My favorite West Oakland bar. Giant outdoor space in the back, with its own back bar. Pinball and pool in the far back. Awesome bar food with vegan options. Great live music from locals and touring bands often as well

Great indoor/outdoor cool grundge vibe. Mole and mushroom taco was super tasty!

Fun place with a very nice outdoor space. Good food and drinks. Great life music! We always have a great time there!

Youll find cheap booze, good beer and awesome food in a dive bar atmosphere complete with live music. The back patio features plenty of seating and a couple of pool tables. The only drawback is how smoker friendly they are, as evidenced by the plethora of ash trays and smokers to be found out back.

A Really cool place, nice drinks, nice outdoor patio area for smokers, indoor stage area with lots different bands playing but the best kept secret is Monday Night Blues night with really great blues bands playing for free and a jam session later in the evening. Check it out. I highly recommend this as a night out.

Pretty cool spot in Oakland for small venue concert and cocktails.

Came here to say goodbye to a friend who was moving across the country and the stocky dude with a shaved head and dyed blonde lady working Sunday night felt it was appropriate to physically remove me from the bar at 11:10 while I was waiting for my friend to come out of the bathroom. I had had one drink and was completely calm but they overreacted in the extreme. Please whoever manages this place take appropriate disciplinary action against these people, as their violence was completely unwarranted. I love the blues night, but the Sunday night crew has no chill

Great blues club! Wonderful live music in a funky old Oakland club. A full bar that not only serves mixed drinks,, but also has cans Olympia for the true cheapskates. Elis patio is out back, and they have food, too. Cheap drink prices.

My new favorite dive bar. Amazing comfort food (tots!), great beer selection, super-friendly staff. The Happy Minute is amazing. I love this place.

I myself and my band, Purple Smoke, were playing there last night. We had a great time. The crowd was very engaged and very enthusiastic. The place itself is wonderful. They have a back section with a beer collection that is quite impressive. The music of course was great and we did have a jam session in the last set of the night. It was a great experience. I highly recommend. Jam nights are usually on Mondays. Come and enjoy the fun!

Cool large bar in residential part of Oakland. The front bar has a wide variety of live music, the back part of the bar has open ceiling, a few pool tables and the bar and seating areas are largely made out of shipping containers. Lots of street art and graffiti, so has a urban feel. Drink prices are reasonable for the bay area.

Classic Oakland establishment.The new owners are managing to bring together Ol Skool and a young generation, in what seems to be a respectful way.Ive always loved this place, and its deep Musical Legacy. So, Im very happy to see whats happening now.

Dark dive bar with good people. Stage with a sound system and good sound guy. Great food made fresh at reasonable prices. Nice patio out back with tables and a pool table.No sink to wash you hands though. Place is overall dirty, floor, walls, and tables are cracked and breaking.

Great dive bar! Good music . Totchos are very good. Falafal is kind of perfect. Diverse staff. Crowd is pretty mixed but it seems like the place you come with friends rather than go to make friends. Service isn’t always with a smile but maybe it doesn’t need to be.

Drunken Film Festival. Not that drunken and lots of good to great film shorts. Nice dive bar.

Great service. Cheap drinks. Good food. Huge patio. Live music. Dog friendly.

Ashamed to say that 57 I made my first visit on 1/26 to see Ruby The Hatchet despite living in Sacramento all my life...this will not be my last visit...cool funky dive vibe and drinks/food that are much cheaper than I thought...great sound and lines of sight to the stage...I do recommend getting to the venue early as there is limited street parking...we arrived at 7:20 for 8PM doors and were able to see some of Ruby The Hatchets soundcheck...been missing out for far too long

Great venue, awesome outdoor space with pool tables and pinball machines!

Awesome east bay bar, hangout, and venue with grungy but welcoming east bay feel. Come for the Tots, stay for the people.

Easily one of my top 5 dive bars in the Bay Area. Best bartenders, great music, huge back yard and dog friendly!!

Awesome bar with reasonable prices. Nice patio

Good music and entainment

Super rad punk rock bar in the heart of West Oakland.

Elis used to be terrible. With the new management, the place it totally different and a great local bar. The patio is fantastic now and the food is surprisingly good.

Elis is back, improved, and still servicing the Oakland dirtbag community. Still serving excellent drink deals. Elis has a new and imroved, more reliable kitchen, serving simple, but good food. The outside patio has been expanded with artful touches and an industrial shipping container atrium. The inside has been reorganized, expanded and improved. The old disgusting bathrooms have been moved and are totally new/sanitary.

Great live music, awesome back patio, friendly staff, good food... What more could you ask for at a bar?

Amazing Monday night Live Blues!

Good space to see music with a big patio. Staff were nice but bartenders seemed a bit overwhelmed with a big crowd. Bathrooms got pretty gross and had a long line.Whatever you do dont lock your bike in the yard nextstore or the lady that lives there will take a baseball bat to it!!!!

I was there with Mr Fillmore slim he made everyone dance and yes I had fun

Since Elis changed management, it has become my new favorite place in Oakland. Diverse crowd, cool booth seats, blues night is amazing, solid beer selection.

Big outdoor patio area with 2 pool tables. A bar inside and a bar outside with $3 canned beer specials.

Haa! Love this place. But most of all, have you heard the sick jam on their website? Sometimes I just open the site and let the song play while Im cleaning the house! LOL.

Yummy barfood & a super awesome spacious patio, cheap beer, friendly staff, live music, two thumbs up!

New look still best punk bar! Great beer selection outback.

Great bar with terrace where you can smoke, live music, good beer and vegetarian food.

Local ever improving in my 6yrs down the block and I can bring my pup! Awesome!!!

Good selection of beers/booze, good burgers and tacos, pool tables, tons of outdoor seats, music venue!

Fun, comfortable, good drinks, smoke out doors, dog friendly. Love it here

They have reopened under new management. They are still workin on getting stuff approved again for live acts but they have a great space with pool, jukebox, and even a pinball machine!

Dive bar with great performances and music.

This place is great. Nice back patio for smoking, friendly bar staff, and punk as f**k.

Super fun spot with a good beer selection and great food

2 pool tables, smoking and decent prices

Chill spot to hang out with crispy tots and lots of denim.

Delicious vegetarian options. Fun environment.

The real thing. Great outdoor area, live music on the weekend.

This place rocks! Punk rock as f**k, great bartenders, especially Keli, and always a motley crew of patrons. An Oakland institution in my book.

Very cool hangout.

Tuesday food from Tacos El Precioso

Great spot, cool vibe, excellent blues!

If youre not punk they will not serve you. Wait for 20 minutes to get beer so we left

Great people and good vibes

It was lit........

Chill place to kick it and have some beers with the locals.

Nice dive bar, great locals

Home sweet home

Great vibe

Gritty - cultured and real !!!

Absolutely perfect!

selection!

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Great food, great bar

They serve brunch now!

Best bar in Oakland*!

The blues

Cool atmosphere

Best punk bar, period!

Dive Bar meets hipster extremes meets dog park meets graffiti haunt meets music venue meets outdoor pool - the gameA+

Oakland Historic Bar

It has been redone pool tables outside

Punks rule

Its gritty and raw.

Good vibes