Waldo’s Campus Tavern

ONE WORD: Well, three: Pickle Stoli Shots!
These shots make the visit worth it. Need to get them downstairs in the Pilsen Klub.

I’m a fan of this place! what a cool hole in the wall bar/​campus close bar. Came here on a Tuesday night after all of my classes were done. The atmosphere is awesome, and there is a fireplace, it has a great warm vibe that it gives off. definitely somewhere you would come with a few friends just to chew the fat for a few hours.

College dive bars are supposed to have personality and character, right? Not here. I had more fun watching paint dry while sipping a zima. This place, top to bottom, is one of the biggest disappoinments of dive bars I have ever walked in to! I get I am 40 and not the target demographic but just wasn’t in the mood for one of K’zoo’s vaunted micro-​breweries. I wanted a dive bar with heart and soul, quality beer drinking world problem solving banter, and cold beer. A let down on all fronts. If you are ever on your bucket list dive bar tour of the midwest, missing Waldo’s is nothing to fret about!

I really enjoyed this place. The food was pretty decent and the prices can’t be beat. We stopped in for a bite and a drink. It was fun

Loved this place when I was in college. Great place to have. Brew and meet some friends. The food ain’t bad either.

We came here as a large group of ~40 people for our team dinner on a Friday night. They had us set up in the separate room on the deck, which worked out perfectly. Despite it snowing and being super cold outside, we stayed nice and toasty warm.
We had full access to the menu, which was perfect as sometimes set menus blow. I ordered the cream of tomato soup and the steak wrap with bleu cheese. Our drinks and food arrived promptly with the exception of a few that were missed or presented incorrectly.
The tomato soup is definitely something that I would recommend and order over and over again. It’s nice and creamy and had tons of chunks of tomatoes. Veeeery good! My steak wrap wasn’t bad. Everything was fresh and the steak was cooked to a medium. It was a bit sloppy with the dressing but overall, everything tasted good. I was quite jealous of the beef dips and burritos as those looked to be delicious!
While overall we had a good visit and service was pleasant, my main issue was with other patrons. We clearly had the entire room booked out, and yet the entire time had people come in to the room to look for seats. At one point a man came in and took a phone call for about 10 minutes in the corner of our room. Literally had his nose pressed up to the wall and it looked like he was peeing. Not ideal.

I came here on a Saturday afternoon with my ol’ lady. We were in town on business and decided to stop in for a drink and some food. Drinks and food were decent price and the bartender was a nice guy. TV’s to watch the games and a cool upstairs bar as well as downstairs. I’ve only been once but it was nice visit.

*batman 3.4÷4.0 beers
If my buddies from college were to visit me on a Thursday night, you’d find us at Waldo’s. Why? Well even though we’re pushing the upper bounds of the age demographic, a cheap pitcher of long islands or any other well drink is sure to get a good time started. The only disappointment was throttling way back for the trip home and pulling a primed reviewer away from his game. Another at-​bat might be necessary for Waldo’s…3.4 beers.
*captain ron 3.0÷4.0 beers
Well, I’m not sure if the drink specials at Waldo’s are really special at all. I had some trouble doing the math in my head. Anytime you can throw alcohol at me in quantities too large for me to handle, it’s a good thing.
Waldo’s has a weird layout. After a long island pitcher, it becomes more of a maze. Simply a-mazing.snip snap! (oh, I hate myself). This is a great college bar that draws a good mix of dorks, dweebs, jerks, jocks, frat boys, sorostitutes, jersey chasers, tomboys, and at least a few young-​professionals who’ve yet to give up the dream.

I am from a small town, so visiting here seemed like I was back home but in a whole new state. A friend grew up in the area and always wants to stop by the places that he knew when he was in his college years. These places included Waldo’s.
I’ve been to my share of «shit hole» bars so this was nothing compared to the local hometown bars. It just reminded me of a classic college bar that doesn’t mind if you spill a few drinks here and there. The drinks were CHEAP, but then again I’m from Chicago so anything under $ 5 for anything is cheap.
The food was why we went there, and I’d have to say that the menu was small but did good for a college/​sports bar. The pizzas were good, the wings were awesome and the fried pickles… YUMMMM.
It was a good way to remind myself why I moved away from home/​college in the first place but was a good time for a night away from the big city.

Waldo’s was the standby in college. It has a little older vibe downstairs in the pilsen club, complete with a round bar and a fireplace. They have any beer you could imagine down there and a cool club called the «Passport» where they track what you have tried and at the end you get a tshirt and your name on a plaque.
Upstairs is a typical college bar with darts, pool tables and awesome bartenders. Thursdays is the only busy night where they run a cheap special on mixed drink PITCHERS.

Waldos is alright during the week and off nights on the weekend. Pretty good beer selection downstairs. Pitcher night is pretty obnoxious though.

As my friend Allison said, we loved $ 6 pitcher night. It was cheap, and you always ran into people you knew. I have lots of fond memories of this place.
I went back after graduation, and it just wasn’t the same. It really is the people that make this place fun. Hopefully we will go in as group at reunions and it will be like old times. (Maybe we’ll split the pitchers among a few people though).
The last time I went back was for nostalgic reasons, and without having a pitcher in you, and friends everywhere you look, you can really see how crappy the place was. Oh well, I guess that’s what makes it a dive bar!

Best path to serious heartburn, Nachos and Bloody mary’s. Burn baby Burn.

I used to live for $ 6 pitcher night. It was such a part of my college experience that I am getting nostalgic just writing a review. My college days are long gone and no way can I drink like that anymore, but I fondly remember wandering around with my pitcher and straw and stumbling back to campus after close. And yes, its a total dive, but were else can you get drunk with your professors.

Waldos was one of the biggest shitholes on earth… I really do not understand the stupidity and gang mentality of the pitcher night people. I can recall people jamming in Waldos and chanting for no apparent reason.
I guess the draw of $ 7 pitchers of well long islands was too much for them and they lost their minds.
On the plus side this is only place I know of in which people have pissed on the floor regularly during business hours.
I also once saw a kid passed out on the hill outside Waldo’s

I think people are living in a cave by not reviewing this place! Okay. so it’s old… really really old. But that’s the best part about it. I believe the cheap pitchers are back for Thursday night, which is an awesome experience. Just walking around and holding my pitcher with a couple straws in it bring me back to playing rock/​paper/​scissors to decide who will drive home that night.