G Street Pub

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Location
228 G Street
(between 2nd and 3rd, across from Woodstock's Pizza)
Hours
Last call: 1:25 am
Phone
(530) 758-3154
Happy Hour
3pm to 7pm daily
Website
[WWW]GStreetPub.com
Menu
[WWW]MySpace

Depending on the night of the week, the scene at G Street Pub can vary quite a lot. In its history, the location has transitioned from a very fancy restaurant (A. J. Bumps), to a biker bar, to the well-worn, all-purpose drinking spot that it now is. G Street Pub is all-purpose in the sense that it has a spacious pool area, electronic dart boards, video games, and satellite TV; routinely hosts a variety of live bands; and has karaoke night. There is a "pub" atmosphere created mostly by extremely dim lighting, and the pours at their full bar can sometimes be generous. The well liquor is to be avoided — remember to call your brand.

The bouncers will kick you out around 1:45 am, unless you are mentally ill and they know you (see Hugging Guy). This keeps the [WWW]ABC happy and allows the bouncers and bartenders to have a drink before 2 am when they are legally required to stop serving alcohol. On a weekend night, the bouncers may still take your $3 cover at about 1:30 am without telling you they're about to close. However, the bands are done playing at last call (1:25 am), so why bother paying a cover?

At some point in the past a G St. bouncer gouged a guy's eye out while helping disperse a brawl outside of Woodstock's across the street. Said bouncer, who was "definitely a very aggressive guy," no longer works at G. St.

G Street Pub has Rockstar in their soda thingy which leads to drinks such as "Jäger Bombs" (a shot of [wikipedia]Jägermeister dropped into a half-pint of Rockstar), and "Thor's Hammer" (mostly [wikipedia]Captain Morgan with some Rockstar and a splash of Coke — tastes like candy. The Hammer was invented by Saturday bouncer Ted, whose nickname is Thor.).

The G St. Pub kitchen now has BBQ. Ribs, pulled pork sandwiches, burgers, hot links, grilled cheese, hot wings, fries, cole slaw, baked beans, potato salad, onion rings... Order in the back next to the pool tables. See myspace.com/gstpub for the full menu.

What's going on

Sunday: Adam Donald and Friends, NO COVER.
Monday: karaoke night NO COVER.
Tuesday: karaoke night NO COVER.
Wednesday: Funk Night with Larry the Flower Vato, dollar pints of Pabst, $2 wells (see above). NO COVER.
Thursday: Live band Karaoke first Thrursday, live hip hop the last Thursday, DJ the other two nights of the month. NO COVER.
Friday: Live band, USUALLY NO COVER.
Saturday: DJ, NO COVER.

Every 1st Thursday of the month: Live Band Karaoke (Full live band, you pick the song and get to be the lead singer)

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2005-01-19 15:23:49   If anybody from G Street management reads this, then please: bring back bar food! —TonyMagagna

2005-02-06 12:00:41   The bouncers are mean. They won't let you go inside to get a drink of water, even if you're dying of dehydration. Even if you accidentily forgot to close out your tab earlier in the night. You still can't go in. Bastards. —SummerSong

2005-02-07 15:52:40   The food sucks since they added the hochi-goochi menu - AVOID for food - or pay for crap! —DavidZetland

2005-03-07 21:44:16   The food was unimpressive and is definitely a step down from hot wings and the like. I admire the attempt to put the burger on a wheat medium classier than a bun, but the medium burger came out as a crispy hockey puck. Plus, the accompanying chips were far too little for the squirt of salsa they gave. And for $6.50, the chili was plentiful, but they don't give any chips, crackers, or bread with it. —CraigBrozinsky

2005-04-18 14:21:10   Sheesh, the misinformation on this site is ridiculous. G St. calls last call at 1:30. They then yell clearly how many minutes are left before they kick your drunk asses out about 5 times. If it takes you longer than 10 minutes to realize you should get some water and close your credit card, you need to put the crackpipe away. God forbid you have to use a drinking fountain or pick up your card the next day. —JeffSpeckles

2005-06-10 19:44:25   G Street tends to have the best music outside of the Delta of Venus and is the only bar in town to serve that excellent and cheap brewtus known as Pabst Blue Ribbon —JustinRau

during my first two years of grad school i practically lived at this place - excellent bar food, decent music, amusing karaoke (even though k-night was a bit too packed with undergrads in tube tops and uggs for my taste...) but then came the horrible menu change. what happened? what the hell kind of bar food are artichokes? salads? —EllenWoodall

2005-12-01 22:27:22   I used to be a bouncer there. Pretty much all the fights I saw there were started by college kids who forgot how to act in public; drunks who thought the rules didn't apply to them. — FordPrefect

2006-03-19 20:15:42   The tacos are good. I havent tried the nachos, but i think i saw a big vat of "nacho" cheese, which would be pretty gross. —ArlenAbraham

2006-03-30 12:15:58   I'm I haven't yet acheived veteran bar-hopping status in Davis, but this is one of my favorite bars to go to. I like the pub-laid back alternative vibe, and the live music, of course. —SaulSugarman

2006-08-01 19:04:30   Jesus Christ! Why are you guys all haters? G St Pub is the like the only place in Davis you can catch decent live music— most bands are pretty good actually— it's got a cool chill atmosphere, drinks, college girls... really what more do you want? This is one of the best places to chill in entire city, and at least my personal favorite. You can even swing by during the day and play a game of pool or whatever, so it's not exactly as bad as getting teeth pulled. Quit whining, learn how to spell, lay off the crack, and learn how to appreciate good things when you have them. —DeviantDuncan

2006-08-02 14:24:37   Going to the pub tonigh prolly, its usually pretty happening, if only I could talk to girls! Not even alcohol seems to help that! —JoeRunnels

2006-08-18 22:22:38   I think G st. pub is swell. i went there to play pool once and i liked it. i had much fun in good place. girly girl was talk to me, but i said the wrong thing and ended up with nacho sauce on shirt and bouncer on my head. Go to this place if you want. —JoeSmith

2006-09-10 01:01:59   G Street Pub is perhaps the most vertistile bar in Davis. They are able to attract a wide variety of crowds, and their entertainment ranges from house and hiphop to hard and classic rock. A good spot with a local following and efficient bartenders. —JaimeRaba

2006-09-21 15:19:54   Anybody know what happened to the brick wall in this parking lot? Looks like somebody drove right into it! Is it already time for school to start??? —AlphaDog

2006-11-12 00:22:00   I avoid G St Pub like the plague when they have a live band. The music is so painfully loud that it becomes impossible to have a conversation with anyone around you. I've also heard other people complain about the sound levels there as well. The volume levels would be ideal for an outdoor concert, but its not so great for such a small space. —HenWeigh

2007-01-05 01:49:28   I've had some memorable drinks and going away parties here. They have Ouzo as well, which I like for some reason. Disco Stu likes Ouzo, too. —MisterProfessor

2007-01-05 02:02:37   I've heard G street referenced as the perma DHS reunion. —StevenDaubert

2007-01-12 01:31:32   I like this place. —SallyHensel

2007-02-22 12:57:20   I agree about the sound level. I'm a dive-bar kinda girl, but the bands there play waaaay too loud. Play the room guys! You're not at the Shoreline Amphitheater... it's the freakin' G St.! —BriannaBetancourt

2007-03-02 23:57:29   There's a band that I want to catch playing at this venue next Thursday (Green Milk From The Planet Orange) who I saw in November at the Gray Davis House. Only problem here is that I'm not yet 21, and this being a bar and all, I'm expecting to be told at the door that I can't come in. Being some 60 miles away from Davis, that would be pretty awful, especially when I'm on good terms with the band. Anyone know the pub well enough to know if I'll be able to get into this show (starts 8:00 PM) if I've got the clear from the band and the tour ornagizer? Thanks for any help. I just don't want to be disappointed because of such a crazy requirement. —ZackBissell

2007-04-06 21:58:46   ARRR!! AHOY MATEYS!!!!!!!! —Lisa

2007-07-07 22:58:00   G Street's been good to me! I love it. The bouncers haven't been bad except for one. He was a complete jerk - I hope he doesn't still work there, although I haven't seen him. In the few years I've been going here, he's been the only bad experience. The bartenders are friendly, the music is usually pretty awesome, and the bouncers are generally nice guys. —intangible

2007-07-18 12:26:06   with the looks and smell of a week old diaper left out in the rain the food is just as comparable. occasionally you will come across a nice bartender but more often then not you get a degenerate. —barnold

2007-07-23 20:39:44   Good burger —dickjones

2007-07-28 20:54:20   I am so OVER the G St. Pub. It sums up the Davis bar scene: it sucks! The place (generally) reeks of cheap beer, bad cigarettes, blah bands, and desperation, even though the "cool" crowd tends to head here rather than to Froggy's or the Graduate, where the frat boys, alcoholics, skanks, and social retards go to get their drink on and mingle with one another while lubricated. Avoid G St. bar food at all costs! And stay away from the sleazy patio area where the really desperate people like to loiter until closing. I broke up with G St. years ago and I've never looked back. —GradStudent06

2007-08-26 15:52:19   this place is a joke. an f-ing discrace to dive bars world wide. hey owner! when the men's unrinal breaks, which happens often, fix it. Never smelled a worse bar, not even the village idiot in nyc smells this bad. I never knew budweiser could taste as bad as it does here. FLAT, WARM, Bravo boys. seriously. —heyman

2007-08-30 18:15:28   I heart the G St Pub. —RussellAnderson

2007-10-02 22:31:46   G-st 4ever <3 —SunjeetBaadkar

2007-12-13 02:10:53   the funk night dj is attractive —JackkiCox

2007-12-19 21:20:51   Hate the staff, never returning. —thelonepiper555

2008-02-08 11:20:32   I took my friend here for her 21st b-day and the bouncer put stamps all over her forehead!!!! HAHAHA! We had a nice time here, nice atmosphere. I had been before on a night when they had a band....really loud, but fun. Yeah for G-St. —tgdavis

2008-06-05 01:22:10   I like it. —BradBenedict

2008-06-25 22:17:18   i like this place

a lot —JackkiCox

2008-08-11 08:55:22   Be careful who you get served by here. Cameron knows the bar and the stock very well, but if you ask the female, brunette bartender you'll be lucky to get what you asked for. I Asked for a Booker's shot on the rocks and she gave me this story about how it was too expensive for them to stock. After she finished her story I pointed to the top shelf and asked her if it was too expensive for them stock why was there a half empty bottle of it on their counter. She scoffed at me and left to help another patron.

As for the bounce staff, you will get one of two reactions- very friendly and very rude. Josh is not only ignorant but rude as heck, Dan is pleasant and willing to laugh a bit with you, the rest are an even mix.

Have decent music when the bands play, if they are doing drugs in the bathroom like the "singer" they have on Sundays or puking on stage like the band they had the other night. Karaoke on Mondays rocks, on Tuesday the guy seems to want more of a country style but it's still okay.

Kitchen is okay IF they are open. Good onion Rings, but no burgers. They do have grilled cheese and BLTs but not much else.
I gave this place a few tries but think I will stick to something else.

2 of 5 stars and that's only because of Cameron, Kevin and Dan and the quality of service those three provide. —kyle2008

2008-08-11 18:51:41   Walt's wings are hands down the best in town! Live band is always the best night in town too...karaoke night is pretty good even if you don't karaoke, and the new big screen is an added bonus unless you count the douchebags it attracts. —HillaryThomas

2008-08-22 04:28:52   People can say what they want about the Pub, I personally love working there and have a great time, every time I go to work. I really like my co-workers, as well as many of the customers, we are like a family.—JoshLawson

2008-08-25 19:47:17   Okay.. I don't know who Kyle2008 is but he's obviously someone who does know a bit about certain things that makes me curious.

Take for instance, the Bookers thing. That was me. I was hanging out with my buds from the band Secondshot the night they had a gig there. The Woman told me she was out of Bookers and I believed her. Later, another member of the staff pointed out that they did have it. I was a bit upset, but was also drunk from all the cheaper whiskey I had that night. So, yes, the tale is true, but it was me, not some idiot Kyle guy. So, unless the woman has a habit of doing this, which I doubt, It would cause me to think that you either do know someone in my group of friends or heard about this and adopted it for yourself in the bar. You're a liar, plain and simple.

2nd. I have been there in the past and have seen the singer on the Sunday gigs, I doubt he would go around doing Coke in the bathroom, especially since if he really wanted to he could do it anywhere else in the place like in the office since he has keys. There's always some kind of BS rumors about people doing coke in the bathrooms there, so it's not hard to just place a new name on them when they are bogus.

3rd. Whoever you are Kyle, you caused a confrontation between a friend of mine and Josh just because of your stupid log-on name.

You need to knock it the hell off whoever you are and stop talking out of your rear end.

You're an idiot, a liar and a few other words I could choose from.

Knock it the heck off and shut your piehole.

2008-08-26 04:52:33   I was also there the night secondshot played. In fact, I was the member of the staff who pointed out that we did indeed have booker's. the bottle wasn't where it should have been because someone moved it to make room on the shelf. yeah, this dude is totally a liar. —DonovanKelley

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