Stella's Tap — Restaurant in West Chicago Township

Great dive, great juke box. Unpretentious and friendly to the extreme. Cheap booze. Stella is often behind the bar, smiling. The other bartenders are kind too, and whoever it is, if you spend some dough and tip and are nice, there is usually some extended hospitality. Diverse crowd, old Ukrainians and/or Poles, broke local hipsters, regular neighborhood folks. I like to shoot some pool and just talk to the other people in the bar. I always seem to get in friendly conversations with strangers here. It's just that...

i like this place extra because i am polish. bartender laughed at my excitement over my home beer being in the fridge (lone star) and said you can find it anywhere! now listen here willy i love ya but im here to tell you that just ain't true! i been to and from, across this damn nation, and outside of texas i seen it once somewhere in missouri, on the northeast coast at a single live music venue, and here at stella's tap! maybe a couple more but still this is a rare treat for a simple texan like me. thanks for...

The comedy open mic night on Tuesdays is pretty fun. It's not a huge crowd of people doing open mic... like at Cole's... but that's what I like about it. A more intimate gathering of people.

Stella runs the place and has been working the bar every time I've been there. It's a real no-frills dive. The only tap in the...