If you want to “play some pool to heavy metal blaring on the jukebox” while imbibing “cheap” drinks poured by people “dressed cooler than you”, visit this “fun” Highland Park “hideaway” that “fosters crazy loyalty among fans”; the “divey” digs “can get crowded”, but the “people-watching” is “great”, and “by the end of the night” everyone “ends up knowing each other.”
Even the Short Stop crew had to find a new place to hang out without the masses of hangers on. Hightailing it to Highland Park, the drinks stay cheap and the pool tables stay busy, but at least a person can breathe. No attitude so far. Dollar bills cling to ceiling, gents await gravity defying strippers. Low-key dive retreat for the young and slim who couldn't give a f@!k about having a drink...
Highland Park's relatively undiscovered brother bar to Short Stop.:
In Short
Borrowing the red neon cocktails sign and blue-black paint job of its sibling, this off-the-beaten-path dive is slowly developing a laid-back hipster scene. Mostly though, the...