Club Schmitz

• Cuisine(s): American, Burgers
  Hours: Mon-Thu 9am-0am, Fri-Sat 9am-1am
  Price: $
  Payment Types: cash, check
• Attire: casual
  Features: Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible, Kid Friendly
  Serving: Breakfast, Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
  Alcohol: Beer/Wine
• Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary
  Parking: Free, Lot Available

Description

"Let's git Schmitz-faced!" advise the shirts worn by the waitresses at Club Schmitz--featured in "Dallas's Most Authentic Dive Bars." With $1.75 drafts and $8 pitchers, you'd have to be a cheapskate not to do so. That said, it may not be such a great idea to get completely wasted, as getting into or out of the torn-up parking lot and navigating the construction-created detours in this dicey part of northwest Dallas requires some semblance of sobriety. Just as the fading "Club Schmitz--Beer, Good Food" sign outside suggests, the inside is a time capsule full of yellowed beer promos, mismatched ceiling tiles, well-worn pool cues and a classic shuffleboard table. Aside from a big-screen TV, a few framed magazine articles, a picture of Dubya and the Golden Tee and Silver Strike video games, there is not much here to indicate that it's no longer the '50s. Even the food prices--$2.75 for a grilled cheese, $2 onion rings, $4 to $5 for burgers--hark back to a different era. The place offers ice and mixers if you want to bring in your own liquor, as it only sells beer. The place would be an ideal first-date destination. You know you've got a low-maintenance keeper if she or he can enjoy a night of cold beer, greasy food and bar games in a somewhat seedy area near Webb Chapel and Harry Hines. And if the two of you end up starting a family, there's even a high chair waiting for you at Schmitz.