Houndstooth Saloon

This restaurant does not take care of customers. It puts itself above everyone. I tried to send back an order as it was incorrect and the waiter went off on me. Horrible service. Bouncers are rude also.

Trash. I watched a bartender purposefully drop a girls credit card just to watch her pick it up. When confronted about the incident, he kicked out the guys who said something. Average atmosphere at best and no good specials. When coming to the Wrigley area just walk on by this bar. Not worth your time.

BUGS in my Jim Beam! Freaking gross. The scuffed and scratched plastic faux glassware should’ve been a telltale sign. No interest in sticking around for seconds or food. Place looked decent enough for a country sports bar, but any question of cleanliness or reason to have the health department stop in will almost certainly send me running to the exit. Bugs in the liquor bottles are an obvious sign of laziness and improper management. Fellow Unilocalers, if you patronize Houndstooth, get out your cell phone flashlights and check your drinks!!!

I literally can’t even with the houndstooth.
1) it’s a ‘Bama bar. Do I look like I feel #rolltide? Nope. This Yankee does not.
2) It is literally one of the loudest Woo Girl and Bro bars in Wrigleyville. Did these young people’s parents not teach them inside voices?
3) It is not fun if you are elderly. Or in my case 30+.
Beer is cheap. I guess that is why I give it two stars.

Stopped in here for some beers & appetizers while we waited for a table at a restaurant down the street. We didnt eat much but the Tachos are delicious!
Just based on that I would be willing to give the other food a try! Green Bay vs Arizona happened to be on while we were there. Plenty of room and so many tvs! It is a great place to catch a game.

I’m not a country music fan. Not a hater, just not a fan. So I write this review with the assumption that people who like country music would like this place because it’s an overall solid bar. Good drinks, music at just the right level, lots of tv’s for watching the game and quick service from the bar. Not much to complain about here. I had a good time and people were friendly. Win all around.

I walked in to a chorus of «roll tides» and red and white shakers and knew I was home! This is THE place to watch an Alabama football game while in Chicago! The walls and ceiling are painted red, there are deer antler chandeliers, and Alabama décor everywhere! There is an outdoor patio with wrought iron furniture and a houndstooth banner (but it was too cold when we were there for outside). The place is divided into 3 large rooms with a bar in each. There were reasonable drink specials, plenty of seating, and country music playing during commercial breaks! This is where the Chicago bama alumni chapter meets to watch football games so they have fundraisers, T-​shirts for sale, etc. At the end of the game we all sang «Rammer Jammer» and it was awesome! My Maine buddies got a little taste of what a Saturday in Tuscaloosa is like! If I am ever back in town I will definitely stop back by! Roll Tide!

Perfect place to watch an Alabama game. Everyone was friendly and made me feel welcomed. Makes me miss living in Alabama!

Management is a joke and didn’t care if my friends and I ever came back. Waitress was more concerned about socializing with her friend and rolled her eyes every time we ordered a drink. Also, bouncer threatened to throw my boyfriend out because he on accident hit the light while picking up a stool to give to a friend to sit down (because it couldn’t be pushed over because it was too crowded). Get off the power trip and learn how to serve people when you’re in the HOSPITALITY BUSINESS.
Oh and forgot to mention they charged a cover because we came to find a table for the Cubs game while the Alabama game was finishing up. CLEARLY we were wearing Cubs stuff, we don’t care about Alabama. While they didn’t charge other friends who came after the Alabama game finished. Their excuse was «other bars are charging $ 50 cover. Went to other bars that day which were pack and didn’t charge us a cover. This place is the worst in Chicago.

Yummy wings and nachos. Minus one star bc it’s an Alabama bar. It was a good idea to ditch the booths in back for a second bar because it used to be impossible to get a drink on a busy night! the country music!

Stopped in here on a Saturday, the crowd was fun, the DJ was good and so was the food. The bartender suggested we order the pulled pork nachos, AMAZING! Highly recommend these and they’re large enough for several friends. If you like country music this is the place! They have a big patio with heaters for when it gets chilly, the door staff is friendly and our two bartenders, a male and female were very enjoyable! We will for sure be coming back, possibly on a Thursday night since we were told that was the place to be on a Thursday!

I have visited the Tooth each time I have been in Chicago the last few years. It seems that I have been here on opening day of college football for the last several years. Being that I am from Alabama, and a die hard Bama fan, this is the best place to be in Chicago for Bama football! The place is near Wrigley Field about a $ 15 cab ride from the downtown area, but it is worth it. It is a bit small, especially on football Saturday, but if you enjoy the scene in a bar with college kids and alumni, it is spot on. They serve typical bar food this is pretty good. See ya next year! Roll Tide!

From Phoenix and somehow I always end up in houndstooth.
Most of the nights I went were crowded and the bouncers there chose favorites on who could enter? Me being a guy I obviously didn’t get chosen, but being in the front for 30 minutes or longer is not ok. I chose to act on such nepotism only to start an argument with the big black bouncer. I have heard stories every time about this guy beating someone up and dragging them across the street. Now, I don’t know how much of this is true but that shouldn’t be a good story for any business.
I hope this place starts to change staff!

Country music + college bar = Houndstooth.
I’m not a huge country music fan, but I had a generally good, albeit quite inebriated, time at Houndstooth during a night of bar hopping. The crowd was generally younger, there were a few people in the back singing along and dancing to the tunes, but most people in the front gathered around tables or the bar to chat and mingle. Service was decent and the bar and restrooms were clean enough. Nothing special, but I had fun here nonetheless!

Does your bartender have a piece of this bar? This guy just insulted us for no reason. Not sure why. He acts like he owns this place. For the owners sake, I hope he does.
Wears a hat… Has a goatee and what seems to be a bunch of friends that hang out at the end of the bar. What a joke.

Came here Saturday night when a couple friends dragged us here all the way from kikwoods. Although it was late, there was actually a decent number of people and the bar itself is pretty big as it has multiple «rooms». There’s nothing wrong with this place but I just though of it a little boring and uneventful. For a weekend, there was no DJ and everyone was just hanging out.

On our bar hopping night, we were taken to this place. This place was alright, nothing really special and in this review it will probably highlight everything that you probably need to know about this place.
Drinks: It’s a bar. Very comparable to all the other bars around. My long island was $ 10.
Seating: Plenty, and even outside because they have seat warmers. However, if you do decide to sit outside be prepared to have a lot of pauses between your conversation as the metro shows no mercy in sound. The location of this place isn’t the best, but hey go inside and order another drink, maybe you can hear better afterwards!
Live music: Yes, there’s live music. At least when I visited, however the guy left right after we got there which was around 9 – 10 pmish. So, sort of? Depending on what time?
Ambiance: This place gives me a feeling of game of thrones-​esque type of environment or maybe like a LOTR type of place. Why? Because of the damn chandeliers! Those horned lights are pretty majestic. So, yep, that should give you an idea.
Overall thoughts: Nice inside, if you can’t get a place inside I wouldn’t suggest you to have a full blown conversation outside. If you’re a lone drinker, that would probably work better, but I’m not condoning to drink alone!

I love this bar! I’ve been going here for years. It’s a great country bar with cute décor & really good bar food. Like deep fried pickles & sweet potato fries, Yum! I like to go earlier, closer to when it opens, with my husband to enjoy a more laid back country bar experience. It’s also fun when it picks up later at night to go out with my girl friends!

Went here to watch a hockey game. Awesome environment. Drinks were good. Food was solid (recommend the burrito). Server (Sam — girl version) was excellent and professional. Clean non sticky floors. What more can I say? It’s a very different feel than most bars in Wrigleyville. Definitely coming back here.

We walked in at 447. And they open at 5 lol so we weren’t immediately let in even though it was freezing outside. On a Monday night in Wrigley (off season) I would assume you take what you can get.
We decided to walk back to our car and wait 13 minutes.
Either way when we walked in at 5 there were already two girls sitting at the bar.
The bartender/​server was putting on the music and the music was actually really really awesome.
The server/​bartender was attentive and friendly. Really cool personality I unfortunately forgot his name. But I do remember the Playlist being his.
The look of the bar is weird one room doesn’t go with the other and although this is a «country» bar the theme is off.
Also we had read that there was a food and drink special online but that wasn’t presented to us, but it was reflected on the check.
All in all the food was OK.
I had the wings. I hate ranch that seems like it was poured from a bottle. Just an fyi ranch is easy to make.
The sauces seemed watery.
My friends got guacamole and they barely touched it.
My gf got the slider trio, and her favorite was the pulled pork.
4 stars for service.
3 stars for food.
3 stars for ambiance.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
No, seriously, Houndstooth was awesome for the purpose it served in my life. I was barely twenty one and learning what it meant to go out and drink in the big, wonderful city of Chicago. Houndstooth (conveniently located about a block from my apartment at the time) allowed me to drink entirely more than I should have, meet tons of people, and become a natural at chasing a $ 3 shot of fireball with a sip from a $ 5 pitcher of coors light. I sang country music louder than I needed to, got to know the bar staff and the bar’s specials, and met more «potential future husbands» than was realistically possible.
Yes, it is a Wrigleyville bar. You’re going to meet ex frat guys who still wish they were 18 and won’t be ready to settle down until they’re 40. The beer will be shitty, the drinks will be served in plastic cups, the music will be loud, and the floor will be sticky. But you’ll meet plenty of friends and just enjoy yourself if you can get past the fact that on country nights it would get so crowded you couldn’t move from room to room let alone dance or lift your $ 5 40 to your lips to drink.
Definitely not a place to have a nice chill night catching up with friends, but a place that gave me all too many great nights out. Here’s to the memories (or lack thereof), Houndstooth.