I used to work down the road from here when I was a young lad so I am familiar with Sheridan IL, and it’s lack of restaurants. This particular trip to Sheridan was brought about becasue a friend of mine had a flat tire, so since I gave him a ride to go out and change it. He offered to buy me lunch at subway, I accepted the lunch offer however I declined on subway. I pointed down the street, and said we should see if that bar serves food, after all we can get subway anywhere. We walk in the front door into what seemed to be a old foyer, and four feet in we met a T intersection, odd needless to say but we shrugged it off. We waltzed on in, and quickly noticed the black painted bronze ceiling was falling in. All this aside we asked for menus and situated our selves at the bar away from haggard ceiling as we did not want derbies falling in to our meal. any way as we browsed through the food items some crazy old local made very unwitty wise cracks that were a desperate attempt at attention the bartender even had a hard time acknowledging him, however he continued to carry on anyway much to our dismay. I ordered a draft beer to start, & was impressed that the menu was pretty sizable for a small town bar, I had the grilled chicken sandwich my friend he had the same but with pineapple. While we were waiting for our food we played a game of pool and looked around the bar which is pretty sizable, the pool table was off balance the felt was bad the cues bent and the ones that where not bent had crappy slide over tips put on, as we walked around the ceilings plaster was falling in the carpet was dingy & stained and they used plastic outdoor beer banners to spruce up the inside. During our sloppy game of billiards the food was served the beer was fresh and tasty the buns were great the chicken however was bland no spice no nothing, not to say it was not juicy, and tender just not a lot of flavor. Now the really odd part we were supposed to pay for the food and the drinks at different places in the bar WTF we place the order at the bar, and we can pay for our drinks there but we have to navigate through a labyrinth to pay for the food! Well we said to hell with that and just threw cash at the bartender and made our way out the door. I would stop in again to maybe show some one what a true dive bar truly is, but only for a quick beer nothing else.
