Signal Lounge

I come here for the pool tournaments on monday nights and it’s usually pretty fun. Everyone’s friendly. The crowd is older but interesting. The owners are personable and organize the tourneys.
Free Pool Sundays&Mondays 2pm-​closing.
No credit cards so bring your cash. ATM fee + bank fee not worth it.

I frequent a lot of the dive bars in OC and it’s nice to finally find a bar that I can get away from the Circle crowd. No annoying college kids. Yes it’s a hole in a wall but with two pool tables and good prices drinks, I love it!

Horrible service. Staff rude to us from the moment we walked in. Were accused of being under age when we were clearly old enough (I’m 37). Appalled by rude women staff. Made me NEVER want to come to Signal Lounge again. What a shame.

This one takes the cake for the diviest bar I have ever stepped into. It makes the one across the street from my house look like a lounge from Vegas. The bottled beers were kept in a giant ice chest that reminded me of my liquor store also across the street from my house and the soda mixers were poured from a 99¢ 2 liter bottle from the 99¢ store. Shasta is legit though, so don’t sweat it you brand-​name-​soda-​drinkers.
Aside from the usual divey charm, the people were nice and kept to themselves. The price for a basic coke and _​_​_​_​was average. The girl who was bartending was nice and checked up on me too.
The seating is sparse and the set up is very interesting. Here’s what I can remember from the sign:
Sunday: Free pool all day
Monday: Happy hour from 11 am/​12 pm to 6 pm
They don’t accept card! Boo. Be sure to take some cash with you otherwise you’ll get charged $ 2.75 for withdrawing from their ATM.

This is highly unlike me to visit once and review, but as a warning I will not be returning. I only went here because I couldn’t find Blondies trying to grab a drink before an event in the area.
Cash only, ATM inside. Dingy sticky gummy carpet, dark from not having any windows. Poor lighting is probably a good thing so you don’t see things you don’t want to. 2 Beers on tap and a dozen in bottles. Strong makers and coke. Cheap bottle of Newcastle. The coke was poured from a bottle and not from a speed tap, that’s pretty hood and the beers are the real value. The smell reminded me of those old dessert dive bar in Nevada way way way of the strip, a mixture of sweat and cleaner. The bar itself is shapped interesting.
A dozen stools around the bar and pool tables in the back. I didn’t use the restroom because I had 2 drinks and bounced. They were folding bar towels as I came in. I was digging the internal stained glass hidden window thingy and the old school cash register. Service was a little slow, but nothing bad, just 1 bartender for a HH swing in a pretty empty bar. I was totally used to the Cumbia music blaring as well as the cheesy fluorescent writing on the black board. T-​Mobile 4g service was good inside. Parking is limited up front and even more so on the sides and back.
Dive and nothing more. I prefer a dive with more variety to stand, sit, maybe a patio, some windows, better tv’s, better music, but most importantly beer on tap. I’m not a bottle drinking and that coke from a 2 liter bottle was the straw for me.

Great place to hang if you like a average corner bar. Not a hipster dive bar but an actual bar. Bartender on sat night is by far the best around. Plus del taco is walking distance can’t beat that

3 Stars bc it’s the opposite of an upscale or 5 star «Bar», but definitely a 5 star Dive. They have TV’s, couple pool tables, pitchers, regulars, drink specials, arcade games, a juke, a cool shaped bar and good cheap drinks. Medium size liquor selection but they have what you need for a good night. Great place to get a ICE cold beer (literally the beer is in a cooler with ice) and a good shot of tequila after work or party on the weekends. Bartenders are super laid back and the formality of a classier NYC bar has faded away into a small town local spot. They have men and women’s pool league that plays 2 nights a week, if that interests you. I live in the area and love walking up on weekends and enjoying the eclectic crowd. Somehow everyone fits in. Give it a chance or two. Open Noon-​2am most nights. Early on Sunday football mornings.
Perks: Close to Del Taco & Dk’s doughnuts (for those beer munchies)
One of the only bars that sells hard liquor on this side of the 55 fwy.
Sweet vintage cigarette machine that works.
And of course I work here from time to time. With that said I feel my review has been pretty honest and I hope to see you soon!

great place to chill out crumb bun style in orange. try the girl scout cookie shots– they are super yum. Pool tables and good music!

The Bar: Located in Orange, on Chapman Avenue across from the local high school. In a strip mall, with a Del Taco within walking distance which is especially nice when wasted. Approaching the bar, there is a single door into a dark room. The bar itself is oddly shaped, sorta like a boomerang. First thing ya notice walking in, is the liquor, conveniently placed near the door to attract the consumer.
The Crowd: Well, this night, it was pretty dead inside. We ran into another bartender from Marty’s Cocktails out partying with her friends, so we decided to kick it at that end of the bar. As for the rest of the crowd… there were a couple of old dudes at the bar, and a couple on the pool tables. that was about it.
Service: Prompt, but the bar was empty.
Prices: From what I can remember, I believe it was $ 2.75 a bottle for domestic, and $ 5.50 a shot for Jameson.
Entertainment: 2 pool tables, bar top video game, dart board, a few TV’s.
Restroom: I almost don’t need to write about this disgusting area. Look at the picture below. It smelled worse that in looks, if that’s even possible.
Bartender: Poison pusher for the night was Teri. From what we’ve heard, she is legen… wait for it… dary. Would not disagree with that statement. Made for a great time.
Closing statement: Besides being on a major street with lots of Cops, not too bad. Had a great time, with great people and certainly plan on making a return trip in the near future.

The bartender looks like the big girl from Operation Repo but is not nearly as friendly. She gets pissed when you order a drink and she has to get off her rhinoceros sized rump to serve it to you. This place is awesome if you just spent 10 years in a Vietnamese prison camp.

Well, what can I say, at some point in time each review is right. However, recently there was a new beer tap added and a host of hot new bartenders. Signals is a dive however it’s a blast if you are looking for some cheap cocktails east of the 55. Bring a small group and you won’t have to wait 15 mins in line in a packed bar for a drink. I love it there.

For years my friends have had a misplaced, undying, loyalty to this depressing dive for many years, and no one knows why. Their nickname for Signal Lounge is «Siggy Sorrows», because of all the sad, dilapidated, souls that dwell within this sarcophagus of shame. The funny thing is that this nickname does not do justice to actual locations that give you sorrow, like the DMV or your mother-in-law’s house. Signal Lounge is the bottom of the barrel of all dive bars, and not in that good way. Everyone loves their local dumpy, dive bar… but this raises the bar on depression. If your looking for local girls to meet, than the most you can look forward to is a few biker mommas yelling the words to songs through their three teeth. Look forward to your choice from the hall of shame specimens of the opposite sex if that’s your goal. They got a 1970’s 12″ T.V., and a narrow selection of $ 5 beers from the cooler. Tap beer… please. If you can grab a pool table and abstain from the sad souls wallowing at the bar, there is a nice breeze of cigarette smoke and chinese food diarrhea that burn your nose hairs off while you contemplate suicide. The juke box has awesome songs from Lady Gaga and Toby Keith that make you want to tear your ears off Van Gogh style with a broken beer bottle. Even after your ears have been removed, you will still be able to hear the meth addict, grandma shrieking at the bar «P-​p-​p-​poker face, p-​p-​p-​poker face». Awesome time, right! Go to Blondie’s, the Fling, O’hara’s or Paul’s if you want a cool dive in Orange.
There are two redeeming factors that make Signal a decent place. If you and your friends have been feeling good about yourselves, it’s a place you can all celebrate your comradeship in sweet sadness together. If you see Mark, James or Chad there… get them a drink. They’re cool. The other good thing about Signal is that when you leave, you feel the filth of shame peel off your skin, in which you are born anew and swear to never subjugate yourself to the sorrows of Signal Lounge again. After you peel off the last dead skin, go to DK doughnuts next door for an epic doughnut.
If you need to feel a level of depression not felt since your last trip to Aushwitz… the Signal Lounge is the place for you!

The only I’m giving it a two star rating is because this place used to be fun ! Now it’s just a bunch of bitter girls that sit down while on shift and you hate too interrupt them while they do their gossiping and backstabbing each other or they are out back smoking or whatever ! They used to have some pretty fun bartenders working here but now your lucky to get a drink out of them! What the hell is really going on? It’s turned into a «in the gutter bar»! Drama chicks and grumpy bartenders are not a good thing for a bar last I heard!

I can’t even give this place one star. I like dive bars, but I might as well been in TJ the bartendress was rude, although I have been known to swear, listening to her and the only other patron, another bartendress, talk was highly disgusting. They burped outloud, I think to impress to me what progressive women they are, to talking about that night’s special drink. It just so happened to be the Blowjob. The shill at the bar, some Hispanic chick, made a comment that for an extra five bucks she would go out back to perform the real thing. She may have been kidding around, but by the looks of her I’m not so sure. I’ll never step foot in this disgusting place again. There are dive bars and then there are places like this that make you want to slink out the back hoping no one saw you go in our out! I had to give one star didn’t want to.

Worst vodka soda I ever had!!!
But I like this place because I’m into sleazy dive bars.

Really? Tell me your not doing «research» on this place. I am amazed 2 people have reviewed this place before me. I did not know people actually went into this place. The one time I went there I simply assumed that the people in the bar were some backwoods family and I accidentally walked into their hovel.
This is one of those places that can do a real number on your liver and soul. I honestly don’t remember the bar much. I simply remembered that undeniable urge to run. I ran alright, all the way to the Olive Pit… now that is class!

DIVE. $ 4.00 bottles of newcastle. No beer on tap. Two pool tables and two TV’s that are constantly showing episodes of Law and Order. Hahah. Love it!