Utah's Best Live Music Venue

A refined State Street club offering the largest tap and bottled beer selection in Utah, served up with Southern hospitality.

Reviews:

• “Really good food, really good Jazz Band too.”
• “yummy food, great beer list, good service, irritating parking, out of Rogue 75% of the time”
• “Appauling Customer Service, Bring Your Social Security Card”
• “A little chaotic”
• “Best place to kick back and enjoy a beer with friends or whoever”

Tips: For $17, you get a one-year membership and an official “Beervana” T-shirt. Throw in an extra $3 and upgrade to long sleeves. Temporary, 3 week memberships are $5.

The Bayou

A vivacious sushi-jazz-martini bar, with inlaid bamboo wall decor and intricately boxed-up menus.

Reviews:

• “Great Time”
• “Hottest Club If You Know how to Party Right”
• “Worst club I’ve been to in Salt Lake City”
• “TERRIBLE "
• “This place has gone way downhill”

Tips: Remember to ask to apply your $12 membership cost to any sushi roll on the menu.

Circle Lounge

Salt Lake’s premiere local-band dive bar with a comfortably worn atmosphere.

Reviews:

• “Great Drinks. Not so great atmosphere”
• “dunno”
• “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”
• “Stay Away!!”
• “poseurs and losers abound”

Tips: Never a cover charge, year-round memberships cost $12 and there are no temporary memberships. Microbrews $3, domestics $2.

Burt’s Tiki Lounge

A typical sports and music bar—except this one is especially for women.

Reviews:

• “boys boys boys…did i say boys?”
• “COME SEE STEALING LOVE JONES ON MARCH 11”
• “What a JOKE!”
• “Sloppy bar for sloppy butches and sloppy imitations”
• “The Best of the Best”

MoDiggity’s or email MoDiggity’s

Three levels of pool, live music and people-watching highlight this hoppin’ club.

Reviews:

• “Terrible experience”
• “Getting to popular for its own good”
• “CROWDED! Not the most fun I’ve ever had.”
• “Drunk Billiard Games all the way”
• “Adults and tourists…”

Tips: Grab a booth in back on the main floor if you want privacy, or sit near the bar for a lively atmosphere.

Port O’ Call Social Club

A great friend to the local music scene, this bar also attracts bands from all over the country.

Reviews:

• “Liquid Joes rocks when Soggy Bone is on stage!”
• “PBR on Tap!!!!!!”
• “unorganized”
• “Think twice about going to this place.”
• “Great place for live metal and 80’s music.”

Tips: Get $2 PBR steins on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, $2.50 domestic steins and $3.50 Vodka Red Bulls Thursdays and Saturdays.

Liquid Joe’s

Sing along with the piano men while drinking your tonic and gin.

Reviews:

• “Great Entertainment…..Not So Great Service!”
• “Love it!”
• “Great place”
• “A bit of insubordination in a town that needs it!”
• “Can I get a Hooah!”

Tips: The Tavernacle doesn’t serve food, but it can come up with a pizza from a nearby takeout joint.

Tavernacle Social Club

This trendy and romantic little jazz bar will transport you straight out of Salt Lake City.

Reviews:

• “Fabulous every time!”
• “LOVE JAZZ !!!!!!”
• “Hidden Treasure”
• “Zanzibar”
• “a great little jazz club”

Tips: Hours vary depending on the date, scheduled live performances and what’s going on downtown. Call before going to make sure the club will be open.

Zanzibar

Visit this club and see that Salt Lake City is more diverse than you think.

Reviews:

• “Something you may want to know about Friday Nights”
• “???? question!!!”
• “I love sound”
• “Many Fond Memories”
• “Hot Spot”

Tips: Friday is Ladies Night, which means no cover for girls’ night out.

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