Tapper Pub

This places rating depends on what you’re looking for. If you’re looking to bum it in some yogis and a hat to meet a friend who needs to vent over drinks last minute, this is your place. At least the music gives it a positive atmosphere, but could afford to turn dine just a little. Can’t hear anything in there.
If you’re looking for a cute/​nice/​hip place and at dressed up, this is more place.
It looks like its existed since the 70s w no updates, isn’t very clean and you will have w a very diverse crowd… Let’s put it this way, not a place you’d want to meet someone to date and definitely seems to have a few odd balls that come there on the regular alone. One was even passing out at the bar. Unfortunately, some of these odd balls are going to hit on you.
It meant my expectations for what I was looking for, which was low-​key, low profile. If they’d invest in updating, cleaning and more staff, they’d have sooo many people coming there. South Tampa, South of Soho, is lacking on neighborhood bars and they’d make a killing if they cleaned it and updated it, along w adding outside seating and smoking an outside activity instead.

Tapper is a dive bar and doesn’t make any apologies for it. Where else can you go in South Tampa for cheap beer, awesome sandwiches, and the ability to smoke inside?
I found this place with some friends when we weren’t even looking for a bar, and have made it a point to come back often. It’s a great, low-​key break from other, more pretentious bars in the area. Highly recommended if you want to enjoy a beer, watch the game, and maybe get a bite without being bothered.

Will not be going back. Sitting there having a drink and began to notice something strange all along the neon windowsill. Then I realized we were surrounded by hundreds of termite wings just in our small area. EVERYWHERE!!! Had to get up and leave. Obviously no one had bothered to clean in a long time which makes me question the food and drinks. Cringe just thinking about it.

Dark and glowing with neon! My kind of place! Great people. Great dive bar. Excellent sandwiches! Yes, you can smoke inside. The beer is Cheap and COLD!!!

It’s a dive of a dive. The beer and liquor is cheap along with the clientele. I mean that with all due respect by the way. The only reason I give it a 3 star is that the place absolutely stinks inside. I can only describe the odor as stale cigarettes mixed with BO and dry spilt beer.

Great food, great prices. My new lunch spot! K is a sweetheart! Plus its been here longer than i’ve been alive! So you know its good!

This is a unique place for sure and a good candidate for the Reality Show «BAR RESCUE»!
I decided to read the reviews while I was sitting at the bar enjoying a $ 1.50 draft and also lost it when I read a few of the reviews that were pretty spot on! But on a positive note I had a Rueben sandwich prepared by Kay and it was very good!
The kitchen is a 5 foot space behind the bar, the décor is in need of an update and there are a few Polaroid TVs which was a surprise and the pool tables are in rough shape!
But the beers are cheap and the crowd was cool so I give it a thumbs up if you’re looking for a cool dive bar

If you’re feeling low and damn near suicidal, then this place will instantly make you feel better about your life because you’re not a regular. Dark, musty, smoky, smelly, and the service is lousy too.

Great sandwichs if you don’t mind the smokers

If you are looking for a dive bar, you found it. Tapper Pub is located in the parking lot next to Publix, and the fun doesn’t end there. When you walk in you get a nice big whiff of stale (and fresh!) cigarette smoke. They have daily specials with food and drinks. I haven’t eaten any of the food, partly because I’m a little scared, and partly because I usually show up at this place for the after-​after party and I’m already stuffed with food. I personally love a good dive bar, and this place certainly does the trick for me. Beer is cheap, clientele can be questionable, and bartenders are friendly. I enjoy coming here after a difficult long day of work to wind down, or to get a little loud with my friends (it’s a dive, they don’t care if things get a bit noisy!). It’s not clean, but there are plenty of tables, chairs, and space to fill up with your buddies and celebrate some good times!

How much you like this place depends on what you’re looking for. Subjectively, I LOVE this place! It has alcohol and it’s cheap. A nice little neighborhood/​dive bar.
The rating I gave it, however, is more objective. If you’re looking for a place with cheap drinks, then this is your place! But if you like bars that aren’t old and dingy, this is probably not your place. The service tends to be slow, since they usually only have one bartender, and the lighting is harsh. I definitely agree with the reviewer who said: «This place is so bad, it’s awesome.» Never eaten here before, but they have super cheap food as well.

I have not yet tried their food but their drinks are nice and stong and reasonably priced. Service has always been great and I always run into people I know. The only thing I do not like is the smoke but other than that, this is a great local bar.

Great Place! Great sandwiches, funny staff that keep them coming and it’s in the neighborhood. What more could you want!?!

Good eats… good bar… good service!!! What is not to like here? A true neighborhood pub with all of the good associated with that sort of place.

Locals watering hole. A mix of a diner and a smokey bar. Nice atmosphere and cheap drinks. Enjoyable if your looking for a local spot like this. Four Stars, only because the stand-​up counters and a few other things could use some fixing and TLC. Great place for a game of pool or darts. If your looking for the smokey classic bar scene, this is the place for you. If your looking to go clubbing with loud unrelenting music and expensive drinks, then this ain’t the place for you. I can relax here and have a good time.

Dive… DIVE!?! What are you calling a dive? This is a nice neighborhood bar and grill more like Cheers than some true dives I have visited. I mean there is no one passed out drooling on the bar top, no signs of spitting on the floor, no drunken ranting, no edge of incipient violence, no barkeep with sawed-​off baseball bat handy, no backpacks stowed under patrons’ stools, no layers of dust & cobwebs coating ancient dollar bills pinned to the walls and ceiling rafters, no signs mandating shirts and no blunts… and I can show you all that in some true local true dives. Pool tables and cheap beer do not a dive make.
I and wife have enjoyed several fine sandwiches there, and the daily special usually include a draft beer or other drink. Nice selection of sandwiches made fresh… not rancid jars of red pickled eggs, pigs’ feet, slim jims or a rack of stale chips. The usual lunch waitress is friendly and helpful… and does not ever cuss. Unfortunately we forget to bring our card that gets a free sandwich after so many punchs (in the card, not the mouth… I TOLD YOU THIS IS NOT A DIVE)

The Tapper is a true dive bar. Beers are cheap and they have pool tables. That’s about the high

I have absolutely no idea how I ended up in this place but i’m glad I did. It is a dive in every sense of the word in the best possible way. It looks like a 70’s diner that happens to be a bar.
Full bar, smokey atmosphere, a couple doors down from a Publix, this place so is bad it’s awesome. 2 pool tables, a friendly staff, regulars.
Only downside is that they use the controlled pourers but they find ways around that if they like you.