Bada Brew

I have to echo Ryan’s review unfortunately. How you have the bands play on floor level is extremely hard to understand. Impossible to see the show and I most definitely will not be returning, even if all the good rock shows that used to happen at Mojoes have moved here.

I wish I could rate zero. This place is the most pathetic excuse of a bar I have ever visited. Went in and there were 50 year old drunks attempting to start trouble. The bartender was around 30 years old and clearly had a crack addiction. Someone stole money from my younger brother and the bar tender jumped from behind the bar and tried fighting him. The bartender! Seriously, do not hire crackheads!
Save yourself the trouble and avoid this shit hole.

If you run a tab, make sure to keep meticulous track of what you have. Because I’m pretty sure they just made up a total for me and it was a good bit higher than what I got.

This place is going down hill fast. Bathrooms smell like piss and are extremely dirty. Bar is mediocre at best and the fact that they cant seem to control there heat is just insane. Only thing this place has going for it is free pool and that is even getting bad. Tables are all stained and unlevel as all hell. To top it off there food made me sick for 2 days not going back if I can help it.

This place is right up the street from me, and we never go unless a friend’s band is playing. It is definitely a hole in the wall dive bar. Let’s just say, this place is not classy. This is the nice way of putting it.

If you are into HARD-​CORE death-​metal, then this is the place for you! This place is a mosher’s wet-​dream! This place is so run-​down, no one would notice if you trashed the place — LOL. Also — you might enjoy the strange odors wafting through the place from the restrooms. If you don’t like DEATH-​METAL — STAY THE F**K AWAY!!!

The single worst live band venue I have ever been to, and mind you I once saw a hip hop show in the tiny basement of a dive bar in Japan.
There is an unnecessary amount of «security» guys who all have an unnecessary chip on their shoulder.
Smokers beware, you’ll have to pay $ 5 for a reentry wrist band. I don’t even smoke that I think that’s cold. The Metalalliance Tour, which I saw at this abomination of a venue yesterday, started at 4:00 and ended at 11:30. I can just see the staff meeting…“Alright dudes, we’re going to have a couple hundred drunk ass metal heads stuck in our tiny room for hours on end. The bands will have to play on floor level because our stage can only hold a drum kit. They’ll be all hyped up to see their favorite bands. They’ll probably be hungry. Why don’t we take away their ability to quench their nicotine addiction, or at least make them pay to have to do so?”
$ 4.00 bottles of PBR?! Immoral, if you ask me.
Sound…terrible.
Like I mentioned, forget seeing the band play, they have to stand on the floor. I’m 6’1 and I didn’t even get to see much.
Not my sarcasm when I say, «Well, at least they kept the TVs over the bar on so people could watch the World Championship of Poker.»
Please take my warning: If you love any band that will be playing at Bada Brew, or even like music at all for that matter, think twice before going to the show, because the vile experience of simple having to set foot in Bada Brew will tarnish your feelings toward even your most favorite band. I am begging you, please think twice.

This place is a rock band live band dump. I went there on a sunday night and was pratically ignored by the bartender. This place plays black majic death metal type bands and is not for everyone. In fact, this place is not for most ones. This bar is dirty and the bathrooms are unkept. The free popcorn tasted two weeks old. This place has really nothing to offer any live music scene in the Chicagoland area and will never be taken serious until they clean up their act.