints.
We keep coming! Eat at Polish Village Café then come down here for a great Detroit night out.
Fat Tuesday might be the best party of the year here

cool place, been a while but many a morning in here lol only 3 stars because we were soup samwishhes when we left along with the bartender, so when bussy and tipsey the service is a little sporatic but over all a good stop, the pizza place arround the corner will deliver fast and discount the mess ups

If I was still back home in the D, this is where I would go with the regularity of a functional drunk. «Dive» is somewhat a misnomer which can sometimes be used by establishments of less veracity in advertising to get by with a bad smell and limited options.
Not this place. this is what the word originally meant: inexpensive; friendly without pretense; neighborly; serious about drinking; diverse socially, economically, racially without pretense; accessible and low lit! The staff is phenomenal and all your macro brews and micro brews are taken care of with great specials. Drop the ‘tude at the door — you’ll be a fly in the ointment coming here if you have a problem with people being nice and unimpressed.
August and company, we salute you!

If I lived in Detroit, this would be one of my regular haunts. Located on a residential street at the end of a block of bungalows, it has that familiar cozy neighborhood bar feel I recognized from growing up in Chicago. The bar is in a Polish neighborhood, and has a stock of Polish beers, liquors and signs.
We drove by and were hesitant based on the man wearing a cowboy hat sitting outside (currently living in Texas, I didn’t come to the D for cowboys) nut chose to pop in for a drink. Best decision ever. The bar is dark, there is a jukebox, and most of the bar seems to know each other. The bartender was super friendly and the people were picking good music. One of the guys sitting near us at the bar was alone, chatted with the bartender and had his dinner delivered to the bar and ate at the bar. The mix of people was part hipster, part Polish locals, park punk/​rockabilly,… and the cowboy.
Great bar, good selection, good music, good times.

Third stop on an epic pub crawl. Wonderful dive bar with great prices. Not a huge selection of taps, but they were well curated. The bartender was very friendly. Go here.

My friends and I came here after dining at (revolver). Based on what the bartender said, they gets lots of before and after patrons, and they didn’t give us a hard time when we walked in with two half-​full bottles of wine (which we obviously didn’t drink from). Also props for being a hipstery/​dive bar that did not judge us for being obviously not hipster. Also, they had the olympics opening ceremony on, and it was fun to hear the entire bar provide their own commentary.
I had a delicious ginger beer, that was served as recommended on the bottle, served over ice and with a lime slice. Yum! Oh, and awesome/​random jukebox tunes as well (consistently with the wide variety of patrons).
My only complaint was the ladies bathroom. The bathroom itself was not bad, but the, ahem, toilet area, was so gross that I really wished I hadn’t broken the seal when I was at (revolver). Perhaps it’s not always this bad, but approach with caution and don’t say you weren’t warned.
With that said, I’ll definitely be back, but I’ll just plan on saving the seal breaking until I get home :-)

Oh Whiskey in the Jar. a small town bar with a lot of personality. I have found myself here everytime I get to venture into Hamtramck and I fall in love with it a little bit more with each trip.
If Whiskey in the Jar was a person: I would picture him to be big polish biker with lots of tattoos, lots of stories from ‘back in the day’ and would have all the knowledge of polish history and culture to be an actual professor. When I come to this bar, I want to overhear everyone’s conversations, I want to be everyone’s friend and I want to become a regular. I just get this welcoming feeling all the time which I love.
The bartenders are on point! I was here celebrating on Fat Tuesday and I had the opportunity to be around hundreds of drunk people listening to the Polish Muslims and drinking PBRs and eating everything in sight. The beer tent was packed but not annoying and it was awesome to see everyone in such a great mood. It was also 4pm and I wondered if anyone worked on Fat Tuesday.
Anyways. even though there were hundreds of drunks everywhere. the bartenders were with you as soon as you made eye contact. Drinks were cheap and the service was fast. I even tried the blackberry liquer which tastes like cough medicine. but for some reason I always said yes when someone offered to buy me one.
Come here on Fat Tuesday because it’s totally worth it. and come here if you’re in Hamtramck. Very warm and welcoming place and I swear everyone will fall in love with you by the end of the night.

I met a friend here for a quick drink before dinner and wow, was I impressed. This is the dive bar of all dive bars. The bartender is great and can make anything. Love the stickers all over the bar.

I got a fever and the only prescription is more Whiskey in the Jar.
Being new to Hamtown, I’ve relied on Unilocal reviews as my compass. Who doesn’t like a neighborhood with built in refreshment establishments? My buddy and I stopped in after a cold, rainy day to give Whiskey a test drive. We were immediately greeted with a complimentary shot of Polish blackberry brandy to warm the insides up while a handful of regulars kindly made us feel at home.
Small, clean and friendly do it for me. You can keep everything else. Walking distance to my house is definitely a plus. Prices are amazing as we had two PBR tall boys and three premium shots for $ 15.
Whiskey in the Jar is a winner.

This place is an amazing dive bar. My boyfriend and I walked in on a random Saturday afternoon to a couple locals sitting at the bar shooting the shit with the bartender. We ordered a couple of drinks, and after sitting down the bartender called us back up to do a couple shots with him. Always a nice welcome, I asked if this was the welcome shot other reviewers have mentioned. He said it wasn’t and he immediately whipped out a bottle of blackberry liqueur for us to then drink with him. I wished we could have stayed here longer, as the bartender was awesome. Especially when he started shit talking on my boyfriend and his love for the Yankees.
Best dive bar in Detroit, hands down!

Kitschy crap and stickers all over the bar and cheap drinks.
Oh yeah, our bartender didn’t drink but another patron gave a recommendation on the many great beers they have in bottles.
Don’t forget to take your picture with the Ratelope.

Yay for the Whiskey! THIS is a dive spot that is everything a dive should be (well…with the exception of the electronic jukebox, but no place is perfect).
Not much to look at from the outside. The inside isn’t anything fancy, but it is CLEAN. Even the bathrooms, small and littered with wall graffitti, have never had an «ewww» factor to them. So props for that.
Drinks are cheap. Every bartender that works there is cool as heck. Tons of regulars… you’ll all know each other after a time or two in. Pool table, small outside area… just good old Detroit antics and a lot of people getting their drink on for cheap. Hooray.
(Taking a star off because sometimes the bartenders like to have as much fun as the customers do… which has led to a few instances of inattentive service. But hey, I can’t blame them. I’d do the same.)

I didn’t know a damn thing about this place walking up to the door on a Sunday. It was closed, not open for another hour. Then some guy walks up, as I was walking away.
«What’s up?”-guy
«Notta, place is closed”-me
«oh yeah? i think i have some keys to this place”-guy
The guy turned out to be the bartender who was very nice and let us in early. +1.
The place has all the dive bar basics covered: small, dark, smoky, shithole. And I mean shithole in the best sense; the way you want a dive bar to be. But it also has several flat screens, an electronic poker cabinet from the 60s and a pool table. So when you’re not rapid firing cigs, shots or Polish beer you can’t pronounce, there are things to do.
There is no food here so don’t come hungry.
Neighborhood is safe and there is a big parking lot about a block up the street.
Oh and they sell 40s… yeah, drink a 40oz… in a bar.

This is such a great dive– and probably my favorite bar when I come to visit Detroit. They always seem to be opening up the bar just when we arrive. and we always have the best of times and really fun conversations.
We came for Paczki Day this year and were floored by the wonderful bands, dancing, home cooking up for sale and wonderful crowd of Paczki obsessed locals.
We once missed our plane home to NYC. we definitely got carried away with the cheap drinks and good people.
I remember leaving in a snow storm, through the quiet of the snow blanketed neighborhood. feeling such love for this little place.
See you soon, Whiskey.