Carl's Bar
1735 N Mannheim Rd Stone Park, IL 60165

Now like stepping into the twilight zone

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YahooSerious
Nov 27, 2022, 6:22 PM
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Visited: Wednesday Afternoon

This review is of a visit two days prior to Black Friday. It's two PM (not AM as in the song), and in the area - my several trips to here have just been to see if the place was still open post COVID and to get a few beers. Beers are reasonably priced with bottles of craft about $5, some of the other beers in cans go for $3 so a pretty good value. The entire way there, I asked myself why I was going - the dayshift, in afternoon, has always been disappointing with 2-4 girls and frankly the girls stuck to regulars, never stopped by to say Hola, so little to no interest. If I saw a girl I wanted to dance with, she would be near the private dance area and bar corner. Oops, forgot - the layout, as you come in from the parking lot, in daytime, your pupils will go into shock mode as there are few if any photons in the room. If you turn on your phone camera light that would double the entire amount of light in the room. The seated bar is to the right as you come in and goes from there to the back where there is a kitchen entrance and semi-private dance area. Behind the bar seating are tables for 2 or 4 and behind that are tables for overflow and those playing pool. There are 4 pool tables and behind that are men's and women's restrooms - not sure if this is the case, but women's restrooms must serve as the changing room with girls entering, coming out, and then depositing there stuff into a room just to the left of the "changing room".

What was a shock here for me, is that the club made an extra effort to have all their dayshift dancers and I was told all nightshift dancers would be coming in that night. It seems that regulars knew but I was totally surprised and stunned with low expectations being met with ~15 girls, many very good looking with half in the 7-9 area and the other half a 5-6. That being said, I did not see a dancer there that would not find enough work there that night. Many came by and said hello, a couple could only speak espanol, some wanted to, without telling you their name, get you to dance. Vibe was very good overall. Music selection was an interesting mix and not all EDM/hip-hop etc but a good solid mix.

I don't know if this is a new emphasis to revitalize the bar (some local competition has closed down) but this is certainly a solid start but I worry that, except for unique occasions, the vibe here won't be great in afternoons. I suspect it picks up at night here but dayshift is underwhelming. If you want a drink at a reasonable price, this is not a bad place to check out. Parking lot is not large and when the other businesses in the strip mall are open, parking can be hard to find when this place is busy.

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