City Hall Tavern

Love love love this place but i come here specifically for Misty Kyle Mattie and Trevor. Best bartenders ever. They need a massive raise for being amazing. Please keep any of them on for Friday’s nights

We stopped in one Saturday night for a drink. The bartender was super helpful and friendly. Beer was good (I got some girly vanilla ale, but I won’t apologize.) We took the drinks outside (they share their patio space with 33^rd Street Bistro so you know the space is good.) No fuss. Lots of seating options. I wouldn’t order food here since they do share the 33^rd Street Bistro kitchen (total disappointment) but for a drink on a nice summer’s evening, this is a great spot!

Good service and good food, if a bit confusing. City Hall told us we can’t buy pitchers of mojito here, have to go to Bistro 33… Bistro 33 told us yes but we can’t get happy hour specials at a table, only at the bar. So we ended up buying a pitcher and taking it back to City Hall where we can be more relaxed and order happy hour food. Good service otherwise, and the wings were delicious! Tasted like sauce made from scratch.

First off… I couldn’t figure out what this place was for a day or two. There is a handwritten sign outside blabbing something about being a bartender but the sign on the building says «City Hall.» Figured it was a municipal building so I didn’t venture in.
Out of desperation (I just wanted a rum and coke and there weren’t many places there that had a full bar), I walked in to just take a peek… if it really was a municipal building, it would have been no harm, no foul.
Went up to the bar (it wasn’t packed at all) and waited. And waited. And waited. Bartender saw me. Is this a place for locals only? I’ve been in those bars and I get it. BUT… my money is good and I wasn’t going to start trouble… just wanted a quick cocktail and go back to my hotel.
Felt seriously unwelcomed. When I had asked a few people about the place (that lived there) they were steering me in another direction and kept saying that «this or that place» was so friendly without trying to say anything negative about City Hall.
Won’t be visiting the area again but maybe should share what my experience was there.

Great place to grab a few drinks/​beers. Bartender’s Kyle and Misty are great bartenders that catered to your ever requests. Great people and even better times at city hall tavern. Definitely a must see place!

Such a cool bar! I guess it used to be City hall of Davis. But it’s a nice place without the date night feels! I been coming to city hall for a while now and nothing makes it better then seeing Kyle behind the bar! He is efficient, he get the drinks out quick and he makes great drinks! I have been comin here for a few years now and everytime I am here Kyle my visit pleasant with a welcoming «hello» and a friendly/​considerate «how are you»
I love the ping pong they have in the back! The paddles have recently been replaced and the pong area is pretty cool. «Edgon» is a great hard working guy who is always willing to help out! Also if you catch Misty behind the bar, she will be sure to take care of you! She is great too. She has great recommendations on cocktails!
Overall this place is great because of employees like these 3 and the cool set up of this bar

I mainly liked this place because the staff were super nice and the beer selection was good. I also love that they have ping pong. I wish it was more pub than club though. It’s weird when half the customers are just chilling and enjoying a relaxing drink and the other half are dry-​humping. The music selection was like everything terrible about the early 2000s. It also upsets me that on Thursdays they don’t accept out of state IDs.

Best advice: Don’t eat here.
Went on a Tuesday evening, so it was not crowded. The food is from Bistro 33, so look at reviews over there. We ordered beer, decent selections on tap but it was a bit warm and needed chilled glasses. The pizza was burned on the top, and the Enchilada dip was over cooked on the top and under cooked in the middle. Pizza sauce was too sweet for my tastes, and the enchilada dip seemed bland. Too add insult to injury, it took over 25 minutes to get our food. Positives is friendly staff and nice outdoor seating in the courtyard. Bathrooms were big and clean.

What a great place. It is really in the old city hall building. We walked right by not realizing. Fresh fruit drinks. Yummmmm. The Spring Fling was delicious! Bartender was really outstanding in personality and service.

This place was amazing! The service that was provided to my friend and I while we were there was probably the best at any bar I have ever been to. Trevor and Brett (bartenders) kept us entertained all night! The atmosphere was casual and the bar set up was quite unique! I would recommend this bar ¹⁰⁄₁₀ times and intend to return there soon even though I live in the Bay Area.

Probably a fun bar if you’re an underage drinker and you want to be bossed around by a hyper bar tender with short-​man syndrome. It’s over priced for its caliber and they will literally kick you out so they can close at 12am even if you have a table full of over-​priced drinks. Would not recommend going here.

I’d only really been to this place for late nights but for Davis it really has a great and fun happy hour!
HAPPY HOUR (4 – 6)
All bar snacks $ 5
House Wine $ 4
Beers $ 1 Off
Wells $ 6?
PROs: kind staff, comfy chairs, in/​outdoor seating, large TVs for sports viewing
CONs: the bartenders at Bistro (connected) were kinda rude
Also LIVE MUSIC was starting on the patio when we were leaving at 7:30.

Two simple suggestions: buy a basic cocktail book (or at least choose a vetted online site) and train your bartenders in some cocktail basics. Seriously, your bartenders should not have to Google the most basic of cocktails and then simply choose the top of the Google search list. Case in point: despite what Google says an Old Fashioned is not made with 7-​Up and a «dash» of water is not dispensed from the bar gun. Last two times I was there the bartenders did the best they could with what they had and made up for lack of basic ingredients, cocktail making tools, and instruction with charm and good people skills. I’d return for beers and snacks but will go elsewhere for cocktails.

Reasons to come here:
1. One of their lady bartenders (whose name, unfortunately, escapes me at the moment) makes the the best dirty gin martini I’ve ever had
2. They have a ping pong table! It is a nice change from a pool table, to be sure.
3. It’s got a quiet, cozy feeling (maybe it’s all that wood and the fact that it never seems to be overcrowded?), which is equally suitable for a date or a get — together with friends. The outdoor seating is definitely a plus.
This is going to become one of my regular haunts!

Review based solely on drinking experience (thus not associated with Bistro 33).
This location is pretty darn sweet, and that largely earned it the extra star over other bar locations the night of my 21^st birthday. Drinks ran about the same $ 10-​give-​or-​take as the other locations. This location was once the Davis City Hall, which gives it sort of an extra unique experience and concept over the other bars of the night. «The Devastator» here was similar in strength and taste to the Wiki Wacky Woo at Bernardo’s (from what I recall).
Bathrooms were clean and I think there’s a lobby or billiards area to the side — this I can’t confirm, but it’s worth looking into whatever side room I saw a group hanging out in.

As much as I don’t like things like these, I want to say based on what I saw and experienced:
Bouncers are super nice, fair, and they really do look at the I.D.s (it’s their job), they’ll say Happy belated birthday to you that’s how much they look.
Less obnoxious environment. Music could be good? It was live, I didn’t really dance. it’s really loud… guy my friend is seeing, his friend’s got pitchers of margaritas, not really my cup of tea here, but I didn’t taste the alcohol. My friends could though… one said it was super strong. I don’t know. We either have different tolerances for that or it wasn’t mixed well.
It’s still loud here, but the atmosphere definitely isn’t sleezy or is as sleezy as Our House (I think because it’s not dim, it’s bright and dark, but more colorful).

Very slimy bouncers. Believe me that really sets the mood of your night. Bouncers are coming in, drinking with customers. It’s just ridiculous.
Plus all their drinks taste like rubbing alcohol. It’s like massive amounts of alcohol in a small plastic cup– gross. You think you’d like it… heavy pours in your drinks. But when it taste and smells like nail polish remover you have a really hard time downing that drink. I don’t care if it’s only $ 4.
I rather walk down the street to a more «expensive» bar and pay more for a drink that actually tastes good.
Mojito night is such a popular thing it makes me sad that the rest of their drinks aren’t good at all. Don’t get me wrong… Their Mojitos are equally as terrible. It’s just the crowd they bring in that night makes me even consider going. But to say I’m going for the mojitos, long islands or AMFs… no.

This review is for the BRUNCH at the Tavern, not for the bar.
Walked in on a Sunday morning to an empty restaurant with one waiter/​bartender serving food.
You can move over next door to the patio and eat outside at Bistro 33, but my roomies are fantasy football fanatics, so they wanted to stay inside and watch the game on the numerous flat screens they have.
The waiter was slow, but I think he caught our drift and assumed we were here to watch the whole game. If we weren’t I would be pissed on how long it took to get menus, water, and food.
We ordered the breakfast burrito, panini, dill salmon scramble, and trout hollandaise scramble. The Panini was really good, but it sat like a brick in my stomach the rest of the day.
However, the burrito had a small bone in it and there was a hair in one of the scrambles.
I wouldn’t recommend coming here for brunch – go sit outside at Bistro 33 instead. However, knowing that it is bistro, expect to pay 10 dollars for decent food.

$ 4 AMFs and Long Islands?
Don’t mind if I do.
Came here for a girls night and I really enjoyed the atmosphere.
It can get a bit crowded, but forthe most part it’s not too bad. There are tables on the side where you can gather around to chill for a while.
Also, LIVE MUSIC! The band that was playing when I was there was amaaazing. It was so refreshing to not listen to overbearing bass for once.
The only gripe I have is that they closed down and kicked us out pretty early :(. I think by 12:30 they were already turning on the lights and slowly shuffling people out.

Came here on a friday night with some friends.
I love the outdoor seating, but think I would have enjoyed it more in the daytime. The bar area was pretty packed, and plenty of people were dancing. $ 4 long islands, AMFs, tokyo iced teas!
They were playing a mix of house, dubstep, and hip hop.
Nice bartenders!
This would be a fun place to start the night before heading out to other bars in the area. People started clearing out around 11 – 12.