Easy Street Pub

We just moved to the area from Texas. We are low key and love dive type bars. Our first experience was OK. It was extremely hot inside but both front and back doors were open. Having come from Texas we were use to heat but it was a little much. There were maybe 6 people in the whole bar and the bartender pretty much ignored us for a good ten minutes while she just talked with other patrons. When she finally came over to us she didn’t greet us, was rude, and acted like we were a nuisance. We stayed for a few beers and left. The people smoking out back were actually friendlier.
We hadn’t been back which is a shame because it’s in a great area and looks so nice from the outside. Tonight we decided to give it another chance. The air conditioning was on… which was great but a smell of mildew and/​or mold was overwhelming. But, being an older bar we understood. It is obvious the owner has made no repairs or updates to this place in a good 20 years.
We sat at the bar. Again, I think there was maybe 5 people in the whole place. All of which were at the bar. We sat there for 10 minutes. I had run to the restroom. When I came back, still no service. My husband said the bartender came by. looked at him and walked in the back.
I am astonished this place is in business. Is it that much of a local bar they don’t like «outsiders» or new residents? As a business owner I am floored an owner would be ok with employees with ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE customer service. This bar is never busy. how can they be so rude to patrons? In my younger years I was a bartender and can not fathom treating people the way the two bartenders we have encountered here have treated us. Don’t they want tips and isn’t that how they survive? It seriously blows my mind we have had two rude horrible bartenders both times we have been here in less than 3 weeks.
After 10 minutes of sitting at the bar with no service tonight with only 5 other people in the bar, all of whom had drinks, we got up and left. As we were walking out the back the bartender was coming out of the kitchen and accidentally ran into us. My husband apologized (even though she ran in to us, but we were raised with manners) and she gave us both a dirty look and kept walking.
Wow…that is all I can say. We won’t give this place a 3^rd chance. I seriously am just so shocked a place that is so slow with hardly any business would treat patrons so rudely. We are great tippers too. Too bad the bartender never got a chance to find out.
Don’t waste your time. I guess the owner doesn’t care or isn’t involved because I would not employ people with such lack of customer service and people skills.

I used go here in the late 70s play darts and drink!!! Still hard to believe it is still here!

With a name like Easy Street, you know its a total dive but that’s kinda what’s so cool about it. People are nice, it’s not too busy, drinks are cheap and they even have a couple bar games.
No you’re not going to have your fancy, snooty cocktails.
No you’re not going go to have your fancy decorations.
Or cute little candlelit booths.
But maybe you will have… a good time.
Maybe because you’ll laugh at the oldies inspired «got that from a thrift shop» décor.
Or at the feeling that JUST maybe you’ve been transported back in time.
The choice is yours.
As with any dive, stay clear of the restroom unless you just can’t hold it anymore.

Nick: Hey, look mister, we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast. And we don’t need any characters around to give the joint atmosphere. Is that clear? Or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?

I wouldn’t normally give it more than three stars, but I’m pretty sure the place is haunted and who needs that mess? So it gets four. I mean, there has to be a corpse somewhere in the building. He might even be propped up at the bar like Bernie. Would anyone notice? No. Is that effing fantastic and magnificent? Yes. It’s not the nicest place if you like dancing on speaker boxes, but it gets the job done.

Geez this bar looks like a crappy thrift store being loaded with junk and license plate decorations all over the wall. Another tacky thing this bar does is having a wall of pictures of people in this dump over the years. This bar deserves a one star but I give it three because the popcorn chicken was excellent and it is a dive bar in Scahumburg. a corporatist suburb. If they get rid of all the junk as wall decoration maybe this place can be a cooler hip place

Urine! Sewage! Hello! Health inspectors this place should be closed until they fix THE RAW SEWAGE!!! I love dive bars but not when the dive is into the septic tank. The entire bar reeks of urine. I was fighting a battle all evening inside my throat to keep the puke down. The clientele was the usual assortment of jerks in Affliction T-​shirts and Fat women dressing 20 years younger than then they should in ill fitting too small jeans. Conversation? You hear a lot of verbalized pauses like: «uhh», «ummm», & «you know».(The stuff morons say to fill their evenings.)
Liked the jukebox.
The beer could’ve been colder.
Did I mention THE PLACE IS PERMEATED WITH THE FOUL SMELL OF HOT URINE!!!

In all fairness, dive bars aren’t for me. That being said, I think this place is gross. There’s nothing appealing about the potential for a good old case of Hepatitis (insert your favorite strand here). New car, fresh laundry, and pine tree are pleasant scents that even the commonest of man can enjoy. Beware: the dingy stench that not only attacks your sense of smell, but burns your eyes, when you enter this establishment is not the «common man’s» sign that he’s found a new bar to call home… it’s mold. Hipsters, get vaccinated before you go.

stopped in this place for some day beers and found a retro old school dive bar. The beers were ice cold, bartender friendly, and the wings were tasty. I didn’t notice the odor mentioned by other reviews, but then the doors were open. The décor is right out of the old days.

Came in here for a quick beer with my boyfriend after we finished having dinner with my cousins in the area. This place is really cozy. I definitely could tell that my boyfriend and I were intruders with all the regulars relaxing at the bar. I liked the eclectic wall decorations. Definitely a dive bar for sure. I just wish the bartender was a little more welcoming and friendlier to our new faces.

This place is Schaumburg’s hidden Bön Temps. I felt like I was in an episode of True Blood with all the knick-​knacks (License plate covered walls, blue x-​mas lights and antique beer cans roped through the ceiling, etc…) but, def has a musty smell to it… Pool Tables and TV’s playing multiple Chicago sports was nice too.
There is a Juke Box with a giant touch screen flat panel with TONS of music at your disposal. It also accepted credit cards which is kinda dangerous when you have so much metal for me to choose from.
Drinks were decently priced.
I’ll be back you dark, dank, hole in the wall goldmine.

It’s a dive bar and there is a foul smell about the place. Drink enough and you probably won’t notice it. I’ve never seen anybody order food here and I’m not sure they even offer food even though it looks like there might be a kitchen in the back. Most people are too cheap to put money in the jukebox so I usually get to play whatever I want when I’m there. The place is usually filled with townies and regulars but the place doesn’t feel «clicky» at all. Everyone kinda just does their own thing without bothering anyone else. They have a free game room on the other side which is kinda cool if you can ignore the stank.
So you ask why would I give this place 3 stars instead of 2 or 1? Because it is what it is. A dirty old dive where you go to get shitfaced hopefully for less than a commercialized more pretentious bar. I don’t expect half naked cocktail waitresses or live bands and DJs. When drinking at a place like this I’m happy with someone coming by every once to check to see if there might be anything else we need. I don’t even bother considering food at a place like this. Sometimes it feels good to just hang out locally and quietly here.

Odds you’ll find a dead hooker in the parking lot, 4:1
Odds you’ll find a dead hooker in the bathroom, 3:1
This place has a very unique odor. Its undeniable and its difficult to stomach. Its one of the only «pubs» in Schaumburg — which aren’t allowed by village law but this place is so old that it is grandfathered in.
The 1 extra star is that they have good parking, cheap prices, and a lot of regular schaumburgites hang out here — due to lack of options.
They also get credit for having some of the most ridiculous folk tales about the buildings (Brothel, Al Capone’s hangout, Hotel, blah blah blah).

well yeah, there is this smell, seems like a mix of toilet and puke. But after some beers it gets better, or at least you get used to it. I thought we got in to the back door, but yes, that was actually the front door.
Guys, don’t brink your Lady here on the first date, well not even on the second or third, you better never bring her here, this is a guys bar, nothing classy or stylish here.
But that is exactly what I like sometimes, well not the smell, but a place where everybody can just be them self, and you sit on the bar and enjoy a couple of cold ones.
I have to give this place 3 stars
1 — for originality
2 — The bartender spoke German
3 — for the classic rock music and the bartender singing karaōke to it
And just because there were only guys in here I don’t think it was a gay bar, it was probably because of my recommendation. =;-)
Na dann Prost!!!

I see they put up lights in the parking lot. I wonder if that’s going to put a damper in the drug use. I wonder if that’s going to stop the 40 something bleach blonde bar sluts from giving head in the lot… No, I don’t think so, they’ll do anything there.

What a dump! The owner is a jerkoff to. The Place stinks. I mean really bad odor. I’m guessing it’s the plumbing. Or maybe it cause the owner lives upstairs. Never goin there again. Zero stars. Please close the doors so something better can open up. PLEASE!

The drinks here were good, strong, and cheap – all of which made me happy. The biggest perks, however, were that on a Saturday night, Easy Street was lively but not at all crowed, and the music was actually at a reasonable level!
Our table service was slow but friendly, although if you’re busy playing the free darts or pool you might not care about or want a waitress bugging you anyway. If you do run empty, though, the bartender was attentive and quick.
This is not a place to go if you’re feeling twenty-​something and douche-​y on a given night – save it for a weekend when you’d rather just have a good time playing some darts and hanging out.

Fact:
Easy Street is one of the oldest buildings in Schaumburg. (Perhaps this explains the lingering smell that shows up from time to time?) It was once an inn, but I’ve heard rumor that it was also a brothel at some point, which could explain the name. ;)
Okay. So it’s a weird combo of dive bar and local watering hole. So some of the clientele are a bit sketch. The main point is, drinks are decently priced and the major highlight is that they offer FREE billiards, FREE darts, and FREE foosball.
The bartenders are generally friendly and the only downside is that the jukebox only plays when you pay – I wish there’d always be music on.
For a chill hangout, I def recommend it any night of the week.

Every time I walk into this place I feel like someone is just going to walk up and punch me in the face (with brass knuckles) for no good reason (+1 star because I don’t think it will be a stabbing).
A good getaway from all the corporate chain bars of Schaumburg, but I can’t get past the hostility I feel when I go there. A friend put a few songs on jukebox; they were not country (but also not bad club music) and were not appreciated in the slightest (read: multiple angry slurs being thrown out)… but I guess, know your audience.
Big plus to the free pool (if you’re man enough to step up to it), free darts, and free foosball, but overall it just doesn’t give me that warm feeling townie bars should have.
Even though I am not a huge fan, I will still keep giving this place a shot because its one of the few non-​chain places in the area.

Easy Street Pub is the kind of place you go to if you ever wanted to know just what exactly a slow abortion looks like. I started coming here before the smoking ban. I remember my first time vividly because behind the poorly ventilated bar stood the bartender, who was extremely pregnant.
The bar itself is a cliché. You know that God awful Toby Keith song «I Love This Bar?» This is exactly what he’s talking about. The interior decoration looks like it was provided entirely by a garage sale from 1989. Nothing matches and there’s license plates everywhere. Pool is free, but the table looks like it was built during the Hoover administration. All of the windows have been covered and the lighting is pretty limited as it is. There are no clocks, but the people that usually go there don’t have anywhere else to be anyways.
Speaking of which, the patrons are usually blue collar, hard drinkin’, hard fightin’, hard fartin’ sons of bitches. The men are men, and the women are even manlier. They work hard, therefore, they play even harder. Sometimes it’s nice to watch middle-​aged white men try to dance. They’re usually friendly and you’ll hear at least one crazy anecdote everytime you go. More often than not, you’ll witness one as it takes place.
The food is typical bar food. It’s moderately priced and average in every sense of the word. The cooking equipment looks like it hasn’t been cleaned ever. I know what it looks like because you have to walk through the kitchen to go outside to the smoking area. People don’t come here to eat.
The music is good. No matter what time you go there, there’s always a group of 3 or 4 hanging out by the jukebox. Don’t expect to hear anything newer than Metallica’s «…And Justice For All.». And if you play something like 50 Cent’s «Candy Shop», don’t be surprised if you hear one of the regulars bark out, «Who put this shit on!?»
There’s never any drink specials. The beer is cold, the whiskey is cheap, and they taste accordingly. You may get a funny look if you order a Sex on the Beach, not because they’re judging you, but because the bartender doesn’t know how to make it.
What’s best about this place is that it’s located smack dab in the middle of Schaumburg like a big middle finger to the yuppie, downtown area.
What’s even better is that it’s right down the street from my house. I’ve been coming here since 2005 and I wouldn’t change a thing. I love this bar.