One of the last true great American dive bars. I love this place. Meet one of their bartenders just once and they'll know you by name the next time you walk in. Sure it's dark and smoky and gritty; if that's not your thing you're welcome to go to the pretentious joints in downtown Bham and have $15 weak drinks with Gen Zs with ironic mustaches and mom jeans. Rio's is a fun place with a diverse crowd and great for people watching or having random conversations with strangers. The staff is real and always friendly. The food is your typical bar food menu, but I've never had bad food here. The wings are some of the best I've ever had. The beer is cheap (seriously where else are you gonna fill your stomach and catch a buzz for $20?). And the karaoke is...well...let's just call it entertaining. Idk where the handful of bad reviews came from but I can only assume it's salty competition or just downright miserable people. This...
Read moreWent in with a friend who goes there often, and I'll admit, absolutely amazing food,but the actual experience to get the food was awful. It started out with me ordering the trucker tots, no olives, mushrooms, or jalapenos is all I said, and my friend ordered wings. We waited almost an hour it seems just to get said food, and when the food got here. They gave my friend a whole pizza rather than the wings, and I still had olives, mushrooms, and jalapenos (it was still absolutely amazing but imagine being allergic to those.) After 15 more minutes the wings get there, and it was fine for the rest of the time. I also asked for coke, and it wasn't exactly good, a good ways flat and the flavor tasted watered down for lack of better words. I'll go again, the foods great, but please work on the service and listening to...
Read moreThe small bar and grill has won best bar in Shelby County multiple times because of its atmosphere and staff. Some great items on the menu including fresh burgers, best wings and the monstrous trucker tots.
It is technically the only restaurant that you can smoke inside and is popular with the bikers, blue collar workers and women bachelorettes parties.
They do not allow anyone 18 and under at night so it is not a place to take a family but a great hangout with a wide range of personalities and professions.
It has a Golden tee golf game, a pool table and a dart table. There is a charity bingo every Tuesday night at 6:30pm and always karaoke during the times they don't have live music at night. The owners Crystal can usually be found on premise during...
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