Wilshire Tavern

very cool place. real people and reasonable prices.

Great place. Bartender was very friendly and helpful, even though it was obvious we weren’t local. Gave us a free game of pool (only 25cents). Also great advice on local beer selections. Neighborhood bar with all kinds of options.

I’m always a sucker for carpet in a bar. Love this place. Minimal hipsters.

This used to be a great little neighborhood spot but it’s gone waaay downhill!
I don’t know what happened but both the staff and customers seem absolutely miserable, which makes for a rather hostile and unwelcoming bar.
They’ve obviously tried to make some changes to the place over the last few years but didn’t really do any good.
Definitely won’t bother stopping back in.
Wouldn’t recommend that you do either.

A dive bar, a hole in the wall, a pit. The regulars, I’m sure will like it just that way. MMA on the television, Keno on another and video games and shuffleboard collecting dust in the back area.
I guess you could call it just another Saturday night, but it was a nice night out and I’m sure many were somewhere, anywhere downtown or beyond. All of ten people at the bar area including the bartender. A special reads“sloppy joe’s” on a sign towards the rear but no one is eating it and I’m sure for good reason. Options of jerky, candy bars, chips, nuts and gum are just behind the bar and are probably safer choices. Steelers and Cubs items are all about the bar area, so someone there is a fan. This looks like a cool place, right?
They have a small selection of good beers but PBR seems to be the choice of the guys next to me. The woman in the seat by me, chatting with bartender, is choosing some of the local beers while guys at the far end are casually watching a Cardinals baseball game. The rest of the bar and the patio are empty. I don’t know if that’s normal, but it is for tonight. The beer is decent in price and I nursed a local IPA while I watched some of the MMA fights. I was just there to unwind and it’s a great place to do that with no expectations.
It’s not a place I’d go to often, but I’d go back. Enjoy.

There is a coat rack by the entrance (Perfect for hanging up your raincoats)
Foosball table, pool table, table tennis, and shuffle board
$ 5 Sammie nights– great deal for drunken munchies
CASH ONLY but there is an ATM machine inside
Wall of potato chips and beef jerky for sale
Mario Brothers video game machine
Very old candy dispensers
Video Lotto & Keno
Pinball machines
Good size patio
$ 13 pitchers
Old crowd
Cheap
Fun

I went there with around 10 people and we seemed very unwelcomed. I am not sure if it was because we were young or because we were using the pool table but both the locals and bartender did not seem to like us or want to serve us. It was weird too cause they did not have many people in there. Will not return.

Best clam chowder every Friday!!!

Beers + UGA football + locals = good times

Until Ben, Benny quits this place only deserves 1 star. Rest of the bartenders are great, but Benny hates his job and wants you to know. Refuses to to do Keno or any lottery redemption to the point of feeling he needs to make snide comments about it right in front of you as turns away or just walks away to go smoke. If he is not working your still stuck in his misery since he hangs around on his days off, after work, before work and really feels the need to express his misery. Fire him already. I’ll go to Fremont Ridge or Rovon where they are actually happy to have you there spending money.

Very cool place if you like the dive bar scene. Friendly bartenders that are interested in knowing you along with good people around. The crowd is a bit older, but you can’t judge a book by its cover! They are very chill people. There Is a ping pong table amongst other games, which are a lot of fun later in the night. Definitely worth checking out if you’re in the area.

I love this place. There are lots of fun things to do — pool, pinball, ping pong! They have an awesome full size shuffleboard table. Sometimes they have live music and a pretty kick ass jukebox too.
Service is great.
Beer is cheap.
Good place to watch a football game.
Hot dogs, hot nuts, pepperoni sticks, and cans of sardines.
I also appreciate that they have a bathroom tucked away for women only,
because the other bathroom, let’s just say, doesn’t smell like roses…

Definitely a solid neighborhood joint… hot nuts, cheap beer, cash only, lots of games [pinball/​shuffleboard/​ping pong/​pool/​lottery/​video]. Bartenders who remember you, great service.
Yeah, its divey… thank god, keeps away the crowds.

i go to the wilshire every time i’m in town (once or twice a year), and yet i get treated like a regular. it’s a great time, a great place. i’ve played pool, drank beer, and played keno and the machines there — fantastic. great bartenders, too. real down home kind of place with a great jukebox.

We’d heard about this place because we’ve been getting into ping pong lately and they have a ping pong table. Bingo. Well, sort of.
The place is a total dive complete with leftover smells from the smoking era. What’s it been, three years now? Yickkkhhh! When the smokers go outside they’re just too close to the front door so the place ends up smelling like an ashtray anyway. The carpet is ratty and looks like something people have been wiping their feet on for 30 years. Oh wait. They have been.
The crowd is friendly and we participated in several games of friendly ping pong. Hey, I almost won one of those losing by only 3 points. There don’t really seem to be any undesirables here and the crowd is mixed, both young and old who actually seem to communicate with one another. It didn’t seem like a Frank Sinatra type of crowd but that’s what was playing when we walked in. To sum it up, this is a friendly, gross, disgusting, divey, ratty neighborhood bar.
There seems to be something for everyone here, from ping pong and pool tables to pinball and shuffle board. If you can get by the smell and appearance, hey, you’re in.

The other best place to be on 42^nd

Midnight Mystery Bike Ride 2007!