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237 Elm St (Davis Square)
Somerville, MA 02144 42.3958 -71.1219

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Neighborhood: Davis Square

Hours:

Daily 11am-1am

Last updated 9.11.08

Category:

Bars & Pubs, Neighborhood Bars, Bars & Clubs, Dive Bars

Payment Methods:

Cash

Bar & Club Special Features:

21 & Over

Smoking Permitted:

No

What People Are Saying About Sligo Pub

Featured Review

Contributor

Contributor

In Short – Weekend nights can get a bit crowded with overflow from the neighboring Burren, but most nights find a good mix of colorful locals, newly minted hipsters and crusty older gentlemen engaged in Guinness-soaked arguments. The tight quarters of the railroad-style bar ensure that, for better or worse, everybody talks to everybody else. The jukebox is pure classic rock, with Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Tom Petty in nightly rotation.

Editor's Tips

Know Before You Go:
The bar's cash only, so come prepared.
ambiance
100.0% positive
  1. In all seriousness, it's not that bad a place, and it is really fun to sit down in a really local, really tiny pub where the regulars you see have been going daily since before you were born.
drinks
75.0% positive
  1. Now it is crowded on weekdays, but on weeknights it is a great place for dirt cheap drinks and a real bar, just please respect the people who are there.
  2. Actually, the people (workers and patrons) here are great and I always feel at home when visitiing for more reasons than the cheap beer.
  3. Least pretentious bar in town.
  4. People go there to have a good pint for a reasonable price and spend some time sitting around a bar with some old friends and maybe pump some quarters into an ancient juke box.
overall
100.0% positive
  1. great place to relax after work with friends.
  2. Now it is crowded on weekdays, but on weeknights it is a great place for dirt cheap drinks and a real bar, just please respect the people who are there.
service
83.33000183105469% positive
  1. Actually, the people (workers and patrons) here are great and I always feel at home when visitiing for more reasons than the cheap beer.
  2. Now it is crowded on weekdays, but on weeknights it is a great place for dirt cheap drinks and a real bar, just please respect the people who are there.
  3. However, take the plunge on a weekday night (when it's not too crowded with people who can't get in to J-tree or the Burren) and you'll find a pleasant mix of dirty locals and amazing prices.
value
87.5% positive
  1. Now it is crowded on weekdays, but on weeknights it is a great place for dirt cheap drinks and a real bar, just please respect the people who are there.
  2. People go there to have a good pint for a reasonable price and spend some time sitting around a bar with some old friends and maybe pump some quarters into an ancient juke box.
  3. Actually, the people (workers and patrons) here are great and I always feel at home when visitiing for more reasons than the cheap beer.
  4. However, take the plunge on a weekday night (when it's not too crowded with people who can't get in to J-tree or the Burren) and you'll find a pleasant mix of dirty locals and amazing prices.
4 Star Rating: Recommended

01/13/10

The local hangout

by rauscha , Citysearch Contributor

Sligo's is the place everybody nearby has heard about, but not gone. It's the dirty place you always walk past on your way to Redbones or the Burren. However, take the plunge on a weekday night (when it's not too crowded with people who can't get in to J-tree or the Burren) and you'll find a pleasant mix of dirty locals and amazing prices.

The best part is, for the price they charge you for a beer, you'll forget how it looks and how creepy some of the clientele are before you've spent as much as you would've for one cocktail somewhere else.

In all seriousness, it's not that bad a place, and it is really fun to sit down in a really local, really tiny pub where the regulars you see have been going daily since before you were born.

  • Pros: Dirt cheap
  • Cons: Dirt
3 Star Rating: Average

01/25/09

Last dive in town

by BrendanBonavita2

With Davis Square Somerville getting more and more yuppified it's nice to have one last bastion of scuminess. The beer is really cheap, there's a backdoor to escape out of and the place smells like a mens room. And speaking of mens rooms, Sligo's has no t.p., one can, no lock on the door and no mirror. That being said the hipsters and yuppies have discovered the 'Sligo' as well and have nearly ruined the weekend scene. The weeknights are still good however and the weekdays even better. If you need to be left alone while you drink a beer than Sligo's is the place. The men at the bar have seen almost as many tours in Nam as they have at the bar itself. But unlike Charlie they won't smoke you out, they'll leave you alone. AS for food I think they sell chips.

  • Pros: Price of beer, music, crowd
  • Cons: crowd, music
1 Star Rating: Poor

08/04/08

place sux

by billytutts

its no bigger than your bathroom, stinks like sewage, the bartender jerry (irish guy) is an a-hole, wont let you enjoy your time there by singing along to the irish songs. place shouldnt even be considered

  • Pros: nothin
  • Cons: everything
5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

11/22/06

Cheapest beer I can find outside of my refridgerator.

by redelephant

A pint of Guiness for only $2.50! Unless this bar was filled with pedifiles and republicans, how could you keep me away?! Actually, the people (workers and patrons) here are great and I always feel at home when visitiing for more reasons than the cheap beer. I like their jukebox too!

  • Pros: Cheap beer, great people.
  • Cons: None that I can think of.
4 Star Rating: Recommended

07/18/06

Least pretentious bar in town.

by greendrz

I love Sligo Pub. People dont go there to be seen or to pick up people half their age. People go there to have a good pint for a reasonable price and spend some time sitting around a bar with some old friends and maybe pump some quarters into an ancient juke box. And thats refreshing in Boston.

  • Pros: Drink value, attitude, service
  • Cons: all the cons make it what it is

The Details on Sligo Pub

Place Categories:

  • great place
  • even better weeknights
  • amazing price
  • love sligo pub
  • great people
  • like jukebox
  • good pint
  • pretentious bar
  • dirty locals