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Inwood Tavern
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- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street, Private Lot
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- Juke Box
- Best Nights:
- Tue, Thu, Sat
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
9 reviews for Inwood Tavern
One of my favorite spots in Dallas. I was introduced to the Tavern by a lawyer friend of mine, which now comes as absolutely no surprise. Famous for their "Root Beer" shots.
I've brought other people to the Tavern and they all think it's great. It's just like Moe's Tavern from the Simpson's except with no creepy gigantic jar of pickled eggs... at least not that I've ever seen.
Parking can be tricky so park across the street in the shopping center and walk over, or park in the bank lots after 6:30pm.
The bar doesn't serve food but the bartenders will order pizza from a local restaurant and it will be delivered to the bar for you. A great late night option. Or, there's sushi right next door.
Since Dallas went non-smoking, I find it easier to stay at the Tavern longer; however, I noticed it really cleared out the bar for a while. It's a bar where everyone knows everyone else.
Great jukebox! Stiff drinks. Cheap beer. Arcade games and shuffleboard. Thursday lingerie show (6pm).
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Ok...let me break it down for you....
Shuffleboard
Erotic video games
Big Moose head (as in on the wall)
Pool Tables
Arcade games
Great juke box with everything from Led Zepplin to Dandy Warhols to Backstreet Boys
Stiff drinks...enough said.
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The World Famous [and sometimes infamous] Inwood Tavern.
If you ask the bartenders, they will tell you that this is the oldest continuously running bar in Dallas, and they might be right. If you go, you wont be suprised though, because this place has character. Its one of those bars where 65 year old draft beer drinking regulars mix and meld with college hipsters, the service industry crowd, and drunk cougars from Shinsei.
The drinks are well-poured by the professional staff, but the service is not necessarily friendly, nor super-attentive. The bartenders know what they are doing, and if you dont get your drink quickly, its not because they are slow, or lazy, its because you are being ignored. Don't be offended though, show up four or five times, dont be an idiot, and eventually you dont even have to order a drink, it will just show up on the bar when you come in.
By the way, ask for a root beer shot. They do good ones.
Cheers to the tavern!
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If you're going to the Inwood, understand what you're getting into. It is a local's bar. It's a dive (in the best way possible). The drinks are stiff. I went in with a local while I was in town, and everyone, from bartender to barfly, knew everyone else. I should mention that we stopped in at 8pm on a Thursday night, and there were already people who had had their keys snatched up so that they could not drive home. Classy. Expect stiff drinks, local flavor, and a smattering of the local cougar population.
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When I was just drinking age, as far as the man knew, this place was the one to get in and stay in long enough to watch older chicks get sloppy and sassy and if you were lucky they'd mistake you for your older brother and strike up a conversation, every once in awhile some sloppy tongue could be acquired, and as time passed such acquisitions became harder to bear than to come by.
But it was the crazy 90's you know, when wild women gargled ashtrays and drank themselves into imaginary love triangles involving their real boyfriend, you, who they just met or may have met before but never cared for and probably still don't care for, and them. The statement you never wanted to hear, but did, unfortunately, was 'fuck you, Tony, I'm leaving with (insert your name or my name or anything closely resembly a name that's meant to mean you or me as the case may be). Needless to say, I didn't have a car at the time and I was usually just going to the bathroom. Most of the time these little displays would forget about me the second I got out of sight, and once there they were always enjoyable to watch.
I've been going to the Inwood Tavern for over 16 years. I've seen all sorts of beauties and superstars and has beens and troubles makers and ex trouble makers suddenly on to something successful with a new lovely wife, and plenty of lovely wives playing the gallery while the good husband builds her up for the crowd, and vice versa. I love the place, even when it hates me, and it hates me alot. Over the years I've walked innocently into wars and waged war upon the innocent, and coiled the drama to a spring and stepped on it unknowingly and popped up to hit my head on the ceiling. But that's what you want with a neighborhood bar, your first bar. It doesn't always claim you, as you move on and out and others move in and rightfully claim their spot and look at you funny when you're just coming home, which makes you look at them funny, too. Maybe the people don't always remember you and the regulars change, some don't, but most do, but the bar remembers you. the back pool table and the bathrooms and the tiny deck out back and the front entrances with the jukebox right there and the tables, so everyone gets a good look at you when you walk in. Then there's the back half which may or may not hide what you're looking for, an old familiar face, lovely and half-glad to see you, half pissed off at you for something neither of you remember, young faces you only recognize because they were in middle school the first time you walked into this place. You can sit at the bar next to someone you are absolutely positive hates your guts and he'll talk football or baseball or skirt, depending on the proper distraction, and sometimes he'll even laugh, and make you laugh: but when you leave you will still hate each other, which is comforting.
The drinks are solid with a good selection of bottled beer and the bartenders get drunk with you, which is the way it should be. Talk too much and you'll make a fool out of yourself and they'll let you and laugh at you and remember it, which is also as it should be. Sure people come and go, but for me it's a destination bar, because I'm not going around the corner, and the Lounge is more of a starter-ender, itself, I just don't see mixing any of the inwood joints, you make a commitment, methinks, and you ride it out. The Inwood Tavern is a bar bar, a good bar, and it will always be an option.
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A favorite of late. Thin fog of smoke. People rooted on their bar stools with that weary look of "I'm a Regular." Strong g&t's. A somewhat secret side room that looks like a 1980s frat house flick-- animal heads on the walls, random cleaning supplies, lamp shades all askew.
Not to be confused with Inwood Lounge (which I still do it seems when meeting friends).
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Love this place, very amusing. We got stuck in traffic and decided the best thing to do was pull over and go to a bar. Of course we had to choose this one because the sign says, "WORLD FAMOUS Inwood Tavern". So we went in to see what it was famous for.
I could not stop laughing when I walked in. It was about 3PM and there were three old men at the bar drinking and making conversation with what looked like a small town 18 year old girl. It's so smoky you can bearly see, and the jukebox is playing obscure country.
This place turned out to be a great choice. We immediately sat down at the bar, ordered, and started shooting the shit with the regulars. The bartender made fun of us as she explained how to play shuffleboard, and one old man started headbanging as we put some metal on the jukebox.
This place is a great place to spend a random day/night. Behind the bar is another room with arcade and bar games, drinks are cheap, and you will meet some of the best characters in Dallas. Very old, very smoky, very fun.
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Love this place. Great place to go when you just want to get a drink and be left alone. Kinda reminds me of a little bar in Anchorage that I love, so sometimes I like to go in there during the day, knowing that no one would ever be able to find me, and act like I'm out of town (yes, I'm a big nerd!). They have a good juke box, too, of old country among other things. It's pretty fun at night, too. I've seen some good live music here.
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Great place to hang out... Lots of menus to order delivery from. Shuffle puck, silver streak bowling and a party room that feels like your grandmother's who smoked 4 packs of Camel Straights a day. Good place to go with a decent sized group of people who do not care about "being seen." I would compare it to the elbow room, but nowhere to sit outside.
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