The Tavern — Restaurant in Bangor

Extremely unhappy with how my boyfriend and I were treated. Now we live downtown so this is an establishment that we frequent quite often, at least once a week to play pool and get together with work friends, and some nights it's a good size group of people. This night was like any other night we went in to play pool and have a couple of drinks, as soon as we walked through the door one of the partial owners came up to us and very rudely demanded we show our ID's to the bartender, granted this was the bartenders first night there so we were like okay whatever, but she could have been more professional about it. Now we go up and set up our pool table and waited for our work friends to meet us there. We hadn't ordered our drinks yet so the bartender was told by the female owner to come up and tell us that the pool tables were for "paying customers only". For one we just put money in to play pool not to mention money in their jukebox for music. And we told the bartender that we were waiting on our friends to get drinks as we didnt know if we were all getting pitchers or individual drinks. She tells this to the owner and the owners reply was that we still had to pay for something if we were going to wait for our friends and the bartender came back with $2 bottled water. I don't understand why someone who owned a bar would be turning away customers for playing pool on their pool tables that they collect money from? Now mind you this was on a Tuesday night where there were no more than 7 customers, including ourselves, in this bar. We will most definitely not be returning if this is the kind of treatment we are going to get. Not...

I have been a customer at The Tavern for over 3 years with no issues until the other night. I was told by Debbie that I had to leave due to false accusations by someone unknown to me and that I had not bought anything. My sister and I had both purchased a drink. I mind my own business and I bought drinks, food, paid for music and pool. There is a problem there and it is unacceptable. It is the only place I have ever been forced to buy alcohol...If you are not purchasing drinks regularly they come up and tell you that you are going to have to leave. It has to be a drink, it can't be food or anything else. This has actually happened with several people I know and it is forcible intoxication. The other thing I have an issue with is the Karaoke and how it is taken WAY too serious. There is a disabled "regular" that goes there and is often not allowed to sing, especially on Fridays and Saturdays due to the owners trying to appeal to a different crowd. This man gets visibly upset and voices that and they still do not allow him to sing. There are many other nice establishments in Bangor that I would recommend other than The Tavern. They banned me for the night but now I choose to never go back again. The drinks are overpriced and very weak. I will no longer support a place that has no respect for their customers and discriminates against people with...

I would have given this place a good rating but I was not treated very well at all. I'm new to Bangor and that was my first, last and only time that I will ever set foot in that bar. I was looking to just have a good night out and relax but the lady over the counter was extremely rude to me for no reason and claimed that I supposedly "harassed her about the menu" "10 different times". No such thing happened. She wouldn't stop saying that I was "running my mouth" about her. In reality if I did say anything, it was only to figure out why she was acting that way towards me for no reason. Then on top of that, one of the other ladies in charge came up to me and my friend and claimed that I had "stolen her pool-table". Wrong yet again. Suffice it to say that led to her being rude to me as well. Had I any inclination that the staff would be that rude I never would have gone. I left with haste at that point. To add insult to injury, I couldn't even finish my beer. This bar and the overly rude staff left a bitter taste in my mouth that I soon shan't forget. Next time I'll go to...