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Crossroads Public House
- Nearest Transit:
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Diversey (Brown Line, Purple Line)
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Music:
- DJ
- Best Nights:
- Fri, Thu, Sat
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- No
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Good For Dancing:
- No
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
113 reviews for Crossroads Public House
Review Highlights
"Love the giant jenga."
(in 4 reviews)
"This is a great joint just to hang out in."
(in 7 reviews)
"...your choice of of pizza, mini corn dogs, and a few other..."
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113 reviews in English
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Review from Alex Y.
Oak Park, IL
11/7/2011
Crossroads on Clark in Lincoln Park has got it going on! A fun bar with playful, attentive staff and a great menu of food and beer.
+ TONS of flatscreens for every sport your heart desires, Bears, Hawks, Cubs, college, plus home to fans of the San Diego Chargers (Chi Town Charger Backers)
+ VIP section with leather couches
+ LARGE booths for parties of 6-8 (used to be a sushi joint)
+ Pool table
+ Foosball
+ Video games
+ Easy street parking
+ Fun theme game nights to stimulate interactions for couples on a date night or singles looking to mingle.
Check em out! -
Review from Kaitlin M.
Chicago, IL
10/14/2011
This is a great place to come and watch a Chargers game! There are a ton of people that show up who are from SD. Everyone is friendly, sporting their Bolt's colors and making noise for the game.
The manager and servers are fun and supportive of being passionate about your team.
The food is typical bar food... nothing fancy... good to snack on when drunk I guess. -
Review from JA Y.
Chicago, IL
10/4/2011
Came because of the promise of NFL Sunday ticket. Problem is they only have 5 receivers meaning they can't show all the games.
Bar wasn't full but they seemed overwhelmed. Whole day they kept coming to our table asking to take menus, salt shakers, plates, glasses often before we were done. It's like they were set up to serve 3 people at a time.
One other problem was the place was kind of dirty. Bathrooms, plates and silverware. Brought a stack of plates for pizza and everyone had food stuck to it.
If your drinking and they choose to play your game that day they do gave good specials. . -
Review from Sarah E.
9/2/2011 4 Check-ins Here
What's worse than horrible service? Why that would be NO service!
After sitting with my party of three for 25 minutes, drooling over an otherwise mediocre bar menu, we gave the lolligagging waitress the stink eye and threw up the deuces; intent on finding solace in the form of a cold beer and a flat screen with our beloved Bears.Listed in: These Zeroes Are No Heroes
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Review from Linnea M.
Chicago, IL
8/11/2011
The drink specials are pretty great- Wednesday has $1 beers and Thursday has $1 well drinks, and both days have $10 long island ice tea pitchers (although there is a LOT of ice in each pitcher).
The atmosphere is really relaxed and it's easy to talk to whoever you're with. They have a few typical games, like pool and foosball, and they also have a huge jenga game!
There are also a ton of tvs everywhere, and they're typically on MTV as well as other channels. That could be either a pro or con depending on your preferences.
The menu is horrible for vegetarians, but they did make my friend a veggie burger even though it wasn't on the menu. The food was very average compared to the drinks.
All in all, it's a fun place to go! -
Review from Mike T.
Staten Island, NY
7/6/2011
Enjoyed this place a lot. Long Island Iced Tea pitcher for $10, I think. Needless to say, you can get your drink on at this place.
The real life Jenga is nifty, but I didn't play and you'll jump from your seat when it topples over.
Plenty of TVs, perfect for a day of a lot of games on.
Open and airy, gets a nice breeze. And there's games to play, none better than foosball.
Loved it here.Listed in: Chi town gets down
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Review from Andrew P.
Chicago, IL
9/15/2011
Crossroads Public House is owned and mismanaged by the same terrible owners that brought Lincoln Park "Hey Sushi" until it closed to be Re-Purposed into this Hackneyed Imitation Irish Pub.
The Wings are over cooked. The Burger Meat Overdone. The Drinks are watered down.
I can walk into Crossroads with a 30 top on a Friday...and the Wait isn't going to be long.........For A Reason.
The place sucks. -
Review from Kelly S.
7/24/2011 1 Check-in Here
Texas burger was ok. Fries were AWESOME. I love double fried, dark, crispy fries and these tickled my fancy. LOL
Both items were underseasoned and needed something but were good. No salt on the tables. :-(
They have a monthly $2.75 beer special and this month was Brooklyn Summer something and was quite good. -
Review from Andrew L.
Chicago, IL
11/16/2011 1 Check-in Here
Been to Crossroads a number of times and have given it multiple chances, but am done with this place. The bar has great food/drink specials but the service is always horrible. Took almost an hour on our last visit to get a chicken wrap and sandwich. My beer was not even filled all the way up to the top of the glass. The bloody mary was horrible and filled with pepper. I once had an issue once with the manager accepting a Poggled coupon that I had purchased. I had to argue with him to accept their coupon posted on the site. The food isn't the best and would not recommend it even to an enemy. I do like the large Jenga game they have, but that won't bring me back. I feel that Duffy's down the road has much better food and better deals.
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Review from Ben O.
Chicago, IL
5/8/2011
When you click on their website, Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" automatically comes up on full volume. If that tells you anything.
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Review from HH K.
Chicago, IL
4/21/2011
This place is the "Crossroads" between awful and terrible
Went here on a Wednesday night. It wasnt busy at all, maybe 15-20 people. 2 sandwiches and a order of wings took over an hour to get to the table and when the order finally came out, they brought out the wrong food.
The waitress than said she could fix the order "if you want", basically telling us, "take this food you didn't order or wait another hour." When I complained, the waitress blamed the cook, the manger blamed the waitress, I blame myself...for buying the groupon to this crappy ass restaurant.
Food's awful, service is awful, management is awful.
BTW, good luck if you're trying to use a groupon. We had a $30 groupon (straight $30, not a $30 when you spend $50 or something like that). The groupon came with zero restrictions when we purchased it, but once we here, they didnt want to honor any of it. They said it didnt apply to specials and it didnt apply to drinks and it didnt apply to....Damn! just tell us what it does apply to...
Cause where this place is located, it might get away with serving crappy food with a crappy attitude to kids who just moved here from Wisconsin, Michigan or the burbs, but dont try and pull this on people from Chicago. -
Review from Kelz M.
Chicago, IL
4/6/2011
Right. Weeknight karaoke fans? This is your Tuesday go-to place for reals.
I stopped in last night for no reason in particular and there were maaaaaaaaaybe 10 people in the whole place. Karaoke machine (with a super nice dj/host) in full swing and people just getting up and singing whenever they felt like it. I stopped by at 11pm, left around midnight and still sang three songs!
My well rum & coke cost $4 and the bar staff were just as nice as can be. Yeah, I'm going back next week to get my karaoke groove on! -
Review from Serena S.
Chicago, IL
9/7/2011
Very fun place to bring friends for drinks! Chill vibe with great specials. Love the giant jenga. Get the NachoTots, it sounds crazy, but it's so yummy. :)
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Review from Lindsey R.
Chicago, IL
Updated - 9/11/2011
What has happened to Crossroads?!? A place I used to love to visit with friends during college football season has turned into a place that I'll never go back to.
I was there for 4+ hours the past two Saturdays. I understand that the first Saturday was the first big college game day of the season and it takes awhile to get the rust off and get back into the swing of things. But there's really no excuse for it to be THIS bad two weeks in a row. My table had to ask for water 3 times, we had to place our food order twice and we waited at least 30 minutes for a bucket of beers and a glass of wine. The food which used to be pretty decent has now taken a turn towards awful. The cheese on my grilled cheese wasn't melted and the bbq chicken pizza was just gross.
Figuring that it might take awhile to get our bill, we asked for it with 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter and it took so long to get it, realize there was an issue and get the issue rectifed, that we didn't leave the bar until 30 minutes after the game was over. It was pretty basic, our waitrees charged us for something that we ended up getting at the bar instead (because we didn't really want to wait 45 minutes for another bucket of beer). And it literally took over half an hour plus the help of a GM to get the extra bucket taken off the bill.
This has been one of my favorite bars for the past 3 years but until they put their staff thru boot camp and figure out what's going on with the chef, we won't be back.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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1/6/2009
4 out of 5 for a regular sports bar, 5 out of 5 for a HOKIE FOOTBALL bar!
This bar is a great place… Read more »
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Review from L G.
Chicago, IL
4/11/2011
This place has the NASTIEST women's bathrooms I've ever seen not at an outdoor festival.
They were so gross I would rather go to the McDonald's across the street.
That in and of itself is why I'm not going back, AND telling people not to go. -
Review from Brian S.
Chicago, IL
10/13/2011
There are to many great choices in Lincoln Park to waste your time here. I have been a few times and there is a reason the food is so cheap......it sucks. If it sounds to good to be true it probably is, I will not be back.
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Review from Chris L.
3/4/2011
Checked this place out for their Wednesday trivia night. They have an extensive food menu with typical bar food plus a few extras. Their 4.99 personal pizza was pretty good. I didn't drink much so I can't give a fair review but they do appear to have some good specials.
Crowd was alright, service was good. Trivia was loads of fun so I'll be back. -
Review from Ali W.
Chicago, IL
Updated - 3/19/2011
Ugh!!! I came on a Thursday night....not that busy at all and it took 2 hours to order, get our food, and get our bill. It was a disaster. It was as if the server was also the chef and the bar tender? Really?
Not to mention, my friend ordered a side of onion rings and the server came out with fries. Instead of letting her keep her sandwich so she could eat with the rest of us, he takes her entire plate back and replaces them with onion rings. Fantastic you replaced them, but should have just left us keep the fries since we had already waited 1.5 hours at this point.
Very very disappointed. It was so bad that at the end of the meal we wanted to pay with a credit card, but the process was already taking 15 min that we scrounged up as much cash as we had just so we could leave this place.
Awful. Perhaps the service is better on the weekends with the fratboys, but definitely not on a weeknight. I'm getting annoyed just thinking about it.Listed in: People in Your Neighborhood
1 Previous Review:
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7/19/2009
The food and deals are pretty good, but like everyone said previously, it is pretty fratastic.
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Review from Kate S.
Chicago, IL
2/20/2011 1 photo
I could have sworn I had already reviewed this place, but apparently not.
I've come here quite a few times...their drink specials are insane (Thursdays = $1 well drinks, Mondays = $0.75 10 oz draft of their cheap beer, etc, $2.50 beer of the month). I generally come here at like 5pm on a weekday after class gets out to meet my college roommate after she gets home from work. At that time of day it's usually pretty deserted, which is nice because the service is prompt and it isn't too loud. We both usually get whatever the drink special is, and she usually orders some random combination of food (i.e. a side order of greenbeans and tator tots...this is why we are friends haha).
Their food seems pretty standard bar fair...she loves the green beans and the few tator tots and nachos I've had have been good.
The service is great, at least at the times we go - the first time we had some cute guy server who sat down and chatted with us for a bit, and then we've had several girls wait on us who have been very accommodating (For example, when my friend wanted green beans and they were out, the server said the manager was at the store buying more and she could call to find out how long he would be).
I've never played their giant Jenga game, but it looks pretty awesome. They also have karaoke on Tuesdays (I think?) so I want to check that out at some point.
On Fridays/Saturdays they do a $20 food/drink package special. I've never done it because I would never get my money's worth out of it, but if you like to drink a lot and eat pizza and appetizers it might be worthwhile.
All in all this is one of my favorite places to come on get a relaxing drink after class. It's close, it's cheap, and the servers we've had (at least 3 different ones) have all been really personable. -
Review from Dave S.
Chicago, IL
11/30/2010
I've been here a few times, tempted by the promise of $7 Steaks and $1 Burgers and I've been increasingly disappointed in this place.
The couple times I've been here, it's always been with a party of at least 5+ people, and the bar itself never overly crowded by any means yet the service was absolutely atrocious. Slowwwwwww. I'm not expecting the server to pop up every 5 minutes but having to wait 20+ minutes just to get one drink? Not cool, man. -
Review from Nina M.
Chicago, IL
2/17/2011 1 Check-in Here
Good price drinks, a jukebox, a pool table, large booths, oversized Jenga, a punching bag game, a pretty good time.
Just know that they don't have a whole lot of variety in liquor so stick to simple things. -
Review from Erin B.
Chicago, IL
7/3/2011
Worst bar I've ever been to. Very rude management staff and the two oranges I received with both of my Blue Moon orders was stale. I don't recommend this bar at all.
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Review from Teri M.
10/26/2010
Vomit in the bathroom sink.
Plus, the giant Jenga blocks smelled like a wet bandage. YUCK.have to say i had fun only because I was already drunk when we got there. nice door guy, even though he was wearing a STL Cards tee. -
Review from Joe B.
10/1/2010
The service is good enough, and the drinks are reasonable enough, for me to spend a whole night here, especially since scoring a booth or a tallboy is really easy. But I can't, and I won't, spend more than an hour or two here because the DJ is so outrageously loud! He spins some phat beats to be sure, but I just wish they were spun a few decibles lower.
When the DJ's not around and Crossroads morphs back into a sportsbar/restaurant, it remains a solid place to have lunch and throw back a few. -
Review from Beth M.
Chicago, IL
1/27/2009 ROTD 2/15/2009
I went in with low expectations but this bar was better than I thought it would be.
+1 star for playing "The Bad Touch" by Bloodhound Gang. I had almost forgotten about that song.
+1 star for un-cranky, competent staff.
+1 star for the screen that you could send text messages to. This was entertaining, especially the person that wanted single Asians and did not specify gender.
$6 for a Blue Moon?! I guess it was Friday night...in Lincoln Park. Sure, it's not my scene but you gotta try new things every once in a while. I left before I had to use the bathroom for the second time because it was so contemptible.
In closing, "God rest our souls cause I know I might meet you up at the crossroads. Ya'll know ya forever got love from Bone Thugs baby." -
Review from Jelena Z.
1/26/2009
Looks like I'll follow the herd and also give Crossroads a 3-star review... baaah.
Okay, so the $20 wristband is a fantastic deal if you enjoy Miller Lite and well drinks. I'm no drink snob, but low-quality liquor makes me sick and cheap domestic beer? Just can't do it. But... for 4.5 hours and a smorgasbord of greasy snacks, it may be perfect for you. I chose to drink the best beer available, Guinness, for $6 which is average.
On to the food. My panko-crusted chicken wrap made me sad. I do not send food back, but the terrible honey mustard sauce made it inedible. Matt L tried a bite and had to agree. Our sweetheart of a server had the kitchen make me another and while it was only marginally better even sans the sauce, I ate some of it just to make her feel better. Yea, she was that nice.
Bottom line: service is great and the seating is ample. Food and washrooms? Not so much. One of the guys told me he saw mold in the toilet. Ick.Listed in: Game Time., Enjoy Guinness.
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Review from Erika G.
1/26/2009
Okay, I headed here after a Yelp event, or else I'd have never come here. It gets two stars 'cos it's the Hey, Sushi! space, and YAY!!!! Hey, Sushi is out of business (look up my reviews for my jihad on that place). Also have to make it clear that I'm not dissing Adorable P, fellow Yelper, who set up the after party here.
That said, it's just not all that. Completely indistinguishable from other places on Rush, Clark, Wrigleyville (no place I go) et. al. - your basic Dude Lair. Cheap, weak drinks and a $20 wristband for a "good deal" of a greasy bin of food (which I didn't partake of, but observed). Beer posters, TVs, giant space - just . . . meh.
The bartender was sweet, friendly and charming. The stars are for him. I have no doubt that he'll be be besieged with job offers in the service industry when this place goes out of business. I'm giving it a year, at most. -
Review from Long Q.
Chicago, IL
7/9/2011
This place is a miss or hit. When it is a hit, it is usually after we already are drunk and just need a place to relax. The rest of the time...MISS!! they do have some good special like 10 long island pitchers and 1 dollar quarter pounder (although my friends did get sick from these...)
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Review from Matt L.
1/25/2009
All those other handjobs that went there last night that are dropping 2 or 3 bombs on this joint are foolish. Pizza was disturbingly good for such a dump. I can't really say the same for the rest of the food, but whatevs. $20 4 hour open bar specials of shwag booze with food on a Saturday night is pretty damn good, speshally in the LP.
Our brunette cocktail waitress was pleasant and blazingly fast with the drinks. So fast that I handed her a $20 on the way out just for my drinks. Time is money bitches. -
Review from Michael G.
Rockville, MD
1/25/2009
Despite having gone to a Big Ten school, there's still a high schooler inside of me who dressed in all black, listened to The Cure, and wrote angry/sad poetry. This inner-malcontent won't let me give this bar three stars. I keep trying to tell him that Crossroads for the January Elite Event after party wasn't so bad but he keeps yelling back at me, "look at all the chads!" For six months, I've been holding him at bay and haven't written a review about a bar in Lincoln Park to avoid him escaping and screaming "TRIXIES!" all over Yelp. But for CPH...my older self fails!
Student douchebags! Yuppie douchebags! Drunken slut douchebagettes! Oh my! Every flavor of douche (ew!) on the planet frequents this bar!
This bar definitely has some redeeming qualities though. They have large screen Wii, a computerized bar message board (or as someone referred to it "the weakest way possible to deliver a pick-up line."), and a $20 all you can eat and drink buffet on Saturday nights. Though the beer selection on this is limited - Miller Lite for the "usual clientele" and PBR for everyone else. Vodka, gin, and rum drinks are also included (and make it a better value).
So, in general, CPH is a bargain for Lincoln Park. Though when that initial layer of lack of sticker shock is broken through and the heart of the bar is seen, that's where the stars start sliding away. The buffet consists of mediocre butter noodles with a spicy (?) spaghetti sauce, some hard tater tots, and some below average delivery style pizza. I didn't even try the spinach dip - it scared me.
I do have to give this bar credit for a great sense of self-awareness in the music department. This, after all, is a step to recovery. Instead of trying to avoid seeming passe by mixing in techno or hip-hop, the DJ played nothing but party hits all night. While singing along to some of the songs was sort of fun, the cheeseball factor was just a bit too high. Even knowing what to expect in Lincoln Park.Listed in: The Yelp Seen (UYE Edition), The LP, Who Was Clark Anyway?
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Review from Angie M.
1/25/2009
Like everyone else, I have to give Crossroads a three star review for the staff alone. Our server (I wish I would have caught her name) was so gracious, remembered our drink orders and even looked after my inebriated friend and I at "last call" for our $20 open bar package by bringing us a few extra cocktails. I was so in love with our waitress that at like, 11:15, I handed her a fistful of money and was like, "You've been faaabulous! Taake alllll thiiis moneeeey." Yeah. I'd been drinking.
So now, on the the Chadfest! When the Yelpafia strolled in to Crossroads at 6:30, there were two douches playing Wii bowling. I asked Michael G. his opinion. He was like, "They're not from the Internet." Yep. That's about right. As the night progressed, a shockingly brazen douche wearing a vest and sporting some seriously long, overstyled hair was trying (unsuccessfully) to get my number. When I pointed him out to Pinkai, and commented on the vest, he was like, "I'm not as worried about the vest as I am about that hair!"
And so it goes. Another night in Lincoln Park. Now I remember why I don't hang out there anymore.
Oh yes, one final thing. Please, Crossroads Management. Fix the toilets in the bathroom. They were overflowing. Ick. -
Review from Ryan L.
1/28/2009 1 Check-in Here
My trip to this bar offered up some revealing things (some about me):
- I love mini corndogs.
- I'm one of the few that recognizes a Miley Cyrus song playing in the bar (and not embarrassed about it).
- I also recognize a song from the movie masterpiece Coyote Ugly (also not embarrassed)
- I never thought there was so much to know about Michigan.
Staff was incredibly nice. The $20 41/2 hour open bar is the longest i've encountered, pretty freakin good. And yeah this place is in LP, but not in the crotch of LP (the Barleycorn, Apartment area). Not too chaddy in my opinion, not as much as Barleycorn or McGees. I didn't feel the need to shower off the stench afterwards.
Just to make this review completely annoying and useless, i'm gonna give this place 3.38 stars, thus rounding down. -
Review from T S.
Chicago, IL
1/25/2009
Like Hollie S. said, the staff was the saving grace of this place.
I had never heard of Crossroads until the Elite event after party was posted. I just assumed that that horrible Hey Sushi place was still there.
Crossroads seems to be the breeding ground of the unattractive, wannabe Trixie/Chad crowd of Lincoln Park. You know, the kids who grew up in Mokena rather than Naperville. I heard a lot of grumbling about "Trixies and Chads" but the only T/Cs I saw in the place were Pinaki and myself.
The bathroom was an abomination. Even at 6:15 when we first got there, the floor was flooded and the toilet filthy. This was a toilet that hadn't been cleaned in months. And one of the stalls ran out of TP within the first hour; I did my usual Lincoln Park bar stuff-a-bunch-of-TP-in-your-purse move and it definitely came in handy later.
Our server, Amber, was awesome. We had new drinks before we were halfway done with our old ones, and she let us stock up in the minutes before the end of the open bar.
The food was what you'd expect from a free bar buffet, but the pizza was surprisingly good.
They played the quintessential bar playlist, which allowed me to do the perfect amount of fist pumping.
A billion drinks were had and a nice hangover resulted. Work on the bathroom and maybe I'll see you at the crossroads....Crossroads. -
Review from Pinaki S.
Chapel Hill, NC
1/25/2009
Wow, not sure if other yelpers have ever been out of Ukranian Village or Lincoln or Logan square or Uptown or whatever area that has recently been gentrified, but this is probably the LEAST "Chaddy/Trixie" bar in Lincoln Park that I've been to. I mean, I think I saw a lost hipster there with his v neck shirt, but I'm not sure.
If you need some food, and you like to get hammered, the $20 food/drink package is awesome for those Fridays and Saturdays you just don't want to spend too much money.
Pizza--great, tater tots- good, mini corn dogs, sweetness. Unbelievable staff. Set up is great for big groups and little groups (lots of high tables in the center) but not really conducive to meeting people since the area is kind of big. Big ups on the Wii, and they play the usual fist pumping party songs that people ages 22 to 31 who don't hate life enjoy.
I pat myself on the back for 'planning' the party that brought people here. -
Review from Amy H.
1/26/2009
Thanks to Crossroads, I was able to ply Wii for the first time. I loved to Wii. I Wii'ed all night long and I Wii'ed with various Yelpers and we had a blast!
Crossroads also has the longest wristband special EVER! For $20 you can drink from 6:30-11pm and partake in the average bar food buffet. I would have been really wasted if they weren't serving me extremely weak drinks. I felt like I was drinking soda for half the night until our very clever server devised a plan for me to get my drink on...and I did!! I really loved our server. If I new any men that were worthy of such a wonderful girl I would totally set her up with someone. :)
The only other interaction that I had with the staff was to tell them (twice) that the toilet was overflowing in the ladies room. The staff may have been nice and all, but how long does it take (or how many times did they have to) clean up the ladies room?!? It was a shit swamp! And what is worse was that I overheard someone in the ladies room saying that it is always like that. Gross. Beyond gross! Hire a plumber!
I'd come back to this bar with a group of people. I didn't mind the Trixies and Chads. The DJ was playing some great booty shakin' music. I Wii'ed my socks off and I had some substantial amounts of booze. The bathroom situation was a major star deduction. I'll have to remember to wear rain boots the next time I visit. -
Review from Carrie S.
1/28/2009 1 Check-in Here
Definitely not my scene. So far from my scene that I might as well have been in the land of popped collars and bratty boys who won't buy a girl a drink because they're that suave with the ladies. Stepping into this bar reminded way too much of my days of yore.
I came here for the Yelp Elite after-party. I thought that I would maybe have a drink or two and go home. Once I got there, my hunger got the best of me and I caved on the $20 Saturday night drink and food special. I knew it was going to be an interesting night when I drank my vodka lemonade in one or two gulps not even remotely tasting the vodka. After the first drink, I got some food. It's your average bar food with spinach-artichoke dip, pizza, mini corn dogs, and chips. The spinach-artichoke was decent and satisfying. Whenever more food came out, the horde of Chads converged on it with wild abandon. They went crazy for some apps like no one had cooked them a hot meal in weeks.
Throughout the night, I had some more vodka lemonades served up by our awesome server Amber. Her spot on service was the saving grace of this horrible bar. Thanks to her, I drank way too much vodka lemonades because she made them readily available.
After a few too many of those, I had to visit the bathroom. The grossest bathroom known to man. The bathroom was filthy and understocked with neccessities. The bathroom flood seemed like a Titanic of crap all over the Travertine tile. I wondered why any bar bathroom would be tiled in Travertine especially this one. This bar attempts to be classy with their nicely tiled bathroom and heavy wood accents. It's still a Chad and Trixie bar wrapped in a prettier package but oozing from the melting jello mold inside. -
Review from Sarah B.
Chicago, IL
1/25/2009
I think my fellow 'Elite after party' attendees have summed up quite nicely the vibe of this place. Gross bathrooms, lame buffet (but really, what can you expect for twenty bones?), douchey douches.
But... like everyone else said, the staff! Man they were so nice. That chick waiting on us remembered what I was drinking every single time and was totally on top of it even though it was so busy.
I would never hang out here but it was a fun lesson in Chicago sociology.Listed in: Lincoln Park
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Review from Jenny H.
Chicago, IL
Updated - 5/11/2009 1 photo
This place is a JOKE.
I should put as much effort into this review as our server put into serving us, but if I did this review would end here. Not going to happen. A quick recap of our experience:
1- We sat for 20 minutes before our order was taken. 20 minutes in a bar that was only a quarter full. Really?
2- The food was inedible. We ordered nachos and a frito pie. The description on the menu was "fritos covered with our homemade chili and cheese and then baked until bubbling." What we received was a bowl of tortilla chips with lukewarm gross "chili" (Hormel, maybe?), nacho cheese and some peppers. The frito pie was a dish of fritos topped with the same nasty lukewarm chili and cheese combination. It was definitely not baked nor bubbling (don't believe me? Go look at the picture I posted).
3- The frito pie sat uneaten, and our server didn't even ask if everything was ok. If a customer orders something and then barely touches it, something is wrong. I thought that was common sense, but I guess not.
3 strikes and you're out, Crossroads. Better food AND service could probably be had in a number of high school cafeterias across Chicago (yeah, I said it). Your crazy specials are the only thing that keep people coming back to this dump, but I am not going to fall for it again.Listed in: I won't be back.
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Review from Jackie P.
Chicago, IL
1/27/2009
After 5 hours of drinking and no peeing this girl gave up and walked home. Yes that's right I refused to use the bathroom here and part of the time it was closed anyway because they were trying to repair it. However, I heard it was a swamp in there and walking around in it didn't sound appealing either.
Drinks were all mixer and a tiny bit of alcohol. Maybe I should learn to like beer. The buffet was only average. The spinach and artichoke dip (which I love) was horrible here. The one redeeming quality as many of the other yelpers here have said was our waitress. She was a gem. Remembering drink orders and occasionally bringing us two drinks at a time won me over.
Will I be back? Doubtful. Sometimes I girl has to pee ya know? -
Review from Carla F.
Chicago, IL
10/8/2009 1 Check-in Here
You won't typically find me hanging out in a bar that men with man-blouses frequent, but Crossroads might become a regular hang out for me. On Fridays and Saturdays it's $20 for all you can eat (typical bar food) and all you can drink (domestic beers and well drinks) from 6:30-11p. That's a pretty sweet deal, no?
The service was up to par and our waitress was super sweet. I loved the big booths. Made it very easy to sit and chat with everyone in my group. I will be back, no doubt.
