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Main Event Formerly: Subway

(21 Ratings)
Just remember it is free to get in and it is free to get out!
Reasonable drink prices, friendly people, and a pool table is the draw to this mixed-crowd show bar spot.


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Reviews

1outta4
1outta4
Over a year ago

If you like a trashy dive...

The Subway is scary at best, dangerous at worst. My friends and I went after work and barely made it through one drink before we had to escape. The clientele horrid, the bar was cramped, and the place had a bunch of video games, pinball machines, and even skee-ball, none of which worked. Among the highlights were the worst drag I'd ever seen (not performing, just sitting at the bar with an 80's purse) and the one "hot" guy in the place in the neck-brace.


Crystian
Crystian
Over a year ago

Not bad

Great bartenders, great drinks, fair prices. Customers can be friendly to psycho. The bathrooms are very bad. Please remodel the bathrooms they are nasty and unsafe. They need an alarm in those bathrooms before someone gets robbed or worse. Public safety is getting bad and I am afraid something will happen bad in there and something should be done before it does. I hope not but the bathrooms are a perfect place for a mugging.


Sumsully
Sumsully
Over a year ago

I LOVE THE SUBWAY!!!

The Subway is an awsome bar with a super friendly staff and a Drag Show on Saturday nights featuring some BEAUTIFUL LADIES!!! I have made special trips to Cincinnati to go to The Subway, the place is GREAT! I love the atmosphere, it's so laid-back and comfortable. A SHOUT OUT TO the most awsome bartender in the world, JR! And to all the LOVELY Queens of The Subway - YOU ROCK! I'll come see you soon! Summer


ChangedElectricity
ChangedElectricity
Over a year ago

Down and Out in downtown Cincinnati

For a dive like that, the drinks are okay. Check out the Karaoke on Sunday. It truly is the worst. A place this big should have more self-respect. So, when you get to the point where you just don't care about yourself or life anymore, go to the Subway.


Thad4Phila
Thad4Phila
Over a year ago

HOW early?!

I can't believe there's a bar that opens early in the morning - at 5:30!!! With happy hour, to boot...until 9 in the evening. This place is unique...and not just for that. The staff is fun and friendly. Great pool table, tempramental pinball machine (I tilted and it REALLY wasn't my fault). I was there early...I wonder how it gets late?


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