Sweet Springs Saloon

Never had «my bar» before Sweet Springs last year. I walk in and the bartenders know me by name and drink. Rainey, Joe, and Chris are all awesome bartenders. Super friendly and funny. Atmosphere is fun. Not a classy, upscale bar, but I wouldn’t call it a dive bar either. It’s a bar bar. The patrons are mostly cool.
They have love shows quite awesome, providing a much needed venue for local metal, punk, and rock bands. Cover charges on those nights are cheap, unless there’s some well known band playing (which happens from time to time).
Great jukebox and sound system. Two pool tables. Shuffleboard.
Best bar in Osos!

Love Bubba, love this bar! Great service and good atmosphere. Very nice people. My friend loved the bloody Mary’s.

Loved the hospitality and style. Reyna and Rainy, sorry on the spelling, took great care of us. Cheap drinks, great people and loud music. Go there and tell em INFM sent you. I love this place

I love going here for bloody mary’s. A great place to meet up to listen to some good music on the juke box and play pool on a Sunday afternoon. My friend and I stopped in. Rainy was our bartender. I am very picky with my Bloody’s she honestly makes the best I have had in a very very long time. Also, when there the owners Rochelle and Rick were super nice. They invited us to join in on a locals Birthday BBQ, I was so happy. They fed us like Family. Just a great atmosphere. i am going back more often because of there Hospitality and the Bloody Marys !!! I love wings. I saw they have a small appetizer menu. And Guess what… Wings are on the menu. For sure everyone stop by Sweet springs… You can’t go Wrong… Have a Great Day… MAG

We have tried to make this bar our spot, but every time we go, it’s a bad experience. .we are bartenders & understand how it works. The bartender tonight was so rude that we just left & felt like we never want to go back! She literally said «what makes you think I give a shit???» Why would we want to go back after that? She lost business. .enough said. Bummed I have to give it a star.

I went to the Sweet Springs last night and it was undeniably the best dive bar in the the area. The bar tender, Daniel, made great drinks and fostered a ton of laughs. Good times and great people. I can’t wait to visit again.

This place is so cute! That bartender Rachael is the best and let me sample the beer to see what I would like the most! They have a beer called tap it and its a IPA I’ve never tried this but it’s amazing. Cool ass memories for life!

I’ve been there a few times on the weekend. The bartender, a younger woman was rude and didn’t seem to have time to make a proper drink. She also seemed to expect a $ 2 tip for pouring a beer from the tap. The older women who work the evening shift seem nice enough, but this one (Rachel I believe was her name) was rude to the me and my guests. As long as she works there, they can do without my money or recommendation.

Famed Spanish explorer Don Gaspar de Portolà was thirsty when he and his expedition reached present day Los Osos in September of 1769. The party was marching by foot from San Diego, in search of Monterey Bay which had been discovered by explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno in 1602. Portolà’s task was to find Monterey and determine if it was indeed a suitable place to establish a new Spanish colony. It is said that Don Gaspar was so enchanted by the beauty of Morro Bay that upon first sight of it he demanded the procession rest, and that a barrel of ale be uncorked at once as reward for his men who had made the 350 mile trek up the coast. Señor Don Gaspar was himself so parched that he took down five mugs of ale in under cinco minutos.
As the entire party was schwasted that night, reports are a trifle inconsistent; however, most historians subscribe to the following theory of how the rest of the evening went down:
With a bladder as full of urine as Fox news is full of shit, our boy Donny G. had to piss like a ten-​peckered racehorse. According to legend, when he finally did drop trou’ and lubricate the local foliage, his eyes were watering so thoroughly that in them his men were said to have seen the reflection of enough constellations to navigate a ship by. So relieved was our hero that he bellowed at the top of his lungs «I AM DON GASPAR DE PORTOLÅ AND I’M HERE TO PARTY AND FUCK BITCHES!!!»
The Sweet Springs Saloon was built on the very site of that historic urination, and it is said that the ghost of Don Gaspar de Portolà still frequents the Saloon. Kegs of ale have been known to deplete faster than they ought to have, and the smell of his piss haunts the bar. Tourists and idiots who complain of this smell in reviews of the saloon are ignorant of the legend, and should be ignored. In fact, good fortune is said to accompany those who catch a whiff of de Portolà’s pee. One man who was fortunate enough to have gotten a good lungful of the sweet golden odor discovered the next day that his arthritis had completely vanished, and no longer did he require the assistance of little blue pills to satisfy his wife’s carnal cravings.
Regardless of whether or not you believe the myth surrounding the Sweet Springs Saloon, it’s well worth a visit. The girls behind the bar are all great, and are more than capable of mixing up your favorite libation. Watch out for Rachel, though. That sultry little vixen is like a sexy version of Medusa. If you peer into her beautiful searing eyes for more than a second, you’re gonna need to politely excuse yourself to go change your chones. ..

Let’s face it, a Dive Bar silver medal in a two-​bar village isn’t much of a recommendation. But even Wikipedia bows down to the dive bar preeminence of The Merrimaker.

podunk town nightlife doesn’t get any better.
i’ve been frequenting sweeties for a few years now, off and on (more on than off). the drinks are reasonably priced, and there’s always live music on weekends. it’s rather atypical for such a small town. the staff are delightful. rayna has been enduring my company for years and i can now count her among my extended family (or at least as a de facto psychiatrist). shandie, too. i’ve known her less time but is no less a delight. both know how to pour a drink and engage in a conversation, and won’t leave you hanging if it’s busy. occasionally, it gets quite busy when some of the oft-​playing bands have a show.
best thing about this bar: pabst thursdays. there’s also tecate tuesdays and two pool tables and shuffleboard. speaking of shuffleboard, they have little bowling pins for that thing. if i could remember playing, i bet it was the coolest thing ever. EVER.
seriously, if you’ve found yourself in the area, this is the place to go. unless you don’t like fun.

Shandie is the best bartender in America, period!!! She was entertaining, ridiculously hot, and super funny, basically lots of fun! If anything, go to sweet springs just to have a few drinks and say hi, she will make you feel at home.

Its a dive bar and I love it. Rayna can be pretty cool sometimes. Love you Rayna :)

This is the perfect bar for you assuming that you’re a tweaker, and you enjoy the way the entire place smells like a rotting urinal cake.

Meh. It’s kind of a divey locals place. Casual and comfortable though. Occasionally you can catch a good band.

If your looking for a laid back fun bar then this is the place! The first time I was here I had literally made friends with Rayna (great bartender) and some locals in the first 5 minutes! Everyone is so friendly! Happy hour is M-​F from 12 – 7 and they have bands most weekends! Plus, $ 4 famous bloody marys on Sunday during football! (you know you need that hangover relief!) I’m the new bartender here on Wed, Thurs, and Sunday days so stop in and tell me what you think!

Sweeties is a pretty legit dive. There are all the symptoms of a good dive: Townies in flannel, bartenders that are rude unless they recognize you, drinks in plastic cups, crazy bands that nobody has heard of, and a fat old drunk checking IDs.
The only thing they’ve got to get their shit together on is the elitism they exhibit by charging ridonculous covers. There is NO reason to pay a $ 5 cover for an empty bar with a shitty band.
Silly townies.