Chee-Chee Club

Decent for a dive bar. Fred and Gabby are the reg bartenders and they’re great! But be careful if those two aren’t behind the bar, leave asap! Also beware of the transient crowd, and the pool tables aren’t in the best of condition.

Dive Bar! Basic drinks and bottled beer.
Pool tables, dart board and plenty of seats.
It is great how they host local artists with shows and sales.

When going downtown you can expect a few things…
1. Street folk and street posse’s
2. Girls dressed in almost nothing wearing ridiculously uncomfortable shoes
3. Expensive Drinks
4. Congestion getting in or out
5. Absolutely no parking
Well, at Chee Chee Club you DONT have to pay an arm and a leg for a drink unless you wear a prosthetic and WANT to pay with your arm or leg and of course IF the bartender that night is into it. (serious drinks on the cheap).
To me, this joint is a win WIN!
Pool tables? YES
Juke Box? YES YES
Bathrooms? GROSS DONT DO IT
AND!!! THE BEST PART: IF you like art they have a monthly rotating art show and local artists plaster the walls with their creative spirits!
ENJOY and tell Fred I say «Hullooooooooo»

This place is a Classic! It doesn’t get any better for a perfect Dive. Great Bartender’s, music. Drinks, location, people and prices!

I love this bar, say what you will haters! Try to appreciate free entertainment. Yeah, because downtown San Diego is SO classy. LMAO. Bartender is nice, drinks are strong, and a free show with every visit. Love the old jukebox custom music obviously.

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Just a throwback memory as I wasn’t complete together when I had walked in, but the story sounds like the beginning of a bad joke:
There was man in drag who probably rolled down from Hillcrest (pun intended) and a skin-​head type guy that drove in from the easterly limits of San Diego mouthing lyrics to the jukebox.
Am I profiling? Yes. Did the appear to have a good time? Yes.
Should I judge? Nope!

Worst drinks ever. Talk about NO BOOZE in the drink. The bartender was to busy flirting with the two chicks down the end of the bar. What does the owner do? Leave there business to the crappy bartender? They must be starving!

I hope there some friendly to hang out. But maybe someone who like to beat me at the pool table and enjoy.

While vacationing with friends in San Diego we ended up here for a night out due to the first stop we went was not our style (too uptight). We had a blast! Drinks were well priced, music was fun upbeat dance, the crowd and employees were fun and go with the flow. I’m from Vegas so the «No drinking outside and No smoking inside» and «last call at 2am» is a bit odd BUT we had a blast until closing then took the party back to our hotel. I’ll come back here when in town again.

Chill spot, nice patrons. The barkeep can be quite rough around the edges. They let the jukebox fall to silence until a customer pumps it, so we walked into a dead silent bar and the sentiment: ‘ATM’s right there…” Nice.
You know those bartenders who start barking bar close at 1:30 as if they’re breaking up a fight? Music to the ears of any patron who just dropped fifty dollars and tips on the guy who just can’t wait to get home.
PSA: Everyone in the US hates 2am bar close. You don’t have to be an ass about it.

The Chee-​Chee Club is akin to the moment in The Matrix when Neo is offered a choice between the red pill or the blue pill, upon which he decides on the red, sending him down a metaphorical rabbit hole towards his awakening.
If you decide to enter the Chee-​Chee Club, know there’s no going back. This is Dive land, no joke, and that’s cool.

Very cool dive bar. I just moved to the neighbor hood and it’s great. Chill people and not the my shit don’t stink attitude of staff like bars in the gaslamp. Anyways it’s a block from home and like I say very cool. I will keep coming back

Gabby was great! She was so friendly and had great historical knowledge of one of the oldest dive bars in San Diego. Highly recommend this spot and Gabby.

Absolutely a genuine hole-​in-​the-​wall dive bar! They even had the crazy trashy blonde puma hanging out at the end of the bar hitting on all the guys.
Went in Friday night. Not much of a crowd. Locals hanging out. Cheap pool tables. No taps for beers, all bottles and cans. The place is beat up and run down which is the character you want from a genuine dive bar. Good variety of mainstream bottle/​canned beers.
Enjoyed 75 cent pool tables as well. Good straight sticks, chalk for hands and cues.

On a random, early evening midweek I popped into Chee-​Chee because a friend I was meeting up with was in the area. There was maybe only one or two other people there besides us and the bartender (who, btw, was sweet, but not particularly attentive for such a small crowd). There are pool tables and a juke box and the drinks are super cheap so it’s pretty much exactly what you’re looking for when you want a good divey place.
Just watch out for the crazies yelling at you as you walk in. Oh, and ladies? Yes, the bathroom is what nightmares are made of, the kind of place that you’re pretty sure you’re gonna be murdered in. But I made it out ok and you (probably) will too. :)

I love dive bars-​and this place doesn’t disappoint!!! Dark, old school Tvs, pinball, jukebox, ATM, and a couple video games! Oh-​and here’s the added bonus-​THEY LOVE DOGS! My little one just happened to be with me and they let her in, and even had treats for her. MY kind of bar.
We popped in here for a couple cocktails while our group was waiting in line to get in to Hodad’s. Perfect spot, perfect timing, really nice prices. Me likey. Double-​dipping at it’s finest.

If this is what a cool dive bar is… I just don’t like dive bars at all. I have passed many times by the door as a have friends living just by the corner and never really wanted to take a look at what is inside just by seeing the outside sketchy people. Still, that photogenic façade (from the other side of the street, check my pic) convinced me to go and see what was chee-​chee about (by the way, someone commented that chee-​chee in Spanish means tits, at least in Spanish from Spain means vagina, so I actually initially thought that this some sort of strip club).
Not recommendable for women (unless you are into this type of place). You actually won’t see many. I would not say is unsafe, but if you have been taking a shower, put a nice dress, put perfume on, go to the salon to do your hair and your mani-​pedi to go out on a Sat night, socialize and get a drink… well, your effort to beautify the nocturnal landscape with shock with the dramatic reality of urine smell at the door, toothless people asking you for something, people at the bus stop offering sexual favors, homeless drunk woman yelling ‘i love your dress, bitch’, a rat passing by all well fed… hell not even fun. Not even for the cheap drinks. I did not see any hipster as other comment, but only really old patrons, most people very drunk and all the above at the door.
Again, if that is what I dive bar is… I like pretty, clean, light and positive. So won’t come back and probably won’t be missed either:)

Good place for a cheap drink while your waiting on your bus. The «club» is nothing of the sort but I like to think that once upon a time it probably was a club and has some stories to tell. If your not going here then you may want to walk on the other side of the street since there are always smokers, housing-​disadvantaged, and real live winos, waiting at the bus stop right outside the front door. All of which plays very well into the dive bar scene.

I thought this place was a strip club for at least the first six months I lived here. After stumbling in one drunk night I was pleasantly surprised. The dirty bar and giant brown stains on the pool table were made up by a simple conversation with the bartender that went something like this:
Me: «do you have any specials?»
Him: «yeah, we’re the cheapest bar in San Diego»
Me: «ok what’s your well vodka?»
Him: «shit.»
And then we got two PBR tall boys and two vodka drinks for $ 13. Will come here forever.
Edit: I take back what I said — they have not one but two new pool tables. This place rules. Also I’m here right now and «lets get it on» is playing.

After almost getting deaf at El Dorado, me an my friends walked down to find somewhere else to keep partying. It was late, very past midnight. Chee Chee, huh? That’s the word for boobs in some slang of spanish in certain countries in Latin America, so me and my friend were intrigued. We enter… Ok…it’s a gay bar. Or at least that was my 99.99% impression. I am cool with gay people, they are better than most straight I know, but I just didn’t know it was a gay bar.
There is nothing special about the bar, people was nice, weird things always happen in a bar but you know, that’s part of the charm. You can select the music, of course, Gaga, Beyonce, Cher, Madonna, lol, great music though.
We had a great end of the night, and the guys were super friendly.