Palo Verde Lounge — Restaurant in Tempe

A long time ago over 30 years when David Eng owned the bar, it was a great place for families to go to especially when they had the kitchen. David's father on the liquor store next to Palo Verde. My parents met at that bar and you're married for 20 years and I know for every second and every minute of every day that they were married that my dad loved my mom. Chuck and Caroll Thomas. And my mother was a cocktail waitress bartender she invented the Cherry bombers soaking in everclear are jagermeister. They were 50 cent cherry. They also used to have shake a day when you shake repair dollar you can only do one time per bartender shift and you shake five dice and you try to get five of a kind all the money goes in until someone wins. Well in 1988 it was Christmas Eve my mom wrote The shake add a dice and got five twos and won like $2,000. I remember David Eng calling me in Minnesota on Christmas Eve telling me I had an hour to get to the airport that I was coming home for Christmas. I have a lot of great memories with my mom and dad in that bar and the owner and his wife and his children. But it's nothing like tha t now. Little dive bar hardly ever open just ridiculous I wouldn't recommend going there to anyone. When David on the bar all the guys from the dairy plant we come in and have a couple drinks before they went home is my dad work for Medtronics a lot of regulars that came into the bar it was like one big happy family and everyone came to my mom for advice...

If you go expecting low ceilings, dingy walls, and a minute or two where you try to remember the last time you got your tetanus shot, then you'll get exactly what you expect. The place was starting to show cigarette stains in the 80s and they've changed nothing since, except maybe a light bulb or two. Because of this, you also get some of the best people watching a person can get from that type of bar. The young crowd as they first start exploring all the niches the bar scene has to offer, the hipster crowd always here to remind us that what's out is in, the crowd that will accept any type of live music, and just about everyone else. As the night got longer, the diversity of the crowd lessened. The regulars began to filter in and assume their usual positions amongst the visiting crowd. Give this place a try to at least say that you did (and survived to tell the tale)....

5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐and the second of the night. Palo Verde seemed resigned to a fate of COVID casualty, but now holds one of the top positions of Tempe Dive Bar of the Year! Music is sometimes garage and sometimes great but it's always in your face. Because there's nowhere that it's not. And this is what you should want. This place is my go to in both the live music and dive bar columns. There's a few reasons that this place is getting five stars, one is; their bathroom is more useable than two of the high-end pizza places in downtown Tempe. This is my last 6th level review. I wonder how many people give a flying damn what they have...