The Grand Central: User Reviews

Fun place, good girls, reasonable prices
By droctil from Northwest, April 20, 2008

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Grand Central is a fun place. The layout is nice, but it does get too crowded along the bar at times. The music is alright, and the scenery is excellent. Lots of cute girls, and a mix of ages...mostly people in their 20's. Great place to check out any night of the weekend. Gets more crowded after about 11:30PM.

Great Place to PaRTY!
By joe1234 from lincoln park, January 16, 2008

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Lots of fun on the weekends! Make sure your waitress is blonde tho. Seems like all the blonde waitresses are great! Had a server who was brunette - she was rude, annoying and slow.

a great night
By italianstallian from chicago, January 5, 2008

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i have read some of the past reviews and was hesitant on going but actually had a really good time. the service was fast and the staff was friendly.

Great Place for a Party
By Chicago24 from Lincoln Park, October 22, 2007

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My friends and I (about 30 of us) had an all you can drink special there. We had a couple booths and had a great time, great music. The waitress was wonderful, always checking on us. The door staff was friendly to all of us.

We will go back again.

Not a place for Cubs fans
By RoyK from Lincoln Park, September 27, 2007

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On a recent outing to Grand Central I asked that the Cubs game be turned on in the back bar where no one was at the time I made the request. The bar tender looked at me as though she never heard of changing channels. When the manager came around I justified my request by explaining that the Cubs were in a pennant race, so every game was important, but as I said no one was back there anyway. In response the manager said, "I don't care about the Cubs"!!!!. I couldn't believe it. 1. It doesn't matter if he likes them, he doesn't have to watch; 2. I can't believe anyone that works for a group of bars that makes so much money in Wrigley would admit he doesn't care. When he finally agreed to put on the game, istead of turning it on, he initiated a conversation on a different subject with the bartender.

Not a place for Cubs fans or anyone that wants any semblance of decent service. I went to Wrightwood tap instead!!!

This dreadful place does not...
By superbad from Chicago, IL, September 9, 2007

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This dreadful place does not deserve a generous 1 star. My friends & I reluctantly settled here as a last resort on Sun. to watch the Bears. Once inside the empty bar, the staff promptly declared the Packers game was on and would continue to be if it went into overtime. Grabbed a booth & a waitress stopped by shortly only to collect her tip from the previous group. Sat for 20 minutes before finally flagging down another server. When we asked that the Bears game be shown on the TVs near our table (shocking we had to make this seemingly reasonable request), remote control man scoffed saying people were watching the other games-impossible, invisible people surely wouldn't want to watch Detroit/Oakland. Absolutely horrible. Particularly awful on weekend nights with persistently obnoxious fake line. Terrible place to watch Sun. football. Mystified by arrogant staff & non-existent service.

I usually go to Grand...
By nicki from Chicago, IL, June 1, 2007

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I usually go to Grand Central when I'm in the mood to scope out some good looking guys. The music is always good and I never have a problem with the service, but the last time I was there I had to wait in like for over an hour at around 11pm. I have never waited that long to get into "just a bar" and I would have left had my friend not been in there celebrating her birthday. By the time I arrived..everyone was wasted. Fabulous. I think that night, Grand Central was trying to be something that they aren't: A high end club.

Food and service is always...
By Chicago from Chicago, Il, February 15, 2007

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Food and service is always great there! The cooks do a really good job, as well as the waitresses.

The best thing about this...
By Ryan from Chicago, IL, January 9, 2007

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The best thing about this place is their stance on smoking. almost as good as trinity in this respect. The place is crowded - if you see a line, it means it's really crowded. go somewhere else. But if there's no line, it's fun.