Library Bar & Grill
Categories: Dance Clubs, Sports Bars, American (Traditional) [Edit]
501 S Mill Ave Ste 101Tempe, AZ 85281 (480) 929-9002
- Price Range: $$
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Street, Garage
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: Yes
- Good for Kids: No
- Delivers: No
- Take-out: No
- Waiter Service: Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: Yes
- Good for: Late Night
- Music: DJ
- Best Nights: Tue, Fri, Sat
- Happy Hour: Yes
- Alcohol: Full Bar
19 Reviews for Library Bar & Grill
When you are sober this place is a 2 or a 3 star joint at the most, but when you are sloppy drunk this place goes to five stars right away. Two pool tables in the back, A Megatron (with Erotic PhotoHunt), A good amount of seating (indoor and outdoor), and girls in school girl outfits that go from 7's to 10's after a few JAGERBOMBS.
"Two f**ckin jagerbombs down here chief"
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If you rue the typical college crowd - with self-loathing women and self-loathing (disguised as overly pompous and loud) men - then you need to avoid this place like it's the next outbreak of SARs. No, it's worse than that. Picture a half-interested and slow bartender taking your order while you're stuck listening to the worse pretend hair band you've ever heard, covering some rock songs you forgot existed. Pour some sugar where?
Imagine the drinks making your stomach kick itself 1,700 times in a row, until you have to excuse yourself to go to the restroom, which is one of the smallest and most uncomfortable places you could be. I'd rather be stuffed in a trunk.
Imagine people clamboring to climb onto the bar so they can "dance" with the music, singing at the top of their lungs. Ow, that's my hand you just stepped on!
Yes, it gets worse. It's not like you can just leave, although you want to, don't you? I mean, you *just* ordered a drink after paying a silly $5 cover. So, you try to tough it out. But, let's face it, life's too short to be miserable. You can bail, if you want to. That's what I did.
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Hot girls in short skirts and skimpy tops that dance of top of a bar and bring you cold beer. What's not to love? I head here every now and then on a guys night out, and it is always a good time. Did I mention hot girls in short skirts that bring you beer?
For the past 4 years this has been my St. Patrick's Day destination. I know it is not Irish, but they have $2 Guinness that day. Tough to pass that up. As for as food goes, it's standard pub grub cuisine, but they do have a great cookie skillet dessert.
The times I have been here during the week it has been pretty dead, but on the weekends this place is packed, complete with music made for getting out on their dance floor and busting a move. They have a good selection of large screen TVs as well that are always showing some sort of extreme sport, music videos, and the game when it is on.
I don't know if I mentioned it or not, but there are hot girls in short skirts and skimpy tops that bring you beer here. Ever since I saw the girls dance on top of the bar to "Shook Me All Night Long," the song takes on a whole new meaning these days.
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An okay destination. I didn't really care for the girls dancing on the bars, and the bartender seemed like he didn't really want to be there, but at least my drink was potent? I guess that warrants 2 stars instead of one.
I went there once, and a girl dancing on the bar had a tampon string hanging out... ugh...........
Ever since then, I get grossed out just walking by the place.
The food is mediocre bar food. Drinks are drinks. Different nights have different themes. I think Thursday is metal cover bands.
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Clever decor/theme
decent food
good location
attractive staff
bad music
frequented by frat boys
sausage fest
This place is similar to, but so much better than Hooter's... girls are hotter and the place has style. There is dancing on the bar which can be fun if you're into that. It's a good place to take someone who is college age and just moved here or something.
It really seems like it should be a good time - it definitely depends on who you are I guess. It also depends on when you go. I suggest weekday afternoon when nobody is there. If you like crowds of horny drunk college dudes though - check it out on a weekend night.
Their food is surprisingly good. The Library has the potential to rate 4 stars... on some nights I'm sure it's a 2. It's one of those places that really depend on the crowd, but it's still a good place to go if you're young and like the most popular music and scream 'woohoo!' for no reason.
Two notes - as has already been mentioned, service is a bit slow. They also have about 100 televisions. It's overkill... the place doesn't need it. I almost gave this place a 2, but really it's mainly only sucky because of the crowd.
Mediocre. The stools we had to watch football from were quite uncomfortable. They do have TVs everywhere, and it was pretty empty on a college football Saturday (yeah for enough space to actually watch a game).......but it wasn't comfortable for extended football watching.
The service was on the slow side, and the drinks were pricey! $4 or $5 for a bottle of beer. That gets me every time. The food, however, was pretty decent - the chicken tenders were actually really good, and the food was greasy but not so greasy that you're disgusted by it.
There was an odd crowd when we were there - lots of older people, lots of men and tons of Steelers fans. I am not rushing out of my way to come back here any time soon. The "theme" is cool I guess? It is clean, which I appreciated, but I just didn't think it was that great for watching sports, which is what we were there to do.
Furthermore, they weren't even playing a game over the loud speaker....instead, it was remixes of oldies - random remixes of random songs. Very strange indeed. I'd rather listen to the play by play of a football game on Saturday afternoon, thank you very much.
Oh, and we had to pay to park in the garage a few blocks away. Major buzz kill.
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I went to the Library on a college football Saturday when ASU was playing away. It was also the day the Diamondbacks swept my beloved Chicago Cubs.
I went with a group of friends, and we happened to snag a booth as another group was leaving. We got pretty lucky as through the rest of the day there were quite a few groups looking for a place to sit down.
I like the decor - I think it's cute! But maybe, I'm easy to please.
They had a couple decent beers on tap (other than the usual domestics). The food was bar food- though the onion rings were above par.
I can't give it more than 3 stars simply because it had that "Hooters" feel to it. I know it's a college town, but that doesn't mean the waitresses have to dress up or show off what they've got. Leave some to the imagination, girls! (And, if I remember correctly, there is a Hooters right upstairs already.)
The library is a decent sports bar. If you can't get a booth, I'm not sure it's worth sticking around.
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Mostly dudes
nice theme, schoolgirls are nice
crap music.
the decor and theme are unique
the kinda place to go there once to say you've been, any more will drive you mad
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Very attractive waitresses, but this is Tempe, so you can find that at Denny's! Overall a decent scene if you're comfortable hanging out with tthe college crowd.
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I'll be perfectly honest. I probably never would have gone here if it had not been for my husband's coworkers. College bars just aren't my scene, living in Boston will do that to you. But given it was the summer and we were in a group of 50 I thought it would be ok.
We took over the whole back part which was nice. The drinks were well made and I'm assuming cheap. They have two pool tables in the back, which are slightly awkward given their close proximity to the bar. The music was fairly generic ranging from your classic drunk girl anthems (Pour Some Sugar on Me) to current Top 40 hits. My husband enjoyed the bathroom attendant, whom he swears must have be related to Lil Jon, saying things like "Get yo piss on!"
They have a "no pictures" policy which I found to be incredibly lame. You can't snap a picture of you and your friend having a good time without their written permission? Really? Guys, its not that impressive of a place that you have to try to keep it secretive. I've actually never experienced something like that before and most of the places I frequent are a lot nicer than this.
Would I go once classes start in the fall? Heck no.
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A trip to Phoenix is not complete with a visit to Mill and when you're at Mill you must stop by The Library.
While it can be totally for the 20ish frat crowd, lots of hipsters hang there too...and why not, a pretty girl in a school girl outfit serving you drinks while you shoot pool listening to sublime is not a bad thing.
You can't wear black and look down all the time.
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The Library! Just don't order the wings. And they beer is in plastic pint glasses because you can walk outside with it... Other than that, who doesn't love the Library?
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This was the first bar I went to as an official card carrying 21 year old. I skipped my night class with half of my classmates (which was 3 of us...it was small class) and we hit Mill Ave. A fun bar, even if it is a little cheesy with the theme and all.
Bar staff was great, our bartender let us test out new shots she was learning to make for free. I've been there a few times since and not much has changed, which is a good thing in this case.
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I used to think this place was great - i mean you have to take it for what it is -
Girls never have to pay cover and (I used to have a friend that worked here for years) get preferential treatment at the bar... works out well when it's three or four deep on a Friday or Saturday at midnight.
Maybe I"m just getting older and my tolerance is diminishing, but the last few times I was there I couldn't wait to leave. The music is way too loud ( i know, i know, if it's too loud, you're too old, right?) but i actually want to hear what the people I'm with are saying.
the patio is the spot, and it's not very conducive to settling in - you're constantly shuffling this way and that to make room for the the waitress or groups coming in or out the doors.
drinks decently priced, unless you're getting red bull and anything- you have to pay for the whole can of red bull and get this - if you order two drinks, you still have to buy two red bulls, even though you could easily make two drinks out of one can... i don't get it either. plus, they hold the can as ransom behind the bar until you order your next one - all very suspect.
anyway, they have pool tables, and when I'm feeling super dorky (which is always) i start looking through all the real hard back books they have stuffed in the shelves (it is the library). some of them are pretty wacky.
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The dirty old men in the office always wanted to go here for drinks after work.
The girls wear the little outfits, true. I suppose the books (that are obscure enough so that people dont steal them) that line the walls might distract you from the fact that the only thing that doesn't make this a hooters is that some college types wander in as well to get shitfaced, scream "wooooo!" occasionally, and paw at the servers.
There has to be easier ways to make money than working in a place like this. Fortunately for me, I'm not a hot girl and don't have to worry about it.
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cool spot to watch ball games....some seats have a bad line of sight of the tv monitors, but the appetizers are good and so was the service
Here's the thing, if you like hanging out with college age kids and watching girls dance on bars, then you'll love the Library.
It's actually not a bad spot to hang out at- it can be pretty fun, but it obviously attracts more guys than girls. But when the servers are outfitted in tiny school girl costumes, what do you expect?
But other than that, the Library plays good music and the drinks are decently priced.
They are open for lunch too and have a good happy hour. Plus, they're located on Mill, so you can always hit up a few different bars if you get tired of this one.
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Fun college bar. This is the place to go see girls dancing on the bar. Top 40 music.
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