Dive Bars in Champaign, IL

Fresh reviews:

You say dive, I say hell yeah!Saturday at 11pm we wanted to avoid the typical UIUC bar scene and opted to head to the Illini, as it is notoriously tame and fairly unique in that regard, not to mention none of us were members of the mug club yet.There were surprisingly not that many people there on a weekend…

Alex C.

Illini Inn

Cheap pbr and trading of recipes from prison. If you don’t want to to go to a blue collar (or no collar) dive bar, don’t go to a blue collar dive bar. Plenty of business in the front and party in the back; as well as misogynisticly-named sleeveless shirts.You can’t handle the truth.

Savory B.

Rose Bowl Tavern

I like a dive bar as much as anyone else, but I expect the beer to be good. The Brass Rail is a diaper. I ordered a PBR draft and it was easily the skunkiest beer I have ever tasted: creamy at first, smelling of ash, and absolutely toxic afterwards. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume they never flush…

Swaggy J.

Brass Rail

The bartenders are extremely rude! They all walk around with an overwhelming sense of entitlement.Laura, the weekend bartender, is a prime example of this. She’s incredibly rude and doesn’t have the slightest clue what customer service is. She needs to realize that she’s a bartender at a local dump in Champaign…